Milton Sills: Milton Sills. Actor: The Sea Hawk. American leading man of silent pictures. Born into affluence in Chicago, he attended the University of Chicago on scholarship and remained there as a professor of psychology and philosophy. A chance visit to the school by actor- manager Donald Robertson led to Sills abandoning his career and joining Robertson's stock company as an actor in 1905. Three years later he went to New York...
Known For: The Sea Hawk (Sir Oliver Tressilian), Burning Daylight (Elam 'Burning Daylight' Harnish), The Hawk's Nest (The HawkJohn Finchley), The Sea Wolf ('Wolf' Larsen)