Robert Milasch

Robert Milasch was an American character actor in the silent and sound periods. He was 6 feet, 6 inches tall.

Biography

Milasch left his Smoke Mountain, Tennessee, home at age 9, joining a wagon circus that went through the village. At age 13, performing as a contortionist, he joined another circus and went with it to South Africa. He left that troupe after being beaten by his boss and went to England, where he worked as a clown. Back in the United States in 1898, he joined the Gaumont Film Company and began acting in short films for it.
Milasch acted on stage before he worked in films. He began his film career in 1903 at 18 at the Edison Manufacturing Company. One of his first Edison films was two appearances in the classic The Great Train Robbery. In the sound era nearly every film appearance was uncredited.
Milasch died of uremic poisoning on November 14, 1954, in Woodland Hills, California, aged 69.