Miles Mander(1888-1946)
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
This versatile artist, who had spent his 20's in New Zealand farming
sheep, became novelist, playwright and film exhibitor on his return to
Britain in 1918. Eventually he would observe success with Le lien brisé (1928),
which he directed and acted in and which was based on his own novel and
play. He is better remembered, however, for his character portrayals of
oily types, many of them upper-crust cads - such as Cardinal Richelieu
in Les trois louf'quetaires (1939). (In his Hollywood debut, he had portrayed King Louis XIII
in the 1935 version of that same Dumas classic.)
