MILTON, GEORGES

(1888-1970)

Actor. Georges Milton was born Georges Désiré Michaud. He began his career in the Parisian café-concerts and was reportedly encouraged by Maurice Chevalier. Milton was primarily a singer. He had a great deal of success singing popular songs and was a star in the interwar years. He began his film career in the silent era, appearing inHenri Diamant-Berger'sGonzague(1922), but since he could not sing in silent film, he left screen acting largely for the advent of sound.

Milton returned to the screen in the 1930s and had a fair degree of popular success during that decade and the one that followed. He appeared in such films as Pierre Colombier'sLe Roi des resquillers(1930) andLe Roi du cirage(1931),Léon Mathot'sLa Bande à Bouboule(1931),Embrassez-moi(1932),Nu comme un ver(1933),Bouboule 1er,roi nègre(1933), andLe Comte Obligado(1934),André Hugon'sFamille nombreuse(1934) andGangster malgré lui(1935), Marc Didier'sLe Billet de mille(1934),Abel Gance'sJérôme Perreau héros des barricades(1935), Jacques Hossin'sLes Deux combinards(1937) andLe Prince Bouboule(1939), and Robert Hennion'sPloum ploum tra la la(1947) andEt dix de der(1948). Primarily a comic actor, Milton is best known for his incarnation of the comic figure Bouboule.