Actor
Milla Davenport
February 3, 1871 · Zürich, Switzerland
Milla Davenport was a stage and film actress, born in Zurich, Switzerland. Davenport was educated in Switzerland.
She appeared with her husband actor Harry J. Davenport's (not the more famous Harry Davenport) repertory company for fifteen years. She began her career in motion pictures in the silent film Trapping the Bachelor (1916). She was in Daddy-Long-Legs (1919) with Mary Pickford, The Brat (1919) with Nazimova, Sins of the Fathers (1928) with Emil Jannings, and The Wedding Night (1935). Davenport continued to make movies well into the sound film era. Her last film credits are for roles in The Defense Rests (1934), Here Comes Cookie (1935), and an uncredited part in Human Cargo (1936).
Often works with
Mahlon Hamilton
2 titles together
Daddy-Long-Legs, The Christian
Max Asher
2 titles together
Crazy Like a Fox, Rip Van Winkle
Rosita Marstini
2 titles together
The Red Lily, In Love with Life
Tully Marshall
2 titles together
The Girl Who Stayed at Home, The Right of the Strongest
Claude Gillingwater
2 titles together
In Love with Life, The Christian
Wheeler Oakman
2 titles together
The Girl from Woolworth's, Hey! Hey! Cowboy
Full filmography · 35
Human Cargo
as German
1936
Here Comes Cookie
as Mrs. Flugsnort
1935
The Wedding Night
as Grandmother
19355.9
The Defense Rests
as Neighbor
1934
In Love with Life
as Mrs. Gootz
1934
Merrily We Go to Hell
as Prentice's Housekeeper (uncredited)
19326.5
The Girl from Woolworth's
as Ma Donnelly
1929
The Danger Rider
as Housekeeper
1928
Hey! Hey! Cowboy
as Aunt Jane
1927
Crossed Signals
as Mother Slattery
1926
Crazy Like a Fox
as Mother
1926
The Road to Glory
as Aunt Selma
1926