Ernest Milton (actor)

Ernest Gianello Milton (10 January 1890 – 24 July 1974) was an American-born, naturalised British actor, who was prominent in the 1920s through to the 1940s for his roles in London with the Old Vic Theatre and on the West End stage.

In his day, he was considered an outstanding interpreter of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, playing the role several times in the 1920s.

[3] A notable supporting role was Robespierre in the 1934 Leslie Howard comedy drama The Scarlet Pimpernel.

Later he repeated on television his stage role in Luigi Pirandello's Henry IV .

[8] Having starred in the original 1929 West End production of Patrick Hamilton's Rope, he played the role again in a 1939 BBC TV adaptation.