Robert Milasch (April 18, 1885 – November 14, 1954[1])[2] was an American character actor in the silent and sound periods.
[3] 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.
Milasch died of uremic poisoning on November 14, 1954, in Woodland Hills, California, aged 69.