Harry F. Millarde
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Harry F. Millarde (November 12, 1885 – November 2, 1931) was a pioneer American silent film actor and director.
Millarde was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and began his acting in film in 1913 with Kalem Studios in New York City. In 1916, he directed the first of his thirty-two films the most notable of which was If Winter Comes for Fox Film Corporation in 1923 that was based on the best-selling book in the United States of 1922 by author A.S.M. Hutchinson. Amongst his other directorial works was, 1920's "Over the Hill to the Poorhouse" and the 1922 thriller "My Friend the Devil" based on the French novel, "Le Docteur Rameau" by Georges Ohnet.
Millarde directed his last film in 1927 and died of a heart attack in New York City in 1931 ten days shy of his forty-sixth birthday. He was married to actress June Caprice (1895-1936) whom he had directed in eight films for Fox. Ironically, she too died young, succumbing to cancer, and like him, ten days before her own birthday.
Their daughter, June Elizabeth Millarde, was thirteen years old when her mother died. Raised by her grandparents in Long Island, New York, she became a cover girl known as "Toni Seven." The June 17, 1949 issue of Time magazine reported she was the heiress to an estimated $3,000,000 fortune.
