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 in Henri Diamant-Berger's Gonzague (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's Le Roi des resquillers (1930) and Le Roi du cirage (1931), Léon Mathot's La Bande à Bouboule (1931), Embrassez-moi (1932), Nu comme un ver (1933), Bouboule 1er, roi nègre (1933), and Le Comte Obligado (1934), André Hugon's Famille nombreuse (1934) and Gangster malgré lui (1935), Marc Didier's Le Billet de mille (1934), Abel Gance's Jérôme Perreau héros des barricades (1935), Jacques Hossin's Les Deux combinards (1937) and Le Prince Bouboule (1939), and Robert Hennion's Ploum ploum tra la la (1947) and Et dix de der (1948). Primarily a comic actor, Milton is best known for his incarnation of the comic figure Bouboule.