Thomas R. Mills, billed as Tom Mills, was an actor and director of silent films. He was a theater actor until he joined

Vitagraph Vitagraph Studios, also known as the Vitagraph Company of America, was a United States motion picture studio. It was founded by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, as the American Vitagraph Company. By 1907, ...

to make films. He was born in

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Filmography

Actor

* '' The Making Over of Geoffrey Manning'' (1915) * '' The Man Who Couldn't Beat God'' (1915) *'' The Hero of Submarine D-2'' (1916) *'' The Crown Prince's Double'' (1916) *'' Whom the Gods Destroy'' (1916) * '' Indiscretion'' (1917) *'' A Man's Mate'' (1924) *'' The Star Dust Trail'' (1924) *''

The Guilty One ''The Guilty One'' is a 1924 American silent mystery film directed by Joseph Henabery and written by Anthony Coldeway. The film stars Agnes Ayres, Edmund Burns, Stanley Taylor, Crauford Kent, Cyril Ring, and Thomas R. Mills. The film was relea ...

'' (1924) *''

The Arizona Romeo ''The Arizona Romeo'' is a lost 1925 American silent Western film directed by Edmund Mortimer and starring Buck Jones, Lucy Fox, and Bud Geary. Plot As described in a review in a film magazine, the more violent the opposition on the part of h ...

'' (1924) *'' The Wolf Man'' (1924) *''

The Kiss Barrier ''The Kiss Barrier'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Roy William Neill and written by Eugenie Magnus Ingleton. The film stars Edmund Lowe, Claire Adams, Diana Miller, Marion Harlan, Thomas R. Mills, and Charles Clary. The fi ...

'' (1925) *'' Tides of Passion'' (1925) *''

The Gilded Highway ''The Gilded Highway'' is a lost 1926 American silent drama film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and starring Dorothy Devore, John Harron and Macklyn Arbuckle.Leider, Emily W. ''Myrna Loy: The Only Good Girl in Hollywood''. University of Californ ...

'' (1926) *'' The Great Impersonation'' (1935) *'' It's Love I'm After'' (1937)

Director

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The Duplicity of Hargraves "The Duplicity of Hargraves" is a short story by the American writer William Sydney Porter, better known by his pen name: O. Henry. The story was featured in ''The Junior Munsey'', February 1902, and republished in the volume ''Sixes and Seven ...

'' (1917), film adaptation *''

A Night in New Arabia ''A Night in New Arabia'' is a Lost film, lost 1917 in film, 1917 four-reel silent film, directed by :it:Thomas R. Mills, Thomas Mills. It is based on the short story "A Night in New Arabia" from ''Strictly Business'', a collection of 23 short st ...

'' (1917) *''The Girl in His House'' (1918) *'' Thin Ice'' (1919) *'' The Unknown Quantity'' (1919) *'' Duds'' (1920) *'' The Invisible Divorce'' (1920), co-directed

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mills, Thomas R. English male silent film actors English film directors Year of birth missing Year of death missing