Acting
Milla Davenport
Also Known As: Millie Davenport, Mrs. Davenport
Birth Date
February 3, 1871
Death Date
May 17, 1936
(passed away at 65)
Place of Birth
Zürich, Switzerland
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Biography
Milla Davenport was a stage and film actress, born in Zurich, Switzerland. Davenport was educated in Switzerland. She appeared with her husband actor Harry J. Davenport's (not the more famous Harry Davenport) repertory company for fifteen years. She began her career in motion pictures in the silent film Trapping the Bachelor (1916). She was in Daddy-Long-Legs (1919) with Mary Pickford, The Brat (1919) with Nazimova, Sins of the Fathers (1928) with Emil Jannings, and The Wedding Night (1935). Davenport continued to make movies well into the sound film era. Her last film credits are for roles in The Defense Rests (1934), Here Comes Cookie (1935), and an uncredited part in Human Cargo (1936).

Merrily We Go to Hell
Prentice's Housekeeper (uncredited)
1932

The Wedding Night
Grandmother
1935

Here Comes Cookie
Mrs. Flugsnort
1935

The Defense Rests
Neighbor
1934

The Girl Who Stayed at Home
1919

In Love with Life
Mrs. Gootz
1934

Crazy Like a Fox
Mother
1926

Why Trust Your Husband?
Aunt Miranda
1921

In Mizzoura
Mrs. Vernon
1919
What No Man Knows
Mother of missing girl (uncredited)
1921

The Right of the Strongest
Melissa Thaggin
1924

The Road to Glory
Aunt Selma
1926

You Never Can Tell
Mrs. Jones
1920

Leave It to Me
Mrs. Stephen Holmes
1920

The Girl from Woolworth's
Ma Donnelly
1929

Human Cargo
German
1936

The Red Lily
Madame Poussot
1924

The Man Who Waited
Madre Sánchez
1922
Patsy
Matron
1921

Daddy-Long-Legs
Mrs. Lippett
1919