
Tomas Milian
Highest Rated: 92% Traffic (2000)
Lowest Rated: Not Available
Birthday: Mar 3, 1933
Birthplace: Havana, Cuba
Fleeing Cuba after his general father was arrested, Tomas Milian trained at the Actors Studio in New York, but found fame in Italy. In 1959, he was spotted on stage by director Mauro Bolognini, who cast him in the dramas "La Notte brava" and "Il bell'Antonio." But, while he worked with auteurs like Luchino Visconti and Pier Paolo Pasolini on the portmanteau pictures "Boccaccio '70" and "RoGoPaG," Milian tired of playing bourgeois dupes in arthouse dramas and accepted the role of the psychotic fugitive in "The Bounty Killer" to pay his passage home. Such was his success, however, that his Mexican bandits and revolutionaries became snarling staples of such cult Spaghetti Westerns as "The Big Gundown," "Django Kill!" and "Face to Face." As the genre began to wane in the early 1970s, Milian took leads in diverse outings like the comedy "Where Are You Going All Naked?," the period melodrama "Beatrice Cenci" and the giallo "Don't Torture a Duckling." But he reinvented himself again by playing petty thief Sergio "Monnezza" Marazzi in a trio of underworld thrillers and Inspector Nico Giraldi in 11 crime comedies for director Bruno Corbucci. In each case, Milian wrote his own dialogue in Roman slang, but he was invariably dubbed by Ferruccio Amendola. Despite continuing to appear in quality titles like Bernardo Bertolucci's "La Luna" and Michelangelo Antonioni's "Identification of a Woman," Milian eventually returned Stateside and took supports in such prestige dramas as "JFK," "Amistad" and "Traffic."







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Filmography
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No Score Yet | 29% | Fugly! | Gramps (Character) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | 73% | The Feast of the Goat | Rafael Leonidas Trujillo (Character) | - | 2005 |
26% | 64% | The Lost City | Federico (Character) | $2.5M | 2005 |
79% | 53% | Washington Heights | Eddie (Character) | $156.0K | 2002 |
No Score Yet | 68% | Ambush | Passenger (Character) | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet | 78% | For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story | Sosa (Character) | - | 2000 |
64% | 51% | The Yards | Manuel Sequiera (Character) | $882.7K | 2000 |
92% | 85% | Traffic | Gen. Arturo Salazar (Character) | $124.1M | 2000 |
34% | 64% | Fools Rush In | Tomas Fuentes (Character) | $29.3M | 1997 |
78% | 79% | Amistad | Calderon (Character) | - | 1997 |
20% | 59% | The Cowboy Way | Manny Huerta (Character) | $19.6M | 1994 |
No Score Yet | 74% | The Burning Season | Darli Alves (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love, Honor & Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage | Joe Profaci (Character) | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | 31% | Nails | Pedro Herrera (Character) | - | 1992 |
84% | 88% | JFK | Leopoldo (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet | 20% | Money | Robert Zarra (Character) | - | 1991 |
27% | 57% | Havana | Menocal (Character) | $8.8M | 1990 |
32% | 54% | Revenge | Cesar (Character) | $15.1M | 1990 |
40% | 15% | Cat Chaser | Andres DeBoya (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | To Touch a Star | Tony (Character) | - | 1989 |
0% | 19% | Monsignor | Father Francisco (Character) | - | 1982 |
60% | 56% | Identification of a Woman | Niccolo (Character) | - | 1982 |
89% | 55% | Winter Kills | Frank Mayo (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | 56% | The Cynic, the Rat & the Fist | Luigi 'Er Cinese' Maietto (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Tough Ones | Moretto (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Young, Violent, Dangerous | Commissario (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | 20% | The Cop in Blue Jeans | Nico Giraldi (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tough Cop | Unknown (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | 83% | Sex with a Smile | Cavaliere Marelli (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Brutal Justice | Vincenzo Moretto (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | 57% | Four of the Apocalypse | Chaco (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | 26% | Syndicate Sadists | Rambo (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shoot First, Ask Questions Later | Sakura (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mad Enough to Kill | Thompson (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Emergency Squad | Ravelli (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | 88% | Almost Human | Giulio Sacchi (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | 33% | Counselor at Crime | Thomas Accardo (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Night of Hate | Chino (Character) | - | 1973 |
83% | 76% | Don't Torture a Duckling | Andrea Martelli (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sonny & Jed | Jed (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Life Is Tough, Eh Providence? | Provvidenza (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Conjugal Love | Silvio Pataneo (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Year of the Cannibals | Emone (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | 87% | Companeros | El Vasco (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Magnificent Bandits | Unknown (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | 60% | Blood and Guns | Jesus Maria Moran a.k.a. Tepepa (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Beatrice Cenci | Olimpo Calvetti (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Death Sentence | O'Hara (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | 67% | The Price of a Man | José Gómez (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Fine Pair | Roger (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | 83% | Run Man Run |
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- | 1968 |
No Score Yet | 71% | The Violent Four | Commissario Basevi (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | 81% | Face to Face | Solomon Beauregard Bennett (Character) | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet | 85% | The Big Gundown | Manuel "Cuchillo" Sanchez (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | 50% | The Camp Followers | Ten. Gaetano Martino (Character) | - | 1965 |
86% | 78% | The Agony and the Ecstasy | Raphael (Character) | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Disorder | Bruno (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | La Ricotta | Unknown (Character) | - | 1963 |
50% | 78% | Boccaccio '70 | Conte Ottavio (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Il bell'Antonio | Edoardo (Character) | - | 1960 |
TV
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20% | 100% | UC: Undercover | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
No Score Yet | 96% | Law & Order | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2000 |
40% | No Score Yet | Frannie's Turn | Joe Escobar (Character) | 1992 |
No Score Yet | 66% | Murder, She Wrote | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1992 |
No Score Yet | 100% | The Equalizer | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1985 1987 |
71% | 91% | Miami Vice | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1985 |