Milos Milos

Milos Milos
Born
Милош Милошевић (Miloš Milošević)

(1941-07-01)1 July 1941
Knjaževac, German-occupied Serbia
Died30 January 1966(1966-01-30) (aged 24)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Cause of deathSuicide by gunshot
Occupation(s)Actor, stunt double, bodyguard
Years active1964–1966
Spouse
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(m. 1964)​
Children1

Milos Milos (Serbian: Милош Милошевић; born Miloš Milošević; 1 July 1941 – 30 January 1966) was a Serbian actor, stunt double and bodyguard for actor Alain Delon.

Early life

Milos came from an influential family. His grandfather was the mayor of Knjaževac and his father was chairman of the Guild of Exporters of Yugoslavia. Milos' family suffered under the Communist authorities and most of their private properties were confiscated.[1]

In the 1950s, Milošević and his friend Stevan Marković were involved in street fights in Belgrade.[2] They met Alain Delon, who was filming Marco Polo, an eventually cancelled film, in Belgrade. Delon hired Milošević and Marković as bodyguards, and Milošević later moved to Hollywood, California.[1]

Hollywood

As a young Hollywood actor, Milos is best known for his performance as a Soviet naval officer in the 1966 comedy The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, as well as for playing the title role in the 1966 Esperanto horror movie, Incubus.[3]

Film roles

Year Title Role Notes
1966 The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming Lysenko
1966 Incubus Incubus (final film role)

Personal life and death

Milos was married to Cynthia Bouron from 1964 to 1966; they had one child.[4]

In 1965, Milos began an affair with actress Barbara Ann Thomason (stage name Carolyn Mitchell) who was estranged from her husband Mickey Rooney. Milos and Thomason were found dead in Rooney's Los Angeles house in 1966.[5] The official inquiry found that Milos had shot Thomason with Rooney's chrome-plated .38 caliber revolver and then committed suicide.[5] The official inquiry provoked rumors that they were actually both murdered in revenge for having an affair; however, Rooney was at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica recovering from an infection that he caught on location in Manila during the filming of Ambush Bay.[2][6][7]

References

  1. ^ a b Erdeljanović, Aleksandar Saša (2017). "Sećanje na jednu mladost". Kinoteka. 11: 15–16.
  2. ^ a b Savković, Dušan. Zagrljaj Pariza, 1986, p. 43.
  3. ^ "Incubus (1965)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
  4. ^ Wansell, Geoffrey (18 January 1984). "The final blow, the final bow". The Age. p. 9.
  5. ^ a b "Mickey Rooney's Wife Murder-Suicide Victim". The Charleston Daily Mail. February 1, 1966. p. 1. Retrieved October 31, 2017 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  6. ^ Lopusina, Marko. Ubij bliznjeg svog, 1997, p. 16.
  7. ^ Thomas, Bob (1 February 1966). "Mickey Rooney's Wife Shot Dead". Independent. Vol. 28, no. 134. Long Beach, California. Newspapers.com. p. Page 1. Archived from the original on 1 February 1966. Retrieved 6 October 2022. after a dramatic reunion between Rooney, 45; and Barbara Rooney, 29, at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica.