Ray Milland performed in a film.
Dial M for Murder is a 1954 American crime mystery film directed by Alfred Hitchcock , starring Ray Milland , Grace Kelly , Robert Cummings and John Williams . Ray Milland . His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985 , and he is best remembered for his Academy Award-winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ) , a sophisticated leading man opposite a corrupt John Wayne in Reap the Wild Wind ( 1942 ) , the murder-plotting husband in Dial M for Murder ( 1954 ) , and as Oliver Barrett III in Love Story ( 1970 ) . Reap the Wild Wind is a 1942 film starring Ray Milland , John Wayne , Paulette Goddard , Robert Preston , and Susan Hayward , and directed by Cecil B. DeMille , his second picture to be filmed in color .