Miton Rosmer made his name on the British stage, debuting in 1889. He
easily made the transition to silent pictures, appearing in such films
as
The Passionate Friends (1922).
Talkies proved to be no obstacle to him, as it did to many silent
actors, and Rosmer had roles in such classics as
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) and
The Stars Look Down (1940).
He specialized in playing such characters as magistrates, professors,
army officers and other authority figures.
Rosmer was also a screenwriter and director. The Crimean War epic
Balaclava (1928), which had been shot
as a silent by
Maurice Elvey, was
extensively reshot by Rosmer as a talkie, and he also directed such
other films as
Channel Crossing (1933),
Silent Barriers (1937) and
Emil and the Detectives (1935).
His final film as an actor was
John Wesley (1954), after which he
worked in television until 1956, when he retired. He died at age 90 in
1971.