Villain of the Month: John Mylong
I have always found it interesting how Hollywood will pigeon hole an actor just because they immigrate to this country and never completely lose their accent. John Mylong was a well regarded actor in his native Austria, he immigrated here for the usual reasons back in the early forties, and was immediately cast as Germanic villains in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), The Strange Death of Adolph Hitler (1943) and Hotel Berlin (1945).
After the war he was not as in demand as before but kept working steadily. His only serial was Universal’s Lost City of the Jungle (1946), playing the real power behind villain Lionel Atwill when the actor unexpectedly died halfway through filming. His other post WWII credits include Monsieur Beaucaire (1946), Unconquered (1947), Oh, You Beautiful Doll (1949), Annie Get Your Gun (1950) playing Kaiser Wilhelm, Robert Mitchum’s noir spoof His Kind of Woman (1951), and what is probably Mylong’s most well known film the cult classic Robot Monster (1953).
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