Acting · Zürich, Switzerland · Born February 3, 1871
Milla Davenport was a stage and film actress, born in Zurich, Switzerland. Davenport was educated in Switzerland. She appeared with her husband actor Harry J. Davenport's (not the more famous Harry Davenport) repertory company for fifteen years. She began her career in motion pictures in the silent film Trapping the Bachelor (1916). She was in Daddy-Long-Legs (1919) with Mary Pickford, The Brat (1919) with Nazimova, Sins of the Fathers (1928) with Emil Jannings, and The Wedding Night (1935). Davenport continued to make movies well into the sound film era. Her last film credits are for roles in The Defense Rests (1934), Here Comes Cookie (1935), and an uncredited part in Human Cargo (1936).
MovieHuman Cargo
1936
as German
MovieHere Comes Cookie
1935
as Mrs. Flugsnort
MovieThe Wedding Night
1935
as Grandmother
MovieThe Defense Rests
1934
as Neighbor
MovieIn Love with Life
1934
as Mrs. Gootz
MovieMerrily We Go to Hell
1932
as Prentice's Housekeeper (uncredited)
MovieThe Girl from Woolworth's
1929
as Ma Donnelly
MovieThe Danger Rider
1928
as Housekeeper
MovieHey! Hey! Cowboy
1927
as Aunt Jane
MovieCrossed Signals
1926
as Mother Slattery
MovieCrazy Like a Fox
1926
as Mother
MovieThe Road to Glory
1926
as Aunt Selma
MovieDangerous Innocence
1925
as Stewardess
MovieThe Red Lily
1924
as Madame Poussot
MovieThe Right of the Strongest
1924
as Melissa Thaggin
MovieDulcy
1923
as Matty
MovieThe Christian
1923
as Matron
MovieThe Man Who Waited
1922
as Madre Sánchez
The Worldly Madonna
1922
as Jail Matron
What No Man Knows
1921
as Mother of missing girl (uncredited)
MovieRip Van Winkle
1921
as Gretchen Van Winkle
MovieThe Girl from God's Country
1921
as Mrs. Kraus
Patsy
1921
as Matron
MovieWhy Trust Your Husband?
1921
as Aunt Miranda
MovieShe Couldn't Help It
1920
as Matron
MovieYou Never Can Tell
1920
as Mrs. Jones
MovieLeave It to Me
1920
as Mrs. Stephen Holmes
MovieThe Forbidden Woman
1920
as Luisa
MovieStronger Than Death
1920
as Mrs. Smithers
MovieIn Mizzoura
1919
as Mrs. Vernon
MovieThe Brat
1919
as The Brat's Aunt
MovieThe Solitary Sin
1919
MovieDaddy-Long-Legs
1919
as Mrs. Lippett
MovieThe Girl Who Stayed at Home
1919
MovieSocial Briars
1918
as Mrs. Brown
