Robert Emmett Milasch (1885-1954) began his film career in 1903 and appeared in The Great Train Robbery (1903). He had many credited roles through the silent era, but his appearances in sound pictures were almost all uncredited bit parts, which suggests his voice was not up to the task. He was in 140 films after 1929, and in forty of these studio records describe him as ‘Townsman’. The word ‘Barfly’ crops up quite a few times as well.
Milasch was in three MGM musicals: Chasing Rainbows, The Girl of the Golden West (as a townsman) and Two Sisters from Boston.
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