N.B. The member numbers follow The Internet Movie Database's list order announcing the Academy in January 1927.
7. Milton Sills (1882-1930) of the Actors Branch. The photo is by Harold Dean Carsey (1886-1947).
Like Mary Pickford, Sills was an early film star; his career began in 1914. His 1928 film THE BARKER was a particular success, and he was making a steady transition to sound films when he died playing tennis in 1930.
The actress Doris Kenyon (1897-1979) was Sills's second wife. Her third husband was the advertising executive and philanthropist Albert Davis Lasker (1880-1952).
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