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Milton Reid appears briefly at the very beginning of the 1969 black comedy 'The Assassination Bureau', playing a circus performer who is murdered when the fake TNT he uses to fire his fake cannon is replaced with the real thing. He flies through the air with the greatest of ease, and leaves a considerable hole in the roof of the tent. God speed, Milton and R.I.P.

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Milton Reid makes a very brief appearance in the 1971 Jason King episode 'From Russia With Panache' and ends up getting beaten up by the flamboyant Mr. King and chucked down a lift shaft. Nice to see him in a costume, though, instead of that rather tired brown jerkin ensemble. He rounds off his somewhat nautical look here by tucking his trousers into a pair of knee high leather boots (not pictured). Milton is an inveterate trouser tucker, but he was born in India, so perhaps he was scared of snakes.

Speaking of Jason King / Peter Wyngarde, he's been absent from these pages for far too long. The place just isn't the same without him, so I'll have to do something about that, won't I?.    

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'Ooops, wrong arm. Keep filming, I'll sort it...' 

'That's better'

Milton Reid as he appears in no budget Bond rip off No. 1 Of The Secret Service' (1977). Milton plays a bad ass with an earring and an eye patch and a bare chest, although later he dons his familiar brown jerkin, trousers and cowboy boots.

I wonder if he charged for supplying his own costume, or whether he put the saving forward as a reason to employ him?

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The formidable (and familiarly attired) Mr. Milton Reid turns up in 'Terror', playing a bouncer at a bizarre club where the main attraction is a stripping whip wielding punkette. When the customer get out of long, Milton attacks, neutralises and frogmarches their sleazy arses out. No lines, but plenty of action.

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Big old, good old Milton Reid as yet another henchman in Stanley Long's rather pointless 'Adventures Of A Private Eye'. Here, he is unconvincingly neutralised by a knee in the bollocks. Unconvincingly? Everyone knows Milton had balls of steel. 

He's wearing the costume he seemingly wears in all his post 1976 appearances: a strange, round neck big buttoned blouson affair paired with matching brown trousers tucked into cowboy boots. In this film he supplements the basics with a pair of shades and a red carnation.

He doesn't have any lines as such, but he and large sidekick Jon Robinson are an impressively heavy set of heavies, although not much good in a chase. 

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Milton Jones sings for his no doubt quite considerable supper as 'the strong man' in 'Beserk!'. Please don't look for this record in the shops, you'll only embarrass yourself.

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In 1979, Milton Reid took time out of his busy schedule to star as a heavy in not one, but two David Sullivan produced smut films. He needn't have bothered, they're both pathetic.

Here he is in 'Confessions From The David Galaxy Affair' and 'Queen of the Blues', respectively. He wears exactly the same costume in both films.

Milton fact: his middle name was Rutherford.

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Milton Reid provides security to Christopher Lee and Roger Delgado in Hammer's 1961 Orientsploitation film 'Terror Of The Tongs'.

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Milton Reid gets a plum role, has a chance to show off his physique and get to grips with Dana Gillespie as the evil Sabbala in the 1977 kids action film 'The People Who Time Forgot'.

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Fourteen years on from 'Dr. No', in 'The Spy Who Loved Me', Milton Reid gets a larger part and a couple of lines (including 'Pyramids!) in exchange for pretending that Roger Moore could beat him up. His name is Sandor and, as you can see, he falls off a building in Istanbul. Nasty.

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Milton Reid has a hell of a time in perhaps one of his best known roles, as 'The Mulatto' in Hammer's 'Captain Clegg' (1962).

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Milton Reid does some first class lurking as one of the henchmen in 'Dr. No'.

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I hope you enjoyed the break, but, sorry, I'm back now - I'm refreshed, rested and raring to go, so let's celebrate the return of normal weblog service with a brand new feature: 'Milton!'.

Milton Reid was an extraordinary looking Anglo-Indian wrestler / actor who made numerous appearances in films and TV from the fifties until his somewhat mysterious death in the nineteen eighties*. Often mute, always lurking, Milton may not have been a star in the normal sense, but he remains an unforgettable presence.

Here is as the ill-fated Cheng in 'Dr. Phibes Rises Again'.

* Milton supposedly died of a heart attack in India in 1982, but his son was apparently still receiving letters from him up until 1986.