- He appeared in two Best Picture Academy Award winners: You Can't Take It with You (1938) and The Lost Weekend (1945). He also appeared in four other Best Picture nominees: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Wake Island (1942) and High Noon (1952).
- Signed up by MGM's dramatic school directly after graduating from the University of Southern California.
- He passed away on Thanksgiving Day of 1955 after a brief illness. Three of his performances were released posthumously: Bet the Queen (1955), Top Gun (1955), and Red Sundown (1956).
- Possessed one of the most distinctive voices in the industry. However, unlike other actors with distinctive voices--i.e., William Woodson, Art Gilmore, Reed Hadley--Millican never used his for voice-overs, narrating documentaries and/or trailers.
- Appeared in hundreds of westerns and was a close associate of cowboy star "Wild" Bill Elliott, staging a number of personal-appearance rodeos on Elliott's behalf.
- His daughter Ginny attended UCLA in the mid-1950s.
- Father: Frederick Samuel Millican; Mother: Amelia Rose Cross.
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