Milos Milos ( sr, Милош Милошевић; born Miloš Milošević; 1 July 1941 – 30 January 1966) was a Serbian-born American

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and bodyguard for

Alain Delon.

Early life

Milos came from an influential family. His grandfather was the mayor of

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and his father was chairman of the Guild of Exporters of Yugoslavia. Milos's family suffered under the Communist authorities and most of their private properties were confiscated. In the 1950s, Milošević and his friend Stevan Marković were involved in street fights in Belgrade.Savković, Dušan. Zagrljaj Pariza, 1986, p. 43. They met Alain Delon, who was filming Marco Polo, an eventually cancelled film, in Belgrade. Delon hired Milošević and Marković as bodyguards, and Milošević later moved to Hollywood,

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Hollywood

As a young Hollywood actor, Milos is best known for his performance as a

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naval officer in the 1966 comedy ''

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'', as well as for playing the title role in the 1966 Esperanto horror movie, ''

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''.

Film roles

Personal life and death

Milos was married to Cynthia Bouron from 1964 to 1966; they had one child. In 1965, Milos began an affair with actress Barbara Ann Thomason (stage name Carolyn Mitchell) who was estranged from her husband Mickey Rooney. Milos and Thomason were found dead in Rooney's

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house in 1966. The official inquiry found that Milos had shot Thomason with Rooney's chrome-plated .38 caliber revolver and then committed suicide. The official inquiry provoked rumors that they were actually both murdered in revenge for having an affair; however, Rooney was at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica recovering from an infection that he caught on location in Manila during the filming of '' Ambush Bay''.

References

External links

* * Cara Jepson
"Curse of the 'Incubus'"
Salon.com, 3 May 2000. {{DEFAULTSORT:Milosevic, Milos 1941 births 1966 deaths 20th-century Serbian male actors Murder–suicides in California Male actors from Belgrade People from Knjaževac Serbian expatriates in the United States Serbian male film actors American stunt performers Suicides by firearm in California 1966 suicides