Hugh Millais as Butler, from McCabe & Mrs. Miller
From his Wiki page:
“Millais was a noted raconteur who loved nothing more than to sit his six foot six frame on a high bar stool, pick up a guitar and sing Calypso songs.”
“There was the meal he made for Orson Welles after the actor-director had hired his house in Andalusia, Spain for a year while filming, then left him stranded, penniless, in Naples. Or the time when Millais was presented with a platter of seafood by Salvador Dalí served on the artist’s naked wife, Gala. Then there were the infamous Huevos Cubanos he shared with Ernest Hemingway (whose chauffeur he apparently became for a while), Ava Gardner and Marlene Dietrich after sailing into a mini-revolution in pre-Castro Cuba and getting shot through the arm at the helm of his racing yacht, the Benbow. These and many other anecdotes are in Millais’ cook-book “Hugh’s Who: The Name-Dropper’s Cookbook” which was published in 2007. A devoted falconer, he is said to have turned down a role in the film Shoot the Sun Down, in 1976, in order to go to Saudi Arabia, for a falconers’ meet.”
“Millais’ career as an actor came about by accident. Spotted in a bar at during the feria in Pamplona, he was invited to meet the director, Robert Altman in England. Altman immediately hired him to play bounty hunter Dog Butler in McCabe & Mrs. Miller.”
He died on the 4th of July.
