For the first fourteen years of his career, Milburn worked as an actor on stage and screen, and was regularly seen as 'Dave Inchcape' in TV's Rumpole of the Bailey. In January 1995, he decided to concentrate on producing and so set up Midsummer Films. His first film was Caught In the Act, which was selected for the Comedy Film Festival 1997 and won the Jury Award of Excellence at the Laguna Beach Festival in the USA. It was directed by Mark Greenstreet. In 1997, he teamed up with director Eric Styles and the pair decided to develop a number of projects together. The first of these was Dreaming Of Joseph Lees, which was shot in 1998. It was released by Fox Searchlight in 1999 following a successful tour of international film festivals including the Cardiff International Festival, for which it was chosen as the opening night film. The film was based on an original screenplay by Catherine Linstrum and starred Samantha Morton, Rupert Graves, Lee Ross, Miriam Margolyles and Frank Finlay. Milburn is developing a number of other projects through Midsummer Films. He has commissioned Catherine Linstrum to write a script entitled Muybridge, set in California in the nineteenth century, which will be a co-production with Industry Entertainment. It will be executive-produced by Nick Weschler and Rosalie Swedlin. Linstrum is also commissioned to adapt the novels White Crosses by Larry Watson and Joyce Carol Oates' I Lock My Door Upon Myself, all of which Eric Styles will direct.
