Born 5 April 1949. Immigrated to Canada in 1969.
Directed 3 actors to Oscar nominations: Joan Crawford (Best Actress, Sudden Fear (1952) ), Jack Palance (Best Supporting Actor, Sudden Fear (1952) ), and Bobby Darin (Best Supporting Actor, Captain Newman, M.D. ).
After leaving high school, Miller worked for the National Screen Service as a messenger boy. Moving steadily up the ladder, he started directing Pete Smith educational documentaries at MGM from 1935. Two of these short features, "Penny Wisdom" and "Seeds of Destiny", won Academy Awards. From 1941, he handled feature films in a variety of genres. The quality of his films has been inconsistent, but he seemed most comfortable turning out slick thrillers like Sudden Fear (1952) , Midnight Lace and Executive Action .
Artistic Director of Zeitgeist Stage Company.
Father of Nicole Miller.
Set loose, a child would run down the paths, scramble up the rocks, lie on the earth. Grown-ups more often let their minds do the running, scrambling, and lying, but the emotion is shared. It feels good to be here.
Most adults have a vocabulary of around 60,000 words, meaning that children must learn 10 to 20 words a day between the ages of eight months and 18 years. And yet the most frequent 100 words account for 60% of all conversations. The most common 4000 words account for 98% of conversation.
