Arthur Miller

Director Of Photography

About

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Also Known As

Art Miller, Arthur Charles Miller, Arthur C Miller

Birth Place

Roslyn, New York, USA

Born

July 08, 1895

Died

July 13, 1970

Biography

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A former child actor, lab technician and camera assistant (for director Edwin S Porter), Arthur Miller graduated to director of photography in 1918. He went on to become one of Hollywood's foremost cinematographers of the 1940s, working on a host of acclaimed 20th Century-Fox productions. Miller received three Oscars for his superlative work on John Ford's "How Green Was My Valley" (1941...

Filmography

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Boomerang! (1947)

Hidden Valley (1932)

Sheriff Dave Bristow

The Prowler (1951)

Director of Photography

The Gunfighter (1950)

Director of Photography

Whirlpool (1949)

Director of Photography

A Letter to Three Wives (1949)

Director of Photography

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Little Colonel, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) I Ought To Kill You

Little Colonel, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) You've Captured An Entire Regiment

Notes

Not to be confused with playwright and screenwriter Arthur Miller.

Biography

A former child actor, lab technician and camera assistant (for director Edwin S Porter), Arthur Miller graduated to director of photography in 1918. He went on to become one of Hollywood's foremost cinematographers of the 1940s, working on a host of acclaimed 20th Century-Fox productions. Miller received three Oscars for his superlative work on John Ford's "How Green Was My Valley" (1941), Henry King's "The Song of Bernadette" (1943) and John Cromwell's "Anna and the King of Siam" (1946). His active career was cut short by tuberculosis in 1951.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Boomerang! (1947)

Hidden Valley (1932)

Sheriff Dave Bristow

Cinematography (Feature Film)

The Prowler (1951)

Director of Photography

The Gunfighter (1950)

Director of Photography

Whirlpool (1949)

Director of Photography

A Letter to Three Wives (1949)

Director of Photography

The Walls of Jericho (1948)

Director of Photography

Gentleman's Agreement (1948)

Director of Photography

Dragonwyck (1946)

Director of Photography

The Razor's Edge (1946)

Director of Photography

Anna and the King of Siam (1946)

Director of Photography

The Song of Bernadette (1945)

Director of Photography

The Keys of the Kingdom (1945)

Director of Photography

A Royal Scandal (1945)

Director of Photography

Lifeboat (1944)

Director of Photography

The Purple Heart (1944)

Director of Photography

The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

Director of Photography

Immortal Sergeant (1943)

Director of Photography

The Moon Is Down (1943)

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

This Above All (1942)

Director of Photography

Son of Fury (1942)

Director of Photography

Man Hunt (1941)

Director of Photography

Tobacco Road (1941)

Director of Photography

The Men in Her Life (1941)

Director of Photography

How Green Was My Valley (1941)

Director of Photography

Young People (1940)

The Mark of Zorro (1940)

Director of Photography

On Their Own (1940)

Director of Photography

Johnny Apollo (1940)

Director of Photography

Brigham Young--Frontiersman (1940)

Director of Photography

The Blue Bird (1940)

Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

Here I Am a Stranger (1939)

Director of Photography

Susannah of the Mounties (1939)

The Little Princess (1939)

The Rains Came (1939)

Submarine Patrol (1938)

The Baroness and the Butler (1938)

Little Miss Broadway (1938)

Just Around the Corner (1938)

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)

Wee Willie Winkie (1937)

Paddy O'Day (1936)

Pigskin Parade (1936)

Stowaway (1936)

36 Hours to Kill (1936)

White Fang (1936)

The Little Colonel (1935)

Black Sheep (1935)

It's a Small World (1935)

Welcome Home (1935)

Charlie Chan's Courage (1934)

Ever Since Eve (1934)

Love Time (1934)

The White Parade (1934)

Bottoms Up (1934)

Bright Eyes (1934)

Handy Andy (1934)

The Man Who Dared: An Imaginative Biography (1933)

The Last Trail (1933)

The Mad Game (1933)

Hold Me Tight (1933)

My Weakness (1933)

Hello, Sister! (1933)

Photographer for retakes

Sailor's Luck (1933)

A Woman Commands (1932)

Photographer addl scenes

Me and My Gal (1932)

Okay America (1932)

Panama Flo (1932)

Young Bride (1932)

Breach of Promise (1932)

Father's Son (1931)

Bad Company (1931)

The Big Shot (1931)

The Lady of Scandal (1930)

Director of Photography

See America Thirst (1930)

Director of Photography

The Truth About Youth (1930)

Director of Photography

Officer O'Brien (1930)

Director of Photography

His First Command (1929)

Director of Photography

The Flying Fool (1929)

Director of Photography

Bellamy Trial (1929)

Director of Photography

Big News (1929)

Director of Photography

Strange Cargo (1929)

Director of Photography

Oh, Yeah (1929)

Director of Photography

Sailor's Holiday (1929)

Director of Photography

Hold 'Em Yale (1928)

Director of Photography

The Blue Danube (1928)

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Annapolis (1928)

Director of Photography

The Spieler (1928)

Director of Photography

The Fighting Eagle (1927)

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

The Angel of Broadway (1927)

Director of Photography

Nobody's Widow (1927)

Director of Photography

The Clinging Vine (1926)

For Alimony Only (1926)

Director of Photography

The Volga Boatman (1926)

Director of Photography

Made for Love (1926)

Director of Photography

Eve's Leaves (1926)

Director of Photography

His Supreme Moment (1925)

Director of Photography

A Thief in Paradise (1925)

Director of Photography

The Coming of Amos (1925)

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

The Eternal City (1924)

Director of Photography

Cytherea (1924)

Director of Photography

In Hollywood With Potash and Perlmutter (1924)

Director of Photography

The Cheat (1923)

Director of Photography

Bella Donna (1923)

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

To Have and To Hold (1922)

Director of Photography

Three Live Ghosts (1922)

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Paying the Piper (1921)

Director of Photography

Experience (1921)

Director of Photography

On with the Dance (1920)

The Right to Love (1920)

Lady Rose's Daughter (1920)

His House in Order (1920)

Idols of Clay (1920)

Counterfeit (1919)

A Society Exile (1919)

Our Better Selves (1919)

A Japanese Nightingale (1918)

The Hillcrest Mystery (1918)

Convict 993 (1918)

The Recoil (1917)

The on-the-Square-Girl (1917)

Sylvia of the Secret Service (1917)

Blind Man's Luck (1917)

The Mark of Cain (1917)

The Iron Heart (1917)

Writer (Feature Film)

The Misfits (1961)

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

The Man Who Dared (1933)

Life Events

1908

Appeared in bit roles in Westerns; also worked as camera assitant

1914

Photographed "The Perils of Pauline"

1918

Became a director of photography

1951

Retired from active film work; last film "The Prowler"

Videos

Little Colonel, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) I Ought To Kill You After a mild opening scene establishing Kentucky “in the 70’s,” just about the whole premise, Elizabeth (Evelyn Venable) aided by Hattie McDaniel wants to elope with yankee Jack (John Lodge) who seems decent but her grandfather the colonel (Lionel Barrymore) doesn’t care, in Shirley Temple’s first film with Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, The Little Colonel, 1935.

Little Colonel, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) You've Captured An Entire Regiment After the marriage of her yankee father (John Lodge) and rebel mom in the 1870’s we leap forward to introduce the star, (Shirley Temple as young Lloyd Sherman, in the year she turned 7) at a U.S. Army outpost where Robert Warwick oversees her honorary investiture, in Fox Films’ The Little Colonel, 1935.

Little Colonel, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) My Dream Of Life (a.k.a Love's Young Dream) Shirley Temple as young Lloyd has conspired with servants Hattie McDaniel and Bill Robinson to assume a dress and bonnet that belonged to her mother, and advances her scheme to soften up her grouchy ex-Confederate grandfather the colonel (Lionel Barrymore), in The Little Colonel, 1935.

Blue Bird, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) It's Against The Law! Opening in black & white from a Maurice Maeterlinck fantasy (thus seen as similar to the previous year’s The Wizard Of Oz), Shirley Temple and little bro Johnny Russell are woodcutters’ kids seeking a precious bird, Sybil Jason their bothersome friend, in 20th Century-Fox’s The Blue Bird, 1940.

Blue Bird, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) I Always Knew You Were A Fool! Just now transformed from the family cat and dog, Gale Sondergaard and Eddie Collins don’t agree on whether to aid the children (Shirley Temple as Mytyl, Johnny Russell as Tyltyl), guided by the spirit “Light” (Helen Ericson), in their search, in The Blue Bird, 1940, from a Maurice Maeterlinck story.

Blue Bird, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Lay-Dee-O Now in a dream in Technicolor having found their deceased grandparents (Cecilia Loftus, Al Shean) in their search for a certain bird of happiness, Shirley Temple as Mytyl (Johnny Russell as littler Tyltyl) offers her only song in the picture, a traditional, in 20th Century-Fox’s The Blue Bird, 1940.

Letter To Three Wives, A -- (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Pomp And Hysteria Now well inside complex flashbacks, radio soap opera writer Rita (Ann Sothern), with husband George (Kirk Douglas), who's not excited about the dinner she's planned, gets a gift from local vixen Addie (voice by Celeste Holm), in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's A Letter To Three Wives, 1948.

Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers The big closing number, Shirley Temple with her frequent partner Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, an adaptation of the German standard by Leon Jessel, with a new lyric by Ballard MacDonald, cheered on by Paul Harvey, Jack Haley, Phyllis Brooks, Helen Westley, Slim Summerville, Gloria Stuart and Randolph Scott, in Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm, 1938.

Little Miss Broadway (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Be Optimistic Opening with Shirley Temple replacing the youngest of the Brian Sisters trio, with a tune by Harold Spina and Walter Bullock, then Jane Darwell confirming her usual status as an orphan, in this case just being adopted, in Little Miss Broadway, 1938, featuring George Murphy and Jimmy Durante.

Little Miss Broadway (1938) -- (Movie Clip) How Can I Thank You? Shirley Temple relates to her new adoptive sister (Phyllis Brooks), who helps run the show-biz hotel, where Jimmy Durante is rehearsing his band, and the owner next door (Edna Mae Oliver, with brother Donald Meek) has a problem with noise, song by Harold Spina and Walter Bullock, in Little Miss Broadway, 1938.

Little Miss Broadway (1938) -- (Movie Clip) We Should Be Together Shirley Temple, adopted by the operators of a showbiz hotel, hopes to persuade the owners not to shut it down, and happily meets their agreeable nephew, George Murphy, celebrating with another Harold Spina/Walter Bullock tune, choreographed by Nick Castle, in Little Miss Broadway, 1938.

Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm (1938) -- (Movie Clip) I Thought We Were Wowing Them! At a radio audition, Shirley Temple as Rebecca and William Demarest as uncle Harry, looking to impress assistant Orville (Jack Haley), sponsor Bartlett (Paul Harvey) and ad-man Kent (Randolph Scott) with a tune by Harry Revel and Mack Gordon, in Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm, 1938.

Letter to Three Wives, A - (Original Trailer) In A Letter to Three Wives (1949), a woman claims to have run off with one of their husbands. But which?

Little Princess, The - (Original Trailer) Shirley Temple stars in her first color movie, The Little Princess (1939), as an orphan who must endure a nasty headmistress.

Gunfighter, The - (Re-issue Trailer) The fastest gun in the West (Gregory Peck) tries to escape his reputation in The Gunfighter (1950).

Gentleman's Agreement - (Academy Award trailer) Three Academy Awards went to Gentleman's Agreement (1947) an exposé of American anti-semitism starring Gregory Peck and John Garfield, directed by Elia Kazan.

How Green Was My Valley - (Re-issue Trailer) Five Oscars®, including Best Picture and Director, went to John Ford's portrait of a Welsh mining town, How Green Was My Valley (1941).

Dragonwyck - (Original Trailer) A farm girl (Gene Tierney) signs on as governess in a gloomy mansion in Dragonwyck (1946).

Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm - (Original Trailer) A radio producer finds the perfect Little Miss America in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938) starring Shirley Temple.

Rains Came, The - (Re-issue Trailer) An affair between a Hindu doctor (Tyrone Power) and a British noblewoman (Myrna Loy) is disrupted when The Rains Came (1939).

Song Of Bernadette, The - (Re-issue trailer) Jennifer Jones won a Best Actress Oscar for her first starring role in The Song Of Bernadette (1943), playing a French girl who has a vision of the Virgin Mary.

Family

Arthur Charles Miller Jr

Son

Bibliography

Notes

Not to be confused with playwright and screenwriter Arthur Miller.

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