Allan Miller
Biography
Allan Miller is an American actor of stage, film and television who first performed in shows for troops while serving in the Army during the occupation of Japan. He was born in Brooklyn and in 1948 entered Erwin Piscator's Dramatic Workshop in New York, going on to study with Uta Hagen and, at the Actors Studio, with Lee Strasberg. Teaching followed: he began instructing at the Dramatic Workshop in 1958, took private pupils from 1960, and spent part of the 1970s on the faculty of the Yale Drama School. Television work in series including Kojak, The Rockford Files, Hawaii Five-O and Dallas made him best known, and his films range from Fun with Dick and Jane (1977) to Brewster's Millions (1985). He appeared on Broadway in Brooklyn Boy, created the Back Alley Theatre and served as its producing director from 1979 to 1989, and wrote the play The Fox and the book A Passion for Acting.
97years old
Turns 98 on February 14in 124 days
- Born Brooklyn
- Star sign: AquariusThe sign runs January 20 to February 18
- Also credited as Allan Muller, Alan Miller and Allan David Miller
Movie Career
- Films
- 8
- Career span
- 37 years1976 to 2013
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A change of course
Miller began performing while serving in the U.S. Army during the occupation of Japan, after he spotted an advertisement in Stars and Stripes seeking performers to entertain the troops.
Early training
After coming back to the U.S. in 1948, Miller attended the Dramatic Workshop run by Erwin Piscator at The New School for Social Research in New York. He went on to study acting with Uta Hagen, where Geraldine Page and Charles Nelson Reilly were among his classmates.
Early training
Under Lee Strasberg's sponsorship, Miller started teaching at the Dramatic Workshop in 1958, and one of his private students in the 1960s was a teenage Barbra Streisand.
Behind the camera
Miller wrote the play The Fox, adapted from the D.H. Lawrence novella, which was staged in Los Angeles and Off-Broadway at the Roundabout Theatre and is still produced around the world.
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Worked with
Allan Miller shares two films with Stefan Gierasch, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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