Seton I. Miller

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Seton Ingersoll Miller (* 3. May 1902 in Chehalis , Washington ; † 29. March 1974 in Los Angeles , California ) was a Hollywood - screenwriter and producer . During his career, the Oscar-winning Miller worked with many notable American directors including Howard Hawks and Michael Curtiz .

life and career

The Yale -Absolvent Miller began in the late 1920s with writing silent film stories after he first tried as an actor in the movie business. In the 1930s he gravitated towards crime films, and collaborations with Hawks and others resulted in a seminal film, Scarface (1932) . At the time of the application of the Hays Code in 1934, the film company called Warner Brothers Miller to adapt the dialogues and actions of the criminal characters to the new code. Thanks to his scripts for The FBI Agent (1935) and Who Owns the Town? (1936) the actors James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson , who are known as actors of gangsters, also succeeded in impersonating the representatives of the law. He often adapted well-known plays or novels, such as Graham Greene's Ministry of Fear for Fritz Lang's 1944 film of the same name . He also wrote the screenplays for the classic Errol Flynn adventure films Robin Hood, King of the Vagabonds (1938) and The Lord of the Seven Seas (1940).

Miller was awarded an Oscar for his screenplay for the film comedy Urlaub vom Himmel (1941) . At times he also worked as a film producer for Paramount Pictures , but here his results were rather weaker. His success decreased noticeably from the mid-1940s, but he worked regularly in Hollywood until 1959. It was only in 1974, the year he died, that he returned with a script for the horror film A Knife for the Ladies . Miller is also known today for writing an unpublished short story about the dragon Elliott with SS Field in the 1950s . They sold the short story to the Walt Disney Company , which later formed the basis for the Disney films Elliot, the Smirking Monster (1977) and Elliot, the Dragon (2016).

Seton I. Miller was married twice and had one child. He died of emphysema in 1974 at the age of 71 .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Seton I. Miller and Fred Niblo Jr. received an Oscar nomination for their 1930 film adaptation of Martin Flavin's play The Criminal Code . A few years later, he and Sidney Buchman won the award for their 1941 screenplay of Vacation From Heaven .

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personal data
SURNAME Miller, Seton I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miller, Seton Ingersoll (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter and producer
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Chehalis , Washington
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1974
Place of death los Angeles