Winston Miller

Winston Miller (born June 22, 1910 in St. Louis , Missouri , United States , † June 21, 1994 in Los Angeles ) was an American silent film actor , screenwriter and television producer who had mainly specialized in westerns .

Life

He was the son of Oscar Winston Miller (1875-1939) and Sadye Loewen Miller (1880-1928). His older sister was the silent film actress Patsy Ruth Miller . Miller made his first contact with the film industry at the age of twelve when he was brought in for children's roles in front of the camera. Until the end of the silent film era, Miller took part in medium-sized and small roles in mostly not too important productions from the 1920s; his best-known work was the early John Ford Western Das Feuerroß . As a young adult, Miller temporarily turned away from film work in the early 1930s and studied at Princeton .

In the mid-1930s, Miller returned to Hollywood's celluloid industry and now focused almost exclusively on the Western genre as a screenwriter. Almost all of his works are cheaply made B-productions . In 1939 David O. Selznick engaged him for the (unnamed) revision of the existing script for the movie classic Gone with the Wind . Another foray into A-film meant Miller's work on the script for the noble western Faustrecht of the Prairie , which his old mentor John Ford directed from his silent film days. In 1959 Winston Miller finished his work for the cinema and at the same time gradually reduced his writing activity. Instead, he began producing for television; mostly series (again several westerns, but occasionally also crime series), but occasionally also individual films.

Filmography

as an actor

1922: The Power of a Lie
1923: In the lap of the earth, or The catastrophe on the east colliery ( Little Church Around the Corner )
1923: The Love Piker
1924: The Feuerroß ( The Iron Horse )
1925: Kentucky Pride
1925: The Victim of Stella Dallas ( Stella Dallas )
1928: God of Mankind
1929: Ask Dad

as a screenwriter (for movies, unless otherwise stated)

1936: Zorro - the blood-red eagle ( The Vigilantes Are Coming )
1937: Dick Tracy
1937: The Singing Arrow ( The Painted Stallion )
1939: Gone with the Wind ( Gone With the Wind ) (uncredited)
1940: Carolina Moon
1940: Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride
1941: The Royal Mounted Patrol
1941: Prairie Stranger
1942: Man From Cheyenne
1943: Good Morning Judge
1943: Song of Texas
1943: At home in Indiana ( Home in Indiana )
1944: One Body Too Many
1944: Double Exposure
1945: Follow That Woman
1945: They Made me a Killer
1946: Law of the Prairie ( My Darling Clementine )
1947: Danger Street
1947: Blood and Gold ( Relentless )
1948: Vengeance Without Mercy ( Fury at Furnace Creek )
1948: Gangsters of the Prairie ( Station West )
1950: Lord of the Rough Mountains ( Rocky Mountain )
1950: Tripoli ( Tripoli )
1951: His Last Outpost ( The Last Outpost )

1951: Hong Kong ( Hong Kong )

1952: Sabotage ( Carson City )

1952: Escape from the Fire ( The Blazing Forest )

1953: Geknechtet ( The Vanquished )

1953: The Sheriff Without a Colt ( The Boy From Oklahoma )

1953: The Jivaro Treasure ( Jivaro )

1954: Knight of the Prairie ( The Bounty Hunter )

1954: On the distant horizon ( The Far Horizons )

1954: In the shadow of the gallows ( Run for Cover )

1955: I want you to love me ( Lucy Gallant )

1956: Blood on My Hands ( Tension at Table Rock )

1957: Young happiness in April ( April Love )

1957: Lost in Japan ( Escapade in Japan ) (also production management)

1958: Blue Nights ( Mardi Gras )

1959: It's only available in America (A Private's Affair)

1959: The Hound Dog Man

1959-62: A Thousand Miles of Dust ( Rawhide ) (TV series)

1962: The People at Shiloh Ranch ( The Virginian ) (TV series, two episodes)

1967: The Longest Hundred Miles (TV movie)

1970: Danger in the Deep ( The Aquarians ) (TV movie)

1974: Indict and Convict (TV movie)

1978: The coast of the crooks ( Barbary Coast ) (TV series, one episode)

as a television series producer

1961–62: Police Station 87 ( 87th Precinct )
1962–69: The Shiloh Ranch people
1968: Her appearance, Al Mundy ( It Takes a Thief )
1969–71: The Boss ( Ironside )
1973: Female Artillery (TV movie)
1973-74: Cannon
1974: Our Little Farm ( Little House on the Prairie )

literature

International Motion Picture Almanac 1965, p. 199
Ephraim Katz : The Film Encyclopedia, 4th Edition. Revised by Fred Klein & Ronald Dean Nolen, p. 948, New York 2001

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personal data
SURNAME	Miller, Winston
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American silent film actor, screenwriter, and television producer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 22, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Louis , Missouri , United States
DATE OF DEATH	June 21, 1994
Place of death	Los Angeles , California , United States