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Hugh Miller (actor)

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Hugh Miller
1936 Spotlight photo
Born
Hugh Lorimer Miller

(1889-05-22)22 May 1889
Died1 November 1976(1976-11-01) (aged 87)
London, England
OccupationActor
Years active1921–1962
Spouse
Olga Katzin
(m. 1921)
Children3

Hugh Miller (22 May 1889 – 1 November 1976) was a British stage and film actor.[1] He was instrumental in founding the original London Film Society in 1925, but left soon afterwards to work in America.[2] He found success on Broadway, as Mr. Jingle in Pickwick in 1927; and in Hollywood, in the Gloria Swanson film The Love of Sunya, that same year.[3][4] Miller was cast as dialogue coach for Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and was mentor to actor Peter O'Toole from early in his career, and recommended Miller to Lean. Miller, who was one of several members of a David Lean film crew to be given bit parts, was hired again as dialogue coach in Doctor Zhivago (1965), his last screen effort before his death in 1976.

Miller married Olga Katzin, a satirical poet who published under the name Sagittarius, in 1921; they had three children.[5][6]

Filmography

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References

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  1. ^ "Hugh Miller". Archived from the original on 18 October 2012. Retrieved 14 March 2010.
  2. ^ "BFI Screenonline: Film Studios and Industry Bodies > Film Society, The (1925-39)". www.screenonline.org.uk.
  3. ^ "Hugh Miller, actor - Friends of Berwick and District Museum and Archives". www.berwickfriends.org.uk.
  4. ^ League, The Broadway. "Pickwick – Broadway Play – Original - IBDB". www.ibdb.com.
  5. ^ "Hugh Miller, actor". Friends of Berwick and District Museum and Archives.
  6. ^ "Gabriel L. Miller's Obituary (2017) Wicked Local Cape Cod". Wicked Local Cape Cod. Legacy.com. 4 March 2017.
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