Hugh Miller (actor)

British actor (1889–1976)

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

In His Grip (1921) as Alec Vicars (film debut)
The Puppet Man (1921) as Alcide le Beau
Darkness (1923) as Keever
Bonnie Prince Charlie (1923) as Robert Fraser
Claude Duval (1924) as Lord Lionel Malyn
The City of Temptation (1925)
Venetian Lovers (1925) as Count Astoni
The Prude's Fall (1925) as Marquis de Rocqueville
Blind Alleys (1927) as Julio Lachados
The Love of Sunya (1927) as The Outcast
The Green Pack (1934) as Martin Creet
The Divine Spark (1935) as Paganini
McGlusky the Sea Rover (1935) as Karim
I Give My Heart (1935) as Choiseul
The Dominant Sex (1937) as Philip Carson
Spring Handicap (1937) as Selby
The Vicar of Bray (1937) as King Charles I
Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937) as Ivan Kalinsky
Victoria the Great (1937) as Older Disraeli
Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937) as De Calmet, Robespierre's Secretary
The Rat (1937) as Luis Stets
I'll Walk Beside You (1943) as Dr. Stevenson
The Woman in the Hall (1947) as Mr. Walker
Calling Paul Temple (1948) as Doctor
My Sister and I (1948) as Hubert Bondage
Before I Wake (1955) as Mr. Driscoll
The Gelignite Gang (1956) as Mr. Crosby
Behind the Mask (1958) as Examiner
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) as R.A.M.C. Colonel (final film role)

References

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