Arthur Miller (cinematographer)

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Arthur Miller (cinematographer) - Wikipedia

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Arthur Charles Miller
Miller with 1912 Pathé 35mm movie camera
Born	Arthur Charles Miller (1895-07-08)July 8, 1895 Roslyn, New York, US
Died	July 13, 1970(1970-07-13) (aged 75) Hollywood, California, US
Nationality	American
Occupation	Cinematographer
Years active	1914–1951
Employer	Fox Film Corporation
Board member of	American Society of Cinematographers (A.S.C.) co-founder (1919) and president (1954-1956)
Awards	Academy Award for Best Cinematography How Green Was My Valley (1941) The Song of Bernadette (1944) Anna and the King of Siam (1947)

Arthur Charles Miller, A.S.C. (July 8, 1895 – July 13, 1970) was an American cinematographer. He was nominated for the Oscar for Best Cinematography six times, winning three times: for How Green Was My Valley in 1941, The Song of Bernadette in 1944, and Anna and the King of Siam in 1947.^[1]

Career

"The basic principle I have had in making pictures was to make them look like real life, and then emphasize the visuals slightly ... I was never a soft-focus man. I like the focus [to be] very hard. I liked crisp, hard, solid images." — Arthur Miller.^[2]

Born in Roslyn, New York, he began his movie career at the age of 13. According to a 1970 interview with Leonard Maltin, he once worked for a horse dealer. One day, he was returning home from delivering some horses and was sitting on a horse when a man offered him a job in motion pictures because he could ride bareback. Miller recalled, "The first day we went out to a golf course in Brooklyn, and I rode this horse all over, got chased, and all."^[3] He found himself working as an assistant to filmmaker Fred J. Balshofer.^[3] The two remained lifelong friends and in 1967 co-wrote a book about the early days of film titled One Reel a Week.

Miller eventually joined Pathé and, although only 19 years old, became the cinematographer for the 1914 adventure serial The Perils of Pauline. He worked for Astra Film Co. and then Solax Studios in New Jersey.

In 1918, he and his brother Bill founded the Motion Picture Industry Union.^{[citation needed]} He moved to Hollywood and had a lengthy tenure at Paramount from the late teens throughout the 1920s. In 1932, Miller signed a long-term contract with Fox Film Corporation to be the cinematographer for every Shirley Temple film. He retired in 1951 for health reasons but remained active in the industry as president of the American Society of Cinematographers.

He died in Los Angeles, California, in 1970 and was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.^[4]

In August 1973, his widow Mae Miller and Donald Crisp attended the dedication of the Arthur Miller Memorial Fountain and Arbor at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills.^[4]

Partial filmography

At Coney Island (1912 short)
The Perils of Pauline (1914 serial)
At Bay (1915)
Arms and the Woman (1916)
Big Jim Garrity (1916)
New York (1916)
The Romantic Journey (1916)
The Test (1916)
Kick In (1917)
The Hunting of the Hawk (1917)
The Recoil (1917)
Blind Man's Luck (1917)
The On-the-Square Girl (1917)
The Mark of Cain (1917)
Sylvia of the Secret Service (1917)
Vengeance Is Mine (1917)
The Iron Heart (1917)
Convict 993 (1918)
A Japanese Nightingale (1918)
The Hillcrest Mystery (1918)
The Naulahka (1918)
The Cry of the Weak (1919)
The Avalanche* (1919)
The Profiteers (1919)
Our Better Selves (1919)
A Society Exile (1919)
The Witness for the Defense (1919)
Counterfeit (1919)
On With the Dance (1920)
His House in Order (1920)
The Right to Love (1920)
Lady Rose's Daughter (1920)
Idols of Clay (1920)
Paying the Piper (1921)
Experience (1921)
Forever (1921)
Three Live Ghosts (1922)
To Have and to Hold (1922)
Kick In (1922)
Bella Donna (1923)
The Cheat (1923)
The Eternal City (1923)
Cytherea (1924)
Tarnish (1924)
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter (1924)
A Thief in Paradise (1925)
His Supreme Moment (1925)
The Coming of Amos (1925)
Made for Love (1926)
The Volga Boatman (1926)
Eve's Leaves (1926)
For Alimony Only (1926)
The Clinging Vine (1926)
Vanity (1927)
The Fighting Eagle* (1927)
The Angel of Broadway (1927)
The Blue Danube (1928)
The Cop (1928)
Annapolis (1928)
The Spieler (1928)
His First Command (1929)
Oh, Yeah! (1929)
The Bellamy Trial (1929)
Strange Cargo (1929)
The Flying Fool (1929)
Sailor's Holiday (1929)
The Truth About Youth (1930)
See America Thirst (1930)
Officer O'Brien (1930)
Father's Son (1931)
Bad Company (1931)
The Big Shot (1931)
Panama Flo (1932)
A Woman Commands (1932)
Young Bride (1932)
Okay, America! (1932)
Me and My Gal (1932)
Sailor's Luck (1933)
Hold Me Tight (1933)
The Man Who Dared (1933)
The Last Trail (1933)
My Weakness (1933)
Ever Since Eve (1934)
Bottoms Up (1934)
Handy Andy (1934)
The White Parade (1934)
Bright Eyes (1934)
The Little Colonel (1935)
It's a Small World (1935)
Black Sheep (1935)
Welcome Home (1935)
Paddy O'Day (1936)
White Fang (1936)
36 Hours to Kill (1936)
Pigskin Parade (1936)
Stowaway (1936)
Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
Heidi (1938)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)
Just Around the Corner (1938)
Little Miss Broadway (1938)
The Little Princess (1939)
Young Mr. Lincoln (uncredited, 1939)
The Rains Came (1939)
Susannah of the Mounties (1939)
Here I Am a Stranger (1939)
The Blue Bird (1940; nominated for an Academy Award, shared with Ray Rennahan)
Johnny Apollo (1940)
On Their Own (1940)
Brigham Young (1940)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Tobacco Road (1941)
Man Hunt (1941)
How Green Was My Valley (1941; Academy Award)
The Men in Her Life (1941)
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942)
This Above All (1942; Academy Award nomination)
Immortal Sergeant (1943)
The Moon Is Down (1943)
The Song of Bernadette (1943; Academy Award)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Lifeboat (uncredited, 1944)
The Purple Heart (1944)
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944; Academy Award nomination)
A Royal Scandal (1945)
Dragonwyck (1946)
Anna and the King of Siam (1946; Academy Award)
The Razor's Edge (1946)
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
The Walls of Jericho (1948)
A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
Whirlpool (1950)
The Gunfighter (1950)
The Prowler (1951)

* - according to silentera.com

Notes

^ "The Official Academy Awards® Database". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 2012-02-25. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
^ Higham, 1970 p. 134: Italics in original. Composite from two consecutive paragraphs on same subject, for brevity, clarity.
^ ^a ^b Maltin, Leonard (July 25, 2012). The Art of the Cinematographer. Courier Corporation. pp. 117–137. ISBN 9780486154749. Retrieved May 10, 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Arthur Miller Memorial Fountain and Arbor". Van Nuys News. August 7, 1973 – via Newspapers.com.

References

Higham, Charles. 1970. Hollywood Cameraman: Sources of Light. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana and London. ISBN 0-253-13820-5

External links

Arthur C. Miller at IMDb
Miller profile at the Internet Encyclopedia of Cinematographers

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1928–1950	Charles Rosher and Karl Struss (1928) Clyde De Vinna (1929) Joseph T. Rucker and Willard Van der Veer (1930) Floyd Crosby (1931) Lee Garmes (1932) Charles Lang (1933) Victor Milner (1934) Hal Mohr (1935) Tony Gaudio (1936) Karl Freund (1937) Joseph Ruttenberg (1938) Gregg Toland / Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan (1939) George Barnes / George Perinal (1940) Arthur C. Miller / Ernest Palmer (1941) Joseph Ruttenberg / Leon Shamroy (1942) Arthur C. Miller / Hal Mohr (1943) Joseph LaShelle / Leon Shamroy (1944) Harry Stradling / Leon Shamroy (1945) Arthur C. Miller / Charles Rosher, Leonard Smith, and Arthur Arling (1946) Guy Green / Jack Cardiff (1947) William Daniels / Joseph A. Valentine, William V. Skall, and Winton C. Hoch (1948) Paul C. Vogel / Winton C. Hoch (1949) Robert Krasker / Robert Surtees (1950)
1951–1975	William C. Mellor / Alfred Gilks and John Alton (1951) Robert Surtees / Winton C. Hoch and Archie Stout (1952) Burnett Guffey / Loyal Griggs (1953) Boris Kaufman / Milton R. Krasner (1954) James Wong Howe / Robert Burks (1955) Joseph Ruttenberg / Lionel Lindon (1956) Jack Hildyard (1957) Sam Leavitt / Joseph Ruttenberg (1958) William C. Mellor / Robert Surtees (1959) Freddie Francis / Russell Metty (1960) Eugen Schüfftan / Daniel L. Fapp (1961) Jean Bourgoin and Walter Wottitz / Freddie Young (1962) James Wong Howe / Leon Shamroy (1963) Walter Lassally / Harry Stradling (1964) Ernest Laszlo / Freddie Young (1965) Haskell Wexler / Ted Moore (1966) Burnett Guffey (1967) Pasqualino De Santis (1968) Conrad L. Hall (1969) Freddie Young (1970) Oswald Morris (1971) Geoffrey Unsworth (1972) Sven Nykvist (1973) Fred J. Koenekamp and Joseph F. Biroc (1974) John Alcott (1975)
1976–2000	Haskell Wexler (1976) Vilmos Zsigmond (1977) Néstor Almendros (1978) Vittorio Storaro (1979) Geoffrey Unsworth and Ghislain Cloquet (1980) Vittorio Storaro (1981) Billy Williams and Ronnie Taylor (1982) Sven Nykvist (1983) Chris Menges (1984) David Watkin (1985) Chris Menges (1986) Vittorio Storaro (1987) Peter Biziou (1988) Freddie Francis (1989) Dean Semler (1990) Robert Richardson (1991) Philippe Rousselot (1992) Janusz Kamiński (1993) John Toll (1994) John Toll (1995) John Seale (1996) Russell Carpenter (1997) Janusz Kamiński (1998) Conrad Hall (1999) Peter Pau (2000)
2001–present	Andrew Lesnie (2001) Conrad Hall (2002) Russell Boyd (2003) Robert Richardson (2004) Dion Beebe (2005) Guillermo Navarro (2006) Robert Elswit (2007) Anthony Dod Mantle (2008) Mauro Fiore (2009) Wally Pfister (2010) Robert Richardson (2011) Claudio Miranda (2012) Emmanuel Lubezki (2013) Emmanuel Lubezki (2014) Emmanuel Lubezki (2015) Linus Sandgren (2016) Roger Deakins (2017) Alfonso Cuarón (2018) Roger Deakins (2019) Erik Messerschmidt (2020) Greig Fraser (2021) James Friend (2022) Hoyte van Hoytema (2023)

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