Arthur Miller (cinematographer)

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Career

Template:Box quote 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."[2] He found himself working as an assistant to filmmaker Fred J. Balshofer.[2] The two remained lifelong friends and in 1967 co-wrote a book about the early days of film titled One Reel a Week.

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The House of Hate (1918) - Actors Antonio Moreno and Pearl White, director George B. Seitz, and Miller at Cliffhanger Point on the Hudson River Palisades

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.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 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.[3]

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.[3]

Partial filmography

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* - according to silentera.com

Notes

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References

External links

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