Allan Miller
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- Anita Cooper (divorced)
- Laura Zucker (m. 1976)
Allan Miller | |
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| Born | February 14, 1929 [1] |
| Occupations | Actor, director, acting teacher, author, playwright |
| Years active | 1956–present |
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| Children | 2 |
Allan Miller (born February 14, 1929) is an American stage, film, and television actor.
Miller served in the U.S. Army after World War II during the occupation of Japan.[2] Noticing an ad in Stars and Stripes that was looking for performers, he began performing in shows to entertain the troops.[2]
In 1948, after Miller returned to the U.S., he attended Erwin Piscator's Dramatic Workshop at The New School for Social Research in New York.[2] He then studied acting under Uta Hagen (his classmates included Geraldine Page and Charles Nelson Reilly); and under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio (his classmates included James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, and Paul Newman).[2] In 1958, under Strasberg's sponsorship, he began teaching at the Dramatic Workshop. In 1960, he started teaching privately; one of his students was a teenaged Barbra Streisand.[2][3] In the 1970s he taught at Yale Drama School.[4]
He is best known for his appearances on television, including Kojak, The Rockford Files, The Streets of San Francisco, Hawaii Five-O, Wonder Woman, Dallas, and The Paper Chase.[5] His film career included roles in Baby Blue Marine (1976), Two-Minute Warning (1976), Fun with Dick and Jane (1977), Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) and Brewster's Millions (1985). He has performed on stages across the country and on Broadway, most notably in Brooklyn Boy.[6][7][8][9][10] He was producing director of the Back Alley Theatre, which he created and ran with his wife, Laura Zucker, from 1979 to 1989.[2][11][12] He was also one of the primary plaintiffs in a landmark lawsuit between Actors' Equity Association and Los Angeles-based small theaters, focused on the Equity Waiver Plan.[13]
He is the author of the book, A Passion for Acting, and a DVD, Auditioning. He wrote the play, The Fox, based on the D.H. Lawrence novella, which was produced in Los Angeles, Off-Broadway at the Roundabout Theatre in New York City, and continues to be produced in the United States and around the world.[14][15]
Personal life
Miller has been married twice. His first wife was actress Anita Cooper, now deceased.[2] In 1976 he remarried, to Laura Zucker,[4] who for 25 years was executive director of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.[2][16]
