Character actor and playwright Jason Miller had a variety of jobs before he started a writing career and wrote his own play, "That Championship Season", for which he received the Pulitzer Prize Award. Miller gave up his professional writing career in the early seventies to start acting. In 1973, he starred as a troubled priest in the horror film ...
| Full Name | Jason Miller |
| Net Worth | $600 thousand |
| Date Of Birth | April 22, 1939 |
| Died | May 13, 2001, Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States, May 13, 2001, Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Place Of Birth | Long Island City, New York, USA |
| Height | 1.66 m, 1.66 m |
| Weight | 95 kg |
| Profession | Actor, Poet, Film director, Film producer, Playwright, Screenwriter |
| Education | University of Scranton, Catholic University of America |
| Nationality | American, American |
| Spouse | Ruth Josem, Susan Bernard, Linda Miller |
| Children | Jason Patric, Joshua John Miller, Jennifer Miller, Jordan Miller, Jason Patric, Joshua John Miller, Jennifer Miller, Jordan Miller |
| Parents | John A. Miller, Mary Claire Collins, Mary Claire Collins, John A. Miller |
| Twitter | http://www.twitter.com/jasonmillerindc |
| IMDB | http://imdb.com/name/nm0588553 |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony Award for Best Play, Outer Critics Circle Award for John Gassner Playwriting Award, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Playwright, Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony Award for Best Play, Outer Critics Circle Award for John Gassne... |
| Music Groups | Godhead |
| Nominations | Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role |
| Movies | The Exorcist, The Exorcist III, The Ninth Configuration, Rudy, The Nickel Ride, Light of Day, That Championship Season, The Dain Curse, Murdered Innocence, Monsignor, Finding Home, Toy Soldiers, The Henderson Monster, A Touch of Scandal, Trance, Terror in the Aisles, Vampire, The Devil's Advocate, M... |
| TV Shows | Hellsing, Hellsing, The Dain Curse |
| Star Sign | Taurus |
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| 1 | Is one of 8 actors who have received an Oscar nomination for their performance as a priest. The others, in chronological order, are: Spencer Tracy for San Francisco (1936) and Boys Town (1938); Charles Bickford for The Song of Bernadette (1943); Bing Crosby for Going My Way (1944) and The Bells of St. Mary's (1945); Barry Fitzgerald for Going My Way (1944); Gregory Peck for The Keys of the Kingdom (1944); Karl Malden for On the Waterfront (1954); and Philip Seymour Hoffman for Doubt (2008). Tracy, Crosby and Fitzgerald all won Oscars for their performances. |
| 2 | He was of Irish, with some German, ancestry. |
| 3 | Was on the set of The Exorcist (1973) and engrossed in his priest role when he was informed that he had won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for writing "That Championship Season.". |
| 4 | Won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "That Championship Season". |
| 5 | Was in rehearsal as Oscar Madison in a revival of "The Odd Couple" when he died of a massive heart attack. Many years earlier, he had been in a different production of "The Odd Couple" (in Fort Worth, Texas) when he wrote his play "That Championship Season.". |
| 6 | Won Broadway's 1973 Tony Award as author of Best Play winner "That Championship Season." |
| 7 | Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 130, pp. 292-295. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005. |
| 8 | Former son-in-law of Bruno Bernard and Jackie Gleason. |
| 9 | As Jack Miller, taught Drama in mid-1960s at Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington, D.C. |
| 10 | A Notre Dame fan, Miller always ended his conversations with "Go Irish!" instead of "Goodbye". |
| 11 | At the time of his death, he had just finished the first draft of a play with his son Joshua John Miller. The play was about a playwright father who dies, leaving his son to complete the script. |
| 12 | Has a regional theatre award named after him. |
| 13 | Established the Pennsylvania Summer Theater Festival in Scranton, PA. |
| 14 | Writer, actor, director, poet, and producer. |
| 15 | Graduated from St. Patrick's High School, Scranton, PA; University of Scranton, Scranton, PA; Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. |
| 16 | Parents: John and Mary Collins Miller. |
| 17 | Children: Jennifer Miller, Jason Patric, Jordan Miller, Joshua John Miller. |
| 18 | He was born in Long Island City, New York, but his parents moved to Scranton, Pennsylvania, when he was an infant. |
| 19 | Father of Joshua John Miller with Sue Bernard. |
| 20 | Miller was Co-Artistic Director of The Public Theatre, Scranton Pa. USA. |
| 21 | Shortly before his death he had returned to writing having reworked his first play, _Nobody Hears a Broken Drum_, and wrote, starred and directed _Barrymore's Ghost_. |
| 22 | Married Jackie Gleason's daughter, Linda Miller, and had a son, actor Jason Patric. |
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$600 thousand
