Seton I. Miller
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| Born | May 3, 1902 Chehalis, Washington |
| Died | March 29, 1974 (age 71) Los Angeles, California |
| Nationality | US |
| Occupation | screenwriter, producer |
| Spouse(s) | Bonita J. Miller (divorced) Ann Evars |
Seton Ingersoll Miller (May 3, 1902 – March 29, 1974) was a Hollywood screenwriter and producer. During his career, he worked with many notable American film directors, such as Howard Hawks and Michael Curtiz.
Career
A Yale graduate, Miller began writing stories for silent films in the late 1920s. In the 1930s, he tended toward the crime genre, collaborating with Hawks and others on one of the most groundbreaking of such pictures, Scarface (1932). At the time of the Production Code's enforcement in 1934, Warner Bros. called in Miller to supply the dialogue and storylines they needed to adapt their pre-Code bad-guys to the new system. His scripts for G-Men (1935) and Bullets or Ballots (1936) successfully transformed big screen gangsters James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson, respectively, into crime-fighters. With Norman Reilly Raine, Miller wrote the script for The Adventures of Robin Hood. Often he adapted popular plays or novels, as with Graham Greene's Ministry of Fear for Fritz Lang's 1944 film. He worked regularly in Hollywood until 1959, when he helped write the thriller The Last Mile, but then left the industry for more than a decade. In his seventies, he made a brief return, providing screenplays for a horror film, A Knife for the Ladies, and for Disney's Pete's Dragon.
Awards and nominations
He and Sidney Buchman won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay in 1941 for Here Comes Mr. Jordan.
He was also nominated with Fred Niblo, Jr. for their 1931 screen adaptation of Martin Flavin's play The Criminal Code.
Partial filmography
- As writer, unless otherwise specified.
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- A Girl in Every Port (1928)
- The Air Circus (1928)
- The Far Call (1929)
- The Dawn Patrol (1930)
- The Criminal Code (1931)
- Scarface (1932)
- The Crowd Roars (1932)
- The Last Mile (1932)
- Hot Saturday (1932)
- Murders in the Zoo (1933)
- The Eagle and the Hawk (1933)
- Charlie Chan's Courage (1934)
- The St. Louis Kid (1934)
- Murder on a Honeymoon (1935)
- G Men (1935)
- Frisco Kid (1935)
- Two in the Dark (1936)
- Bullets or Ballots (1936)
- Marked Woman (1937) (uncredited)
- Kid Galahad (1937)
- Penitentiary (1938)
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
- The Dawn Patrol (1938)
- Dust Be My Destiny (1939) (uncredited)
- Castle on the Hudson (1940)
- The Sea Hawk (1940)
- Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
- This Woman Is Mine (1941)
- My Gal Sal (1942)
- The Black Swan (1942)
- Ministry of Fear (1944)
- The Bride Wore Boots (1946) (producer only)
- Two Years Before the Mast (1946)
- California (1947) (also produced)
- Calcutta (1947) (also produced)
- Singapore (1947)
- Fighter Squadron (1948) (also produced)
- Convicted (1950)
- The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950)
- The Mississippi Gambler (1953)
- Bengal Brigade (1954)
- The Shanghai Story (1954)
- Istanbul (1957)
- The Last Mile (1959), a remake of the 1932 film
- Pete's Dragon (1977) (short story)
