Allen H. Miner

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{{short description|American director and screenwriter}}

{{Infobox person

|name = Allen H. Miner

|birth_name = Allen Harris Miner

|birth_date = {{birth date|1917|10|18}}

|birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

|death_date = {{death date and age|2004|01|04|1917|10|18}}

|death_place = San Marcos, California, U.S.

|occupation = Director, screenwriter

|alma mater = Yale University

}}

Allen Harris Miner (October 18, 1917 – January 4, 2004) was an American director and screenwriter.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/316302116/|title=Painter Strikes Oil as Director|work=Tampa Bay Times|location=St. Petersburg, Florida|date=November 3, 1957|access-date=July 18, 2022|page=28|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}} He served as a photographer during World War II.{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-jan-16-me-passings16.3-story.html|title=Allen H. Miner, 86; TV and Film Writer, Director and Producer|work=Los Angeles Times|date=January 16, 2004|access-date=July 18, 2022}}{{Cite book|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2004|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W8uTzAEACAAJ|page=250|date=2004|publisher=McFarland|first=Harris|last=Lentz|isbn=9780786421039|via=Google Books}} Miner then directed and wrote for television programs including Perry Mason, Colgate Theatre, Mission: Impossible, The Twilight Zone, The Jane Wyman Show, Route 66, The Lawless Years, Tales of Wells Fargo, Riverboat and Wagon Train. He died in January 2004 of natural causes in San Marcos, California, at the age of 86.{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2004/scene/people-news/allen-h-miner-1117898730/|title=Allen H. Miner|work=Variety|date=January 19, 2004|access-date=July 18, 2022}}