Hugh Miller (actor)

{{Short description|British actor (1889–1976)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Hugh Miller

| image = Actor_Hugh_Miller.jpg

| imagesize =

| caption = 1936 Spotlight photo

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1889|05|22}}

| birth_place = Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1976|11|01|1889|05|22}}

| death_place = London, England

| birthname = Hugh Lorimer Miller

| occupation = Actor

| yearsactive = 1921–1962

| spouse = {{marriage|Olga Katzin|1921}}

| children = 3

}}

Hugh Miller (22 May 1889{{spaced ndash}}1 November 1976) was a British stage and film actor.{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/17082|title=Hugh Miller|access-date=2010-03-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018051521/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/17082|archive-date=2012-10-18|url-status=dead}} He was instrumental in founding the original London [http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/454755/index.html Film Society] in 1925, but left soon afterwards to work in America.{{cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/454755/index.html|title=BFI Screenonline: Film Studios and Industry Bodies > Film Society, The (1925-39)|website=www.screenonline.org.uk}} He found success on Broadway, as Mr. Jingle in Pickwick in 1927; and in Hollywood, in the Gloria Swanson film The Love of Sunya, that same year.{{cite web|url=http://www.berwickfriends.org.uk/history/hugh-miller-actor/|title=Hugh Miller, actor - Friends of Berwick and District Museum and Archives|website=www.berwickfriends.org.uk}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/pickwick-10355|title=Pickwick – Broadway Play – Original - IBDB|first=The Broadway|last=League|website=www.ibdb.com}} Miller was cast as dialogue coach for Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and was mentor to actor Peter O'Toole from early in his career who recommended Miller to Lean. Miller, who was one of several members of a David Lean film crew to be given bit parts, was hired again as dialogue coach in Doctor Zhivago (1965), his last screen effort before his death in 1976.

Miller married Olga Katzin, a satirical poet who published under the name Sagittarius, in 1921; they had three children.{{cite web |title=Hugh Miller, actor |url=http://www.berwickfriends.org.uk/history/hugh-miller-actor/ |website=Friends of Berwick and District Museum and Archives}}{{cite news |title=Gabriel L. Miller's Obituary (2017) Wicked Local Cape Cod |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/wickedlocal-capecod/name/gabriel-miller-obituary?id=15848345 |work=Wicked Local Cape Cod |publisher=Legacy.com |date=March 4, 2017}}