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Virgil Miller is a Actor, Director of Photography and Cinematography American born on 20 december 1886 at Coffeen (USA)
Virgil Miller (parfois crédité Virgil E. Miller), né le 20 décembre 1887 à Coffeen (Illinois), mort le 5 octobre 1974 à Los Angeles — Quartier d'Hollywood (Californie), est un directeur de la photographie américain, membre de l'ASC.
Durant la période du muet, il collabore à près de soixante-dix films américains, dont des westerns réalisés par Edward Sedgwick et ayant pour vedette Hoot Gibson, comme The Hurricane Kid en 1925.
Après six films sortis en 1929, Virgil Miller ne revient au cinéma qu'à partir de 1936, sur le western Drift Fence d'Otho Lovering (avec Buster Crabbe et Katherine DeMille) et le mélodrame Le Jardin d'Allah de Richard Boleslawski (avec Marlène Dietrich et Charles Boyer).
Par la suite, il contribue principalement à des films de série B, dont le film d'horreur La Malédiction de la Momie de Leslie Goodwins (1944, avec Lon Chaney Jr. et Virginia Christine). Son dernier film est le western I Killed Wild Bill Hickok de Richard Talmadge (avec Denver Pyle et Helen Westcott), sorti en 1956.
Fait notable, il travaille aux côtés du réalisateur Roy William Neill sur trois films consacrés au détective Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) et à son comparse le docteur Watson (Nigel Bruce), La Perle des Borgia (1944), La Femme en vert (1945) et La Maison de la peur (1945).
En 1953, Virgil Miller obtient son unique nomination à l'Oscar de la meilleure photographie, pour le documentaire Navajo de Norman Foster (avec Hall Bartlett), sorti en 1952.
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Nationality USA
Birth 20 december 1886 at Coffeen (USA)
Death 5 october 1974 (at 87 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Birth 20 december 1886 at Coffeen (USA)
Death 5 october 1974 (at 87 years) at Hollywood (USA)
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Virgil Miller débute comme chef opérateur sur deux films sortis en 1917, A Stormy Night (avec Jean Hersholt et Agnes Vernon) et The Man Trap (avec Herbert Rawlinson et Ruby Lafayette), tous deux réalisés par Elmer Clifton.Durant la période du muet, il collabore à près de soixante-dix films américains, dont des westerns réalisés par Edward Sedgwick et ayant pour vedette Hoot Gibson, comme The Hurricane Kid en 1925.
Après six films sortis en 1929, Virgil Miller ne revient au cinéma qu'à partir de 1936, sur le western Drift Fence d'Otho Lovering (avec Buster Crabbe et Katherine DeMille) et le mélodrame Le Jardin d'Allah de Richard Boleslawski (avec Marlène Dietrich et Charles Boyer).
Par la suite, il contribue principalement à des films de série B, dont le film d'horreur La Malédiction de la Momie de Leslie Goodwins (1944, avec Lon Chaney Jr. et Virginia Christine). Son dernier film est le western I Killed Wild Bill Hickok de Richard Talmadge (avec Denver Pyle et Helen Westcott), sorti en 1956.
Fait notable, il travaille aux côtés du réalisateur Roy William Neill sur trois films consacrés au détective Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) et à son comparse le docteur Watson (Nigel Bruce), La Perle des Borgia (1944), La Femme en vert (1945) et La Maison de la peur (1945).
En 1953, Virgil Miller obtient son unique nomination à l'Oscar de la meilleure photographie, pour le documentaire Navajo de Norman Foster (avec Hall Bartlett), sorti en 1952.
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Filmography of Virgil Miller (39 films)
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Add to a movie listNavajo (1952)
, 1h10Directed by Norman Foster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary, Western
Actors Hall Bartlett, Virgil Miller
Roles le marchand
Rating59%
Cameraman
Unchained (1955)
, 1h15Directed by Hall Bartlett
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films
Actors Barbara Hale, Chester Morris, Todd Duncan, Peggy Knudsen, Jerry Paris, John Qualen
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60%
Steve Davitt décide de ne pas attendre le terme de la peine qu'il purge en prison et de s'évader, afin de retrouver sa femme Mary et son fils Win. Bill Howard, un autre prisonnier, le dissuade de passer à l'acte...
Miss Robin Crusoe (1953)
, 1h15Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films based on Robinson Crusoe, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors George Nader, Amanda Blake
Roles Director of Photography
Rating45%
On September 28, 1659, a ship founders. The captain's daughter and cabin boy, Robin Crusoe (Amanda Blake), and a sailor named Sykes reach a deserted island. When Sykes tries to force Robin to show her appreciation for his efforts, she flees up a hill. In the ensuing struggle, he falls over a cliff and is killed.
Murder Without Tears (1953)
, 1h5Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Craig Stevens, Richard Benedict, Edward Norris, Murray Alper, Leonard Penn, Fred Kelsey
Roles Director of Photography
Rating58%
Navajo (1952)
, 1h10Directed by Norman Foster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary, Western
Actors Hall Bartlett, Virgil Miller
Roles Director of Photography
Rating59%
The Vigilantes Return (1947)
, 1h7Directed by Ray Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Action, Musical, Western
Actors Jon Hall, Margaret Lindsay, Andy Devine, Jack Lambert, Jonathan Hale, Robert Wilcox
Roles Director of Photography
Rating57%
Marshal Johnnie Taggart, posing as an outlaw named "Ace" Braddock, comes to Bannack, Montana to restore law and order. But he is recognized by Kitty, co-owner with Clay Curtwright, of the infamous Bull Whip saloon. But "bad-girl" Kitty keeps her mouth shut. When Johnnie's pal Andy reports a stage holdup, Curtwright's henchman, Ben Borden, talks the sheriff and Judge Holden into suspecting Johnnie. Johnnie reveals himself to Judge Holden as a government marshal, and the judge voices his opinion that Curtwright is the leader of the road agents, but voices it in the presence of his granddaughter, Louise Holden. The Judge doesn't know that Louise is in love with Curtwright, and she tips him off as to Johnnie's real identity. Curtwright frames Johnnie for a murder and arranges for the crooked sheriff to promote a lynching and Andy and Kitty help Johnnie escape jail. Johnnie rounds up vigilantes and heads for a showdown at the Bull Whip saloon.
The Woman in Green (1945)
, 1h8Directed by Roy William Neill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Serial killer films, Buddy films
Actors Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Henry Daniell, Hillary Brooke, Matthew Boulton, Paul Cavanagh
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65%
When several women are murdered and their forefingers severed, Holmes and Watson are called into action, but Holmes is baffled by the crimes at the start. Widower Sir George Fenwick (Paul Cavanagh), after a romantic night alone with his girlfriend Lydia Marlowe (Hillary Brooke), is hypnotized into believing that he is responsible for the crimes. He is certain that he is guilty after he awakes from a stupor and finds a woman's forefinger in his pocket. His daughter comes to Holmes and Watson without realizing that Moriarty's henchman is following her. She tells Holmes and Watson that she found her father burying a forefinger under a pile of soil. She has dug up the forefinger and shows it to them.
The House of Fear (1945)
, 1h8Directed by Roy William Neill
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films
Actors Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Aubrey Mather, Paul Cavanagh, Dennis Hoey, Holmes Herbert
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71%
Holmes is visited by Mr. Chalmers, an insurance agent with a strange tale. Seven elderly single men, calling themselves "The Good Comrades", live together in the remote Scottish castle of Drearcliffe House, near the village of Inverneill. Recently one of the "Good Comrades" received a strange message, an envelope containing nothing but seven orange pips. That night, he was murdered and his body horribly mutilated. A few days later, the second envelope was delivered, this time containing six pips, and the recipient also died mysteriously soon afterwards, his battered corpse being recovered from the base of the cliffs. Chalmers holds £100,000 of life insurance policies on the seven men, and suspects that one is systematically murdering the others in order to collect the money, and begs Holmes to investigate.
The Falcon in San Francisco (1945)
, 1h6Directed by Joseph H. Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Tom Conway, Rita Corday, Edward Brophy, Sharyn Moffett, Fay Helm, Robert Armstrong
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63%
While travelling by railroad for a vacation in San Francisco, The Falcon witnesses the murder of a wealthy young girl's nurse. His investigation eventually uncovers the relationship between an ex-bootlegger and a wealthy shipping heiress.
The Pearl of Death (1944)
, 1h8Directed by Roy William Neill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films
Actors Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Dennis Hoey, Evelyn Ankers, Miles Mander, Ian Wolfe
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70%
Master criminal Giles Conover (Miles Mander) steals the famous "Borgia Pearl" from the Royal Regent Museum under the very nose of Holmes and Watson, but when caught the pearl is not found on him and he is released.
The Mummy's Curse (1944)
, 1h2Directed by Reginald Le Borg, Leslie Goodwins
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Actors Lon Chaney, Jr., Virginia Christine, Dennis Moore, Al Ferguson, Martin Kosleck, Boris Karloff
Roles Director of Photography
Rating54%
The Southern Engineering Company is trying to drain the swamp of Cajun Country for the public good. However, the efforts are being hampered by the superstitions of the workers, who believe the area to be haunted by the mummy and his bride.
Weird Woman (1944)
, 1h3Directed by Reginald Le Borg
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Witches in film
Actors Lon Chaney, Jr., Anne Gwynne, Evelyn Ankers, Ralph Morgan, Elisabeth Risdon, Lois Collier
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61%
Professor Norman Reed (Chaney, Jr.) falls in love with and marries an exotic woman named Paula (Gwynne) while on vacation in the South Seas. When they return to his home town, she is greeted coolly by much of the community, especially Illona (Ankers), who felt that Reed was hers. Strange things begin to happen, including the death of a colleague, which turns people against her even more, especially as she believes in voodoo and other supernatural phenomena. Reed must work hard to prove her innocence and find the real culprit behind the strange doings.
Calling Dr. Death (1943)
, 1h3Directed by Reginald Le Borg
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie
Actors Lon Chaney, Jr., Patricia Morison, J. Carrol Naish, David Bruce, Ramsay Ames, Holmes Herbert
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61%
A respected neurologist, Dr. Mark Steele (Lon Chaney, Jr.) treats his patients successfully with hypnosis, but has troubles of his own from a marriage falling apart, that he cannot treat himself in the same way. His wife Maria (Ramsay Ames) is cheating on him on a regular basis, which is something Mark is well aware of. When Maria returns home one night in the early morning hours after a rendez-vous with her lover, Mark finally tells her that he has had enough and that he wants a divorce. Maria, who is leading a very comfortable life as a doctor's wife, refuses her consent to a divorce, and laughs at him as she does so. That night Mark has a dream about strangling his wife to death.
Berlin Correspondent (1942)
, 1h10Directed by Eugene Forde
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Virginia Gilmore, Dana Andrews, Mona Maris, Martin Kosleck, Sig Ruman, Kurt Katch
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61%
Le correspondant américain Bill Roberts est une épine dans le pied des nazis, son journal dépeignant toujours le monde sur la vérité sur l'Allemagne. Le Capitaine de la Gestapo Carl Von Rau veut boucher la fuite et assigne Karen Hauen, à qui il s’attache au mariage. Roberts obtient ses informations pour ses récits et ses émissions d'un collectionneur de timbres âgé qui, opposé aux nazis par défi, vend les timbres "appropriés" à Roberts et lui fournit les informations. Attirée par Karen, Roberts l'invite dans son appartement où elle découvre son secret. La vieille philatéliste est envoyée dans un camp de concentration, puis Karen apprend qu'il est son père. Elle fait appel à Roberts pour lui demander de l'aide et lui, fidèle au vieil homme et maintenant amoureux de Karen, accepte de l'aider.
Castle in the Desert (1942)
Directed by Harry Lachman
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors Sidney Toler, Arleen Whelan, Richard Derr, Douglass Dumbrille, Henry Daniell, Victor Sen Yung
Roles Director of Photography
Rating69%
Mrs. Manderley, an eccentric descendant of the Borgias lives in a castle in the middle of the Mojave Desert with her husband Paul Manderley, a reclusive scholary millionaire. Someone is killed after being poisoned. Paul tries to cover up the murder in which Charlie Chan investigates. In addition to Paul Manderley and his wife (who may be insane and not responsible for her actions) other suspects include: