BIRTHDAY
DIED
May 13, 2001

PROFESSIONS
Screenwriter, Playwright, Actor, Director, Theatrical Artistic Director, Producer, Poet
SOMETIMES CREDITED AS
John Anthony Miller
BIOGRAPHY
This writer, actor and director followed the incredible success of his play "That Championship Season" (1971), his collegiate, sentimental tribute to male friendship and basketball with the role of Father Karras in "The Exorcist" (1973), a role he reprised in "The Exorcist III" (1990) as Patient X. His writing and directing career continued with Miller helming the film version....
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This writer, actor and director followed the incredible success of his play "That Championship Season" (1971), his collegiate, sentimental tribute to male friendship and basketball with the role of Father Karras in "The Exorcist" (1973), a role he reprised in "The Exorcist III" (1990) as Patient X. His writing and directing career continued with Miller helming the film version of "That Championship Season" (1982) starring Bruce Dern and Stacy Keach. In addition, Miller has written screenplays for TV movies such as "Reward" (1980) and "A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story" (1989). As an actor, he has played a variety of roles on the tube and on the screen including the writers F. Scott Fitzgerald and Arthur Miller in "F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood" (1976) and "Marilyn: The Untold Story" (1980), respectively.
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Family

Daughter:  Jennifer Miller  (born c. 1964; mother, Linda G Miller)
Father:  John Miller  
Mother:  Mary Miller  
Son:  Jason Patric  (born on June 17, 1966 in Queens, New York; mother, Linda G Miller)
Son:  Jordan Miller  (born c. 1968; mother, Linda G Miller)
Son:  Joshua Miller  (born in December 1974; mother, Sue Bernard; wrote novel "The Mao Game" which he later adapted as motion picture)
Wife:  Linda Miller  (married in 1963; divorced; daughter of Jackie Gleason; appeared in "An Unmarried Woman")

Companions

Dana Oxley (survived him)
Sue Bernard (together in the mid-1970s; daughter of photographer Bruno Bernard)

Education

St Patrick's High School Scranton, Pennsylvania
Catholic University of America Washington, DC
University of Scranton Scranton, Pennsylvania BA 1961
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