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Claude Miller
Writer, Actor, Director, Producer, Additional Credits
Born February 20, 1942Died April 4, 2012 (70 years)
Claude Miller (20 February 1942 – 4 April 2012) was a French film director, producer and screenwriter.
Claude Miller was born to a Jewish family. A student at Paris' IDHEC film school from 1962 through 1963, Miller had his first practical cinematic experience while he was in uniform, serving with the Service Cinéma de l'Armée. From 1965 until 1974, Miller worked in assistant and supervisory capacities for many of France's major directors, including Robert Bresson and Jean-Luc Godard.
His principal mentor was François Truffaut, under whose tutelage Miller directed a trio of shorts and La meilleure façon de marcher (The Best Way to Walk, 1976), his first theatrical feature, a coming-of-age drama which bore traces of Truffaut's Les Mistons (1957) and The 400 Blows (1959). Miller received César nominations for Best Director and César Award for Best Screenplay, Dialogue or Adaptation for this film.
His subsequent films can also be perceived as homages to Truffaut, many even using the same production personnel. The following year he made Dites-lui que je l'aime, for which he received a second César nomination for Best Director. He won a César Award for Best Screenplay, Dialogue or Adaptation in 1981 for Garde à vue, and the Louis Delluc Prize in 1985 for L'Effrontée, for which he received another César nomination for Best Director. In 1983 he directed Mortelle randonnée. When Truffaut died in 1984 during the preparation of another feature about a confused, adolescent serial thief entangled with an older lover, La Petite Voleuse (The Little Thief), Miller took over the project, completing the film in 1988. The latter film was a considerable international success, and solidified Miller's status as one of France's major film-makers. On French television, Miller directed dozens of commercials and the six-part miniseries Traits de Mémoire (1976).
After a four-year absence, Claude Miller returned to active filmmaking with The Accompanist (1992) and Le Sourire (1994). He had to wait until 1998 for his next major success: La Classe de Neige, the chilling story of a lonely boy on a school skiing holiday, which won the Jury Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. Later films Miller directed include Betty Fisher et autres histoires (2001) which Peter Bradshaw wrote that Miller "endowed it with the fascination of an exotic, spiky, poisonous flower", La Petite Lili (2003), and A Secret (2007). At the time of his death he was working on an adaptation of François Mauriac's Thérèse Desqueyroux. The film was selected to close the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
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Claude Miller was born to a Jewish family. A student at Paris' IDHEC film school from 1962 through 1963, Miller had his first practical cinematic experience while he was in uniform, serving with the Service Cinéma de l'Armée. From 1965 until 1974, Miller worked in assistant and supervisory capacities for many of France's major directors, including Robert Bresson and Jean-Luc Godard.
His principal mentor was François Truffaut, under whose tutelage Miller directed a trio of shorts and La meilleure façon de marcher (The Best Way to Walk, 1976), his first theatrical feature, a coming-of-age drama which bore traces of Truffaut's Les Mistons (1957) and The 400 Blows (1959). Miller received César nominations for Best Director and César Award for Best Screenplay, Dialogue or Adaptation for this film.
His subsequent films can also be perceived as homages to Truffaut, many even using the same production personnel. The following year he made Dites-lui que je l'aime, for which he received a second César nomination for Best Director. He won a César Award for Best Screenplay, Dialogue or Adaptation in 1981 for Garde à vue, and the Louis Delluc Prize in 1985 for L'Effrontée, for which he received another César nomination for Best Director. In 1983 he directed Mortelle randonnée. When Truffaut died in 1984 during the preparation of another feature about a confused, adolescent serial thief entangled with an older lover, La Petite Voleuse (The Little Thief), Miller took over the project, completing the film in 1988. The latter film was a considerable international success, and solidified Miller's status as one of France's major film-makers. On French television, Miller directed dozens of commercials and the six-part miniseries Traits de Mémoire (1976).
After a four-year absence, Claude Miller returned to active filmmaking with The Accompanist (1992) and Le Sourire (1994). He had to wait until 1998 for his next major success: La Classe de Neige, the chilling story of a lonely boy on a school skiing holiday, which won the Jury Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. Later films Miller directed include Betty Fisher et autres histoires (2001) which Peter Bradshaw wrote that Miller "endowed it with the fascination of an exotic, spiky, poisonous flower", La Petite Lili (2003), and A Secret (2007). At the time of his death he was working on an adaptation of François Mauriac's Thérèse Desqueyroux. The film was selected to close the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Claude Miller, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Claude Miller Filmography
| 2012 | |
| 2011 | See How They Dance · as Screenplay |
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| 2003 | |
| 2001 | Alias Betty · as Screenplay |
| 2000 | Under Suspicion · as Original Film Writer |
| 2000 | Of Woman and Magic · as Screenplay |
| 1998 | Class Trip · as Screenplay |
| 1994 | |
| 1992 | |
| 1988 | The Little Thief · as Screenplay |
| 1985 | |
| 1981 | |
| 1981 | |
| 1978 | |
| 1977 | Tell Her That I Love Her · as Screenplay |
| 1976 | |
| 1971 |
| 2006 | Un ami parfait · as Le Professeur André Barth |
| 1981 | Heat of Desire · as Un Monsieur Du Wagon Lit |
| 1978 | Like a Turtle on Its Back · as Pierre |
| 1976 | The Probability Factor · as Member Of The Board Of Directors |
| 1973 | Day for Night · as Hotel Client (uncredited) |
| 1971 | Diamond Bikini · as A Man Kissing A Woman |
| 1970 | The Wild Child · as Monsieur Lemeri |
| 1967 | 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her · as Bouvard |
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| 2018 | Lino Ventura, la part intime · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2005 | La vie de Michel Muller est plus belle que la vôtre · as Claude Miller |
| 2004 | At the Movies (2004) (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | Words in Progress · as Self |
| 1993 | François Truffaut: Portraits volés · as Self |
| 1990 | Faut pas rêver (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1982 | Cinéma cinémas (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1982 | Champs-Elysees (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1976 | César Awards (TV Series) · as Self - Nominee |
| 1975 | Sunday meetings (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1994 | The Smile · as Co-Executive Producer |
| 1987 | Vent de panique · as Screenstory |
| 1973 | Day for Night · as Production Manager |
| 1972 | A Gorgeous Girl Like Me · as Production Director |
| 1971 | Two English Girls · as Production Manager |
| 1971 | Diamond Bikini · as Dialogue |
| 1970 | Bed & Board · as Production Manager |
| 1970 | The Wild Child · as Unit Manager |
| 1969 | Mississippi Mermaid · as Production Manager |
| 1969 | The Devil by the Tail · as Assistant Director |
| 1967 | Weekend · as Assistant Director |
| 1967 | The Chinese · as Unit Manager |
| 1967 | 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her · as Production Manager |
| 1967 | The Young Girls of Rochefort · as Assistant Director |
| 1967 | The Sunday of Life · as Assistant Director |
| 1966 | Soldier Martin · as Assistant Director |
| 1966 | Au hasard Balthazar · as Assistant Director |