Celebrity Biographies
Robert Ellis Miller
He directed titles like “Reuben, Reuben” and “The heart is a lonely hunter”. Robert Ellis Miller died on January 27, 2017 at the age of 89, in a nursing home for film industry professionals in Woodland Hills, California, where he had resided since the death of his wife, Pola Miller, which took place two years before.
Born July 18, 1932, New Yorker Robert Ellis Miller attended Harvard, where he became president of the Theater Club. Back in New York, he staged several plays on the off-Broadway circuit, and made his debut as a television director with episodes of titles like The Twilight Zone .
After eight years of intense cathodic activity, he got his start on the big screen with Any Wednesday , starring Jane Fonda and Jason Robards . With The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter , based on the novel by Carson McCullers , its leads earned an Oscar nomination: Alan Arkin and newcomer Sondra Locke . It was also the debut of Stacy Keach .
In The Girl from Petrovka he launched the career of Anthony Hopkins , on the screen a friend of an American journalist in Russia who fell in love with a dancer. For Reuben, Reuben , Tom Conti was nominated for an Oscar, for embodying a poet more concerned with women than with writing. For this title he also had a first-timer Kelly McGillis .
Robert Ellis Miller had retired in 1996, after spending a decade directing TV movies.