How Green Was My Valley (1941)

Born in Roslyn, NY. One of Hollywood's most accomplished lighting cameramen, an outstanding master of black-and-white cinematography. At 13 he played bit parts in Westerns and doubled as camera assistant. He later became assistant cameraman and laboratory technician for Edwin S. Porter and operating cameraman for Louis Gasnier, for whom he photographed the serial THE PERILS OF PAULINE (1914). A director of photography from 1918, he worked almost exclusively for eight years with George Fitzmaurice, but his reputation owes most to his work for various 20th Century-Fox directors in the 1940s. Miller retired in 1951 after shooting THE PROWLER for Joseph Losey, and two years after shooting one of the seminal film-noirs, Otto Preminger's WHIRLPOOL (1949). Miller served as president of the American Society of Cinematographers from 1954 to 1956. In the 1960s, he set up an extensive exhibit of vintage camera equipment for the ASC. Shoftly before his death, he finished making the documentary THE MOVING PICTURE CAMERA He died on July 13, 1970 in Hollywood, from tuberculosis, eight days after his 75th birthday. Visit the Internet Movie Database to view Miller's more than 130 film credits.  Nominated for Cinematography (Black and White) 1939: THE RAINS CAME  Nominated for Cinematography (Color) 1940: THE BLUE BIRD (w. Ray Rennahan)  Cinematography (Black and White) 1941: HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY  Nominated for Cinematography (Black and White) 1942: THIS ABOVE ALL  Cinematography (Black and White) 1943: THE SONG OF BERNADETTE  Nominated for Cinematography (Black and White) 1945: THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM  Cinematography (Black and White) 1946: ANNA AND THE KING OF SIAM 7 nominations, 3 Awards