Jason Miller(1939-2001)
- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Character actor and playwright Jason Miller had a variety of jobs
before he started a writing career and wrote his own play, "That
Championship Season", for which he received the Pulitzer Prize Award.
Miller gave up his professional writing career in the early seventies
to start acting. In 1973, he starred as a troubled priest in the horror
film classic L'Exorciste (1973),
for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting
Actor. In 1982, he directed the revival of his play,
That Championship Season (1982),
to the screen. The father of actor
Jason Patric and actor/director/writer
Joshua John Miller, Miller's other
film credits include playing the title role in the made-for-television
film
F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (1975),
La Constellation des damnés (1980),
Toy Soldiers (1984),
L'Exorciste, la suite (1990) and
Rudy (1993)". Miller died in Scranton,
Pennsylvannia at the age of 62.
