ROBERT ELLIS MILLER

28 Jan

(18 July 1932 - 27 January 2017)

Robert Ellis Miller’s career as a director began in 1958 with ten years working in American television. His first feature film in 1966 was Any Wednesday (aka Bachelor Girl Apartment) with Jane Fonda and Jason Robards. This was followed by Sweet November with Sandy Dennis, and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter from the novel by Carson McCullers, for which Alan Arkin and Sondra Locke were both Academy Award-nominated. The Buttercup Chain (1970) was nominated at Cannes but after that Miller mainly directed middle of the road films that were nothing too special. His version of Peter De Vries’s Reuben, Reuben gained Oscar nominations in 1983 for the film, its star Tom Conti and writer Julius J. Epstein. More TV work was followed by Hawks, Brenda Starr and Bed and Breakfast, his last feature film in 1991, a romcom with Roger Moore and Talia Shire. Miller retired after directing the TV movie The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue in 1996.

MICHAEL DARVELL

Michael Darvell

Michael Darvell trained as a librarian at Watford and in Surrey before joining Ealing Libraries where he became Music Librarian for the borough. He edited Masthead, the magazine of the University of North London School of Librarianship, The Surrealist, the staff magazine of Surrey County Library, and contributed to the Assistant Librarian and London Librarian professional journals. A freelance film reviewer since 1970, he has written for Film, Films Illustrated, Film Review, Movie Maker and Radio Times, as well as editing Montage, the London film societies magazine, for ten years. A change of career saw him joining What’s On in London as Features Editor and he eventually stepped into the shoes of the late F. Maurice Speed (founding father of Film Review annual) as the magazine’s Editor. From 2007 to 2015, he was co-editor of the Film Review annual with Mansel Stimpson. As well as writing about films, Michael has reviewed theatre for The Stage newspaper, and has written about music theatre and cabaret for the Classical Source and Musical Theatre Review websites. He is also a former restaurant critic for the ViewLondon website. Michael has been a member of the London Film Critics’ Circle since 2005.

ROBERT ELLIS MILLER

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