Gilbert Miller

Gilbert Heron Miller ( born July 3, 1884 in New York City; † January 2, 1969 ) was an American theater director, theater producer and theater owner.

Gilbert Miller was the son of British-born theater producer Henry Miller (1859-1926) and Bijou Heron, a former child actress. After he had spent his school years in the UK, he returned to the United States to be like his father Broadway producer. Miller owned and managed the Henry Miller's Theatre on Broadway in New York and the St James 's Theatre and the Lyric Theatre in London's West End. He was the leader of the " League of New York Theatres " and " Actors Fund of America" ​​active.

His greatest performance success he achieved in 1935 with Victoria Regina by Laurence Housman with Helen Hayes in the title role. Miller won the 1950 American Theatre and Musical Tony Award for Best Play award for its production of The Cocktail Party by TS Eliot. 1965 Special Tony Award awarded him that he " had produced 88 plays and musicals, as well as for his tenacity, which has helped to keep New York and theater alive. "

Miller was married three times, first to actress Jessie F. Glendinning, with whom he had a daughter Dorothy, then with Mary Margaret Allen. His third wife was Kathryn Bache (1896-1979), the daughter of the Wall Street bankers Jules Bache, a theater patron. They married in Paris in 1927.

Gilbert Miller died in 1969 and was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. Miller's estate is from the Library of Congress in Washington, DC looked after.