Seton I. Miller

Seton Ingersoll Miller ( May 3, 1902 in Chehalis, Washington, † March 29, 1974 in Los Angeles at the age of 71 years ) was a Hollywood screenwriter and producer. During his career, worked worked the twice Academy Award-winning Miller with many well-known American directors like Howard Hawks and Michael Curtiz.

Career

As a Yale graduate Miller began in the late 1920s with the writing of silent film stories. In the 30 years he tended to the crime film, working with Hawks and others led to a groundbreaking film, Scarface ( 1932). At the time of application of the Hays Code in 1934, convened the film company Warner Bros. Miller to adapt the dialogues and actions of criminal figures in the new Code. Thanks to his screenplays for The Fed (1935 ) and Who owns the city? (1936 ) succeeded known as a performer of criminals actors James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson successfully to embody representatives of the law. Often he adapted well-known pieces or novels, like Graham Greene's Ministry of Fear for Fritz Lang's film of the same name from 1944. He worked regularly in Hollywood until 1959. After Thriller The Last Mile but he then left the industry for more than a decade. In the seventies he returned to scripts for the horror film A Knife for the Ladies as well as Disney's Pete's Dragon for a short time back.

Filmography

Awards

• He received an Academy Award with Fred Niblo Jr. for their film adaptation in 1930 by Martin Flavin's play The Criminal Code.
• He received a second Academy Award in 1941 for the screenplay of vacation from the sky.