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Virgil Miller (December 20, 1886 – October 5, 1974) was an American cinematographer who was the director of photography for 157 films between 1917 and 1956.
Miller’s credits include The Phantom of the Opera (1925), Danger – Love at Work (1937), Mr. Moto Takes a Chance (1938), The Mummy’s Curse (1944), Navajo (1952), Crazylegs (1953), and six Charlie Chan films.
Prior to working for Universal Studios and, eventually, most other major studios, Miller was a graduate from and a professor at Kansas State University teaching physics and electrical engineering.
In 1913 he became the first director and founder of the electrical department of Universal Studios. He also coordinated very early special effects including filming stampedes, explosions, and shrinking people.
Virgil Miller Biography / Wiki
| Name | Virgil Miller |
| Also Know | Virgil Emmitt Miller, Virgil E. Miller |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Camera |
| Place of Birth | Coffeen, Illinois, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1886-12-20 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 87 |
| Deathday | 1974-10-05 |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Phantom of the Opera | Director of Photography | 1925-09-22 | A grotesquely disfigured composer known as “The Phantom” haunts Paris’ opera house, where he’s secretly grooming Christine Daae to be an opera diva. L… |
| Finders Keepers | Director of Photography | 1928-02-18 | Silent military comedy whose only print exists in the Library of Congress…. |
| The House of Fear | Director of Photography | 1945-03-16 | The Good Comrades are a collection of varied gentlemen who crave one thing – solitude. They reside at Drearcliff House, ancestral home of their eldest… |
| The Pearl of Death | Director of Photography | 1944-08-01 | The famous Borgia Pearl, a valuable gem with a history of bringing murder and misfortune to its owner since the days of the Borgias, is brought to Lon… |
| The Woman in Green | Director of Photography | 1945-06-15 | Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes … |
| Calling Dr. Death | Director of Photography | 1943-12-17 | Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brutally murdered. Steele, aware of his conniving wife… |
| The Falcon in San Francisco | Director of Photography | 1945-07-20 | While on vacation, the Falcon is arrested for kidnapping after striking up a friendship with a girl who’s nurse has been recently murdered…. |
| Dr. Renault’s Secret | Director of Photography | 1942-10-19 | A remake of the 1927 horror film “The Wizard”. Dr. Larry Forbes(Sheppard Strudwick)arrives in a remote French village to visit his fiancee (Lynne Robe… |
| Murder Without Tears | Director of Photography | 1953-06-14 | A man hires someone to murder his wife and use a legal loophole to get away with it…. |
| City in Darkness | Director of Photography | 1939-11-15 | Chan goes to Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I. There he investigates the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to… |
| Weird Woman | Director of Photography | 1944-03-01 | After bringing his beautiful new wife Paula home to America from the remote island on which she was raised, Professor Norman Reed begins to feel the c… |
| Berlin Correspondent | Director of Photography | 1942-08-17 | Dana Andrews plays Bill Roberts, an American radio commentator station in Berlin in the months before Pearl Harbor. Having witnessed Nazi brutalities … |
| The Trap | Director of Photography | 1922-05-08 | A miner’s happiness is destroyed when a rival steals his mine. He becomes obsessed with revenge, and plans a trap for the man who took his mine…. |
| Charlie Chan’s Murder Cruise | Director of Photography | 1940-05-02 | On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a … |
| Miss Robin Crusoe | Director of Photography | 1953-11-01 | This 1954 feminist version of “Robinson Crusoe” stars Amanda Blake as a woman shipwrecked on a jungle island. Also with George Nader and Rosalind Haye… |
| The Mummy’s Curse | Director of Photography | 1944-12-22 | After being buried in quicksand for the past 25 years, Kharis is set free to roam the rural bayous of Louisiana, as is the soul of his beloved Princes… |
| Drift Fence | Director of Photography | 1936-02-14 | Although Larry “Buster” Crabbe earns top billing, the hero of Drift Fence is former Western star Tom Keene as Jim Travis, who, at a rodeo, meets city … |
| Mr. Moto’s Last Warning | Director of Photography | 1939-01-20 | A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egyp… |
| Mysterious Mr. Moto | Director of Photography | 1938-09-17 | The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard…. |
| Mr. Moto Takes a Chance | Director of Photography | 1938-06-11 | In the jungle near Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Mr. Moto poses as an ineffectual archaeologist and a venerable holy man with mystical powers to help foil t… |
| Thank You, Mr. Moto | Director of Photography | 1937-12-24 | Mr. Moto Heads to China on a quest for seven ancient scrolls that reveal the location of Genghis Khan’s tomb—a crypt filled with fabulous treasure! … |
| Red Courage | Director of Photography | 1921-10-10 | Pinto Peters and his pal Chuckwalla Bill ride into town just as the editor of the local newspaper is being urged to leave by a gang of thugs led by Jo… |
| The Thrill Chaser | Director of Photography | 1923-11-26 | In this partially lost silent film, a man working as a motion picture extra in Hollywood westerns impresses a visiting sheikh with his boxing skills a… |
| Navajo | Director of Photography | 1952-02-12 | A young Navajo Indian boy is caught up in the conflict of cultures when he rejects the white man’s school. Told in semi-documentary style…. |
| Brace Up | Director of Photography | 1918-03-18 | Hero Henry Court (Herbert Rawlinson) is very much his parents’ child, having inherited the predominant character traits of both his go-getting father … |
| The Eagle | Director of Photography | 1918-06-22 | … |
| The Saddle Hawk | Director of Photography | 1925-03-08 | Ben Johnson, a sheepherder who hates sheep, is instructed by his employer, Vasquez, to escort beautiful Rena Newhall to her father’s ranch. On the jou… |
| Inside Story | Director of Photography | 1939-03-10 | A good-hearted reporter attempts to find the loneliest woman in New York so he can give her an old-fashioned Christmas on a farm….. |
| Walking Down Broadway | Director of Photography | 1938-03-11 | Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many differ… |
| Courage of the West | Director of Photography | 1937-12-01 | Rangers go after bandits holding up Wells Fargo offices…. |
| To the Coast of Devon | Director of Photography | 1950-07-15 | The first half of this Traveltalk entry is spent in the town of Bath, where we learn about the long history and architecture of the area. We then go t… |
| Unchained | Director of Photography | 1955-08-25 | This fact-based prison drama tells the tale of a band of prisoners living in the innovative 2,600-acre prison at Chino, California. The place takes a … |
| Land of Tradition | Director of Photography | 1950-01-20 | This Traveltalk series short visits an array of locations associated with England’s heritage. Included are Runnymede, Windsor, Ascot, Lincoln, Wells, … |
| Roaming Through Northern Ireland | Director of Photography | 1949-07-09 | A look primarily at the beauty of the countryside and seacoast, starting at Carrick-a-Rede Island then on to Enniskillen, the cathedral at Downpatrick… |
| Broken Hearts of Hollywood | Director of Photography | 1926-08-14 | Virginia Perry, a former movie star, leaves her family and returns to Hollywood to make a comeback, but age has taken its toll and she is cast in smal… |
| Wandering Through Wales | Director of Photography | 1948-10-16 | Located in the United Kingdom, the Principality of Wales, home to 2.5 million people, is filled with rolling mountains, and green valleys. Because of … |
| Scholastic England | Director of Photography | 1948-12-18 | This MGM Traveltalk short focuses on the history of England’s colleges in Cambridge, Oxford, and Eton and the towns that surround the campuses…. |
| Finger Prints | Director of Photography | 1927-01-08 | A gang of inept crooks and even more inept lawmen search for a cache of hidden money…. |
| Visiting St. Louis | Director of Photography | 1944-02-19 | This FitzPatrick Traveltalk series short visit to St. Louis, Missouri starts with a brief history lesson. We then see several of the city’s architectu… |
| On the Shores of Nova Scotia | Director of Photography | 1947-06-28 | In this Traveltalk look at Canada’s province of Nova Scotia, we visit several coastal communities. The first stop is Lunenburg, where deep sea fishing… |
| Night Life in Chicago | Director of Photography | 1948-11-27 | This short Traveltalk visit to Chicago looks at some hotels known for their evening entertainment and for the rich and famous people who come to their… |
| Pier 13 | Director of Photography | 1940-08-08 | A policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront smuggling racket…. |
| Mackinac Island | Director of Photography | 1944-03-18 | This Traveltalk series short begins in Chicago, where the narrator and his crew board a cruise ship. After a 20-hour trip up Lake Michigan, they arriv… |
| Cape Breton Island | Director of Photography | 1948-05-08 | This Traveltalk series entry visits the easternmost area of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada. We learn that although the island was originally sett… |
| Pastoral Panoramas | Director of Photography | 1950-04-15 | This Traveltalk series short highlights rural areas of England. We stop at the village of Bradford-on-Avon, with its thatched roofs, also Stoke Poges,… |
| Glimpses of Old England | Director of Photography | 1949-10-08 | This Traveltalk series short focuses on the sights and culture that define “Old England”. Included is a visit to the Cotswold Hills area, a ride on th… |
| A Wee Bit of Scotland | Director of Photography | 1949-12-07 | In this Traveltalk series short visit to Scotland, we visit several places with familiar names, including Inverness, capital of the ancient Pictish Ki… |
| Colorful Colorado | Director of Photography | 1944-05-20 | This Traveltalk series short starts off in Denver, capital of Colorado. Known as a recreational and health center, it is noted for its beautiful parks… |
| The Vigilantes Return | Director of Photography | 1947-05-31 | Marshal Johnnie Taggart (Jon Hall) , posing as an outlaw named “Ace” Braddock, comes to Bannack, Montana to restore law and order. But he is recognize… |
| Trial by Trigger | Director of Photography | 1944-05-27 | California logger Bill Cardigan must save his stand of redwoods from being bought by unscrupulous Dan Fallon, a logging company owner from Michigan…. |
| Irish Hearts | Director of Photography | 1927-05-21 | Sheila, a feisty Irish girl, loves Emmett, a somewhat shady Irish boy. When Emmett goes to America, Sheila and her father follow and join him. However… |
| Ride, Kelly, Ride | Director of Photography | 1941-02-07 | Jockey (Stephens) struggles against gamblers with the help of stable trainer (Pallette) and horse onwer’s daughter (Quigley)…. |
| Gang War | Cinematography | 1928-09-02 | Saxophone player Clyde meets a woman named Flowers, and teaches her to dance. He later discovers that gangster boss “Blackjack” is also in love with h… |
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