Claude Miller

Biography

Claude Miller (20 February 1942 – 4 April 2012) was a French film director, producer and screenwriter. Claude Miller was born to a Jewish family. A student at Paris' IDHEC film school from 1962 through 1963, Miller had his first practical cinematic experience while he was in uniform, serving with the Service Cinéma de l'Armée. From 1965 until 1974, Miller worked in assistant and supervisory capacities for many of France's major directors, including Robert Bresson and Jean-Luc Godard. His principal mentor was François Truffaut, under whose tutelage Miller directed a trio of shorts and La meilleure façon de marcher (The Best Way to Walk, 1976), his first theatrical feature, a coming-of-age drama which bore traces of Truffaut's Les Mistons (1957) and The 400 Blows (1959). Miller received César nominations for Best Director and César Award for Best Screenplay, Dialogue or Adaptation for this film. His subsequent films can also be perceived as homages to Truffaut, many even using the same production personnel. The following year he made Dites-lui que je l'aime, for which he received a second César nomination for Best Director. He won a César Award for Best Screenplay, Dialogue or Ada…

Directed

1. The Inquisitor (1981) — Director
2. A Secret (2007) — Director
3. An Impudent Girl (1985) — Director
4. Thérèse (2012) — Director
5. Deadly Circuit (1983) — Director
6. The Best Way to Walk (1976) — Director
7. The Little Thief (1988) — Director
8. Lumière & Company (1995) — Director
9. Little Lili (2003) — Director
10. Class Trip (1998) — Director
11. Betty Fisher and Other Stories (2001) — Director
12. This Sweet Sickness (1977) — Director
13. Le Sourire (1994) — Director
14. I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive (2009) — Director
15. Of Woman and Magic (2000) — Director
16. The Accompanist (1992) — Director
17. Juliet in Paris (1967) — Director
18. Camille or the Catastrophic Comedy (1971) — Director
19. See How They Dance (2011) — Director
20. La Question ordinaire (1969) — Director
21. Les Enfants de Lumière (1995) — Director
22. Marching Band (2009) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Day for Night (1973) — Hotel Client (uncredited)
2. The Wild Child (1970) — Monsieur Lemeri
3. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967) — Bouvard
4. The Probability Factor (1976) — Member of the board of directors
5. A Perfect Friend (2006) — le professeur André Barth
6. Heat of Desire (1981) — Un monsieur du wagon lit
7. Champs-Elysées (1982) — Self
8. Lino Ventura, la part intime (2018) — Self (archive footage)
9. La vie de Michel Muller est plus belle que la vôtre (2005) — Claude Miller
10. Like a Turtle on Its Back (1978) — Pierre
11. Spécial cinéma (1974) — Self
12. Les Rendez-vous du dimanche (1975) — Self
13. Success Story (2016) — Himself