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Birth:          3 May 1902 Chehalis, Lewis Co., Wash.
Death:          29 Mar 1974 Los Angeles, Cal.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seton_I._Miller
Seton Ingersoll Miller (May 3, 1902 – March 29, 1974) was a Hollywood screenwriter 
and producer. During his career, he worked with many notable American film directors, 
such as Howard Hawks and Michael Curtiz.
A Yale graduate, Miller began writing stories for silent films in the late 1920s. In the 
1930s, he tended toward the crime genre, collaborating with Hawks and others on one 
of the most groundbreaking of such pictures, Scarface (1932). At the time of the 
Production Code's enforcement in 1934, Warner Bros. called in Miller to supply the 
dialogue and storylines they needed to adapt their pre-Code bad-guys to the new 
system. His scripts for G-Men (1935) and Bullets or Ballots (1936) successfully 
transformed big screen gangsters James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson, 
respectively, into crime-fighters. With Norman Reilly Raine, Miller wrote the script for 
The Adventures of Robin Hood. Often he adapted popular plays or novels, as with 
Graham Greene's Ministry of Fear for Fritz Lang's 1944 film. He worked regularly in 
Hollywood until 1959, when he helped write the thriller The Last Mile, but then left the 
industry for more than a decade. In his seventies, he made a brief return, providing 
screenplays for a horror film, A Knife for the Ladies, and for Disney's Pete's Dragon.

Awards and nominations[edit]
He and Sidney Buchman won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay in 1941 
for Here Comes Mr. Jordan.

He was also nominated with Fred Niblo, Jr. for their 1931 screen adaptation of Martin 
Flavin's play The Criminal Code.

Partial filmography[edit]
As writer, unless otherwise specified.
A Girl in Every Port (1928)
The Air Circus (1928)
The Far Call (1929)
The Dawn Patrol (1930)
The Criminal Code (1931)
Scarface (1932)
The Crowd Roars (1932)
The Last Mile (1932)
Hot Saturday (1932)
Murders in the Zoo (1933)
The Eagle and the Hawk (1933)
Charlie Chan's Courage (1934)
The St. Louis Kid (1934)
Murder on a Honeymoon (1935)
G Men (1935)
Frisco Kid (1935)
Two in the Dark (1936)
Bullets or Ballots (1936)
Marked Woman (1937) (uncredited)
Kid Galahad (1937)
Penitentiary (1938)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
The Dawn Patrol (1938)
Dust Be My Destiny (1939) (uncredited)
Castle on the Hudson (1940)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
This Woman Is Mine (1941)
My Gal Sal (1942)
The Black Swan (1942)
Ministry of Fear (1944)
The Bride Wore Boots (1946) (producer only)
Two Years Before the Mast (1946)
California (1947) (also produced)
Calcutta (1947) (also produced)
Singapore (1947)
Fighter Squadron (1948) (also produced)
Convicted (1950)
The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950)
The Mississippi Gambler (1953)
Bengal Brigade (1954)
The Shanghai Story (1954)
Istanbul (1957)
The Last Mile (1959), a remake of the 1932 film
Pete's Dragon (1977) (short story)
24 Jun 1972 Chehalis (Wash) Bee-Nugget p 4
grad Philips Exeter, Yale, member Alpha Nu, prominent athlete, on writers' staff at Fox 
Films Co. in Hollywood


Parents
MILLER Harry John ()
INGERSOLL Mabel ()

Siblings
MILLER Seton Ingersoll (3 May 1902 - 29 Mar 1974)

Marriage To NICHOLS Bonita Jessie (28 Jun 1904 - 19 Jan 1963)
    m. 16 Jun 1927 

Notes

Parents
NICHOLS Ode Valvin (3 Apr 1868 - 28 Mar 1949)
HART Jessie (10 Jun 1886 - 6 Jun 1972)

Children by NICHOLS Bonita Jessie 28 Jun 1904 - 19 Jan 1963
MILLER Keith Sanford ("Sandy") (31 Oct 1928 - 20 May 1982)
MILLER Bonita Anne (6 Mar 1936 - 16 Feb 1992)

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