Trivia

Married Jackie Gleason's daughter, Linda Miller, and had a son, actor Jason Patric.

At the time of his death, he had just finished the first draft of a play with his son Joshua John Miller. The play was about a playwright father who dies, leaving his son to complete the script.

Was on the set of The Exorcist (1973) and engrossed in his priest role when he was informed that he had won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for writing "That Championship Season.".

A Notre Dame fan, Miller always ended his conversations with "Go Irish!" instead of "Goodbye".

Children: Jennifer Miller, Jason Patric, Jordan Miller, Joshua John Miller.

Was in rehearsal as Oscar Madison in a revival of "The Odd Couple" when he died of a massive heart attack. Many years earlier, he had been in a different production of "The Odd Couple" (in Fort Worth, Texas) when he wrote his play "That Championship Season.".

Won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "That Championship Season".

Former son-in-law of Bruno Bernard and Jackie Gleason.

As Jack Miller, taught Drama in mid-1960s at Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington, D.C.

Won Broadway's 1973 Tony Award as author of Best Play winner "That Championship Season."

Shortly before his death he had returned to writing having reworked his first play, _Nobody Hears a Broken Drum_, and wrote, starred and directed _Barrymore's Ghost_.

Has a regional theatre award named after him.

Established the Pennsylvania Summer Theater Festival in Scranton, PA.

He was born in Long Island City, New York, but his parents moved to Scranton, Pennsylvania, when he was an infant.

Graduated from St. Patrick's High School, Scranton, PA; University of Scranton, Scranton, PA; Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.

Writer, actor, director, poet, and producer.

Miller was Co-Artistic Director of The Public Theatre, Scranton Pa. USA.

Played fellow Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Arthur Miller in Marilyn: The Untold Story (1980). Despite sharing the same last name, the two men were not related.

He was of Irish, with some German, ancestry.

Is one of 8 actors who have received an Oscar nomination for their performance as a priest. The others, in chronological order, are: Spencer Tracy for San Francisco (1936) and Boys Town (1938); Charles Bickford for The Song of Bernadette (1943); Bing Crosby for Going My Way (1944) and The Bells of St. Mary's (1945); Barry Fitzgerald for Going My Way (1944); Gregory Peck for The Keys of the Kingdom (1944); Karl Malden for On the Waterfront (1954); and Philip Seymour Hoffman for Doubt (2008). Tracy, Crosby and Fitzgerald all won Oscars for their performances.

Father of Joshua John Miller with Sue Bernard.

Parents: John and Mary Collins Miller.

Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 130, pp. 292-295. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.