Victor Miller (writer)

Victor Miller
Born Victor Brooke Miller
May 14, 1940
New Orleans, Louisiana
Occupation Actor, film writer
Years active 1968–present
Spouse(s) Elizebeth (Tina) Couzens Thurston (1962–present)
Website
http://victormiller.com/

Victor Miller or Victor B. Miller (born May 14, 1940) is an American writer for film and television. Perhaps his best known and most acknowledged work is his script for the first Friday the 13th film, the popularity of which spawned a long series of sequels, none of which has his involvement, though he remains credited for creating the characters of Jason Voorhees and his mother.

He has also written for several daytime television series, for which he has won three Daytime Emmy Awards. His television work includes Guiding Light, One Life to Live, Another World, and All My Children. Much of his tenure of several shows has been working under head writer Megan McTavish. Recently he mentored the script for the indie horror movie, Nobody Gets Out Alive originally titled Down The Road, featuring Clint Howard.

Early life

Miller was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of John Dabney and Barbara Leovy Miller, he attended Yale College, New Haven where he says he took every creative writing course Yale had at the time. After graduating he married his current wife of over 40 years Elizebeth (Tina) Couzens Thurston and in 1962 he began TV programing for Stuart Erwin, Lee Rich, Irwin Segelstein, and Phil Capice at Benton & Bowles Advertising, 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York City for a year. He was co-founder of The American Shakespeare Theatre's Center for Theatre Techniques in Education, attended Herbert Berghof's playwriting class in New York City.

Directing and writing career

Friday the 13th is Miller's most successful film, grossing $59,754,601 worldwide on a very low budget of $550,000. The original is the only one of the series that had Miller's involvement; it grew into a long series of sequels and became the highest grossing horror franchise in the United States, earning a worldwide total of $465,239,523. Miller says he hasn't seen any of the other Friday the 13th films because he doesn't like that Jason Voorhees is the killer and not Jason's mother as she was in the original. He also adapted two novels in films A Stranger Is Watching by Mary Higgins Clark and The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell.

Awards and nominations

Daytime Emmy Awards

NOMINATIONS

WINS

Writers Guild of America Award

WGA NOMINATIONS

WGA WIN

Personal life

Miller is the third of four kids, older sister Adair, older brother John, younger brother Keith. Miller is married to Elizebeth (Tina) Couzens Thurston since 1962 and they have both had children together.

Books

Filmography

Based upon characters created by Victor Miller for Jason Voorhees

Television

All My Children

Another World

General Hospital

Guiding Light

One Life to Live

Preceded by
Lorraine Broderick		 Co-head writer of All My Children with Lorraine Broderick
January 1989 – March 1989 		Succeeded by
Margaret DePriest
Preceded by
Megan McTavish		 Co-head writer of Guiding Light with Michael Conforti
1996 		Succeeded by
James Harmon Brown and Barbara Esensten

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