Arthur Miller Filmography

Focus

Crew: Book Author

Actors: William H. Macy, Laura Dern, David Paymer, Meat Loaf, Kay Hewtrey

Synopsis: Focus is based on a little-known novel by playwright Arthur Miller, written when he was a very young man, just after WWII. Produced by media mogul Michael Bloomberg, and directed by Neal Slavin, the film takes place in New York, during the war. William H. Macy of Fargo plays Lawrence Newman, a Read More

Ken Burns' Mark Twain, Part 1

Actors: Kevin Conway

Synopsis: The newest project from the master of documentaries deals with the life of author Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), one of America's most beloved writers and historical characters from the 19th century. Ken Burns worked for nearly three years and drew from 100 hours of filmed material and hundreds of Read More

Ken Burns' Mark Twain, Part 2

Synopsis: The newest project from the master of documentaries deals with the life of author Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), one of America's most beloved writers and historical characters from the 19th century. Ken Burns worked for nearly three years and drew from 100 hours of filmed material and hundreds of Read More

Eden

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Samantha Morton, Thomas Jane, Luke Holland, Daphna Kastner, Danny Huston

Synopsis: Following up on his masterful, heart-wrenching war-drama Kippur, veteran Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitaï directs his first English language work based on a novel by Arthur Miller. Set in 1939, the film centers on Kalman, a young ambitious Jewish businessman who leaves his aged father in Europe to be Read More

Death of a Salesman

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Brian Dennehy, Elizabeth Franz, Ron Eldard, Howard Witt

The Ryan Interview

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Ashley Judd, Eddie Bracken, Arthur Miller

Synopsis: Shot on high-definition video, The Ryan Interview is adapted by Ira Simmons from a play by Pulitzer Prize winner Arthur Miller, originally commissioned by the Actors Theater of Louisville. Though she yearns to do "meaningful" work, budding journalist Frederika Rose (Ashley Judd) must satisfy Read More

Voices & Visions: William Styron

Synopsis: Originally broadcast on PBS, this Voices and Visions episode concentrates on William Styron and his works. He is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie's Choice. Nat Turner generated controversy for Styron's fictional portrayal of the interior life of the Read More

The Crucible

Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen, Bruce Davison

Synopsis: When Arthur Miller's play The Crucible was first staged in 1953, it was widely acclaimed as a metaphor for the recklessness of Joseph McCarthy and his spurious crusade against communism. In its 1996 screen adaptation (scripted by Miller), the tone has been adjusted somewhat and plays as a warning Read More

Broken Glass

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Elizabeth McGovern, Mandy Patinkin, Henry Goodman, Margot Leicester

Synopsis: A Mobil Masterpiece Theater adaptation of the Arthur Miller play, the film is set in 1938 Brooklyn and involves unhappily married Jewish couple Mr. and Mrs. Gellburg. When Mrs. Gellburg suffers paralysis in her legs, Dr. Hyman (Mandy Patinkin) diagnoses her problem as psychologically stemming from Read More

Death of a Salesman

Crew: Play Author

Bach In Auschwitz

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: This video recounts the tragic tale of Auschwitz's bizarre all-female orchestra, a group forced to play for the entertainment of their tormentors as their friends and relatives were led to the gas chambers. Many of the women who played in the group are interviewed. Especially heart-rending are Read More

Sebastiao Salgado: Looking Back at You

Synopsis: Sebastiao Salgado is one of the world's leading photojournalists and has helped to shape the present perception of political and social reality. In this video, he discusses his seven-year photo essay project which documents the lives of workers around the world. Salgado's dominant theme is the Read More

Everybody Wins

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Debra Winger, Nick Nolte, Will Patton, Judith Ivey, Jack Warden, Kathleen Wilhoite

Synopsis: Private investigator Tom O'Toole (Nick Nolte) is reluctant to take on a case offered to him by cryptically offbeat Angela Crispini (Debra Winger), but he lets himself be seduced by her. Angela believes that Felix Daniels (Frank Military) was wrongly convicted of murdering his uncle. As O'Toole Read More

An Enemy of the People

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: John Glover

Synopsis: Set in a small Maine town in 1883, this made-for-TV production tells the tale of an honest physician's attempt to warn his community about a public hazard that politicians and investors want to hide. The story begins with Thomas Stockman, M.D. (John Glover), who is awaiting results of the Read More

Ken Burns' Civil War [TV Documentary Series]

Synopsis: Ken Burns' epic series begins with the causes of the Civil War in 1861 and ends with the war's aftermath in 1865. A combination of photographs, interviews, and narration create a sweeping historical documentary. Commentary and anecdotes by historian Shelby Foote add another level of authority to Read More

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

Actors: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Evelyn Keyes, Arthur Miller, Michael Caine

Synopsis: One of Hollywood's most distinguished directors, John Huston is profiled in this no-holds-barred documentary. Discounting the hokey framing device of host Robert Mitchum wandering through an attic full of Huston memorabilia, this two-hour plus film is a remarkable chronicle of a remarkable man. We Read More

Harold Clurman: A Life of Theatre

Synopsis: Harold Clurman: A Life of Theatre profiles the career of celebrated director/producer Harold Clurman. A man known for his passionate commitment to working with actors, Clurman devoted his life to the theatrical arts, serving not only as a director and producer, but as a respected critic as well. Read More

All My Sons

Crew: Play Author

Synopsis: All My Sons is the 1986 TV adaptation of Arthur Miller's 1947 Broadway play (a film version, starring Edward G. Robinson and Burt Lancaster, was produced in 1948). James Whitmore stars as Joe Keller, a bullying industrialist who'd been accused of selling defective weapon parts to the government Read More

Private Conversations

Actors: Arthur Miller, Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Volker Schlöndorff, Stephen Lang

Synopsis: Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1986 Sundance Film Festival, Christian Blackwood's Private Conversations is a behind-the-scenes look at the process of turning Arthur Miller's Pulitzer-prize winning stage-play Death of a Salesman into an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning made-for-television Read More

Death of a Salesman

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Kate Reid, Stephen Lang, Charles Durning

Synopsis: In 1984, actor Dustin Hoffman starred in a critically-acclaimed Broadway revival of playwright Arthur Miller's classic Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Death of a Salesman. A year later, Hoffman and most of his fellow cast members starred in this made-for-TV production, the first English-language film Read More

Playing for Time

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Alexander, Shirley Knight

Synopsis: The made-for-television Playing for Time debuted on September 30, 1980. Vanessa Redgrave stars as Fania Fenelon, a Jewish cabaret singer working in Paris at the time of the Nazi invasion. Shipped to the Auschwitz death camp in 1944, Fenelon is certain that she is as doomed as all the other Read More

Arthur Miller on Home Ground

Actors: Arthur Miller, Inge Monath

Synopsis: This 1979 documentary chronicles the first 64 years in the life of Arthur Miller (b. 1915), an important 20th-century American playwright, novelist and all-around man of letters. Miller also wrote several screenplays, notably for The Misfits and The Crucible. The last was based on his Read More

An Enemy of the People

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Steve McQueen, Charles Durning, Bibi Andersson, Eric Christmas, Michael Cristofer

Synopsis: Steve McQueen served as both star and executive producer for this film version of the drama by Henrik Ibsen, which was adapted by Arthur Miller. When Dr. Thomas Stockmann (McQueen) discovers that a tannery has dangerously polluted a hot spring in his community, he feels that it is his duty to Read More

Incident at Vichy

Crew: Play Author

Synopsis: Incident at Vichy is a play by Arthur Miller written in response to the situation in France during WWII. In this drama, people are individually questioned by the police about their political alliances. This made-for-TV version from the Broadway Theatre Archives is directed by Stacy Keach and stars René Auberjonois Read More

Death of a Salesman

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Lee J. Cobb, Mildred Dunnock, George Segal, James Farentino, Gene Wilder

Synopsis: Alex Segal directed this 1966 production of Arthur Miller's classic American play, Death of a Salesman. Lee J. Cobb stars as Willy Loman, the everyman who is suddenly faced with the glaring reality that he is past his prime and has begun living in a self-created fantasy world in which he is not Read More

A View from the Bridge

Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Raf Vallone, Jean Sorel, Maureen Stapleton, Raymond Pellegrin, Carol Lawrence

Synopsis: A View from the Bridge is set in New York, but the alleged political undesirability of playwright Arthur Miller dictated that this film be lensed in France. Director Sidney Lumet shot the film in both English and French, with the English version sounding more recited than acted at times. Raf Vallone Read More

The Misfits

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: The final film of stars Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe is an elegy for the death of the Old West from writer Arthur Miller and director John Huston. Gable stars as Gay Langland, an aging hand traveling the byways and working at rodeos with his two comrades, Guido (Eli Wallach) and young Perce Read More

Les Sorcières de Salem

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Mylène Demongeot, Raymond Rouleau, Jean Debucourt

Synopsis: American playwright Arthur Miller was still under an "unfriendly" cloud in 1958, so far as the anti-Communist brigades were concerned. Thus, the film version of Miller's stage play The Crucible was lensed in France. Drawing several parallels to the McCarthy era, Miller dramatizes the Salem Witch Read More

Death of a Salesman

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Fredric March, Mildred Dunnock, Kevin McCarthy, Cameron Mitchell, Howard I. Smith

Synopsis: It was considered a serious coup at Columbia Pictures when producer Stanley Kramer landed the rights to Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, and got most of the key members of the Broadway cast for the movie, plus Kevin McCarthy from the original London cast. The one exception was Lee J. Read More

All My Sons

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Burt Lancaster, Mady Christians, Howard Duff, Louisa Horton, Frank Conroy

Synopsis: Based on the play by Arthur Miller, All My Sons is a drama of man's duty to man that retains a potent impact. Edward G. Robinson plays a manufacturer of parts for World War II airplanes who lives a full, satisfied life in a small town. But his idyll is shattered by the arrival of the fiancée of Read More

Marry the Girl

Crew: Play Author

Synopsis: In this comedy, a young man encounters opposition when he gets engaged. His jilted girlfriend's mother then has her daughter sue the fellow for breach of promise. Meanwhile the new fiancee hires another lawyer to catch the other girl in a unseemly act to ruin her chances in court. Unfortunately Read More

Their Night Out

Crew: Play Author

Synopsis: In this comedy, a junior business partner must take a Scottish buyer out on the town. During dinner, the two get outrageously drunk and the partner's wallet is stolen. He is then mistaken for a jewel thief and ends up involved with a band of dangerous criminals. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More