Career
Bill Miller is an award-winning Sydney-based feature film producer. Like George, who gave up practicing medicine to become a film director, Bill, a successful arts and entertainment lawyer, gave up the legal profession to pursue a film-making career. He collaborated with George and Byron Kennedy on their early short films, including Violence in the Cinema: Participant One, a 14-minute parody of the violent films of the 1970s.
Following the success of Babe, he also went on to serve as a producer on its sequel, Babe: Pig in the City.
With George and Doug Mitchell, he produced the computer-animated film Happy Feet, a musical epic about the life of penguins in Antarctica, featuring the voices of Robin Williams, Elijah Wood, Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Anthony Louisiana Paglia, Magda Szubanski, Hugo Weaving and Brittany Murphy. Prior to starting production he took part in a six-week expedition to south Antarctica.
The Warner Brothers-distributed film was released in late 2006, and went on to become one of Australia"s most successful animated film projects. Miller followed up as producer on the animated sequel, Happy Feet 2, released worldwide in late 2011.
