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George Miller was born on March 3, 1945 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He is the son of Dimitri (Jim) Castrisios Miller and Angela (Balson) Miller.
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George Miller was born on March 3, 1945 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He is the son of Dimitri (Jim) Castrisios Miller and Angela (Balson) Miller.
Miller attended Sydney Boys High School and Ipswich Grammar School, later he entered the University of New South Wales. He obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree from the university in 1970. George attended a film workshop at Melbourne University in 1971.
Miller received an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of New South Wales in 1999.
In April 2007 he was awarded with an honorary Master of Arts degree by the Australian Film Television and Radio School. The following year he received an honorary Doctorate from the Griffith University.
Miller began his filmmaking career in the early 1970s after working as a physician at a hospital in Sydney, Australia. His first film was a short work, Violence in the Cinema, Part One, which he wrote with Byron Kennedy. Miller followed this film with Devil in Evening Dress, a documentary that he completed in 1973.
Miller first won significant widespread recognition with Mad Max, a gripping action drama released in 1979. In this film, which Miller wrote with James McCausland, a motorcycling law officer exacts considerable revenge against a biker gang responsible for the deaths of his wife and child. Mad Max brought a new level of technical proficiency and recklessness to the ostensibly superficial action genre.
In 1982, Miller wrote The Road Warrior: Mad Max II with Terry Hayes and Brian Hannat. The film exceeded the earlier Max film by featuring even more astonishing stuntwork and dizzying camerawork. In The Road Warrior, the hardened Max comes upon a biker gang committing rape and murder.
Miller completed the Mad Max saga in 1985 with Mad Max: Beyond the Thunderdome, an appropriately disturbing, and exciting, action drama. In this film, Max comes upon a tribe devoted to pitting humans against one another in death battles, which are held in an appropriately unsettling arena replete with screaming hordes. Max, as usual, emerges victorious, despite unlikely odds.
While making the Mad Max films, Miller also contributed an episode to the three-part Twilight Zone: The Movie. Miller’s episode, last of the three main stories, was generally considered the most accomplished.
After completing the final Mad Max film, Miller was again drawn to horrific material. He served as director of the grim comedy Witches of Eastwick, which was released in 1987. This film, adapted by Michael Cristofer from John Updike’s novel, concerns three women who befriend the devil after he arrives in town posing as an obnoxious philanderer.
Miller’s next important film is Lorenzo’s Oil, a moving drama about a married couple striving to develop a cure for their son’s lethal brain disease.
Babe, Miller’s next screen credit, is among his less likely endeavors. This film, which Miller wrote with director Chris Noonan, comes from Dick King' Smith’s children’s book The Sheep-Pig (also published as Babe, the Gallant Pig), which details the escapades of a young pig on a farm.
Miller was also the creator of Happy Feet, a musical epic about the life of penguins in Antarctica. The company Warner Bros.-produced film was released in November 2006.
In 2007, Miller signed on to direct a Justice League film titled Justice League: Mortal.
In 2011, the Happy Feet sequel Happy Feet Two was released. The following year, Miller began principal photography on Mad Max: Fury Road, the fourth film in the Mad Max series, after several years of production delays. Fury Road was released on 15 May 2015.
Miller served as President of the Jury for the Palme d'Or at the 69th Cannes Film Festival in 2016.
In April 2017, at age 72, Miller said that two more films were to be added to the Mad Max series.
Miller also announced that he and co-writer Nico Lathouris have finished two additional post-Fury Road scripts for the Mad Max series.
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Miller married Sandy Gore in 1985, they have a daughter Augusta. He married film editor Margaret Sixel in 1995; they have two sons.