Allan Miller

Acting

Allan Miller

Born 1929-02-14 · Brooklyn, New York, USA

Allan Miller is an American actor, who has been acting since 1956, and worked in over 100 movies and TV shows. He is probably best known for his roles in Brewster's Millions (1985), Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), and Nero Wolfe (1981).

Acting credits

Cruising poster
6.6

When New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who preys on patrons of the city's underground bars, rookie cop Steve Burns infiltrates the S&M subculture to try and lure him out of the shadows.

Cruising

1980

Bad Words poster
6.4

Forty-year-old misanthrope, Guy Trilby, enters the National Golden Quill Spelling Bee through a loophole in the rules.

Bad Words

2013

Warlock poster
6.3

In 17th century New England, witch hunter Giles Redferne captures an evil warlock, but the conjurer eludes death with supernatural help. Flung into the future, the warlock winds up in the 1980s and plans to bring about the end of the world. Redferne follows the enchanter into the modern era and continues his mission, but runs into trouble in such unfamiliar surroundings. With the help of a young woman, can Redferne finally defeat the warlock?

Warlock

1989

Brewster's Millions poster
6.6

Monty Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit $300 million if he can successfully spend $30 million in 30 days without anything to show for it, and without telling anyone what he's up to... A task that's a lot harder than it sounds!

Brewster's Millions

1985

Barbra Streisand: Becoming an Icon 1942–1984 poster
6.9

Barbra Streisand grew up in working class Brooklyn, dreaming of escape from her tough childhood. A stellar student, she resisted the pressure to go to college as her sights were firmly set on Broadway. She was determined to become an actress and landed her first role aged 16, but it was two years later, when she started to sing, that her career took off. Subverting stereotypes and breaking glass ceilings, this programme looks at her rise to stardom and the remarkable achievements of her early career.

Barbra Streisand: Becoming an Icon 1942–1984

2017

The Champ poster
7.0

Billy used to be a great boxer, but he's settled into a hardscrabble life that revolves around drinking, training horses, and the one bright spot in his existence — his young son, T.J. Although Billy has had custody of T.J. since his wife, Annie, left the family years ago, her return prompts a new struggle for the former fighter. Determined to hold on to his son, Billy gets back into the ring to try and recapture his past success.

The Champ

1979

Fun with Dick and Jane poster
6.6

When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.

Fun with Dick and Jane

1977

MacArthur poster
6.2

The film portrays MacArthur's life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, when he was removed from his Korean War command by President Truman for insubordination, and is recounted in flashback as he visits West Point.

MacArthur

1977

Two-Minute Warning poster
6.3

A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game. The police, led by Captain Peter Holly and the SWAT commander, learn of the plot and rush to the scene.

Two-Minute Warning

1976

The Turning Point of Jim Malloy poster
8.0

The son of a small-town doctor returns to his hometown after being kicked out of Yale, and begins a new career on the town's newspaper.

The Turning Point of Jim Malloy

1975

Fear on Trial poster
9.0

The story of John Henry Faulk, a radio/TV personality of the 1950s, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Faulk sued the organization that was behind the blacklisting, and the resultant trial, and Faulk's victory, helped to put an end to the blacklisting period.

Fear on Trial

1975

Bound for Glory poster
6.9

A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering the suffering and strength of America's working class.

Bound for Glory

1976

Miracle on Ice poster
6.6

The story of the 1980 United States Olympic hockey players, a group of amateurs from around the country who were whipped into a cohesive unit by controversial coach Herb Brooks to win a gold medal at Lake Placid during the winter games.

Miracle on Ice

1981

Tail Gunner Joe poster
6.0

Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.

Tail Gunner Joe

1977

Anatomy of a Seduction poster
5.2

The story of a divorced woman who begins an affair with the college-age son of her best friend, and the effects it has on her relationship with her own son, who is not much younger than her lover.

Anatomy of a Seduction

1979

The History of 'Cruising' poster
7.7

Part one of the making of William Friedkin’s 1980 thriller "Cruising" and the controversies it created.

The History of 'Cruising'

2007

Second Chances poster
7.7

A little girl's physical and emotional reawakening after an accident claims her father and her spirit.

Second Chances

1998

The Ghost of Flight 401 poster
5.5

An aircraft crashes in the Florida Everglades, killing 103 passengers. After the wreckage is removed, salvageable parts from the plane are used to repair other aircraft. Soon passengers and crew on those aircraft report seeing what they believe to be the ghost of the wrecked airplane's flight engineer.

The Ghost of Flight 401

1978

Obsessive Love poster
5.1

A woman tries to create a relationship with the soap star who is the object of her obsession.

Obsessive Love

1984

Hustling poster
5.8

Based on Gail Sheehy's book, this film chronicles how a reporter for a New York City magazine decided to investigate the city's prostitution industry to find out just who was making all the money. What she found out caused a firestorm of controversy--that many of the city's richest and most powerful families and corporations benefited directly and indirectly from the illegal sex business.

Hustling

1975

Escape poster
6.3

The true story of Dwight Worker, an American who was caught smuggling drugs in Mexico, and sentenced to fortress-like Lecumberri Prison where he endured brutal conditions. With the help of his wife, Barbara, he escaped the prison by disguising himself as a woman. He was the first prisoner to escape Lecumberri since Pancho Villa.

Escape

1980

Murder C.O.D. poster
8.1

Someone is killing people in Portland, Oregon, and later blackmails the relatives, who profit most from the death, to pay him for this "service". Captain Murtaugh leads the police investigation. When his wife starts feeling stalked, he suspects his current case is related to his last one in Chicago. He never told his wife the whole truth about what happened - now he has to fear for her life.

Murder C.O.D.

1990

The Execution poster
7.3

The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the camp who performed experiments on them as young girls. To their horror they learn that he has already been tried as a war criminal and has served but a few years for his crimes. They decide that they will "execute" him, drawing lots to determine which one will perform the act, without letting the others know who it is.

The Execution

1985

Baby Blue Marine poster
5.2

A would-be Marine fails basic training, and is sent home wearing the "baby blue" fatigues of a washout. En route, he is mugged by a battle-fatigued Marine Raider, who leaves him to hitch-hike home in an undeserved hero's uniform. A small Colorado town takes him in, treating him like the hero he appears to be.

Baby Blue Marine

1976