Jason Miller

Jason Miller was born on Apr 22, 1939 in USA. Jason Miller's big-screen debut came with The Exorcist directed by William Friedkin in 1973, strarring Father Karras. Jason Miller is known for Rudy directed by David Anspaugh, Sean Astin stars as Daniel E. 'Rudy' Ruettiger and Jon Favreau as D-Bob. The upcoming new movie Jason Miller plays is Finding Home which will be released on Apr 29, 2005.

Character actor and playwright Jason Miller had a variety of jobs before he started a writing career and wrote his own play, "That Championship Season", for which he received the Pulitzer Prize Award. Miller gave up his professional writing career in the early seventies to start acting. In 1973, he starred as a troubled priest in the horror film classic L'Exorciste (1973), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. In 1982, he directed the revival of his play, That Championship Season (1982), to the screen. The father of actor Jason Patric and actor/director/writer Joshua John Miller, Miller's other film credits include playing the title role in the made-for-television film F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (1975), The Ninth Configuration (1980), Toy Soldiers (1984), L'Exorciste : La Suite (1990) and Rudy (1993)". Miller died in Scranton, Pennsylvannia at the age of 62.