Agent United Agents Name Tony Miller | Role Director of photography | |
Born November 28, 1964 (age 59) ( 1964-11-28 ) Occupation English director of photography and documentary filmmaker Known for documentaries including Mustang: the Hidden Kingdom He is a full member of the British Society of Cinematographers. Awards nominated for a Royal Television Award for best factual cinematography Nominations British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Photography And Lighting - Fiction Movies The Meerkats, Small Island, I Really Hate My Job, The Last Musketeer, The American Similar People James Honeyborne, Paula Milne, Sarah Williams, Paul Unwin, William Tuckett | ||
Tony Miller is an English director of photography and documentary film maker, known for his cinematography and his documentaries, including Mustang: the Hidden Kingdom.
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Early life
Born in Oxford, the son of a medical professor and concert pianist mother, he studied drama at Bristol University.
First documentaries
In 1988, aged 23, Miller illegally entered Burma, to direct and film a documentary about human rights violations. The resulting film was one of the first to document the mass killing of students and protestors by the Burmese Junta in 1988 and was broadcast by Channel 4. He followed it up with Dying for Democracy Channel 4, in 1989.
Throughout the 1990s, Miller filmed more than 50 documentaries for BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and the US, these were predominantly anthropological. These included two years spent working closely with the Dalai Lama, directing Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom, a cinema documentary, narrated by Harrison Ford, following an emissary sent by the Dalai Lama to the then closed kingdom of Mustang. A five- and a six-year-old were sent back to be educated with the Dalai Lama, the idea being that they would one day return to Mustang having had a Tibetan education. The film won awards including Gold Medal New York Films Festival, Cine Golden Eagle, Banf Festival golden lion and was shown worldwide.
In 1991, Miller spent two years filming whales, above and underwater for In the Company of Whales, about the life of cetacean expert Roger Payne, and a year in the rainforest of Manu filming the Machiguenga Indians for Spirits of the Rainforest.
Visions of Heaven and Hell, a documentary on the world in 2025, was nominated for best factual cinematography at the Royal Television Society awards in 1997.
Miller has concentrated on filming fiction since 2000. Feature films include: Benjamin, Peter and Wendy, Infinite Justice, The Honeytrap and I Really Hate My Job. His television miniseries include: Fleabag, Quirke Spotless, The Passion for HBO/BBC, Zen, Public Enemies and Small Island (from the book by Andrea Levy). Miller was nominated for a BAFTA award for cinematography in 2010 for Small Island.
Miller won the British Society of Cinematographers best cinematography award by Quirke in 2014. In 2011, Miller was nominated for a Royal Television Award for best factual cinematography. and in 2016 for best cinematography award in drama Fleabag. He is a member of BAFTA, a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Miller holds a commercial pilots license and flies a turbine Cessna Silver Eagle. He is married with two children.