A graduate of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, Irvin Miller was
an actor, writer, playwright, director and producer on both stage and
screen for nearly a half-century. He was best known for his annual
stage review, the "Brownskin Models," black vaudeville's answer to the
Ziegfeld Follies. Long a resident of Philadelphia, he moved to the city
of Benton Harbor, Michigan around World War II and used it as a home
base from where he sallied forth on tour or back to Harlem or out to
Los Angeles. He retired there in the late 1950s.