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- Director
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
James Miller started working as a freelance cameraman, and in 1995 joined the Frontline News collective, as cameraman, producer, and director in most of the world's hotspots. His first film for Hardcash Productions came four years later. A forensic examination of a massacre in Kosovo, the film won the Royal Television Society (RTS) award for international current affairs in 2000. Almost every film he made for Hardcash won major awards.
Outstanding work followed. There was a film about Chechnya, Dying For The President, and Children Of The Secret State, about Korea, both for Channel Four's Dispatches in 2000. Then he teamed up with reporter Saira Shah and producer Cassian Harrison to make Beneath the Veil (2001), which changed the way the world understood Taliban-run Afghanistan.
Miller was no psyched-up bullet-chaser, but someone who knew the risks and was sensible in evaluating danger.
His courage was never more evident than in the making of his second film in Afghanistan, Unholy War (2001). At the height of the Afghan war, he and Shah almost died while crossing the Hindu Kush in sub-zero temperatures. The film won Miller his first Emmy as a director, and also the prestigious Peabody Award - television's equivalent of the Pulitzer - given in 2002.
He then went on to make his most famous film - Death in Gaza (2004), which won a BAFTA. Sadly it was his last, as he was killed during the making of the film.
He is survived by his mother and father, his wife Sophie and their two children, Alexander, two, and Charlotte, five months.- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Songwriter("The Most Wonderful Time of the Year"), composer, educator, author, conductor, arranger, and a specialist in both professional and amateur choral work. After his education at James Monroe High School, he began his musical career in 1933 as a pianist and arranger, becoming a conductor in 1944. He wrote special material for Kate Smith and the Deep River Boys, and was the choral conductor for radio's "Serenade to America" and conductor and arranger for the "Alan Young Show" radio programs. He also conducted and arranged for Doris Day, Dennis Day, Howard Keel, and Lisa Kirk, and for many recordings Joining ASCAP in 1948, his chief musical collaborator was Eddie Pola, and included among his other four hundred-plus popular-song compositions are "Wasn't It Wonderful?", "I Said My Pajamas and Put on My Prayers", "I Didn't Slip, I Wasn't Pushed, I Fell", "Quicksilver", "I Love the Way You Say Goodnight", "Give Me Your Word" and "Santa Claus Party".- Blaga Dimitrova was born on 2 January 1922 in Bjala Slatina, Bulgaria. Blaga was a writer, known for Detour (1967) and Lavina (1982). Blaga died on 2 May 2003 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
- Carl Upchurch was born on 26 January 1950 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a writer, known for Conviction (2002). He was married to Andrea Santoni Upchurch. He died on 2 May 2003 in Bexley, Ohio, USA.
- Producer
- Writer
Katsuhiro Maeda was a producer and writer, known for Jealousy Game (1982), Wangan Doro (1984) and The Second Love (1983). He died on 2 May 2003.- Music Department
William Cowley was born in 1927 in Douglas, Isle of Man, UK. He is known for H.M.S. Pinafore (1973). He died on 2 May 2003 in Douglas, Isle of Man, UK.- Katsue Nitta was born on 8 May 1939 in Tokyo, Japan. She was an actress, known for Ultra Q (1965), The Steel Edge of Revenge (1969) and Cash Calls Hell (1966). She died on 2 May 2003 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.