Pola Miller
Pola Miller was a filmmaker, documentarian and a close collaborator with her husband, television director Robert Ellis Miller.
Together, the Millers worked on the films The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Buttercup Chain and Reuben, Reuben. In the early 1970s the couple lived and worked in London, where Miller was the host of the television show Americans Abroad, shot on location across Europe.
After returning to the U.S., Miller launched her own company, PolaCo Productions. She made many well-received documentaries with the company, including Fairy Tales for Adults Only, Sleep From A to Zzzz and Backstage at the Zoo. The latter was a 12-part series on the Family Channel that centered on saving endangered animals and researching animal behavior.
Pola Miller was a filmmaker, documentarian and a close collaborator with her husband, television director Robert Ellis Miller.
Together, the Millers worked on the films The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Buttercup Chain and Reuben, Reuben. In the early 1970s the couple lived and worked in London, where Miller was the host of the television show Americans Abroad, shot on location across Europe.
After returning to the U.S., Miller launched her own company, PolaCo Productions. She made many well-received documentaries with the company, including Fairy Tales for Adults Only, Sleep From A to Zzzz and Backstage at the Zoo. The latter was a 12-part series on the Family Channel that centered on saving endangered animals and researching animal behavior.
Miller served on the boards of the American Film Institute Associates and Women in Film, whose International Summit Committee she founded.
Miller died February 8, 2015, in Los Angeles. She was 86.
The Television Academy database lists prime-time Emmy information. Click here to learn more