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name: "Burton Miller"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/burton-miller"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "17 January 1926"
died: "5 March 1982"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-19T21:47:57.433402+00:00"
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# Burton Miller

Costume designer. Born 17 January 1926 in Pennsylvania. Died 5 March 1982.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 17 January 1926, Pennsylvania
- **Died:** 5 March 1982
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burton_Miller, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15991437, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0588018/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14827

## Biography

Burton Miller (17 January 1926 – 5 March 1982) was an American costume designer. A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he trained at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the Parsons School of Design. From 1961 until his death he worked at Universal Studios, designing costumes for both film and television.

His film credits include *The Front Page* (1974), *Earthquake* (1974), *Swashbuckler* (1976), *Airport '77* (1977), *Damien: Omen II* (1978), *The Concorde... Airport '79* (1979) and *The Nude Bomb* (1980). He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design for *Airport '77*, shared with Edith Head. Miller also designed for numerous television series, including *Columbo*, *McCloud* and *The Six Million Dollar Man*, and won Fashion Foundation Awards for television work in 1970 and 1975.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Front Page* (1974), Fi1m 60, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-front-page.md)

## Complete filmography (38)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Marva Collins Story* (1981), Costume Design
- *The Miracle of Kathy Miller* (1981), Costume Design
- *Madame X* (1981), Costume Design
- *Hellinger's Law* (1981), Costume Design
- *The Nude Bomb* (1980), Costume Design
- *Condominium* (1980), series, Costume Design
- *The Gossip Columnist* (1980), Costume Design
- *The Concorde... Airport '79* (1979), Costume Design
- *The Immigrants* (1978), series, Costume Design
- *Evening in Byzantium* (1978), series, Costume Design
- *Damien - Omen II* (1978), Costume Design
- *House Calls* (1978), Costume Design
- *Airport '77* (1977), Costume Design
- *Swashbuckler* (1976), Costume Design
- *Dynasty* (1976), Costume Design
- *The Stronger* (1976), Costume Designer
- *The UFO Incident* (1975), Costume Design
- *Earthquake* (1974), Costume Design
- *The Front Page* (1974), Costume Design — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/the-front-page.md)
- *Scream, Pretty Peggy* (1973), Costume Design
- *Runaway!* (1973), Costumer
- *The Judge and Jake Wyler* (1972), Costume Design
- *Lieutenant Schuster's Wife* (1972), Costume Design
- *Footsteps* (1972), Costume Design
- *The Adventures of Nick Carter* (1972), Costume Design
- *Once Upon a Dead Man* (1971), Costume Design
- *The Challengers* (1970), Costume Design
- *The Whole World Is Watching* (1969), Costume Design
- *Trial Run* (1969), Costume Design
- *The Sunshine Patriot* (1968), Costume Design
- *The Sound of Anger* (1968), Costume Design
- *Companions in Nightmare* (1968), Costume Design
- *Shadow Over Elveron* (1968), Costume Design
- *Prescription: Murder* (1968), Costume Designer
- *Deadlock* (1967), Costume Design
- *Wings of Fire* (1967), Costume Design
- *The Hanged Man* (1964), Costume Design
- *Kitten with a Whip* (1964), Costume Design

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1978: Best Costume Design (nominated), for *Airport '77*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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