---
name: "Philip Miller"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/philip-miller"
fi1m_id: "philip-miller"
imdb_id: "nm1697283"
tmdb_id: 109928
wikidata_id: "Q25345318"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "7 June 1964"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T16:30:08.997817+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Philip Miller

## Identity

Philip Miller

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/philip-miller
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** philip-miller
- **IMDb ID:** nm1697283
- **TMDB ID:** 109928
- **Wikidata ID:** Q25345318
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Miller_(composer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25345318, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1697283/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/109928

Composer. Born 7 June 1964 in London.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 7 June 1964, London
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Miller_(composer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25345318, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1697283/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/109928

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Girl*](https://film.one/film/the-girl.md) (64)

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## Biography

Philip Miller is a composer born on 7 June 1964 in London. He trained as a lawyer at the University of Cape Town before studying music composition there with Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph and Peter Klatzow, and later completed postgraduate studies in electro-acoustic music at Bournemouth University.

Miller has composed scores for numerous films and television productions, including *Catch a Fire* (2006), *The Bang Bang Club* (2011), *The Girl* (2012) and *Roots* (2016). He received a Primetime Emmy nomination for his work on *The Girl*. He maintains a long-standing collaboration with artist William Kentridge on multimedia projects and installations, and has also composed extensively for South African television series such as *Isibaya* and *Shaka iLembe*.

*Sources: imdb.com, filmmusicreporter.com, philipmiller.co.za, wikidata.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Girl* (2012), Fi1m 64, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-girl.md)

## Complete filmography (25)

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

- *Ian Fleming and the Curse of James Bond* (2026), Music
- *Beauty* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *Where Is Kyra?* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Liyana* (2017), Music
- *Roots* (2016), series, Original Music Composer
- *Against the Wild II: Survive the Serengeti* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *Zum Teufel mit der Wahrheit!* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *Mother of George* (2013), Music
- *Of Good Report* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *The Girl* (2012), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/the-girl.md)
- *The Borrowers* (2011), Original Music Composer
- *Lucky* (2011), Original Music Composer
- *The Bang Bang Club* (2011), Original Music Composer
- *Black Butterflies* (2011), Original Music Composer
- *Master Harold... and the Boys* (2010), Original Music Composer
- *White Lion* (2010), Original Music Composer
- *Shirley Adams* (2009), Original Music Composer
- *Heartlines* (2006), Music
- *Catch a Fire* (2006), Original Music Composer
- *Meokgo And The Stick Fighter* (2006), Music
- *Max and Mona* (2004), Original Music Composer
- *Portrait of a Young Man Drowning* (1999), Music
- *The Man Who Drove with Mandela* (1998), Original Music Composer
- *Felix in Exile* (1994), Music
- *The Wizard of Mars* (1965), Production Manager

## Gallery

- ![Philip Miller portrait (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/6793779/gallery-7ac55ee948c6.jpg) Philip Miller portrait (2016) — Philip Miller, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Philip_Miller_portrait.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Philip Miller at home (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/6793779/gallery-b41327ea8042.jpg) Philip Miller at home (2016) — Philip Miller, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Philip_Miller_at_home.jpg/1280px-Philip_Miller_at_home.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Philip Miller](https://film.one/media/person/6793779/gallery-502dfc412ad8.jpg) Philip Miller — Philip Miller, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Philip_Miller_composing.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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