---
name: "Victor Miller"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/victor-miller"
fi1m_id: "victor-miller"
imdb_id: "nm0589485"
tmdb_id: 38685
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "14 May 1940"
died: "31 August 2026"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-10-09T04:06:00.517297+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."
---

# Victor Miller

## Identity

Victor Miller

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/victor-miller
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** victor-miller
- **IMDb ID:** nm0589485
- **TMDB ID:** 38685
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0589485/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/38685

Producer. Born 14 May 1940 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Died 31 August 2026.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 14 May 1940, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- **Died:** 31 August 2026
- **Active:** 1980–2026
- **Also known as:** Arch McCoy
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0589485/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/38685

## Coming up

- *Crystal Lake* (2026-10-15), Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/crystal-lake.md)

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Friday the 13th*](https://film.one/film/friday-the-13th.md) (48)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Victor Miller (also credited as Arch McCoy) was an American writer for film and television. He wrote the screenplay for the 1980 horror film *Friday the 13th*, the only entry in the series with which he was involved, though he is credited with creating the characters of Jason Voorhees and his mother.

Miller wrote for several daytime television series, including *All My Children*, *One Life to Live*, *Guiding Light*, *Another World* and *General Hospital*. He shared in three Daytime Emmy Awards for his work on *All My Children*.

His other film credits include *Manny's Orphans* (1978) and *A Stranger Is Watching* (1982). Miller was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on 14 May 1940 and died in Alameda, California, on 31 August 2026.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Friday the 13th* (1980), Fi1m 48, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/friday-the-13th.md)

## Complete filmography (23)

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

- *Crystal Lake* (2026), series, Executive Producer — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/tv/crystal-lake.md)
- *Sweet Revenge* (2025), Executive Producer
- *Friday the 13th: Origin of Evil - Part 3* (2023), Characters
- *The Once and Future Smash* (2022), as Victor Miller
- *Friday the 13th: Origin of Evil - Part 2* (2022), Characters
- *Friday the 13th: Origin of Evil* (2022), Characters
- *The Story Of The '80s Slasher Craze* (2020), Actor
- *Rock, Paper, Scissors* (2019), Writer, Producer
- *Deliverance from Evil* (2012), as Postman
- *Friday the 13th* (2009), Characters
- *Freddy vs. Jason* (2003), Characters
- *Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan* (1989), Characters
- *Friday the 13th: A New Beginning* (1985), Characters
- *Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter* (1984), Characters
- *Friday the 13th Part III* (1982), Author, Characters
- *A Stranger Is Watching* (1982), Writer
- *Friday the 13th Part 2* (1981), Characters
- *Friday the 13th* (1980), Writer — Fi1m 48, [page](https://film.one/film/friday-the-13th.md)
- *Here Come the Tigers* (1978), as Announcer · Writer
- *Manny's Orphans* (1978), as Vice Principal · Screenplay
- *The Black Pearl* (1977), Writer
- *All My Children* (1970), series, Writer
- *Untitled Friday the 13th Film*, Characters

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