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Barry Miller is an American actor who won a Tony Award for his role in Biloxi Blues. He also appeared in films such as Saturday Night Fever, Fame, and The Chosen.
Barry Miller is an American actor born in 1958 in Los Angeles. He has appeared in films such as Saturday Night Fever, The Last Temptation of Christ and Peggy Sue Got Married, and won a Tony Award for his role in Biloxi Blues.
- January 1, 1
- 3 min
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- How ‘The Chosen’ Chose Me
- Entering A Different World
- Why ‘The Chosen’ Was Beshert
- Reuven and Danny
- And So The Shooting Begins
- Some Changes to The Story
- ‘The Chosen’ Goes to Radio City
- What ‘The Chosen’ Means to Me 40 Years Later
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The way the movie business works is that scripts are sent to agents to get to actors and directors to get them to choose to do the project. Every now and then, though, something unsolicited arrives in the mail. That’s how a script called “The Chosen” got to me. I had never heard of the book. I read the script. I didn’t think it was very good, so I ...
My family came from a totally different Jewish world. In addition to his rabbinate, my father was a certified psychologist. He had often shared his thoughts about human nature and history. I recall his explaining some of the plagues on Egypt as actual events, not miracles, and that the last one was really a violent revolution for freedom by our ens...
Beshert— it was supposed to happen. Unexpected but intended. Sometimes as you are working on a movie you discover what the essence of your film is about – its heart and maybe its meaning. And as I continued my exposure to the Hasidic world, it became clear this movie was about tolerance, the ability to accept differences. How do we acknowledge ther...
Casting the two boys was a challenge. Daniel was steeped in the Hasidic world; Reuven was more assimilated. My audition process is to engage in a personal conversation with the actor about issues in the story that might be reflected in their own lives. What is your relationship with your father? Who are you best friends and why? What do you believe...
Our first day of shooting was one of the hottest days in the summer. I had planned to do almost 70 shots that day. My enthusiasm seemed to be infectious. My line producer, Jonathan Bernstein; production manager, Mel Howard; and assistant director, Yudi Bennett (the first time a woman in New York served a first assistant) – all Jews – were exhausted...
In the book, both families are Orthodox. This meant that in the book, the two boys – Daniel and Reuven – always wear yarmulkes. I felt that this might push the movie too far into the religious world and make it inaccessible to even contemporary American Jews, so I suggested that Reuven’s family should be more like Conservative Jews who do not alway...
The movie opened at a special gala screening at Radio City Music Hall celebrating the 33rd anniversary of the modern state of Israel. To our surprise, two studios said they wanted to distribute the movie. We were all excited. But a week later they changed their minds. Their financial people calculated there weren’t enough Jews who go to the movies ...
Over these 40 years, I have received many notes from people who have seen “The Chosen” and were moved by it, like the woman who told me that after seeing the movie she had contacted her mother for the first time in a decade. Rabbis and teachers use the film in schools, and it is still shown in synagogues around the world. In many ways, the fact tha...
Barry Miller played the Hasidic boy Reuven in The Chosen, a 1967 film based on Chaim Potok's novel. Director Jeremy Kagan recounts how he rewrote the script, researched the Hasidic world and cast the actors.
Barry Miller is an actor born in 1958 in Los Angeles, USA. He won a Tony Award for his role in Biloxi Blues and starred in Fame, The Last Temptation of Christ and Peggy Sue Got Married.
- February 6, 1958
Barry L. Miller (born February 6, 1958) is an American actor. He won Broadway's 1985 Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role - Play) for his performance as 'Arnold Epstein' in Biloxi Blues. Miller was born in Los Angeles, California.
Aug 9, 2021 · Learn about Barry Miller's career, from his roles in "Saturday Night Fever", "Fame" and "Biloxi Blues" to his stage adaptation of "Birdy". Read his insights on acting, writing and his Tony-winning performance in Neil Simon's comedy.
Barry Miller is an actor of extraordinary depth and versatility, who has played nebbishy, intellectual and often surprisingly forceful characters in films and TV shows. He won the Tony Award for his role as Arnold Epstein in "Biloxi Blues" and appeared in "Saturday Night Fever", "Fame", "The Last Temptation of Christ" and more.
