14 Facts About JP Miller

JP Miller was a leading playwright during the Golden Age of Television, receiving three Emmy nominations.

Miller was the son of construction engineer Rolland James Miller and touring actress Rose Jetta Smith Miller.

JP Miller came back with a Purple Heart and Bronze Star.

When this drama was televised, JP Miller immediately quit his job as a salesman to write full-time.

JP Miller takes his family to Vermont for a two-week vacation.

JP Miller's teleplays were staged on Kraft Television Theatre and The Philco Television Playhouse, followed by Producers' Showcase, Playwrights '56 and Playhouse 90.

JP Miller did his LSD drama, The People Next Door, for CBS Television Playhouse.

However, JP Miller received the most acclaim for Days of Wine and Roses, which was prompted by his notion to dramatize Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

Mr JP Miller's dialogue was especially fine, natural, vivid and understated.

JP Miller was a member of the Writers Guild of America, West.

In 1965, JP Miller moved to Stockton, New Jersey, where he lived for the next 36 years.

JP Miller developed a routine of writing seven days a week for four hours in the morning, playing tennis in the afternoons, relaxing with his tennis pals at the Swan Hotel in Lambertville, New Jersey, and doing research in the evenings.

At the age of 81, JP Miller died of pneumonia at the Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington, New Jersey, having completed a first draft of his World War II memoirs, A Ship Without a Shore.

JP Miller was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, in Lambertville, New Jersey.