Jason Miller (playwright)
Jason Miller was an American playwright and actor. He won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play for his play That Championship Season, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Father Damien Karras in the 1973 horror film The Exorcist, a role he reprised in The Exorcist III. He later became artistic director of the Scranton Public Theatre in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where That Championship Season was set.
22 April 1939
Born on the same birth date (22 April 1939): John Foley (British Army officer) • Mel Carter • Ray Guy (humorist) • Theo Waigel
Born on the same birth day (22 April): Adam Raphael • Alan Bond • B. R. Chopra • Bettie Page • Christopher Ball (linguist) • Dan Cloutier • David Luiz • Ethel Smyth • Eve Muirhead • Henry Fielding • Joshua Rifkin • Keith Crisco • Norman Steenrod • Otto Rank • Reinhard III, Count of Hanau • Ryan Stiles • Steve Fossett • Steven L. Bennett • Terry Francona • Vladimir Lenin
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