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): Aivars Kalējs • Christopher Ball (linguist) • David J. C. MacKay • David Luiz • Glen Campbell • Harold Jeffreys • Jack Nicholson • Jack Nitzsche • James Stirling (architect) • Jan de Hartog • Jancis Robinson • John Foley (British Army officer) • Kaneto Shindo • Mary Prior • Peter Frampton • Terry Francona • Violet McGraw • Vittorio Jano • Yehudi Menuhin
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