Barbara Miller

Birth : 1935-03-05,

Death : 2003-08-24

History

Barbara Miller was an American casting executive who worked in the television industry for more than thirty years. Miller began her career at Warner Bros. in 1971 as an assistant in the casting department. She worked at CBS as a casting director before joining Lorimar Television in 1976 as the vice president of casting. The company was later merged with Warner Bros. television. In 1987, Miller was promoted to senior vice president of casting. She spent most of her career at Warner Bros. until her retirement in 2002.

Movies

Friends: The Reunion
In Memory Of
The cast of Friends reunites for a once-in-a-lifetime celebration of the hit series, an unforgettable evening filled with iconic memories, uncontrollable laughter, happy tears, and special guests.
Fail Safe
Casting
Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.
A Cool Like That Christmas
Casting
A funky hip-hop holiday special featuring a teenage boy named Orlando who lives in an underprivileged neighborhood.
The Boy Who Could Fly
Casting
Milly and Louis, and their recently-widowed mom, Charlene, move to a new neighborhood. Once there, they all deal with a variety of personal problems, but Milly finds a friend in Eric, her autistic next door neighbor. Eric has a fascination with flight, and as the story progresses, he exerts an enthralling force of change on all those around him.
The Last Starfighter
Casting
A video game expert Alex Rogan finds himself transported to another planet after conquering The Last Starfighter video game only to find out it was just a test. He was recruited to join the team of best Starfighters to defend their world from the attack.
Tank
Casting
After relocating his family - and his prized restored Sherman tank - to a small Georgia town, Sargeant Major Zack Carey butts heads with the local sheriff. Zack doesn't agree with the ways of the local police, and when the sheriff goes after Zack's son, it's time for Zack to roll out the Sherman tank and wage a little war of his own.
Fake-Out
Rudinski
Gangster's girlfriend hangs out in a Las Vegas hotel with her cop protectors while she waits to testify.
S.O.B.
Casting
A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
Casting
Based on the well-publicized Oregon criminal case of the late 1970s, this film dramatizes the unique dispute in which Greta Rideout instigated the prosecution of her husband, John, charging him with raping her.
Carny
Casting
Tired of being a small-town waitress, Donna departs with the latest carnival show, living with entertainers Frankie and Patch in a tense, emotional triangle.
The Big Red One
Casting
A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.
Mr. Horn
Casting
Western saga based on the legend of frontier folk hero Tom Horn, including his role in the trackdown of Geronimo in the 1880s with his mentor and pal, Al Sieber, the fabled Indian scout, his later days as a Pinkerton detective, and the way he was used by both sides in turn-of-the-century cattle wars, leading to his tragic death.
A Question of Guilt
Casting
A swinging divorcée is prejudged by a police detective and accused of killing her child.
Sparkle
Casting
Three sisters start out singing in their church choir in Harlem in the late 1950s and become a successful girl group in the 1960s.
The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox
Casting
A female hustler is chasing after rich men, but becomes repeatedly mixed up with a suave con man and card shark through a series of misadventures before falling in love with him.