Warren Miller

Birth : 1924-10-15, Hollywood, California, US

Death : 2018-01-24

History

Warren Miller is an American ski and snowboarding filmmaker. He is the founder of Warren Miller Entertainment and produced, directed and narrated his films until 1988. His credits include over 750 sports films, several books and hundreds of published non-fiction stories. His annual films on skiing and other outdoor sports are renowned for their stunning photography, witty narrative humor, and the impressive talents of athletes. He has received wide acclaim for his promotion of the sport of modern skiing through his films spanning over 50 years and is an iconic figure in ski movie filmmaking.

Movies

Ski Bum: The Warren Miller Story
Himself
Ski Bum: The Warren Miller Story chronicles the life and times of the legendary filmmaker who, through his annual ski films and national tours which began in the early 1950's, was a driving force in the development and promotion of the ski industry in America and throughout the world. Miller, who died last year at 93, sat months before his passing for his final interview. He reminisced about living off rabbit stew and sleeping in a teardrop trailer in his endless pursuit of the perfect ski run and he explained in great detail the challenges - both personal and professional - he faced over the course of his career.
The Search for Freedom
THE SEARCH FOR FREEDOM is the story of a cultural revolution fueled by the human desire to live in the moment and do what makes you feel the most alive. We discover how an electrifying new world came about through pure energy and imagination and the infinite possibilities of self-expression available to anyone willing to drop in. This documentary, written and directed by Jon Long (IMAX® Extreme), is a visceral, visual experience told through the eyes some of the brightest pioneers, legends, visionaries and champions of surfing, snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding, mountain biking and more.
Legend of Aahhh's
self
Twenty five years after unleashing the ski film Blizzard Of Aahhh's Greg Stump returns to the ski film genre with Legend Of Aahhh's. Through a semi-autobiographical approach, Greg explores the history of the ski film and how these films influenced big mountain skiing and pop culture with the birth of the extreme sports movement following the release of Blizzard Of Aahhh's in 1988. And Glen Plake and Scot Scmidt's pivotal appearance on NBC's Today Show where the word and concept of "extreme" exploded into the consciousness of mainstream America. From Leni Riefenstahl in the 1930's (who made the first ski film) through Otto Lang, John Jay, Warren Miller and what the young ski film makers are creating today, "Legend" follows the life of the ski film and impact on big mountain skiing.
Higher Ground
Narrator
Following some of the world's top snowboarders and skiers on the hunt for their next thrill, Warren Miller's film travels from Alaska to Switzerland to shoot world-class athletes taking on nature's riskiest challenges. With jaw-dropping action from the likes of World Cup champ Jeremy Bloom, big-mountain skiers Jeremy Nobis and Seth Morrison, and ski-base jumping innovator Shane McConkey, Miller captures a wealth of unimaginable moments.
Impact
Narrator
From the deserts of Mexico to the mountains of Bulgaria, Warren Miller takes you on an epic ski and snowboarding adventure. Tag along with skiers and riders like Glen Plake, Kelly Clark, Hannah Teter, Chris Anthony, Travis Mayer, Max Mancini, and many others as they travel the globe and use their skills to impact and drive the sport of skiing and riding.
Journey
Narrator
Warren Miller's 54th ski movie.
Storm
Writer
You can’t have all the things we love like skiing and snow without a good Storm. Follow along as skiers and riders like Seth Morrison, Toby Dawson, Jeremy Bloom, Tanner Hall, and Glen Plake tackle every condition and obstacle in their way head on in order to ski some of the freshest snow around. Warren Miller takes you on a trip from Idaho, California, and Colorado, all the way to Canada, Austria and even to the distant country of Georgia and along the way proves that a good Storm can happen wherever you’re at.
Storm
Narrator
You can’t have all the things we love like skiing and snow without a good Storm. Follow along as skiers and riders like Seth Morrison, Toby Dawson, Jeremy Bloom, Tanner Hall, and Glen Plake tackle every condition and obstacle in their way head on in order to ski some of the freshest snow around. Warren Miller takes you on a trip from Idaho, California, and Colorado, all the way to Canada, Austria and even to the distant country of Georgia and along the way proves that a good Storm can happen wherever you’re at.
Cold Fusion
Director
For the 52nd year, Warren Miller is back—with his best film ever! Join Cold Fusion’s world-class athletes as they embark on exciting adventures to such extraordinary locations as Kenya and Verbier, in search of the bluest skies and deepest powder. Warren Miller’s films have been astounding audiences for half a century—inspiring people of all ages to keep their snowriding dream alive—and this 52nd edition is no exception. Cold Fusion delivers the fiercest line-up of talented athletes as they set out on the most exotic, thrilling expeditions ever. But that’s not all! Witness two astounding never-before-seen world records! Complementing the on-screen excitement, Cold Fusion features a thundering soundtrack with electrifying artists like Dave Matthews Band and Foo Fighters. And of course, Warren Millernarratese the film, bringing you plenty of the wry humor that has made him famous. Cold Fusion is one downhill ride you don’t want to miss!
Cold Fusion
Narrator
For the 52nd year, Warren Miller is back—with his best film ever! Join Cold Fusion’s world-class athletes as they embark on exciting adventures to such extraordinary locations as Kenya and Verbier, in search of the bluest skies and deepest powder. Warren Miller’s films have been astounding audiences for half a century—inspiring people of all ages to keep their snowriding dream alive—and this 52nd edition is no exception. Cold Fusion delivers the fiercest line-up of talented athletes as they set out on the most exotic, thrilling expeditions ever. But that’s not all! Witness two astounding never-before-seen world records! Complementing the on-screen excitement, Cold Fusion features a thundering soundtrack with electrifying artists like Dave Matthews Band and Foo Fighters. And of course, Warren Millernarratese the film, bringing you plenty of the wry humor that has made him famous. Cold Fusion is one downhill ride you don’t want to miss!
Fifty
Narrator
Prepare yourself for the jaw-dropping highlights from an amazing 50 years of winter sport action and adventure! Join an international array of Olympic skiers and snowboarders as they challenge the steepest slopes and most exciting conditions in exotic snow-covered settings around the globe! It’s the ultimate world tour for anyone who craves thrill-packed entertainment in the extreme! Warren Miller’s Fifty celebrate an incredible half-century of bringing you the hottest cold-weather action ever captured on film!
Freeriders
Narrator
Hang on! Freeriders sends an unstoppable avalanche of adventure and breathtaking ski action right your way! From awesome mountain vistas in Wyoming to the incredible steeps of South America and the Artic Circle, these locations form the stunning backdrops for the greatest winter sports ever captured on film! An all-star collection of world-class skiers and snowboarders—including Olympic Gold Medalists Jonny Moseley and Eric Bergoust—blast through waist-deep powder and launch into amazing aerials in a spectacular search for freedom and the ultimate downhill thrill! Set to a hot soundtrack featuring today’s top recording artists!
Snowriders 2
Narrator
Opening with a nightmarish montage of an avalanche, Snowriders 2: The Journey Continues, from the master of ski films, Warren Miller, quickly transforms into an exuberant celebration of downhill glory. In Miller style, gorgeous footage of some of the world's most skillful skiers tackling the world's gnarliest slopes is combined with intelligently chosen rock music to create an entertaining mix. Miller's film crews shoot skiers in the Alps of the South Island of New Zealand, track Americans making a lengthy pilgrimage to tackle the remote and forbidding slopes of Kazakhstan, and follow a tattooed and pierced snowboarder from his apartment in Greenwich Village to Killington, Vermont.
The Best of Winter Bloopers Volume 3
Writer
In The Best of Winter Bloopers, Vol.3, you'll see inner-tubing, cardboard downhills, snowshoe races, dummy races, pond jumps, dirt skiing, chairlift and rope tow blunders, not to mention some of the most outrageous ski and snowboard crashes ever caught on film. The entire collection is narrated by the master of winter comedy himself, Warren Miller.
The Best of Winter Bloopers Volume 3
Director
In The Best of Winter Bloopers, Vol.3, you'll see inner-tubing, cardboard downhills, snowshoe races, dummy races, pond jumps, dirt skiing, chairlift and rope tow blunders, not to mention some of the most outrageous ski and snowboard crashes ever caught on film. The entire collection is narrated by the master of winter comedy himself, Warren Miller.
Snowriders
Narrator (voice)
Spectacular shots of snowcapped peaks and extreme skiers gracefully defying gravity, not to mention common sense, are the highlights of this entertaining video from the venerable guru of skiing movies, Warren Miller. Sparing no expense, Miller's film crews span the globe, shooting snowboarders careening down absurdly steep Alaskan peaks, ski guides helicoptering to remote slopes in British Columbia, and hardy (and uninhibited) Scotsmen who boldly catch some "big air" in kilts. This video is fraught with offbeat humor, including shots of a snowshoe race that could have been filmed by Mack Sennett, and footage of "face jumping," the oddball diversion of hurling oneself off Alpine glaciers and parachuting to earth. Miller's gentle narration, replete with trademark corny remarks reminiscent of old movie newsreels, mixes with a musical soundtrack of contemporary rock that is often uncannily synched with the astounding footage of extreme skiing.
Endless Winter
Writer
Around the calendar and around the world, "Endless Winter" follows skiers and snowboarders enjoying epic snow conditions form Alaska to Argentina and Jackson Hole to Japan. Soar with the world's best aerialists at the Nissan Freestyle Exhibition at Breckenridge, Colorado; heli-ski in bottomless powder at Mike Wiegele's in Blue River, British Columbia; and free ski with Olympic Gold Medalist Tommy Moe in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Visit the quintessential Alpine village of Ischgl, Austria; challenge the super-steeps of Las Leñas, Argentina; and trek across Bolivian glaciers above 19,000 feet. "Endless Winter" closes in Valdez, Alaska with the most stirring and unforgettable snowboarding segment ever filmed.
Endless Winter
Narrator (voice)
Around the calendar and around the world, "Endless Winter" follows skiers and snowboarders enjoying epic snow conditions form Alaska to Argentina and Jackson Hole to Japan. Soar with the world's best aerialists at the Nissan Freestyle Exhibition at Breckenridge, Colorado; heli-ski in bottomless powder at Mike Wiegele's in Blue River, British Columbia; and free ski with Olympic Gold Medalist Tommy Moe in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Visit the quintessential Alpine village of Ischgl, Austria; challenge the super-steeps of Las Leñas, Argentina; and trek across Bolivian glaciers above 19,000 feet. "Endless Winter" closes in Valdez, Alaska with the most stirring and unforgettable snowboarding segment ever filmed.
Black Diamond Rush
Weather you're learning to ski in Sugarbush, Vermont, or throwing triple-twisting areal maneuvers in Breckenridge, Colorado, when you challenge yourself beyond your comfort zone, you experience a genuine Black Diamond Rush.
Born to Ski
Writer
We were all born for a reason, and many people have found out that they were Born to Ski. Join others who were born for the same thing like Bill Heath, Nelson Carmichael, Diana Golden, the Egan brothers, Brad Vancour and plenty more as they do the one thing they were born to do: ski. Travel to places like Canada, Oregon, Chile, France, Japan, even Yugoslavia and find out if skiing is what you were born to do also.
Born to Ski
Narrator (voice)
We were all born for a reason, and many people have found out that they were Born to Ski. Join others who were born for the same thing like Bill Heath, Nelson Carmichael, Diana Golden, the Egan brothers, Brad Vancour and plenty more as they do the one thing they were born to do: ski. Travel to places like Canada, Oregon, Chile, France, Japan, even Yugoslavia and find out if skiing is what you were born to do also.
Extreme Winter
Narrator (voice)
Winter can be long and boring but grab a pair of skis or a snowboard and transform it and find out what it’s like to have an Extreme Winter. Ride along with skiers like Tamara McKinney, Jim “Moose” Barrows, Billy Kidd, Scotty Brookwbank, and Warren Miller himself as they travel across North America all the way down to Antactica to show you how extreme winter can really be.
Extreme Winter
Writer
Winter can be long and boring but grab a pair of skis or a snowboard and transform it and find out what it’s like to have an Extreme Winter. Ride along with skiers like Tamara McKinney, Jim “Moose” Barrows, Billy Kidd, Scotty Brookwbank, and Warren Miller himself as they travel across North America all the way down to Antactica to show you how extreme winter can really be.
Steep & Deep
Narrator
Welcome to the dawn of extreme skiing and riding as we know it. Watch skiers and riders like Stein Eriksen, Phil Mahre, Billy Kid, Craig Peterson, and plenty of others shape modern skiing into what it is today. Travel with them as they go coast to coast across the U.S., fly all the way over to France and Japan, and finally journey down under to New Zealand and ski head to head down the steep and deep.
Ski Time
Director
Time is the most precious and valuable thing we own, so hopefully, you’ll invest yours in Ski Time. From the Alps to Oregon, Montana, Idaho, down to New Zealand, and back up to Canada the world’s greatest skiers and riders like Scott Bowen, John Kirscher, Mike Peter, and Billy Campbell along with countless others take you on a ski adventure of global proportions. So come along and be reminded that there’s always time to be spent in the mountains skiing.
Ski ala Carte
Writer
"A good ski run is like a good meal." So begins the unmistakable musings - and voice - of Warren Miller as we journey back to the "Me Decade" and his classic film, "Ski a la Carte." All the sights, sounds and styles of the 1970s are guaranteed to get you in the mood for a little ski boogie on an off the hill at some of the most amazing destinations on the planet. Classic ski action cinematography at its best. Featured locations include Mammoth Mountain, CA, and an invitation-only spring racing derby; Mt Vernasus in Greece, which hosts a school for ski-ophytes; and some truly outrageous '70s freestyle action from Squaw Valley, Park City, Sun Valley, and Colorado's Breckenridge, Keystone, Copper and A-Basin resorts. Generous portions of Warren Miller's trademark humor and some crazy kaleidoscopic effects make "Ski a la Carte" the perfect sample of vintage 1970s Warren Miller.
Ski ala Carte
Director
"A good ski run is like a good meal." So begins the unmistakable musings - and voice - of Warren Miller as we journey back to the "Me Decade" and his classic film, "Ski a la Carte." All the sights, sounds and styles of the 1970s are guaranteed to get you in the mood for a little ski boogie on an off the hill at some of the most amazing destinations on the planet. Classic ski action cinematography at its best. Featured locations include Mammoth Mountain, CA, and an invitation-only spring racing derby; Mt Vernasus in Greece, which hosts a school for ski-ophytes; and some truly outrageous '70s freestyle action from Squaw Valley, Park City, Sun Valley, and Colorado's Breckenridge, Keystone, Copper and A-Basin resorts. Generous portions of Warren Miller's trademark humor and some crazy kaleidoscopic effects make "Ski a la Carte" the perfect sample of vintage 1970s Warren Miller.
Ski ala Carte
Narrator (voice)
"A good ski run is like a good meal." So begins the unmistakable musings - and voice - of Warren Miller as we journey back to the "Me Decade" and his classic film, "Ski a la Carte." All the sights, sounds and styles of the 1970s are guaranteed to get you in the mood for a little ski boogie on an off the hill at some of the most amazing destinations on the planet. Classic ski action cinematography at its best. Featured locations include Mammoth Mountain, CA, and an invitation-only spring racing derby; Mt Vernasus in Greece, which hosts a school for ski-ophytes; and some truly outrageous '70s freestyle action from Squaw Valley, Park City, Sun Valley, and Colorado's Breckenridge, Keystone, Copper and A-Basin resorts. Generous portions of Warren Miller's trademark humor and some crazy kaleidoscopic effects make "Ski a la Carte" the perfect sample of vintage 1970s Warren Miller.
In Search of Skiing
Narrator (voice)
We're all searching for something but the real question is what. For people like Scott Miller, John Clendenin, Dave Clark, Bob Burns, Bab Salerno, and countless others well they're all In Search of Skiing. Warren Miller takes you back to some of the most original and earliest forms of skiing and extreme skiing. Take a ski trip from Switzerland to Morocco, over to Spain, and across the pond to Maine and Canada and find out for yourself if you're one of the many people out there In Search of Skiing.
In Search of Skiing
Writer
We're all searching for something but the real question is what. For people like Scott Miller, John Clendenin, Dave Clark, Bob Burns, Bab Salerno, and countless others well they're all In Search of Skiing. Warren Miller takes you back to some of the most original and earliest forms of skiing and extreme skiing. Take a ski trip from Switzerland to Morocco, over to Spain, and across the pond to Maine and Canada and find out for yourself if you're one of the many people out there In Search of Skiing.
In Search of Skiing
Director
We're all searching for something but the real question is what. For people like Scott Miller, John Clendenin, Dave Clark, Bob Burns, Bab Salerno, and countless others well they're all In Search of Skiing. Warren Miller takes you back to some of the most original and earliest forms of skiing and extreme skiing. Take a ski trip from Switzerland to Morocco, over to Spain, and across the pond to Maine and Canada and find out for yourself if you're one of the many people out there In Search of Skiing.
There Comes a Time
Writer
There Comes a Time in every skiers life where they must decide whether to get up and hit the slopes or go lay back down in bed all day like a bum. Well it’s a good thing incredible skiers like Pat Carnick, Karen Huntoon, Tish Green, Bob Burns, Mark Stigmeyer, Dick Dorwith, Scott Miller, Lee Lucas, Gary Holdberg, Pat Bowman, Katie Morning, Wayne Wong, and others decided to hit the slopes so now you can see what it’s like to ski like a pro. Filmed at some of the most historic and oldest ski resorts in the world including Squaw Valley, Vail, Marmot Basin, Mammoth Mountain, Kirkwood Meadows, and the French Alps, Warren Miller’s There Comes a Time reminds us to get out of bed and go skiing.
There Comes a Time
Director
There Comes a Time in every skiers life where they must decide whether to get up and hit the slopes or go lay back down in bed all day like a bum. Well it’s a good thing incredible skiers like Pat Carnick, Karen Huntoon, Tish Green, Bob Burns, Mark Stigmeyer, Dick Dorwith, Scott Miller, Lee Lucas, Gary Holdberg, Pat Bowman, Katie Morning, Wayne Wong, and others decided to hit the slopes so now you can see what it’s like to ski like a pro. Filmed at some of the most historic and oldest ski resorts in the world including Squaw Valley, Vail, Marmot Basin, Mammoth Mountain, Kirkwood Meadows, and the French Alps, Warren Miller’s There Comes a Time reminds us to get out of bed and go skiing.
Winter People
Producer
Join Warren Miller for one of his most classic ski films to date. Meet the cast of skiers like Scott Brooksbank, Phil Davis, Lane Monroe, Hal O'Leary, John Truden, Skeeter Zoberski and many more as they ski around the world and show you why they are true Winter People. Journey to places like Chamonix, Bear Valley, Mammoth, Le Meuire, Sugarloaf, and tons of other great places to ski and see first hand where the great sport of skiing originated.
Winter People
Director
Join Warren Miller for one of his most classic ski films to date. Meet the cast of skiers like Scott Brooksbank, Phil Davis, Lane Monroe, Hal O'Leary, John Truden, Skeeter Zoberski and many more as they ski around the world and show you why they are true Winter People. Journey to places like Chamonix, Bear Valley, Mammoth, Le Meuire, Sugarloaf, and tons of other great places to ski and see first hand where the great sport of skiing originated.
Any Snow, Any Mountain
Producer
The legendary director/producer Warren Miller hits the slopes of Squaw, Whistler, and Japan with skiers like Jim McConkey, Roger Staub, Pepi Stiegler in one of his earliest surviving ski movies.
Any Snow, Any Mountain
Director
The legendary director/producer Warren Miller hits the slopes of Squaw, Whistler, and Japan with skiers like Jim McConkey, Roger Staub, Pepi Stiegler in one of his earliest surviving ski movies.