Though he was destined always to be known as “the other George Miller”, he was one of this country’s most commercially successful filmmakers.
Australian film and television director George Miller, who scored a massive hit in the 1980s withbefore going on to make movies in Hollywood, has died of a heart attack in hospital in Melbourne. He was 79.
But the film he treasured most dearly was one that the rest of the world greeted with absolute disdain.,” says his son Harvey Miller, co-founder with Monte Morgan of the band Client Liaison, in which brother Geordie also plays. Harvey Miller remembers his father claiming that after the premiere Humphries said he never wanted to see the film again, while then-treasurer Paul Keating asked “why are we funding this shit?”
At the time, it was the medico who was known as “the other” George Miller, while the more established man was referred to by his nickname, Noddy.The Man From Snowy River
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