Frank Miller(II)
- Writer
- Producer
- Actor
Frank Miller was born in Olney, Maryland, to a nurse mother and a
carpenter and electrician father, and was raised in Montpelier,
Vermont. He is of Irish descent. Miller was a big comics writer/artist
in the
'70s and '80s. He
wrote and penciled the Marvel series "Daredevil" for a long time. His
friend, Klaus Janson,
inked. He also wrote two spinoffs about the character "Electra" and did
a miniseries about the "X-Men" character "Wolverine". His hit
miniseries "Ronin" was published by DC in the mid-eighties. His
greatest success came with DC's character "Batman". In 1980, he wrote
the acclaimed "Batman" story "Wanted - Santa Claus - Dead or Alive!"
for DC Comics. In 1986, his most notable comic-book work, the
groundbreaking "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns", an alternate history
story about Batman in a grim future, was published by DC. Miller wrote
and penciled. In 1988, he wrote the acclaimed "Batman: Year One", about
Batman's first year on the job, for DC. In 1996, he wrote "Spawn versus
Batman", a one-shot issue published by DC and Image Comics. He wrote
the major motion pictures
RoboCop 2 (1990) and
RoboCop 3 (1993) and did the "Robocop"
comic series for a little while.
Miller directed The Spirit (2008) and co-directed Sin City (2005) and Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)_.
Miller directed The Spirit (2008) and co-directed Sin City (2005) and Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)_.