In 1959 the National Institute of Arts and Letters awarded him the Gold Medal for Drama. The following year, the United States Court of Appeals overturned the conviction.
In 19, Miller was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee and was convicted of contempt of Congress for his refusal to identify writers believed to hold Communist sympathies. His 1949 'Death of a Salesman' won the Pulitzer Prize and is considered to be his most successful play. His first Broadway play, 'The Man Who Had All the Luck' opened in 1944 and his next play 'All My Sons' received the Drama Critics' Circle Award. Miller began writing plays as a student at the University of Michigan, joining the Federal Theatre Project in New York City after he received his degree. As a young man, Miller held jobs ranging from radio singer to truck driver to clerk. His father lost his business in the Depression and the family was forced to move to a smaller home in Brooklyn. Independent films include Sundance favorite Letters From The Big Man (with Lily Rabe), The Green (for which he won many film festival awards), and The Family Fang, directed by Jason Bateman.AuthorArthur Miller Arthur Miller (1915 - 2005)Īrthur Miller was born in New York City. Other film work includes Blackhat, Non-Stop, The Taking Of Pelham 1 2 3 and The Extra Man. Harner’s major film debut came as Gordon Northcott Jr in Clint Eastwood’s Oscar-nominated Changeling. He has appeared in the West End at the Donmar Warehouse in Lanford Wilson’s Serenading Louis and across this country in The Glass Menagerie (with Sally Field at the Kennedy Center), the American premiere of The Invention Of Love (with James Cromwell at ACT), The Cherry Orchard (with Annette Bening, Alfred Molina, and Sarah Paulson at the Taper), Long Days Journey Into Night (ACT) and Hamlet (Dallas Theatre Center). Memorable productions include The Village Bike (MCC), Cock (The Duke), Hedda Gabler (New York Theatre Workshop), Through A Glass Darkly (Atlantic Theatre), The Ruby Sunrise (The Public), An Experiment With An Air Pump (MTC), Macbeth (The Public), Crimes Of The Heart (Second Stage), Observe The Sons Of Ulster (Lincoln Center), Five Flights (Rattlestick) and Orange Flower Water (Edge Theatre).
He has previously appeared with the Roundabout in The Paris Letter and Juno and the Paycock, as well as in numerous off-Broadway productions for which he has garnered an OBIE Award and multiple Drama Desk nominations. Harner also appeared as Ivan Turgenev, aging 45 years, in the multi-Tony award winning trilogy The Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard. Jason Butler Harner currently stars as Agent Roy Petty on the celebrated Netflix series Ozark. He returns to Broadway having last been seen in Ivo van Hove’s galvanizing revival of The Crucible.
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