What happened to Henry Miller? Salary, Ethnicity, Nationality

Known for movies

Short Info

Died	June 7, 1980, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, United States
Spouse	Hiroko Tokuda, Eve McClure, Janina Martha Lepska, June Miller, Beatrice Sylvas Wickens
Fact	Dropped out of college and became a Western Union messenger.

Henry Miller was born in New York City on December 26, 1891. His father, Heinrich Miller, was a German-born tailor, and his mother, Louise Neiting Miller, was a German-American homemaker. Henry was the second of four children; his older sister, Anna, and younger brothers, Herman and Frederick, were all born in New York.

Henry’s early education took place at home; his father taught him to read and write, and his mother taught him arithmetic and basic cooking skills. At the age of eight, Henry began attending public school. He excelled in his studies and was soon promoted to the highest level of his class.

In 1903, Henry’s father died suddenly of a heart attack. The family struggled financially in the aftermath of his death, and Henry was forced to drop out of school to help support them. He took a job as a clerk in a local department store.

In 1910, Henry met and married his first wife, Beatrice Wickens. The couple had two children together: Henry Jr. and Vali.

In 1918, Henry was drafted into the army and served in World War I. After the war, he returned to New York and took a job as a salesman for a local book company. It was during this time that he began writing his first novel, Tropic of Cancer.

The novel was published in 1934 and immediately caused a sensation. It was banned in several countries and denounced by the Vatican. Despite the controversy, Tropic of Cancer was a critical and commercial success, and established Henry Miller as one of the most important writers of his generation.

In 1940, Henry divorced Beatrice and married his second wife, June Mansfield. The couple moved to California, where they remained for the rest of their lives.

Henry’s health began to decline in the late 1960s, and he died of heart failure on June 7, 1980, at the age of 88.

General Info

Full Name	Henry Miller
Died	June 7, 1980, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, United States
Weight	136 kg
Profession	Author, Painter, Novelist
Education	City College of New York

Family

Spouse	Hiroko Tokuda, Eve McClure, Janina Martha Lepska, June Miller, Beatrice Sylvas Wickens
Children	Valentine Miller, Barbara Miller, Anthony Miller
Parents	Louise Marie Neiting, Heinrich Miller

Accomplishments

Movies

Women & Men 2, Quiet Days in Clichy, Tropic of Cancer, L' Entretien

Social profile links

IMDB	http://imdb.com/name/nm0588469

Quotes

#	Quote
1	What I want is to halt evolution, to go backward down the path we have taken, back to the world before childhood, to regress, regress, regress, further and further, until we get to the place we have only lately left behind, where culture and civilization do not figure. It is time we start to think, to feel, to see the universe in a way that is uncultivated, primitive - but this is also without a doubt the most difficult thing in the world to do.
2	It may be that my works are not literary. Call them whatever you like. I couldn't care less!
3	To be born in the street means to wander all your life, to be free. It means accident and incident, drama, movement. It means above all dream. A harmony of irrelevant facts which gives to your wandering a metaphysical certitude.... What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.
4	We need their paper boxes, their buttons, their synthetic furs, their rubber goods, their hosiery, their plastic this and that. We need the banker, his genius for taking our money and making himself rich. The insurance man, his policies, and his talk of security, of dividends - we need him too. Do we? I don't see that we need any of these vultures.
5	"If you stop still and look at things....the world looks absolutely crazy to you. And it is crazy, by God! .... From the time you wake up until the moment you go to bed it's all a lie, all a sham and a swindle." -- "Sexus" (1949)
6	"Everywhere the grim, monotonous walls loomed up; behind them lived families whose whole life centred about a job. Industrious, patient, ambitious slaves whose one aim was emancipation. In the interim putting up with anything; oblivious of discomfort, immune to ugliness. Heroic little souls whose very obsession to liberate themselves from the thraldom of work served only to magnify the squalor and the misery of their lives." -- "Sexus" (1949)
7	Strange as it may seem today to say, the aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." -- essay, "Creative Death
8	Meaningful acts require no stir. When things are going to rack and ruin the most purposeful act may be to sit still." -- "The World Of Sex
9	We (Americans) take to dope, the dope which is worse by far than opium or hashish - I mean the newspapers, the radio, the movies. Real dope gives you the freedom to dream your own dreams; the American kind forces you to swallow the perverted dreams of men whose only ambition is to hold their job regardless of what they are bidden to do.
10	Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
11	I've known it all. Every humiliation, degradation, poverty, starvation
12	Don't look for miracles. YOU are the miracle.

Facts

#	Fact
1	Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1960.
2	Once estimated he had read over nine thousand books, of which only fifty had given him something he thought was irreplaceable.
3	Was cremated; his ashes were scattered off Big Sur, California.
4	His book 'Tropic of Cancer' was published in the US 30 years after it was published in France.
5	Dropped out of college and became a Western Union messenger.
6	Parents were from Germany.
7	Children with Lepska, Anthony and Valentine.

Movies

Writer

Title	Year	Status
L'entretien	1995	Short short story
Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules	1991	TV Movie story "Mara"
Jours tranquilles à Clichy	1990	novel "Quiet Days in Clichy"
Martin Held liest 'Das Lächeln am Fuße der Leiter'	1988	TV Movie
Capitali culturali d'Europa	1983	TV Series documentary text - 1 episode
Quiet Days in Clichy	1970	novel "Quiet Days in Clichy"
Tropic of Cancer	1970	novel
Quest	1961	TV Series short story - 1 episode

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
Tropic of Cancer	1970		Spectator

Thanks

Title	Year	Status	Character
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers	1980	Documentary special thanks

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Origin of Sound	2013	Documentary post-production	Henry Miller (voice)
Reds	1981		Himself - Witness
Nur der Name bleibt... Henry Miller - Erkenntnisse und Bekenntnisse	1980	TV Short documentary	Himself
Henry Miller Asleep & Awake	1975	Documentary short	Himself
Anais Nin Observed	1974	Documentary	Himself
Henry Miller, poète maudit	1974	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Knef '73 - Was sie sagt, was sie singt und wie man über sie spricht	1973	TV Movie	Himself
Obszönität als Gesellschaftskritik?	1970	TV Movie documentary	Himself
The Henry Miller Odyssey	1969	Documentary	Himself
Quest	1961	TV Series	Himself

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
Emile Norman: By His Own Design	2007	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man	2003	Documentary	Himself
Margret Dünser, auf der Suche nach den Besonderen	1981	TV Movie documentary	Himself