{{short description|American actor}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2013}} {{Infobox person | name = Worthington Miner | image = | image_size = 175px | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1900|11|13}} | birth_place = Buffalo, New York, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1982|12|11|1900|11|13}} | death_place = Manhattan, New York City | other_names = | occupation = Actor, director, producer, screenwriter | years_active = 1933–1971 | spouse = {{marriage|Frances Fuller|1929|1980|end=died}} | children = 3 | relatives = Rachel Miner (granddaughter) }}
'''Worthington Miner''' (November 13, 1900{{Citation needed |date=March 2023}} – December 11, 1982) was an American film producer, screenwriter, actor and director. He was married to actress Frances Fuller, with whom he had three children, including producer/director Peter Miner. He was the paternal grandfather of actress Rachel Miner.{{Citation needed |date=March 2023}}
==Career== Miner's direction of plays began with ''Up Pops the Devil'' in 1929. He went on to direct ''Reunion in Vienna,'' ''Both Your Houses,'' ''On Your Toes,'' ''Jane Eyre'', and ''For Love or Money''.<ref name=":0" />
In 1939, after more than 10 years in the theater, Mr. Miner publicly criticized it as "highly undemocratic". At a Theatre Guild panel discussion in Williamstown, Massachusetts, he said: "When we speak of the theater, we speak of one city - New York. Yet even within the confines of that one city, the theater isn't democratic. It is a Park Avenue nightclub, a luxury for a selective few with the price of admission. It is for the rich in the richest city of this country, and I believe this situation is deplored by every author, actor and manager in the business."{{citation needed|date=August 2017}}
One of Miner's early roles at CBS Television was producing ''At Home'', a 1944-45 variety series.<ref name=bbrev>{{cite magazine |last=Marvin |first=Wanda |date=December 9, 1944 |pages=12–13 |title=Reviews: CBS |magazine=Billboard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qBoEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22At+Home%22+WCBW&pg=PT11 |accessdate=March 14, 2025 }}</ref> He also created and produced ''Studio One'' (serving as writer and director for numerous episodes); the television version of ''The Goldbergs''; ''Mr. I Magination,'' a children's show, and ''The Toast of the Town,'' casting Ed Sullivan as master of ceremonies. He also produced ''The Play of the Week''; ''Playhouse 90'' and ''Kaiser Aluminum Hour''.{{Citation needed |date=March 2023}} Miner realized that television could not 'be made to fit into preconceived patterns of motion pictures, theater or radio. Television offers, instead, a superlative opportunity to absorb every type of experiment in all other entertainment media,' he said, adding that 'there is no limit to the scope of its coverage.'<ref name=":0">{{cite news|title=Worthington Miner, Producer in the Early Days of TV, Dies|work=The New York Times |date=December 13, 1982 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/13/obituaries/worthington-miner-producer-in-the-early-days-of-tv-dies.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524105849/http://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/13/obituaries/worthington-miner-producer-in-the-early-days-of-tv-dies.html |archive-date=May 24, 2015 |last1=Fraser |first1=C. Gerald }}</ref>
Miner died on December 11, 1982, in New York Hospital, aged 82.<ref name=":0" />
==Selected filmography as a producer== * ''The Fool Killer'' * ''The Pawnbroker''
===Television=== * ''The Iceman Cometh'' * ''Frontier'' * ''Medic'' * ''Studio One''
==Selected filmography as an actor== * ''They Might Be Giants''
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name|0591173}} * [http://www.nypl.org/archives/4539 Studio One production files, 1948–1955], held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts * [http://www.museum.tv/eotv/minerworthi.htm Miner, Worthington U.S. Producer Director] Museum of Broadcast Communications * {{IBDB name|53222}} * {{Playbill person|worthington-miner-vault-0000018421}} ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160127180024/http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/18421/Worthington-Miner archive])
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