Frank Miller was born on the 27th January 1957, in Olney, Maryland USA and is a comic book writer, film director and producer, best known to the world for creating such comics as “Ronin”, “The Dark Knight Returns” and “Sin City”, among many other creations. He is also notable for his contribution to Marvel, The Dark Horse, and DC comics by creating numerous characters.
Have you ever wondered how rich Frank Miller is, as of mid- 2017? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Miller’s net worth is as high as $45 million, an amount earned through his successful career, which started in the ‘70s.
Frank Miller Net Worth $45 Million
Frank is of part-Irish ancestry, and grew up in Montpelier, Vermont with his six siblings and parents. From an early age he was drawn to comics, and he wrote a letter to Marvel Comics that eventually got published in “The Cat #3, marking the start of his career. He then moved forward, and it was at Western Publishing’s Gold Key Comics that his first work published. He received positive reviews from fellow comic book artist Neal Adams, and the two started their professional relationship. Although he worked on several creations, including “Royal Feast”, and “The Twilight Zone”, he didn’t receive any credit until he was credited as the writer of “Deliver Me From D-Day”; his net worth was on the rise.
He then joined DC to create a one-page-war-comic, but he worked on several other comics too, including “Weird War Tales”, “The Greatest Story Never Told”, and “Unknown Soldier”. After DC he joined Marvel and penciled the 17-page story “The Master Assassin of Mars, Part 3”, which was a part of “John Carter, Warlord of Mars”. His role at Marvel gradually increased, and he was working on numerous creations, including on “The Spectacular Spider-Man”, and asked from Jo Duffy a chance to work on Daredevil, at the time a low-selling comic book. In the beginning, he had a tough time to change the low sale of the comic, but with the arrival of Denny O’Neil, his luck changed, and from then on, Daredevil became one of his most successful works, making Frank the rising star in Marvel. As the comic’s sales improved, so has Frank’s net worth, but also his desire to start more on his own.
Before that happened, he worked for DC once again on “Batman: The Dark Knight Returns”, which also became a success.
It was in the early ‘90s that he launched “Sin City”, published by Dark Horse Comics, which became an immediate success; the comics were later made into two films, which Frank himself directed. His next successful venture was the comic book “300” (1999), which was also made into the film, directed by Zack Snyder in 2007.
Since the start of the ‘00s, Frank has worked on “Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again”, and its spin-offs and compilations.
Thanks to his successful career, Frank has received numerous prestigious awards, including eight Eisner Awards, and in 2015 he was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame.
Regarding his personal life, Frank was married to Lynn Varley until 2005, but there are no further details about the couple’s marriage. Lynn also served as his colorist, working with him on a variety of titles, including “Ronin” and “300”, among others.
Since their divorce, Frank is often linked with Kimberly Halliburton Cox, an actress who had a minor role in his film “The Spirit” (2008).
Hugo Award for Best Related Work, Locus Award for Best Non-Fiction
Movies
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, The Spirit, Sin City, 300, 300: Rise of an Empire, Daredevil, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1, RoboCop 2, Batman: Year One, RoboCop 3, The Wolverine, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2, Elektra, Innerspace, The Lathe of Heaven
TV Shows
HypaSpace
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Trademark
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Comics often represent His conservative Political views
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Noir style heavily inspired by Will Eisner
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Unique artwork style which heavily focuses on facial tics
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His heroes are often extremely moral individuals surviving in a cruel environment
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Fedora Hat
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Often features characters who are 'killed', disfigured or mortally wounded, only to be surgically rebuilt stronger and deadlier than before, eg. Robocop, Dwight, Batman.
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Often features characters with a physical or mental affliction. Both Miho and Kevin from Sin City are mute, whilst Marv's mother, Matt Murdock/Daredevil, Stick and Manute are all blind. Both Sin City's Hartigan and Batman in Dark Knight Returns suffer heart problems.
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Is best known for his grim film-noirish comic book stories using characters like Batman and Daredevil as well as original works like Sin City.
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Quote
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[on Batman Begins (2005)] "I totally thought they did a damned good job. It was the first "Batman' movie I've genuinely liked. I sat there, I watched it, and I came out of there going, 'Well done, man.' Sure, they used my stuff - they used everybody's stuff, but they used my stuff a lot - but they did it well, and that's all I care about. It was Batman. What I mean by that is, I thought the character was true. You understand, when I work on a character, I have a very, very hard time seeing anybody else's interpretation. I get very possessive. But when I went out to see this thing, I said, 'This is a pretty cool Batman.' I wasn't sitting there going, 'This is a merchandising tool.' I felt like it really had heart and substance, and Christian Bale with no doubt performed the best Batman I have ever seen".
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[about his inspirations] I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks, fast cars and cool guys in trench coat. So that's what I write about.
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I realized that I was about to turn 30, and Batman was permanently 29. And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.
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I was always into noir. When I lived in Vermont I was drawing stuff that looked like an amateur doing 'Sin City'. When I first got to New York I was swiftly informed that they only did guys in tights.
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You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.
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I figured Daredevil must be Catholic because only a Catholic could be both an attorney and a vigilante.
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Fact
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Writing and illustrating "Sin City", a comic series, for Dark Horse; co-writing the script for _Batman: Year One (2011)_, a feature film adaptation of his comic series for Warner Brothers; writing and illustrating "The Dark Knight Strikes Again" for DC, a sequel to "The Dark Knight Returns"; outlining "Jesus!", a comic-book version of the life of Christ for Dark Horse Maverick. [2001]
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Irish-American.
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Created the comic book character "Elektra" who has gone on to appear in the movies Daredevil (2003) and Elektra (2005), played by Jennifer Garner.
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Was approached by New Line Cinema in 1988 to write and direct A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010). He declined due to prior commitments.
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Has said that "The Romantic Manifesto" by Ayn Rand, a book of collective essays about art and romanticism, helped him to determine how he'd go about creating his heroics.
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Moved to New York in 1976, when he was 19. Within a week of his arrival he had found work as a comic book artist.
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Has told in several interviews that he got the inspiration for the "noir and gritty experience" of all his comics (especially Sin City) from noir writers Mickey Spillane, Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. The pacing was very influenced by the Lone Wolf & Cub manga by Goseki Kojima & Kazuo Koike.
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He claimed in the introduction to "The Dark Knight Returns" that he got the idea of writing of a Batman in his mid 60s from a age crisis he had. He "could stand that his little brother was older than Spider-Man, but that he himself getting older than Batman, was something that had to be stopped." He was 29 years old, closing up on 30, writing "The Dark Knight Returns."
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In mid-2003, a comic book company called Avatar is publishing a comic book series adapting his original screenplay for RoboCop 2 (1990), which allegedly had enough subplots and material for several movies.
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His comic book series Sin City is on the Dark Horse Comics label.
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Has worked for both Marvel Comics and DC Comics.
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Writes, draws, and inks all of his Sin City comics.
TV Series character: Sarah Essen - 8 episodes, 2014 - 2015 characters: Sarah Essen & Carmine "The Roman" Falcone - 6 episodes, 2014 - 2015 character: Carmine "The Roman" Falcone - 4 episodes, 2014 - 2016 characters: Sarah Essen & Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb - 1 episode, 2015 characters: Carmine "The Roman" Falcone & Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb - 1 episode, 2015 character: Sarah Essen & Carmine "The Roman" Falcone - 1 episode, 2015 character: Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb - 1 episode, 2015 chara
Batman: The Telltale Series
2016
Video Game character: Carmine "The Roman" Falcone - uncredited
Daredevil
TV Series character: Wesley as James Wesley - 6 episodes, 2015 character: Elektra Natchios - 4 episodes, 2016 character: Elliot Grote as Grotto - 3 episodes, 2016 characters: Elektra Natchios & Stick - 2 episodes, 2016 characters: Elektra Natchios & Josie - 2 episodes, 2016 character: Doris Urich - 1 episode, 2015 characters: Wesley as James Wesley & Josie - 1 episode, 2015 characters: Josie & Doris Urich - 1 episode, 2015 character: Wesley as James Wesley, Josie & Doris Urich - 1 episode, 2015
Jessica Jones
2015
TV Series character: Frank Simpson as Will Simpson - 7 episodes
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
2014
graphic novels / written by
300: Rise of an Empire
2014
graphic novel "Xerxes"
Batman: Arkham Origins
2013
Video Game characters: Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb & S.W.A.T. Lieutenant Howard Branden - uncredited
The Punisher: No Mercy
2013
Short characters
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2
2013
Video comic book
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1
2012
Video comic book
Sin City: The Hard Goodbye
2012
Short graphic novel
Batman: Year One
2011
Video characters: Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb, Detective Arnold John Flass, Carmine "The Roman" Falcone, S.W.A.T. Lieutenant Brendon, Holly Robinson & Officer Stan Merkel - uncredited / graphic novel
The Spirit
2008
screenplay
300: March to Glory
2007
Video Game graphic novel
300
2006
graphic novel
Sin City
2005
graphic novels
Elektra
2005
comic book characters
Rats: A Sin City Yarn
2004
Short graphic novel
Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot
1999
TV Series creator
The New Batman Adventures
1998
TV Series characters: 80's Batman & Carrie Kelley/80's Robin - 1 episode
RoboCop versus The Terminator
1993
Video Game comic book series
RoboCop 3
1993
screenplay / story
RoboCop 3
1992
Video Game characters - uncredited
RoboCop 2
1990
screenplay / story
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
2014
Sam (uncredited)
The Spirit
2008
Liebowitz
Sin City
2005
Priest
Daredevil
2003
Man with Pen in Head
Jugular Wine: A Vampire Odyssey
1994
Frank
RoboCop 2
1990
Frank, the Chemist (uncredited)
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
2014
executive producer
300: Rise of an Empire
2014
executive producer
300
2006
executive producer
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
2014
The Spirit
2008
Sin City
2005
Art Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
2010
Video documentary art contributor
Batman Unmasked
2008
TV Movie documentary art contributor
De Superman à Spider-Man: L'aventure des super-héros
2001
TV Movie documentary art work
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Dark Knight
2008
character: Commisioner Gillian B. Loeb - uncredited
Batman Begins
2005
characters: Carmine "The Roman" Falcone, Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb & Detective Arnold John Flass - uncredited
Daredevil
2003
character: Elektra Natchios - uncredited
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Bird of Steel!
special thanks filming
Daredevil
2015-2016
TV Series special thanks - 26 episodes
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
2016
special thanks
Jessica Jones
2015
TV Series special thanks - 8 episodes
We're Not Alone
2015
inspirational thanks
Batman Year One: A Conversation with DC Comics
2011
Video documentary short special thanks
Heart of Vengeance: Returning Batman to His Roots
2011
Video short special thanks
El defensor
2011
Short the director wishes to thank
Frankenpimp
2009
special thanks
Ten Dead Men
2008
inspiration, thanks and love to the works of
The Alchemy of Art: David Mack
2007
Video documentary special thanks
Legends of the Dark Knight: The History of Batman
2005
Video documentary short special thanks
Knight of the Living Dead
2005
Video special thanks
The Men Without Fear: Creating 'Daredevil'
2003
Video documentary special thanks
Comic Books & Superheroes
2001
Video documentary short thanks
Acción mutante
1993
thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Superhero Nation
Documentary post-production
COMIX: Beyond the Comic Book Pages
2016
Documentary
Frank Miller
Le grand journal de Canal+
2014
TV Series documentary
Himself
Made in Hollywood
2014
TV Series
Himself
Masterpiece: Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns
2013
Documentary
Himself
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
2011
Documentary
Himself
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
2010
Documentary
Himself
The Complete 300: A Comprehensive Immersion
2009
Video documentary short
Himself
The Spirit: Green World
2009
Video short
Himself
The Spirit: History Repeats
2009
Video short
Himself
Miller on Miller
2009
Video short
Himself
Cinema 3
2008
TV Series
Himself
Cartelera
2008
TV Series
Himself
Días de cine
2008
TV Series
Himself
Shootout
2008
TV Series
Himself
Comic-Con '08 Live
2008
TV Movie
Himself
Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound
2008
TV Movie documentary
Himself - Writer & Director, Will Eisner's The Spirit
Frank Miller Tapes
2007
Video documentary short
Himself
Who Were the Spartans?
2007
Video documentary short
Himself
The 300: Fact or Fiction?
2007
Video documentary short
Himself
The Making of '300'
2007
Video documentary short
Himself
HypaSpace
2006-2007
TV Series documentary
Himself
Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist
2007
Documentary
Himself
History in Focus
2007
TV Series documentary
Himself
HBO First Look
2007
TV Series documentary
Himself
300: A Storyteller's Legend
2007
Video documentary short
Himself
Preparing for Battle: The Original Test Footage
2007
Video short
Himself
The Making of 300
2007
Video documentary short
Himself
To the Hot Gates: A Legend Reborn
2007
Video documentary short
Himself
Scream Awards 2006
2006
TV Special
Himself
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
2006
Video documentary short
Himself
Gangsters: The Immigrant's Hero
2006
Video documentary short
Himself
Stool Pigeons and Pine Overcoats: The Language of Gangster Films
2006
Video documentary short
Welcome to the Big House
2006
Video documentary short
Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films
2006
Video documentary short
Himself
Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood
2006
Video documentary short
Himself
Elektra: Incarnations
2005
Video documentary
Himself
Legends of the Dark Knight: The History of Batman
2005
Video documentary short
Himself
Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight - The Road to Gotham City
2005
Video documentary short
Himself
Sin City: The Premiere
2005
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Starz on the Set: Sin City
2005
TV Short documentary
Himself
Batman Heroes: Batman
2005
Video documentary short
Himself
Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked
2003
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Sex, Lies & Superheroes
2003
Documentary
Himself
The Men Without Fear: Creating 'Daredevil'
2003
Video documentary
Himself
Top 10 Comic Book Heroes
2002
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Comic Books & Superheroes
2001
Video documentary short
Himself
The Anti Gravity Room
1997
TV Series
Himself
Comic Book Confidential
1988
Documentary
Himself
The Masters of Comic Book Art
1987
Documentary
Himself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle
2013
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself - Writer & Artist
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
2010
Video documentary
Himself
Troldspejlet
2009
TV Series
Himself
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2006
Capri Global Award
Capri, Hollywood
2005
Golden Schmoes
Golden Schmoes Awards
Best Director of the Year
Sin City (2005)
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2006
Czech Lion
Czech Lions
Best Foreign Language Film (Nejlepsí zahranicní film)
Sin City (2005)
2006
IOMA
Italian Online Movie Awards (IOMA)
Best Adapted Screenplay (Miglior sceneggiatura non originale)