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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).



Full Name Frank Miller
Net Worth $45 Million
Date Of Birth January 27, 1957
Place Of Birth Olney, Maryland, United States
Height 1.86 m
Profession Comic book writer
Nationality American
Spouse Lynn Varley (m. ?–2005)
Children Landon Miller
Twitter http://www.twitter.com/frankmillerink
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0588340/
Nominations 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
Trademark
1 Comics often represent His conservative Political views
2 Noir style heavily inspired by Will Eisner
3 Unique artwork style which heavily focuses on facial tics
4 His heroes are often extremely moral individuals surviving in a cruel environment
5 Fedora Hat
6 Often features characters who are ‘killed’, disfigured or mortally wounded, only to be surgically rebuilt stronger and deadlier than before, eg. Robocop, Dwight, Batman.
7 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.
8 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.
Quote
1 [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”.
2 [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.
3 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.
4 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.
5 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.
6 I figured Daredevil must be Catholic because only a Catholic could be both an attorney and a vigilante.
Fact
1 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]
2 Irish-American.
3 Created the comic book character “Elektra” who has gone on to appear in the movies Daredevil (2003) and Elektra (2005), played by Jennifer Garner.
4 Was approached by New Line Cinema in 1988 to write and direct A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010). He declined due to prior commitments.
5 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.
6 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.
7 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.
8 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.”
9 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.
10 His comic book series Sin City is on the Dark Horse Comics label.
11 Has worked for both Marvel Comics and DC Comics.
12 Writes, draws, and inks all of his Sin City comics.

Writer

Title Year Status Character
Gotham 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) Sin City (2005)
2005 Palme d’Or Cannes Film Festival Sin City (2005)
2005 SLFCA Award St. Louis Film Critics Association, US Best Director Sin City (2005)

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