Worthington Miner
Worthington Miner (November 13, 1900 – December 11, 1982) was an American film producer, screenwriter, actor and director. He was married to Frances Fuller, father of producer/director Peter Miner and the grandfather of actress Rachel Miner.
Worthington Miner is not a name always mentioned in the histories written about the earliest days of network television in America; this is no minor historical oversight, for Miner was one of the true pioneers of television and was recognized at the time as a seminal creative and technical force in the first 'Golden Age' of TV.
A number of directors and writers of note worked with Mr. Miner, including Rod Serling, Paddy Chayefsky, Franklin J. Schaffner, Sidney Lumet and George Roy Hill.
Prior to his work in television, Mr. Miner - known as 'Tony' - directed more than 30 plays in about 10 years, starting with Up Pops the Devil in 1929 and including Reunion in Vienna, starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne; Both Your Houses, a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Maxwell Anderson; On Your Toes, the Ray Bolger musical; Jane Eyre, which starred Katharine Hepburn, and For Love or Money, in which Mr. Miner also acted.