Chris Miller (writer)

Chris Miller

John Christian "Chris" Miller (born 1942 in Brooklyn) is an American author and screenwriter. He is best known for his work on National Lampoon magazine and for the movie Animal House.^[1] The latter was inspired by Miller's own experiences in the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity at Dartmouth College, in which he went by the name "Pinto". Miller graduated from Dartmouth in 1963.^[2]

Writing credits

• Screw (1968) (magazine)
• National Lampoon (1970) (Magazine)
• National Lampoon's Animal House (with Doug Kenney and Harold Ramis) (1978)
• National Lampoon's Animal House: The Full-Color, Illustrated Novel from the Hit Movie (1978) (novelization)
• Delta House (1979) (TV)
• Square Pegs (with Michael Sutton) (1982) (TV)
• Club Paradise (with Ed Roboto, Tom Leopold and David Standish) (story only) (1986)
• Sidekicks (with Michael Sutton) (1986) (TV)
• The New Gidget (with Michael Sutton) (1987) (TV)
• Multiplicity (with Mary Hale, Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel) (1996)
• Perversions of Science (1997) (TV)
• The Real Animal House: The Awesomely Depraved Saga of the Fraternity That Inspired the Movie (2006) (memoir)

Notes

1. Mark Leffler, "House Rules: Chris Miller takes us back to the Real Animal House", The Review, 16 November 2006.
2. Christopher Buckley, "Toga!", The New York Times, 5 November 2006.

External links

• Chris Miller at the Internet Movie Database
• Mark's Very Large National Lampoon Site: Chris Miller
• "The Real Animal House" by Chris Miller (2006)