The veteran celebrity agent Harry M. Miller died at age 84

Harry M. Miller, former director of celebrities, died at the age of 84.

The director, promoter, and kiwi publicist represented a colorful and often controversial collection of public figures throughout his career, including Lindy Chamberlain and Judy Moran. 19659002] Harry Maurice Miller was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on January 6, 1934, the only child of Jewish parents, Sadie and Jim Miller.

When Miller was 2 years old his father, who was working as a withdrawal agent, broke his spine in a fall. He died six years later.

"The Jewish community took me to a Jewish orphanage in Wellington … called Dextons," Miller recalls later.

First signature – four Maori singers known as Howard Morrison Quartet –

Miller's first big name was American jazz musician Louis Armstrong. Miller went to the United States to approach the director of Armstrong, Joe Glaser. When Miller asked, "Did you have dollars, kid?", Miller says no.

Miller recalls, "He thought it was so funny, that this kid was trying to buy Louis Armstrong, that he thought I should"

Armstrong performed in 1963 – the same year that Miller moved to Australia, founding Pan Pacific Productions Pty Ltd with Keith and Dennis Wong, owners of Sydney Checkers Nightclub

. Varied: He brought some of the world's greatest artists to Australia in the 1960s, including the Rolling Stones and Beach Boys.

Miller released Judy Garland for three concerts in 1964. Garland, a drug addict, held up at Sydney Stadium's shows, but the concert at Melbourne's Festival Hall was a mess.

Miller was standing near the back, "anger and copping abuses as the public filed"

He is also credited with discovering a 16-year-old Marcia Hines in Boston, l '[[[takingtoAustraliatoplayinhishairproduction

In 1992, Miller produced the Australian national production of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar, which was a hit with all actors, including John Farnham, Kate Ceberano and Jon Stevens.

He retired in 2009 and revealed in 2011 that he had been diagnosed with dementia.

His agency, which stars such stars as Osher Gunsberg, TV host and horse trainer Gai Waterhouse, says that the visionary agent and theatrical producer died peacefully. "At his side, there was his long-time partner Simmone Logue, his daughters Justine, Brook and Lauren and their mother Wendy," said his boss HMMG Thursday in a statement.

Simmone Logue and her five children – sons Simon and Miles and their daughters Brook, Lauren and Justine.

Tributes begin to flow this morning:

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