Biography
John Frederick Milius is an American filmmaker. He was one of the writers for the first two Dirty Harry films, received an Academy Award nomination as screenwriter of Apocalypse Now, and wrote and directed The Wind and the Lion, Conan the Barbarian and Red Dawn. He wrote a number of iconic film lines such as "Charlie don't surf" and "I love the smell of napalm in the morning," from Apocalypse Now…
Known For
Conan the Barbarian
1982
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991
Milius
2013
Crazy Mama
1975
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003
A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry
2008
The Business End: Violence in Cinema
2008
Riding Giants
2004
Deadhead Miles
1972
The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry
2008
Filmography
A Riddle of Steel: The Definitive History of Conan the Barbarian
2019
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
2019
Made in Hollywood: Die Welt des Raoul Walsh
2017
Milius
2013
Jaws: The Inside Story
2010
Hollywood Gangster
2008
A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry
2008
The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry
2008
Between the Lines: The True Story of Surfers and the Vietnam War
2008
The Business End: Violence in Cinema
2008
The Evolution of Clint Eastwood
2008
The Craft of Dirty Harry
2008
The Searchers: An Appreciation
2006
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004
Riding Giants
2004
An Opera of Violence
2003
The Wages of Sin
2003
Something to Do with Death
2003
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
2003
Frazetta: Painting with Fire
2003
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003
Iron and Beyond
2002
Dirty Harry: The Original
2001
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
2001
The Bridge on the River Kwai: An Appreciation by Filmmaker John Milius
2000
Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'
2000
Hell Hath No Fury: The Making of The Outlaw Josey Wales
1999
A Turning of the Earth: John Ford, John Wayne and 'The Searchers'
1998
In the Teeth of Jaws
1997
The Making of '1941'
1996
Shotgun Freeway: Drives Through Lost L.A.
1995
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991
First Works
1989
Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away
1986
Conan the Barbarian
1982
Crazy Mama
1975
The Lion Roars Again
1975
Deadhead Miles
1972
The Emperor
1967