By Jenny Tabakoff in The West Australian…

Veteran celebrity manager and “visionary” entrepreneur Harry M. Miller [pictured above] has died in Sydney at the age of 84.

The Kiwi manager, promoter and publicist represented a colourful and often controversial collection of public figures throughout his career, including Lindy Chamberlain and Judy Moran.

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 two years old his father, who worked as an indent agent, broke his spine in a fall. He died six years later.

“The Jewish community bundled me off to a Jewish orphanage in Wellington… called Dextons,” Miller later recalled.

Miller’s first taste of showbiz was running a “peepshow” for fellow students – a shoebox with cellophane windows through which he would wind a comic strip: “I used to charge kids a marble.”

After school Miller worked as a dairy hand, on a trans-Tasman passenger ship, as a salesman for knitwear and frypans, and in a restaurant.

He began organising entertainment – a sideline that led him to found a record company. His first signing – four Maori singers known as the Howard Morrison Quartet – enjoyed local success…

Read Harry M.Miller’s full obituary on The West Australian here.