Jason Miller (April 22, 1939 – May 13, 2001) is a New York-based playwright and actor best known for his role in the classic 1973 horror film The Exorcist. He is also the father of actor Jason Patric.

Though his most recognized achievement is his performance as Father Damien Karras, the troubled priest first called upon to treat Regan, the young girl possessed by an ancient Sumerian demon in The Exorcist (a role for which he received an Academy Award-nomination), Jason Miller's career primarily revolved around the stage. His play That Championship Season was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1973. Miller also devoted considerable time to regional theater, and founded the Scranton Summer Theater Festival in Scranton, PA, where he was raised. In 2003, at the age of 62, Jason Miller died of heart failure in Farley's Restaurant in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He had been rehearsing a revival of The Odd Couple for the Public Theatre of Pennsylvania in which he was to play the role of Oscar. His first wife, Linda, is the daughter of screen legend Jackie Gleason, and their son, Jason Patric (full name: Jason Patric Miller, Jr.), is also a film actor best known for his roles in the films Rush and The Lost Boys and for his brief fling with superstar actress Julia Roberts. Another son, Joshua Miller, is a former child actor now writing novels and screenplays.

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