In 1963a busy and high-status year for Miller he featured in Ken Annakin's comedy "The Fast Lady". He portrayed Dr. Schroeder in "Incident at Midnight"; and reprised this character in the television series "The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre". Next was a role as Hugo Bergmann in the Nicholas Ray-directed historical epic "55 Days at Peking" opposite Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, and David Niven. The film is a dramatization of the Battle of Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion and received two Academy Award nominations for Dimitri Tiomkin (Best Song and Original Music Score). The same year, Miller appeared as Dr. Schwutzbacher in Anthony Asquith's "The V.I.P.s" as Dr. Schwatzbacher opposite Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Louis Jourdan, Orson Welles and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress winner Margaret Rutherford. The film was one of the biggest British MGM productions in years. The team of director Asquith, producer Anatole de Grunwald and writer Rattigan produced another portmanteau film the following year entitled "The Yellow Rolls-Royce", in which Miller played a minor role as a head waiter. Also in 1963, he played the photographer Pierre Luigi in Blake Edwards's "The Pink Panther" opposite Niven, Peter Sellers and Robert Wagner