[1] Born in Cuckfield, Sussex,[1] McMillan passed all his examinations for the Royal Academy of Dance, and at 13 received a scholarship to Sadler's Wells.

Other principal dancers in the Ballet at this time were Rudolph Nureyev, Sir Robert Helpmann, Alexander Grant OBE, Michael Somes, David Blair, Maura Sheera, Nadia Nareda, Beryl Grey.

[citation needed] McMillan changed his name to Keith Milland to avoid confusion with Kenneth MacMillan—who was at that time a choreographer with the Royal Ballet.

McMillan spent two years in the Royal Army Medical Corps at Tidworth—and later at Didcot, where he ran an MRS for soldiers injured in the Korean War.

[citation needed] During this time he was sent to Europe and the US to photograph many famous people—including Tom Jones, Sir Keith Richards, Roy Orbison, Mick Jagger, John Lennon,[6] Yoko Ono, Henry Moore, and Man Ray.

McMillan joined Haymarket Publications in 1972 under Michael Heseltine, who had started an advertising industry magazine called Campaign.

[citation needed] He loved art deco, and the modern painting made famous by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Bauhaus design.

This time, he called the exhibition Aberration, and showed mainly new works that included a series on Ronny McDonald, a subject close to his heart.

[citation needed] Cairns residents viewed his work at Northern Interiors and Fusions on Grafton St. Deanne Derrington commissioned him to paint a large piece for the "Tree Tops Resort" at Port Douglas, for a reception.

An exhibition of his work called Incandescent took place at The Cell art space on Grafton Street, the Ergon building, from 19 October 2005 for four weeks.

He was diagnosed with cancer in January 2010 and died in March 2012, after which his widow Janece McMillan sold his art privately and following an exhibition at Artworld Gallery Cairns.