Denny Miller

Birth : 1934-04-25, Bloomington, Indiana, USA

Death : 2014-09-09

History

Born in Bloomington, Indiana, on April 25, 1934, Denny Miller's family eventually settled in Los Angeles. As a 6'4" college student, Miller found success as the star player of UCLA's basketball team and earned a degree in physical education from the university. Following a stint in the Army, by chance Miller was discovered by a talent agent in 1958 while working a summer job and signed a multi-year contract with MGM. Miller's first starring film role was Tarzan, the Ape Man, released by MGM in 1959. Although Miller's film career never achieved great momentum, he did lots of television, including guest appearances on Gilligan's Island, The Brady Bunch, Wonder Woman, and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, to name a few. Until 2005, Miller was seen on Gorton's commercials as the Gorton's fisherman. After a lengthy battle with ALS, Denny Miller passed away on September 9, 2014, at age 80.

Profile

Movies

In Search of Tarzan with Jonathan Ross

Himself

A look at Tarzan on the big and small screen with interviews with some of those who have played him.

Investigating Tarzan

Himself

A look at the history and cultural impact of Tarzan.

More Than Murder

Tallahassee

Private eye Mike Hammer tries to clear his friend, Captain Chambers, who has been framed for cocaine possession.

Shooting Stars

Two television actors who play detectives are fired when the show's star gets upset that they are getting the better parts to play. So, they decide to try it for real.

Caboblanco

Horst

Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea explorer is passed off as accidental death by the corrupt local police, Giff becomes suspicious. The police chief also intimidates a new arrival Marie, and Giff intervenes to help her. Giff suspects Beckdorff, a Nazi refugee living in the area. Beckdorff, it emerges, is seeking to uncover sunken treasure.

The Norseman

Rauric

An 11th-century Viking prince sails to America to find his father, who on a previous voyage had been captured by Indians.

Dr. Scorpion

The Dane

A retired spy is reluctantly lured back into action to take down a mad scientist living on a tropical island.

Danger in Paradise

A young man has to battle his greedy stepmother for control of his father's huge estate.

Nick and Nora

Garrity

Retired detective Nick Charles and his wife set out to solve a murder mystery after a corpse wearing white gloves is found in a hotel pool.

The Island at the Top of the World

Town Guard

A Victorian gentleman hopes to find his long-lost son, who vanished whilst searching for a mysterious Viking community in a volcanic valley somewhere in uncharted Arctic regions. The gentleman puts together an expedition team to go on the search, but when they reach their destination they must escape from some Viking descendants who will kill to keep their existence a secret.

The Gravy Train

Rex

Two rural West Virginia brothers leave home, rob an armored car and become fugitives.

Buck and the Preacher

Floyd

A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.

Doomsday Machine

Col. Don Price

Spies discover that the Red Chinese have built a "doomsday machine" capable of destroying the surface of the Earth, and that they plan to use it within a matter of days. Meanwhile, Project Astra, a manned U.S. space mission to Venus, is in its final hours before launch when it is taken over by the military and nearly half of its all-male crew is replaced by women. The reason for this becomes apparent when, shortly after Astra leaves orbit, the Earth is completely destroyed in a global cataclysm! Is the human race doomed? What dangers and wonders await the crew of the Astra on their journey to Venus?

Making It

Skeeter

In this coming of age comedy, a cocky high school student thinks nothing of using the people around him to satisfy his self-centered needs, until someone in his life gets pregnant.

The Party

'Wyoming Bill' Kelso

Hrundi V. Bakshi, an accident-prone actor from India, is accidentally put on the guest list for an upcoming party at the home of a Hollywood film producer. Unfortunately, from the moment he arrives, one thing after another goes wrong with compounding effect.

Fury River

Cooper

Rogers Rangers fight the French & Indians in Canada while searching for a waterway which will lead to this ocean.

Tarzan, The Ape Man

Tarzan

An English colonel's daughter meets the lord of the jungle who makes her his mate.

Some Came Running

Dewey Cole (uncredited)

Hard-drinking novelist Dave Hirsh returns home after being gone for years. His brother wants Dave to settle down and introduces him to English teacher Gwen French. Moody Dave resents his brother and spends his days hanging out with Bama Dillert, a professional gambler who parties late into the night. Torn between the admiring Gwen and Ginny Moorehead, an easy woman who loves him, Dave grows increasingly angry.