Denny Scott Miller (born April 25, 1934, in Bloomington, Indiana) is an American actor, perhaps best known for his guest-starring roles on Gilligan's Island and as Tarzan in the late 1950s.
Miller was a basketball star at UCLA, where his father was a physical education instructor. In his senior year, while working as a furniture mover to pay for school, he was discovered on Sunset Boulevard by a Hollywood agent who signed him with MGM. He became ...
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Denny Scott Miller (born April 25, 1934, in Bloomington, Indiana) is an American actor, perhaps best known for his guest-starring roles on Gilligan's Island and as Tarzan in the late 1950s.
Miller was a basketball star at UCLA, where his father was a physical education instructor. In his senior year, while working as a furniture mover to pay for school, he was discovered on Sunset Boulevard by a Hollywood agent who signed him with MGM. He became the first blond Tarzan in Tarzan, the Ape Man (1959), a cheapie/quickie which lifted most of its footage from earlier Johnny Weissmuller movies. MGM had him under contract for 20 months; in that time, he worked eight weeks as Tarzan. After that, he did guest spots on a number of television series, such as Northwest Passage, a 1958-1959 adventure program on NBC co-starring Keith Larsen and Buddy Ebsen and on NBC's western series, Overland Trail, starring William Bendix and Doug McClure, and Laramie, co-starring John Smith and Robert Fuller....
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