Mary Miller (actress)
| Mary Miller | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Mary Elizabeth Miller 27 December 1933 Norfolk, England, UK |
| Years active | 1959–2005 |
| Spouse(s) | Bill Simpson (1965–1969) |
Mary Elizabeth Miller (born 27 December 1933) is an English television and stage actress, who was a founding member of the National Theatre Company in 1963.
Mary Miller first appeared on television in 1959 as Alice Chandler in episode one of the 6-part series The Golden Spur, with Ronald Fraser and Oliver Reed. In the same year, she took the role of Ann Elsden in "The Talking Doll", the first instalment of the UK TV police drama, No Hiding Place.
In 1961, the playwright and novelist Peter Wildeblood was commissioned by Granada Television to produce an 11-part series featuring "up-and-coming acting talent, in plays by young authors, each actor or actress taking the lead role in turn". It was called The Younger Generation, and Miller appeared in eight of the plays.
In 1963, Miller became one of the 77 performers to be founding members of the National Theatre Company in its inaugural season under artistic director Sir Laurence Olivier.
The Protectors was a British television series, made by ABC (and not to be confused with the later British series from the 1970s, which began a run of 14 episodes in March 1964. It starred Andrew Faulds and Michael Atkinson as an ex-insurance investigator and ex-policeman who start up their own security firm to tackle crime. Miller appeared in May during the eighth instalment called "Freedom!", as Tamara.
When the BBC made a series, The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling, set in the days of the British Raj and based partly on his book which had originally been "[a] set of Indian tales that first appeared in Macmillan's Magazine", Miller portrayed Mrs. Denville in episode 23, "A Second-Rate Woman", in 1964. She then played a comedy role in the BBC's The Dick Emery Show on 4 December 1964.
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