Sidney Miller (actor)
| Sidney Miller | |
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Sid Miller (at the piano) performing with Donald O'Connor on The Colgate Comedy Hour (1952)
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| Born |
Sid L. Miller October 22, 1916 Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | January 10, 2004 (aged 87) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor, television director, writer and songwriter |
| Years active | 1931–1997 |
| Spouse(s) |
Iris Burton (1956–1967) (divorced; one son Barry Miller) Dorothy Green (1967–1984) June Rohlrlick (1994–2004) (his death; three children) |
Sidney L. Miller (October 22, 1916 – January 10, 2004) was an actor, director and songwriter.
His first (uncredited) acting role was in Penrod and Sam (1931). In 1937, he made his radio debut on the Jack Benny Program episode "Christmas Shopping". He played a man whom Benny mistakes for a department store floorwalker. The actor was also a regular performer on Cavalcade of America, Suspense and Nightbeat.
Miller had a small, but memorable role as would-be wrestling announcer Mo Kahn in MGM's Boys Town (1938), alongside Mickey Rooney. He reprised the character in the sequel, Men of Boys Town (1941).
He co-starred and co-directed, alongside his good friend Donald O'Connor, in one of the first musical sitcoms on television, Here Comes Donald. After joining Disney, he wrote for The Mickey Mouse Club (1955).
Miller directed episodes of numerous successful television programs throughout the 1950s and 1960s, including Bachelor Father, Peter Loves Mary, Get Smart, Bewitched, The Ann Sothern Show and My Mother the Car. (He had been a regular on Sothern's radio show The Adventures of Maisie.)
In 1958, he played Roscoe Dewitt, an impressionist who bothers Bob Collins in The Bob Cummings Show episode "Bob Judges a Beauty Pageant". In 1968, he played Lucille Ball character Helen North's date Doctor Ashford, who was shorter than North's three children. In 1974, he briefly appeared as a drunk driver in the Michael Sarrazin and Barbra Streisand comedy For Pete's Sake.
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