- Born
- Died
- Nickname
- Kenny Miller
- Height1.75 m
- An Ohioan by birth, son of a minister, Ken Miller broke quietly into showbiz behind the backs of his parents, then relocated to California after the death of his father. The familiar array of odd jobs preceded his motion picture debut (1952's L'intrépide (1952)) and a stint with Uncle Sam in Berlin (where he took time off to play a recurring role in the low-cost Flash Gordon (1954) TV series). Returning to Tinseltown, he palled around with contemporaries like Connie Stevens, Troy Donahue, Annette Funicello, Burt Reynolds and others. While he never neared their level of success, he nevertheless kept busy cutting his own records and acting on the large and small screen. In later years Miller resided in Florida until his death.- IMDb mini biography by: Tom Weaver <TomWeavr@aol.com>
- SpouseMolly Bee(July 17, 1969 - November 9, 1969) (divorced)
- Semi-retired in Florida, he appeared at autograph and sci-fi/horror conventions on occasion.
- Enlisted in the US Army during the filming of his first movie, L'intrépide (1952). He was stationed in Germany and worked as an entertainment NCO while setting up celebrity-styled shows for the USO. While there, he also played in several episodes of the syndicated series Flash Gordon (1954) with a nearly all-German crew.
- To the chagrin of his fundamentalist minister father, he hitchhiked to Hollywood at age 15 to try his luck. He became ill and had to return home, but moved back to Los Angeles after his father's death a few years later.
- Was originally set to appear in La Fureur de vivre (1955) as one of the gang members, but was out of the picture after the cast was scaled back. He does, though, appear in a wardrobe test that is included as an extra on the film's Blu-ray release.
- Although they barely got to know each other during the shooting of La révolte des poupées (1958), he and Laurie Mitchell became close friends many years later when author Mike Barnum reunited them around 2006. The two co-stars remained close until Kenny's death.
- My father never understood my desire to be an entertainer. The church was his whole life, and he expected all of his children to follow in his footsteps. On his deathbed, he told me I'd never amount to anything. I like to think I proved him wrong.
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