Up for auction "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" Mark Miller Hand Signed 3X5 Picture Card.
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Mark
Miller (born Claude
Herbert Miller, November 20, 1924) is an American stage and television
actor and writer who starred in over 30 plays and made more than forty
appearances in television programs and films since 1953. He is best known for
his roles as Bill Hooten in Guestward, Ho!, Jim Nash in Please Don't
Eat the Daisies TV series and Alvie in the movie he wrote
and produced, Savannah Smiles. Miller
was born in Houston, Texas. He graduated from New York's American Academy of
Dramatic Arts in 1952. After graduation he was immediately cast
in the revival of Philadelphia Story in Newport, RI, at the Casino Playhouse
and began a long-lasting career acting on stage and in television. He
co-starred with Joanne Dru, J. Carrol Naish, and Flip Mark in the 1960-1961 ABC sitcom, Guestward, Ho!, the story of a New York City family named
"Hooten" who relocates to New Mexico to operate a dude ranch. Miller guest starred
in numerous series, including NBC's western, The Tall Man,
with Barry Sullivan and Clu Gulager. He also had a role in the film Youngblood Hawke (1964),
and appeared on Jack Lord's ABC rodeo adventure
series, Stoney Burke. In 1965
to 1966, he portrayed college professor Jim Nash, the leading role
opposite Patricia Crowley, on the
NBC-MGM television sitcom, Please Don't
Eat the Daisies, loosely based on the theatrical
film starring Doris Day and David Niven. He played various roles in numerous other
television shows, such as Gunsmoke, The Millionaire, Marcus Welby, M.D., The Andy Griffith Show, General Hospital and I Dream Of Jeannie. He
also appeared in a 1963 episode of The Twilight Zone entitled
"I Dream of Genie". From
1969 to 1970, Miller played the role of sidekick Ross Craig in NBC's The Name of the Game and
starred in a 1962 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents called
"Apex" in which he plays a philandering husband intent on killing his
wife but is constitutionally unable to carry out the crime. In 1973, he
appeared in the episode "Death by Prescription" of Lorne Greene's ABC crime drama Griff. The following year he wrote, produced and appeared
in the film Ginger in the Morning starring Sissy Spacek. He also portrayed characters in the films Mr.
Sycamore (1975) and Dixie Dynamite (1976). Miller wrote the story
and screenplay, and starred in the 1982 movie Savannah Smiles. He also starred alongside Slim Pickens in the 1981 movie Christmas Mountain. In
December 1959 Miller married costume designer and publicist Beatrice Hudson Ammidown. The couple had three
daughters together: Marisa Miller, Peneope Ann and
Savannah Miller. The two older girls both became actors. The curly blonde hair
of youngest daughter Savannah gave Miller the initial idea for the movie Savannah Smiles, and ended up having a small role in it as
well. The couple divorced in 1975. Miller remarried in 1976, to actress Barbara
Stanger. The two co-wrote the screenplay for the 1995 film, A Walk in the Clouds,
starring Keanu Reeves and
directed by Alfonso Arau. The couple
divorced in 1998. iller has 6
grandchildren, Amelia Miller Eberline, Eloisa May Huggins, Gretta Miller
Eberline, Sophie Miller Eberline, Maria Adela Huggins, and Celeste Ariella
Berzer. Miller retired from Hollywood in the late 1990s and moved to Taos, New
Mexico with his then wife Barbara Stanger. In 2010, he wrote the play, Amorous
Crossings, that starred Loretta Swit and premiered at the Alhambra Theater in
Jacksonville, Florida. The play ran for four weeks to sold-out audiences. In
2014, he moved back to Los Angeles where he formed the production company Gypsy
Moon Entertainment, and he continues to write and sell screenplays.