Sidney Miller
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American performer Sidney Miller started out as a child actor in such films as Penrod and Sam (1930), The Penguin Pool Murder (1932) and The Mayor of Hell (1933). Miller's pronounced ethnic features precluded stardom in a Hollywood that celebrated blonde, blue-eyed children, but he brought a welcome touch of urbanity to his supporting and minor roles. In 1938, Miller attained one of his better roles as Mo Kahn in Boys Town, in which he acted with his longtime friend Mickey Rooney. Again featured with Rooney in Babes in Arms, an unbilled Miller was allowed to play the piano in accompaniment to Rooney's makeshift stage show and even got to do a couple of celebrity imitations. In the '40s, Miller specialized in portraying nerdish college freshmen (notably in Columbia's Glove Slingers two-reelers) and streetwise intellectuals (as in The East Side Kids' Mr. Wise Guy). He also toured USO bases and hospitals in a pantomime-boxing sketch with fellow child performer Frank Coghlan Jr. With the advent of television, Miller gained a measure of fame as Donald O'Connor's accompanist/cohort in several of O'Connor's TV series and in his subsequent nightclub act. Miller gave up performing briefly in the mid '50s when he assumed the directing chores on the daily TV series Mickey Mouse Club; perhaps due to his own experiences as a child actor, Miller saw to it that the kids were treated professionally but with dignity, and also insisted that stage mothers be banned from the set. Later on in the '60s, Miller directed four grown-up adolescents on several episodes of the music/comedy tver The Monkees. Sidney Miller made an acting comeback in the early '70s with such films as Which Way to the Front? (as Hitler!) and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972); Miller was also on hand as director for the syndicated New Mickey Mouse Club in 1977. Sidney Miller was married to Dorothy Green; their son is actor Barry Miller.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | InDemand |
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— | 2014 |
No Score Yet | Mickey Mouse Club - The Best Of Britney, Justin, And Christina |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Memories of Me |
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— | 1988 |
86% | Star 80 |
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— | 1983 |
15% | The World's Greatest Lover |
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— | 1977 |
56% | For Pete's Sake |
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— | 1974 |
88% | Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | Which Way to the Front? |
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— | 1970 |
No Score Yet | Get Yourself A College Girl |
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— | 1964 |
100% | Experiment in Terror |
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— | 1962 |
No Score Yet | The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock |
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— | 1959 |
88% | The Sniper |
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— | 1952 |
No Score Yet | There Goes Kelly |
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— | 1945 |
No Score Yet | Babes on Swing Street |
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— | 1944 |
No Score Yet | Hot Rhythm |
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— | 1944 |
100% | Girl Crazy |
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— | 1943 |
No Score Yet | Get Hep to Love |
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— | 1942 |
No Score Yet | Alias Boston Blackie |
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— | 1942 |
No Score Yet | Mr. Wise Guy |
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— | 1942 |
40% | Men of Boys Town |
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— | 1941 |
No Score Yet | Life Begins for Andy Hardy |
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— | 1941 |
80% | City for Conquest |
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— | 1940 |
No Score Yet | Strike Up the Band |
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— | 1940 |
No Score Yet | Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever |
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— | 1939 |
No Score Yet | Streets of New York |
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— | 1939 |
90% | Boys Town |
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— | 1938 |
No Score Yet | Piccadilly Jim |
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— | 1936 |
No Score Yet | The Little Red Schoolhouse |
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— | 1936 |
No Score Yet | One Hour Late |
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— | 1934 |
No Score Yet | Hi, Nellie! |
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— | 1934 |
No Score Yet | The Big Shakedown |
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— | 1934 |
No Score Yet | Merrily Yours |
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— | 1933 |
No Score Yet | Rafter Romance |
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— | 1933 |
No Score Yet | The Mayor of Hell |
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— | 1933 |
No Score Yet | Penguin Pool Murder |
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— | 1932 |
No Score Yet | Three on a Match |
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— | 1932 |
TV
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The New Addams Family
1998-1999
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Barney Miller
1975-1982
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Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969-1976
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Ironside
1967-1975
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The Monkees
1966-1968
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No Score Yet |
Get Smart
1965-1970
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Bewitched
1964-1972
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100% |
The Addams Family
1964-1966
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No Score Yet |
My Favorite Martian
1963-1966
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Dungeons & Dragons
1985
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