Biography
Sidney L. Miller (born Sid Miller; October 22, 1916 – January 10, 2004) was an American actor, director and songwriter. Sid Miller was born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. His first acting role was in his early teens in Penrod and Sam (1931), albeit uncredited. Within his first year of screen appearances he became established as a scene-stealing juvenile, usually affecting a Jewish dialect for comic effect. Among his earliest credits are Three on a Match and Penguin Pool Murder (both 1932). He also appeared in three of Educational Pictures' "Frolics of Youth" comedy shorts, which featured the up-and-coming Shirley Temple.
Sidney Miller became close friends with Mickey Rooney. Miller had a small, but memorable role, as would-be wrestling announcer Mo Kahn in Rooney's Boys Town (1938), and reprised the character in the sequel, Men of Boys Town (1941). Rooney soon gave Miller roles in his teenage musicals. (Sid is Mickey's orchestra leader in Babes in Arms (1939).)
In 1941 Miller became the second lead in Columbia's collegiate comedy series The Glove Slingers, and he remained with the short-subject series until it lapsed in 1943. Miller was also a member of Universal's teenage stock company. While at Universal he befriended Donald O'Connor and contributed to O'Connor's musicals, both as songwriter and performer. Miller played comic sidekicks in Monogram's budget musical and comedy features. His only solo featured spot of the 1940s is as a specialty act in Universal's Babes on Swing Street (1945), in which nightclub emcee Miller does celebrity impersonations of Walter Winchell, Edward G. Robinson, and even Katharine Hepburn. When the Hollywood studios curtailed low-budget production after World War II, Miller concentrated on radio and the new medium of television.
Filmography
all 113
Movies 90
TV Shows 23
Director 16
Voice 3
self 1
Walt Disney Treasures - The Mickey Mouse Club (2004)
A Christmas Carol (1997)
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989)
Star 80 (1983)
Dungeons & Dragons (1983)
Monchichis (1983)
The Gary Coleman Show (1982)
Lucy Moves to NBC (1980)
The World's Greatest Lover (1977)
Barney Miller (1975)
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus (1974)
For Pete's Sake (1974)
Lost in Space (1973)
Speed Buggy (1973)
Sigmund and the Sea Monsters (1973)
Hawkins (1973)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
Which Way to the Front? (1970)
Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969)
Adam-12 (1968)
Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)
Tammy and the Millionaire (1967)
The Monkees (1966)
That Girl (1966)
Get Smart (1965)
Honey West (1965)
My Mother the Car (1965)
Get Yourself a College Girl (1964)
The Addams Family (1964)
Bewitched (1964)
My Favorite Martian (1963)
The Lucy Show (1962)
Peter Loves Mary (1960)
The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock (1959)
The Ann Sothern Show (1958)
The Real McCoys (1957)
Bachelor Father (1957)
The Donald O'Connor Show (1954)
Walking My Baby Back Home (1953)
The Sniper (1952)
The Lucky Stiff (1949)
Are You With It? (1948)
The Judge Steps Out (1947)
On Stage Everybody (1945)
Patrick the Great (1945)
The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)
There Goes Kelly (1945)
She Gets Her Man (1945)
Babes on Swing Street (1944)
Hot Rhythm (1944)
Moonlight in Vermont (1943)
Here Comes Kelly (1943)
Top Man (1943)
Hi Diddle Diddle (1943)
For God and Country (1943)
His Girl's Worst Friend (1943)
Socks Appeal (1943)
The Great Glover (1942)
Madame Spy (1942)
College Belles (1942)
Get Hep to Love (1942)
Private Buckaroo (1942)
A Study in Socks (1942)
Alias Boston Blackie (1942)
Mr. Wise Guy (1942)
Glove Birds (1942)
Babes on Broadway (1941)
The Kink of the Campus (1941)
Mitt Me Tonight (1941)
Henry Aldrich for President (1941)
Men of Boys Town (1941)
Little Nellie Kelly (1940)
Strike Up the Band (1940)
City for Conquest (1940)
Golden Gloves (1940)
20,000 Men a Year (1939)
Babes in Arms (1939)
What a Life (1939)
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939)
Streets of New York (1939)
Panama Patrol (1939)
Scouts to the Rescue (1939)
Cipher Bureau (1938)
Boys Town (1938)
Billy Rose's Casa Mañana Revue (1938)
The Big Shot (1937)
Cain and Mabel (1936)
Women Are Trouble (1936)
One Rainy Afternoon (1936)
The Little Red Schoolhouse (1936)
Knockout Drops (1935)
The Girl Who Came Back (1935)
Dinky (1935)
The Bands Plays On (1934)
Our Daily Bread (1934)
Desirable (1934)
Managed Money (1934)
Hi, Nellie! (1934)
The Big Shakedown (1934)
What's to Do? (1933)
Git Along Little Wifie (1933)
Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
Merrily Yours (1933)
Rafter Romance (1933)
Dora's Dunking Doughnuts (1933)
This Day and Age (1933)
Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933)
The Mayor of Hell (1933)
Jennie Gerhardt (1933)
Penguin Pool Murder (1932)
Three on a Match (1932)
Penrod and Sam (1931)
Mickey's Whirlwinds (1930)
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GenderMale
Birthday1916-10-22
Deathday2004-01-10 (87 years old)
Birth PlaceShenandoah, United States of America
RelationshipsIris Burton (1956-01-01 - 1967-01-01)
ChildrenBarry Miller
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsSid Miller, Sidney L. Miller
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