Colleen Miller (actress)

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Colleen Miller (1955)

Colleen Miller (born November 10, 1932 in Yakima , Washington ) is an American actress . She gained fame through her roles in westerns .

Life

Colleen Miller was born in Yakima in 1932 and grew up in Portland, Oregon . After graduating from high school there at the age of fifteen, she began a career as a dancer with a dance troupe in Los Angeles , with which she toured across the United States. afterwards Miller worked at the Hotel and Casino Flamingo in Las Vegas . During one of her appearances, she was discovered by a talent agent and Howard Hughes was signed for his film company RKO Pictures .

Colleen Miller got her first film role in 1952 in the film noir The Las Vegas Casino on the side of Jane Russell and Victor Mature . In 1954 she played the leading female role alongside Rory Calhoun in the western The Night of Vengeance . In the following years Miller was seen in other film productions in leading roles, including mostly westerns. Among other things, she was two-time film partner of Tony Curtis in 1955 and 1956 in The Purple Mask and Seduced by the Devil . In 1963 she ended her acting career, but in 1972 she had an uncredited appearance as a nun in the comedy Every Voice Counts .

Colleen Miller was married twice. From 1955 to divorce in 1975 with Ted Briskin and from 1976 to his death with businessman Walter Ralphs. She is the mother of two children and now lives in California .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1952: The Las Vegas Story
  • 1953: Man Crazy
  • 1954: The Night of Vengeance (Four Guns to the Border)
  • 1954: Playgirl
  • 1955: The Purple Mask
  • 1956: Seduced by the Devil (The Rawhide Years)
  • 1957: The Devil's Wages (Man in the Shadow)
  • 1957: The Night Runner
  • 1957: Man in the Shadow
  • 1957: The Trail of the Gangster (Hot Summer Night)
  • 1958: Step Down to Terror
  • 1963: Gunfight at Comanche Creek
  • 1969/1970: Homicide (TV series, two episodes)
  • 1972: Stand Up and Be Counted

literature

  • Michael G. Fitzgerald, Boyd Magers: Ladies of the Western: Interviews with Fifty-One More Actresses from the Silent Era to the Television Westerns of the 1950s and 1960s . McFarland, 2006, ISBN 1476607966

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personal data
SURNAME Miller, Colleen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Yakima , Washington , United States