Mark Miller
Mark Miller
Best remembered as Jim Nash in NBC's Please Don't Eat the Daisies and as Bill Hooten in ABC's Guestward, Ho!, he also had a career as a film actor and screenwriter, starring in and penning the 1982 comedy film Savannah Smiles.
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth20 November 1925
CityHouston, TX
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