Marvin Miller (actor)

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Marvin Miller, whose real name is Marvin Mueller (July 18, 1913 - February 8, 1985) was a movie and voice-over actor. Blessed with a deep, baritone voice, he began his career in radio in St. Louis, Missouri before becoming a Hollywood actor.

He is probably best remembered for two of his roles, as Michael Anthony, the man who passed out a weekly check on the TV series The Millionaire and as the voice of Robby the Robot in the film Forbidden Planet. He also won Grammy Awards in 1965 and 1966 for his recordings of Dr. Seuss stories: in 1967 for Dr Seuss Presents – If I Ran the Zoo and Sleep Book and 1966 for Dr Seuss Presents Fox in Sox and Green Eggs and Ham.

1 Radio
2 Films
3 Television
4 External links

[edit] Radio

In the early 1950s, he narrated a daily 15-minute radio show for Mutual Radio, The Story Behind the Story, which offered historical vignettes. It can be said to be a forerunner to Paul Harvey's segment, The Rest of the Story. He also served as announcer on several OTR shows of the 1940's and 50's, including The Whistler.

[edit] Films

In films, the heavyset Miller was often cast as a villain, many times playing Asian roles. He is perhaps best remembered by movie buffs as the sadistic henchman in the 1947 Humphrey Bogart film Dead Reckoning, and as Yamada in the 1945 James Cagney effort Blood on the Sun. In Deadline at Dawn he plays Sleepy Parsons, a blind pianist.

[edit] Television

Miller also voiced the famous AT&T instructional film Hemo the Magnificent (as "Hemo"), part of a series generally featuring real-life scientist Dr. Frank C. Baxter and directed by film legend Frank Capra, which was shown on American network television in 1957.

Miller crossed paths with other prolific voice-over artists many times in his career including June Foray, playing "Deer" in Hemo the Magnificent and "Rocky" in the famous TV series Rocky and Bullwinkle along with Paul Frees, who voiced "Boris Badenov" in Rocky and Bullwinkle.

On The Millionaire, it was Paul Frees voicing the always-seen-from-behind and seemingly fixated John Beresford Tipton to Miller's Michael Anthony; both artists having sufficient range to play age-comparable roles or even father and son. The storyline indicated the well-traveled Michael Anthony was much younger than the reclusive, perhaps paralyzed, John Beresford Tipton.