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Denny Miller (b. April 25, 1934 in Los Angeles, California) is an U.S. actor, perhaps best known for his guest-starring roles on Gilligan's Island and as Tarzan in the late 1950s. Miller was a basketball star at UCLA, where his father was a physical education instructor. In his senior year, while working as a furniture mover to pay for school, he was discovered on Sunset Boulevard by a Hollywood agent who signed him with MGM. He became the first blond Tarzan in Tarzan, the Ape Man (1959), a cheapie/quickie which lifted most of its footage from earlier Johnny Weissmuller movies. MGM had him under contract for 20 months; in that time, he worked 8 weeks as Tarzan. After that, he did guest spots on a number of TV series, finally becoming a regular on "Wagon Train" from 1961 to 1964 as character “Duke Shannon”. In 1965-6, he starred with Juliet Prowse in Mona McCluskey (1965). Miller guest-starred on Gilligan's Island in 1964 as “Duke Williams” in episode “Big Man on Little Stick”, and in 1967 as “Tongo the Ape Man” in episode “Our Vines Have Tender Apes.” He would also guest-star on another Sherwood Schwartz production, The Brady Bunch, in 1973 as Carol Brady's egomaniacal high-school boyfriend "Tank Gates" in the episode "Quarterback Sneak". He appeared as a clone on original Battlestar Galactica series episode "Gun On Ice Planet Zero". He later appeared as an alien invader in the television mini-series V. For many years, he played the Gorton's fisherman on TV ads. Miller wrote an autobiography titled "Didn't You Used To Be...What's His Name?" In June 2006, Denny attended the first Bionicon in Tampa, Fl.
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