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Mark Miller, who portrayed the patriarch of a castle-dwelling family on the 1960s NBC sitcom Please Don’t Eat the Daisies and co-wrote the Keanu Reeves-starring romantic drama A Walk in the Clouds, has died. He was 97.
Miler died Friday in Santa Monica of natural causes, a family spokesperson announced. Survivors include his daughter and Tony-nominated actress Penelope Ann Miller.
Miller also wrote, produced and starred in the classic family film Savannah Smiles (1982), which was inspired by and named for his youngest daughter. It’s the story of a runaway girl (Bridgette Andersen) who forms an improvised family with the two escaped convicts (Miller, Donovan Scott) who find her.
On Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, which aired for two seasons and 58 episodes from 1965-67, the native Texan played college professor Jim Nash opposite Patricia Crowley as newspaper writer Joan Nash. They are the...
Mark Miller, who portrayed the patriarch of a castle-dwelling family on the 1960s NBC sitcom Please Don’t Eat the Daisies and co-wrote the Keanu Reeves-starring romantic drama A Walk in the Clouds, has died. He was 97.
Miler died Friday in Santa Monica of natural causes, a family spokesperson announced. Survivors include his daughter and Tony-nominated actress Penelope Ann Miller.
Miller also wrote, produced and starred in the classic family film Savannah Smiles (1982), which was inspired by and named for his youngest daughter. It’s the story of a runaway girl (Bridgette Andersen) who forms an improvised family with the two escaped convicts (Miller, Donovan Scott) who find her.
On Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, which aired for two seasons and 58 episodes from 1965-67, the native Texan played college professor Jim Nash opposite Patricia Crowley as newspaper writer Joan Nash. They are the...
- 9/14/2022
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Kim Tyler, a child actor of the 1960s best known for playing the eldest son in the 1965-67 NBC family sitcom Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, died of cancer Feb. 10 at his Hollywood Heights home. He was 66.
Tyler’s death was announced this week by his family.
Although his first TV credit was in a 1956 episode of The 20th Century Fox Hour, Tyler was most prolific through the ’60s, with with guest appearances on sitcoms including Hazel, The Addams Family, My Favorite Martian, My Three Sons and, in a recurring role, The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet. He played a pal of Ron Howard’s Opie in a 1962 episode of The Andy Griffith Show.
In 1965, Tyler, then 11, was cast as a series regular in the TV adaptation of Jean Kerr’s 1957 novel Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, playing Kyle Nash, the eldest brother to twins Trevor and Tracey (Jeff and...
Tyler’s death was announced this week by his family.
Although his first TV credit was in a 1956 episode of The 20th Century Fox Hour, Tyler was most prolific through the ’60s, with with guest appearances on sitcoms including Hazel, The Addams Family, My Favorite Martian, My Three Sons and, in a recurring role, The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet. He played a pal of Ron Howard’s Opie in a 1962 episode of The Andy Griffith Show.
In 1965, Tyler, then 11, was cast as a series regular in the TV adaptation of Jean Kerr’s 1957 novel Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, playing Kyle Nash, the eldest brother to twins Trevor and Tracey (Jeff and...
- 3/23/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Kim Tyler, who portrayed the oldest of the four rowdy sons in the Nash family at the center of the 1965-67 NBC comedy Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, has died. He was 66.
Tyler died Feb. 10 at his home in Hollywood Heights after a long battle with cancer, his family announced.
Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, based on Jean Kerr’s best-selling 1957 book and coming on the heels of a 1960 MGM film that starred Doris Day and David Niven, featured Patricia Crowley as a freelance newspaper columnist and Mark Miller as her husband, a college professor.
They are ...
Tyler died Feb. 10 at his home in Hollywood Heights after a long battle with cancer, his family announced.
Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, based on Jean Kerr’s best-selling 1957 book and coming on the heels of a 1960 MGM film that starred Doris Day and David Niven, featured Patricia Crowley as a freelance newspaper columnist and Mark Miller as her husband, a college professor.
They are ...
- 3/23/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Kim Tyler, who portrayed the oldest of the four rowdy sons in the Nash family at the center of the 1965-67 NBC comedy Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, has died. He was 66.
Tyler died Feb. 10 at his home in Hollywood Heights after a long battle with cancer, his family announced.
Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, based on Jean Kerr’s best-selling 1957 book and coming on the heels of a 1960 MGM film that starred Doris Day and David Niven, featured Patricia Crowley as a freelance newspaper columnist and Mark Miller as her husband, a college professor.
They are ...
Tyler died Feb. 10 at his home in Hollywood Heights after a long battle with cancer, his family announced.
Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, based on Jean Kerr’s best-selling 1957 book and coming on the heels of a 1960 MGM film that starred Doris Day and David Niven, featured Patricia Crowley as a freelance newspaper columnist and Mark Miller as her husband, a college professor.
They are ...
- 3/23/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Alicia Witt has signed to topline a Hallmark Channel movie tentatively titled "Backyard Wedding."
The film centers on Kim Tyler (Witt), who is all set to have the wedding of her dreams in her parents' backyard, but her ex-husband and first love -- whose parents happen to live next door -- keeps popping up.
Also cast in the project are Markie Post, who will play Kim's Aunt Addie, and Frances Fisher as Kim's mother, Eleanor.
Bradford May will direct the movie from a script by Nina Weinman. Larry Levinson is executive producing, with Randy Pope and Amanda Phillips serving as co-executive producers and James Wilberger and Brian J. Gordon as producers.
Witt has been recurring on the fourth season of the DirecTV/NBC drama "Friday Night Lights," playing Cheryl, Tim Riggins' (Taylor Kitsch) landlord who had a one-night stand with him.
She is repped by Gersh and Brillstein Entertainment.
The film centers on Kim Tyler (Witt), who is all set to have the wedding of her dreams in her parents' backyard, but her ex-husband and first love -- whose parents happen to live next door -- keeps popping up.
Also cast in the project are Markie Post, who will play Kim's Aunt Addie, and Frances Fisher as Kim's mother, Eleanor.
Bradford May will direct the movie from a script by Nina Weinman. Larry Levinson is executive producing, with Randy Pope and Amanda Phillips serving as co-executive producers and James Wilberger and Brian J. Gordon as producers.
Witt has been recurring on the fourth season of the DirecTV/NBC drama "Friday Night Lights," playing Cheryl, Tim Riggins' (Taylor Kitsch) landlord who had a one-night stand with him.
She is repped by Gersh and Brillstein Entertainment.
- 11/19/2009
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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