Portrait of Colleen Miller

Colleen Miller

Acting

Biography

Colleen Joy Miller is an American former actress. She starred in several films, such as the Westerns Gunfight at Comanche Creek (1963) and Four Guns to the Border (1954). The daughter of Elias and Lillian Miller, she was born in Yakima, Washington, and raised in Portland, Oregon. Miller attended Lincoln High School in Portland and graduated at age fifteen. In 1949, she was chosen "Miss Portland". Her mother named her after actress Colleen Moore. As a child, Miller studied ballet, but when she was older she changed to popular dancing. After graduating, she worked as a professional dancer in a San Francisco ballet company, and relocated to Las Vegas after three seasons to work at the Flamingo. While dancing in Las Vegas, Miller was spotted by a talent agent who signed her to a contract with Howard Hughes for his RKO Pictures company. She was 19 when she made her first film appearance in The Las Vegas Story, starring Jane Russell.

Born: November 10, 1932

Place of Birth: Yakima, Washington, U.S.

Filmography

1963
1958
Step Down to Terror

as Helen Walters

1957
Man in the Shadow

as Skippy Renchler

1957
The Night Runner

as Susan Mayes

1957
Hot Summer Night

as Irene Partain

1956
The Rawhide Years

as Zoe Fontaine

1955
The Purple Mask

as Laurette de Latour

1954
1954
Playgirl

as Phyllis Matthews

1953
Man Crazy

as Judy Bassett