Cheryl Miller (actress)
(born 1942) American actress
Cheryl Lynn Miller is an American actress and musician.
Career
The film Casanova Brown (1944) marked her screen debut at the age of 19 days.
1965 was a break-through year for Miller. She was featured with an elephant and a chimp on the hit TV series Flipper. This caught the attention of the director (Ivan Tors) who later cast her in the film, Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion. In this film she played Paula Tracy, the daughter of veterinarian Marsh Tracy (Marshall Thompson). The film led to her role again playing Paula Tracy alongside Thompson in the CBS television series, Daktari, (1966–69). In the opening credits, she is shown riding on the back of a lion.
During the summer of 1965, Walt Disney chose Miller as his own contractee, dubbing her "The Typical American Girl".
By early 1966, filming began for Daktari in Africa, U.S.A., on a 200-acre ranch about 40 miles north of the Los Angeles metro area.
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