BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Full Name: Neville Williams
Description: Vocalist , Actor, UK
Known For: “Robin Hood” ( theme to The Adventures of Robin Hood)
Instruments: Voice
Music Styles: Popular
Location: United Kingdom
Date Born: 1924
Location Born: Blackpool, United Kingdom
Date Died: 15th June 1968
Location Died: London, United Kingdom
Cause Of Death: Heart attack
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Gary Miller
An English popular music singer and actor of the 1950s and 1960s.
His career spanned only 13 years. He released 24 singles and six EPs on the Pye Records label between 1955 and 1967. Pye released a further compilation EP after his death.
Miller had several Top 40 singles early in his career, his debut single, “Yellow Rose Of Texas” reaching #13 on the UK Singles Chart.
The most successful was “Robin Hood” (the theme to The Adventures of Robin Hood) which spent 28 weeks in the chart and peaked at #10, his only Top 10 hit.
Miller had a number of small acting roles in the television series The Saint and Gideon’s Way, and was a regular panelist on Juke Box Jury.
He also recorded “Flying High”, the original unused end titles theme for Thunderbirds. “Flying High” was later used in the episode Ricochet and released on the Thunderbirds 2 compilation album.
He also began appearing in the musical Come Spy with Me with Danny La Rue and Barbara Windsor, shortly before his death.
He died of a heart attack in 1968.