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Allan Miller (born 14 February 1929; age 95) is an actor from Brooklyn, New York who played the alien charter captain in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.

Miller has an extensive number of film and television credits to his name. He may be best known to soap opera fans for being among the original cast members of One Life to Live, on which he played the role of Dave Siegel from 1968 through 1972. Afterward, Miller went on to co-star with F. Murray Abraham on the short-lived soap, How to Survive a Marriage. Miller is also known for his role as Colonel Sydell on Galactica 1980 and his recurring roles as Dr. Alan Posner on Soap and as Scooter Warren on Knots Landing.

In 1977, Miller, Rosana DeSoto, and Gregory Sierra were regulars on A.E.S. Hudson Street. The following year, Miller was among the cast of the mini-series The Word, as were Kate Mulgrew and Diana Muldaur, fellow Star Trek III co-star Christopher Lloyd, and Trek alumni Jonathan Banks and Nehemiah Persoff. Miller also appeared with Kate Mulgrew in a 1979 episode of Mrs. Columbo (on which Mulgrew played the title character) and with Diana Muldaur in a 1975 episode of McCloud (on which Muldaur was a regular). Miller and Christopher Lloyd can also be seen together in a 1975 episode of Barney Miller, on which Ron Glass and James Gregory were regulars.

Miller and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actor Andrew Robinson worked together as guest stars on The Streets of San Francisco in 1975 (starring Darleen Carr and also guest-starring Fritz Weaver) and Murder, She Wrote in 1994 (with David Ogden Stiers and William Windom). Miller himself appeared in four other episodes of Murder, She Wrote, including one with Gary Lockwood in 1985 and another with Lenore Kasdorf and Brock Peters in 1986. Miller and Brock Peters had previously appeared together in the 1976 film Two-Minute Warning (also featuring Garry Walberg).

Besides those mentioned above, the other Star Trek movie performers Miller has appeared with outside of Trek are Victory at Entebbe (1976, with Bibi Besch, Theodore Bikel and Harris Yulin), Brewster's Millions (1985, with Stephen Collins) Police Story (1977 episode James Cromwell Pearl (1978, with Gregg Henry and his Star Trek III co-star Robert Hooks (in the 1985 TV movie The Execution, with Alan Oppenheimer). Miller has also been seen on such TV shows as The Rockford Files, Hawaii Five-O, Starsky & Hutch, multiple episodes of Quincy, M.E. and Archie Bunker's Place, Who's the Boss?, Northern Exposure, L.A. Law, NYPD Blue, and Law & Order. His other film credits include Bound for Glory (1976, with David Clennon, Ronny Cox, Wendy Schaal, and Gail Strickland), Fun with Dick and Jane (1977), MacArthur (1977, with Kenneth Tobey and Garry Walberg), The Champ (1979, with Elisha Cook), Cruising (1980, with Richard Cox, Paul Sorvino, and Mike Starr), and Warlock (1989, with Ian Abercrombie).

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