Denny Miller, an athlete-turned-actor whose credits range from small-screen wagon train scout to big-screen Tarzan with dozens of stops in between, died today of ALS at his Las Vegas home. He was 80.

Denny Miller, a noted UCLA basketball player in the 1950s who dropped the sport to play the title role in the 1959 movie "Tarzan the Ape Man" and went on to appear in "Wagon Train" and numerous ...