Peter Miles

Born in Tokyo, Peter Miles was an American child actor who performed as Gerald Perreau. His first screen appearance was an uncredited role as Humphrey Bogart's son in Passage to Marseille (1944), and he later appeared in Enchantment (1948), The Red Pony (1949), and Quo Vadis (1951). He worked in television, guest starring on Father Knows Best, The Lone Ranger, and 77 Sunset Strip, and was a regular on The Betty Hutton Show for a year. On Perry Mason in 1959 he played defendant Jimmy Morrow under the name Richard Miles, and in 1962 he appeared on Straightaway as Vernon. After acting, he wrote novels, poetry, and screenplays. His first novel That Cold Day in the Park was published in 1965 and filmed in 1969, and he won the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award for Angel Loves Nobody. He also taught school and curated art shows and compiled artists' catalogs from the 1980s to 2001.