Ranger Bill Miller on AllMovie

The adopted son of legendary showman William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, American silent-screen cowboy Ranger Bill Miller reportedly was a real-life Texas Ranger prior to making his screen debut as a riding double in the early 1920s. He founded his own production company, Bill Miller Prod. in 1922 and released The Fighting Ranger and Guilty, billing himself Ranger Bill Miller. Never a mainstream action hero, Ranger Bill remained in the lower echelon of cowboy performers whose films were distributed to small towns and villages only. In 1923, Miller struck up a partnership with director Tom Gibson and cameraman Elmer Dyer, and the three released several very low-budget westerns featuring Ranger Bill and a brunette starlet named Patricia Palmer. Few if any of these films earned reviews in mainstream publications, and none seems to exist today. Miller drifted out of films after Heartbound in 1925.