Denny Miller, who played scout Duke Shannon on the classic TV Western Wagon Train and was the first blond Tarzan on the big screen, has died. He was 80.

Miller, who wore a yellow rain slicker as the Gorton's Fisherman in TV commercials for the seafood company for more than a decade, was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease in January and died Tuesday in Las Vegas, his agent, David Moss, told The Hollywood Reporter.

The strapping 6-foot-4 Miller, who played basketball at UCLA for legendary coach John Wooden in the 1950s, also is known for his role as Western movie actor "Wyoming" Bill Kelso in the delightful 1968 Peter Sellerscomedy The Party, directed by Blake Edwards.

Miller appeared in two episodes of CBS' Gilligan's Island: one as surfer Duke Williams, who washed ashore after a tsunami, and another as Tongo, an ape man who is captured and put in a cage.

Miller appeared over three seasons in more than 100 episodes of Wagon Train, which aired on NBC and ABC from 1957 to 1965. He then segued to playing an Air Force sergeant who is married to a Las Vegas chorus girl (Juliet Prowse) in the short-lived NBC sitcom Mona McCluskey.

Miller starred as Edgar Rice Burroughs' lord of the jungle in the low-budget Tarzan, the Ape Man(1959), a remake of the 1932 classic that starred Olympic gold medalist Johnny Weissmuller. Footage from that film, as well as Tarzan's yell, were recycled from the original (both were made at MGM).

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