Kim Milford(1951-1988)

Richard Kim Milford was an actor-singer-songwriter-composer-dancer who first appeared in SummerStock Theatre in Chicago at age 10. At age 17 he was in the original staging of Hair (he played Woof and Claude). In 1970 he was awarded the Faith and Freedom Award by the Religious Heritage of America for his portrayal of the Prodigal Son in ABC Directories series "Round Trip". He later performed in the first concert tour of Jesus Christ Superstar playing Jesus and Judas, and in the first production of The Rocky Horror Show as Rocky (Roxy Cast in LA, and in NYC on Broadway). He was also in the plays Henry Sweet Henry, 1776, Your Own Thing, Rockabye Hamlet, More Than You Deserve, and Sunset. Later Kim was the lead singer for the Jeff Beck Group (Aug-Sept '72) and then worked on television (TV movies: Song of the Succubus [with Brooke Adams] and Rock-A-Die-Baby (aka Night of the Full Moon), both in 1975 on ABC's Wild World of Entertainment, and on Mannix (Portrait in Blues). Kim was also in the feature films Laserblast, Bloodbrothers, Corvette Summer, Escape, Nightmare at Noon, and Wired to Kill. Kim had 2 singles, "Muddy River Water" (Decca) and "Help is on the Way, Rozea." He is also on the Sunset soundtrack, Roxy Cast album of Rocky Horror Show, and wrote and performed a song "Justice" produced by Robert Margouleff and Malcolm Cecil on the 'Ciao! Manhattan' (Edie Sedgewick) movie; in addition, he's on some bootlegs of the Aug-Sept '72 Jeff Beck concerts. He performed with the made-for-TV group Moon in the two TV movies above. Richard Kim Milford died in Chicago on June 16, 1988 of heart failure, after having undergone heart surgery several weeks earlier. He was 37 years old.