See Socastee High grad on CBS program this Sunday morning

Start this Sunday with a half-hour TV show that merits inspection, especially to see a Socastee High School graduate co-starring for an episode.

Jamie Miles, from the school’s class of 1988, will step in for a role on one of the CBS Dream Team’s series geared to teens, “The Inspectors.” It airs Sundays at 7:30 a.m. on WBTW-TV 13, 6:30 a.m. on WILM-TV 10 from Wilmington, and 8:30 a.m. on WCSC-TV 5 from Charleston – where Miles said the program, about postal inspectors, is filmed.

Miles said his part, which he found “amazing,” was filmed in April, for the third episode in the second season of this series he called “family friendly.”

“Terry Serpico and Jessica Tundy are top-notch actors,” he said, and the entire cast and crew was “super welcoming and very friendly. They made you feel like you are in a family environment.”

A professional actor, Miles grew up in the Myrtle Beach area, thanks to his father’s transfer within the Air Force to the air base here and retirement from service upon its closure in 1993. His parents stayed in Socastee, Miles said, leading to some irony about his dad amid the show airing Sunday.

“He actually worked for the post office in Myrtle Beach,” said Miles, who also balances a full-time marketing career.

The Charleston Southern University alumnus said he had spent 15 years with a company in Atlanta, then after a corporate layoff, started pursuing acting, building up a resume through “extra roles and local independent films and documentaries.” He that said through representation by the Jana VanDyke Agency he gained a nationwide reach for auditions, in person and on video.

All his acting roles have been “very unique and very different,” Miles said. They include playing a detective in 2013 on the first season of Investigation Discovery’s “Swamp Murders,” a producer uttering “one word” on Starz’s “Swamp Murders,” and another part on a TV show slated to air Nov. 1.

Miles estimates acting work as “80 percent” auditioning and that “you get lucky once in a while,” and timing has worked wonders for him.

“The same week I was laid off,” he said, “I was signed by my agent, and I found the full-time job I have now a month later.”

As the Atlanta Braves baseball team readies its move into a new stadium for 2017, Miles remembered attending “many Myrtle Beach Pelicans games” in all their years as a Braves affiliate from 1999 through 2010, and with “die-hard Pelicans fans” as parents.

Trying to get home about once a quarter has fit into Miles’ schedule, in which Thanksgiving and Christmas “are a given.”

Although the acting initiative hit him later in adulthood, Miles said he did “behind-the-scenes stuff” as a member of Socastee High’s drama club. Now he’s on stage, on camera, also with commercial spots for such clients as AT&T and Aaron’s, in his background.

“It’s funny how it happened,” Miles said of his second occupation in acting. “I didn’t plan it, and I didn’t think it would happen, but I pursued it, and I work very hard.”

This story was originally published October 15, 2016 at 5:00 AM with the headline "See Socastee High grad on CBS program this Sunday morning."