Dick Miller
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Richard "Dick" Miller (born December 25, 1928, The Bronx, New York) is a character actor who has appeared in many films, particularly those produced by Roger Corman, and later in films of directors who started their careers with Corman, including Joe Dante and James Cameron.
His roles in movies include White Line Fever, The Terminator, Night of the Creeps, The Little Shop of Horrors, Amazon Women on the Moon and The Howling. His best known role was in the movies Gremlins and Gremlins 2: The New Batch as Murray Futterman. He appeared in Pulp Fiction as Monster Joe, but his scene and a few others was deleted because of the length of the film.
His television credits include V: The Final Battle as Dan Pascal, and appearances on Star Trek: The Next Generation in the season 1 episode "The Big Goodbye" as the newspaper stand man in the holodeck, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in the season 3 two-part episode "Past Tense" as Vin, Time of Your Life, and many others.
[edit] Trivia
- Miller has played a character named "Walter Paisley" in many films, beginning with A Bucket of Blood (1959)
[edit] External links
- Dick Miller at the Internet Movie Database
- Dick Miller article at Memory Alpha, the Star Trek wiki.
Categories: 1928 births | Living people | American television actors | American film actors | American character actors | American voice actors | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actors | People from the Bronx | ER actors | Knots Landing actors | NYPD Blue actors | V actors | Star Trek: The Next Generation actors | Terminator actors
