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Dick Miller
Dick Miller
Birth name: Richard Miller
Gender: Male
Medium(s): Film; Television
Roles: Actor
Date of birth: December 25th, 1928
Place of birth: The Bronx, New York City, New York
Date of death: January 30th, 2019
Place of death: Toluca Lake, California
1st Horror: It Conquered the World

Dick Miller is an American character actor born in the Bronx, New York on Christmas day, 1928. With his thick New York accent, Miller has distinguished himself in a variety of bit roles usually in films produced or directed by "King of the Bs" Roger Corman. His first genre film was the 1956 sci-fi movie It Conquered the World. Miller began to get more screen recognition in films such as A Bucket of Blood, the first in which he played a character named Walter Paisley. This became a stock character name that Miller would revisit in films such as The Howling, Chopping Mall and Night of the Creeps.

Body of work[]

Film[]

Film Year Role
It Conquered the World 1956 Sergeant Neil
The Undead 1957 The Leper
A Bucket of Blood 1959 Walter Paisley
The Little Shop of Horrors 1960 Burson Fouch
Premature Burial 1962 Mole
The Terror 1963 Stefan
X: The Man With the X-Ray Eyes 1963 Heckler
Piranha 1978 Buck Gardner
The Howling 1981 Walter Paisley
Zombie Aftermath 1982 Broadcaster's voice
Gremlins 1984 Murray Fudderman
Chopping Mall 1986 Walter Paisley
Night of the Creeps 1986 Walter Paisley
Dead Heat 1988 Cemetery Security Guard
Gremlins 2: The New Batch 1990 Murray Fudderman
Amityville 1992: It's About Time 1992 Mister Anderson
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight 1995 Uncle Willy

Television[]

Series Episode Role
Tales from the Darkside All a Clone by the Telephone Seymour Furman
Freddy's Nightmares The Light at the End of the Tunnel Al Kramer

Notes & Trivia[]

  • Dick Miller was one of several cast members who provided audio commentary on the Gremlins DVD.
  • In the Gremlins franchise, Miller's character, Murray Fudderman, is the first person to actually refer to the Mogwai species as Gremlins.

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