R.I.P. LEGENDARY Dick Miller, one of the best-known character actors of all time.
Dick Miller, Gremlins and Terminator Actor, Dies at 90
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/dick-miller-dead-dies-gremlins-terminator-1203124265/
Dick Miller, a prolific screen actor best known for his role as Murray Futterman in the 1984 classic horror film Gremlins, has died. He was 90.
With a career spanning more than 60 years, Miller has made hundreds of on screen appearances, beginning in the 1950s with legendary director and producer Roger Corman. It was then that he starred as Walter Paisley a character the actor would reprise throughout his career in the cult classic A Bucket of Blood, before going on to land roles on projects such as The Burbs, Fame and The Terminator.
Miller also boasts a long history of high-profile director partnerships, working with the likes of James Cameron, Ernest Dickerson, Martin Scorsese, John Sayles and, perhaps most notably, Joe Dante, who used Miller in almost every project he helmed.
In one of Dantes earlier films, Piranha, Miller played Buck Gardner, a small-time real estate agent opening up a new resort on Lost River Lake. The only catch? A large school of genetically altered piranha have accidentally been released into the resorts nearby rivers. Next up was a police chief role in the 1979 film Rock n Roll High School before reprising the Walter Paisley mantle as an occult bookshop owner in Dantes 1981 horror film The Howling.