R.I.P. Dick Miller, Star of ‘Gremlins’, ‘Piranha’, ‘The Howling’ and ‘Terminator’

January 31, 2019

Dick Miller, the prolific screen actor best known for his role as Murray Futterman in Joe Dante’s 1984 classic horror film Gremlins, and its sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch, has died, reports Variety. 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 in the cult classic A Bucket of Blood, before going on to land roles on projects such as Fame and even James Cameron’s The Terminator.

Us horror fans celebrate his genre work that also included Joe Dante’s The ‘Burbs, The Howling, Piranha and The Hole, as well as Roger Corman’s 1959 A Bucket of Blood, the 1960 Little Shop of Horrors, The Terror (1963), Death Race 2000, Twilight Zone” The Movie, Explorers, Chopping Mall, Night of the Creeps, Amityville 1992: It’s About Time, and Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight!

As the site noted, Miller reprised the role of Walter Paisely for a final time as a rabbi in Eben McGarr’s horror film Hanukkah.

He is quite simply a legend.

Enjoy this two-part retrospective put together by Texas Frightmare several years ago…

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