Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Dick Miller 1928-2019

Goodbye to one of my favorite character actors, Dick Miller. He made every movie he was in better. Some of my favorite Dick Miller performances (and I have at least 50 more I'm eager to see):
The Little Shop of Horrors (Roger Corman)
The Wild Angels (Roger Corman)
Death Race 2000 (Paul Bartel)
Darktown Strutters (William Witney)
Hollywood Boulevard (Allan Arkush & Joe Dante)
New York, New York (Martin Scorsese)
Piranha (Joe Dante)
Rock 'n' Roll High School (Allan Arkush)
1941 (Steven Spielberg)
The Howling (Joe Dante)
White Dog (Samuel Fuller)
Twilight Zone: The Movie (Joe Dante's segment)
Gremlins (Joe Dante)
The Terminator (James Cameron)
Explorers (Joe Dante)
After Hours (Martin Scorsese)
Night of the Creeps (Fred Dekker)
Armed Response (Fred Olen Ray)
Project X (Jonathan Kaplan) (probably terrible, loved it as a kid)
Innerspace (Joe Dante)
The 'Burbs (Joe Dante)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Joe Dante)
Motorama (Barry Shils)
Matinee (Joe Dante)
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (Ernest R. Dickerson)
The Hole (Joe Dante)
Burying the Ex (Joe Dante)

and TV episodes of Soap, Police Squad!, Tales from the Darkside, Amazing Stories, Fame, and Eerie, Indiana

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