Dick Miller
Dick Miller was born on Dec 25, 1928 in USA. Dick Miller's big-screen debut came with Apache Woman directed by Roger Corman in 1955, strarring Tall Tree. Dick Miller is known for The Adventures of Biffle and Shooster directed by Michael Schlesinger, Nick Santa Maria stars as Benny Biffle and Will Ryan as Sam Shooster. Dick Miller has got 2 awards and 1 nominations so far. The most recent award Dick Miller achieved is Hollywood Horrorfest. The upcoming new movie Dick Miller plays is The Adventures of Biffle and Shooster which will be released on May 22, 2018.
Born in the Bronx, New York to Russian Jewish immigrant parents (Isidor "Ira" and Rita Blucher Miller), Richard Miller served in the U.S. Navy for a few years and earned a prize title as a middleweight boxer. He settled in Los Angeles in the mid-1950s, where he was noticed by producer/director Roger Corman, who cast him in most of his low-budget films, often as dislikeable sorts, such as a vacuum-cleaner salesman in Pas de cette Terre (1957). His most memorable role would have to be that of the mentally unstable, busboy/beatnik artist Walter Paisley, whose clay sculptures are suspiciously lifelike in Un baquet de sang (1959) (a rare starring role for him), and he is also fondly remembered for his supporting role as the flower-eating Vurson Fouch in Corman's legendary La petite boutique des horreurs (1960).Miller spent the next 20 years working in Corman productions, and starting in the late 1970s was often cast in films by director Joe Dante, appearing in credited and uncredited walk-on bits as quirky chatterboxes, and stole every scene he appeared in. He has played many variations on his famous Walter Paisley role, such as a diner owner (La Quatrième Dimension (1983)) or a janitor (Shopping (1986)). One of his best bits is the funny occult-bookshop owner in Hurlements (1981). Being short (so he never played a romantic lead or a threatening villain) with wavy hair, long sideburns, a pointed nose and a face as trustworthy as a used-car dealer's, he was, and is to this day, an immediately recognizable character actor whose one-scene appearances in countless movies and TV shows guarantee audience applause.
Birthday
Dec 25, 1928Place of Birth
The Bronx, New York, USA
Known For
Awards
2 wins & 1 nominations
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as Danny Clayton (segment "The French Ventiloquist's Dummy" [TV cut & DVD only]) (uncredited)
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