Dick Miller Overview:

Character actor, Dick Miller, was born Richard Miller on Dec 25, 1928 in The Bronx, NY. Miller died at the age of 90 on Jan 30, 2019 in Toluca Lake, CA .

MINI BIO:

Tough-looking, jut-jawed, black-haired, not-too-tall New Yorker with "street corner" good looks and beefy build. He looked as though he would be more at home in boiler suit and tin helmet than on a film set and was, in his younger days, boxing champion, commercial artist, semi-pro footballer, psychologist, and disc jockey before turning to acting. After starring as Brooklynese leads in Z-grade horrors and teenpix - one of them was the now-legendary Walter Paisley in A Bucket of Blood, a role he has reprised in other movies - he proved something of a good luck charm for the Roger Corman American International/New World dynasty, appearing in a good percentage of their exploitation films, latterly in (largely comic) cameos. Billed as Richard in some early roles.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Character Actors: an Illustrated Directory).

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On DVD: in Roger Corman's A Bucket of Blood (1959)

By KC on Jun 12, 2018 From Classic Movies

A Bucket of Blood (1959) perfectly illustrates why producer Roger Corman never lost a dime on a film. Produced in five days, with a budget of $50,000, this dark comedy took a playful swipe at beatnik and art culture with thrift and efficiency, relying on sensational content and bizarre characters fo... Read full article


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By Barry P. on Nov 10, 2013 From Cinematic Catharsis

“I really never got excited about the size of a part. I didn’t realize the staying power of stars, when you got top billing, and then you’ve got to go a little lower, a little lower. But maybe that’s why I’ve been around so long.” – (excerpt fr... Read full article


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By Barry P. on Nov 10, 2013 From Cinematic Catharsis

“I really never got excited about the size of a part. I didn’t realize the staying power of stars, when you got top billing, and then you’ve got to go a little lower, a little lower. But maybe that’s why I’ve been around so long.” – (excerpt fr... Read full article


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Dick Miller Quotes:

Burson Fouch: I remember in one flower shop there was a whole wall covered with poison ivy. People came from miles around to look at that wall and they stayed to buy.
Gravis Mushnik: And the owner got rich?
Burson Fouch: No, he scratched himself to death in an insane asylum.


Burson Fouch: Anyway, I've got to go home. My wife's making gardenias for dinner.


Maxwell H. Brock: To be uncreative you might as well be in your grave... or in the Army.
Walter Paisley: [Looking slightly puzzled, and amused] They tried to draft me once. I couldn't pass the test.


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Dick Miller Facts
Appeared in two completely different, unrelated productions which showed an unpleasant future (in the 2020s) that were both based in California: the film The Terminator (1984) and the television series "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993).

According to him, when he would interview for acting jobs at other studios, he would mention that he had been working at American International. They would respond by saying "I don't think we can use you."

He has stated that he was initially cast as an Indian in Apache Woman (1955). Later he filled in as various other Indians, shooting different characters, and also played a cowboy in the film.

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