{"id":56638,"date":"2019-01-31T19:54:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T09:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=56638"},"modified":"2019-01-31T19:54:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T09:24:52","slug":"vale-dick-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2019\/01\/31\/vale-dick-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale – Dick Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Legendary Hollywood character actor Dick Miller, whose most famous role came with Joe Dante’s mid-80’s hit Gremlins<\/em>, has passed away.<\/p>\n\n\n

Mr Miller’s film career kicked off in the 1950’s, appearing in supporting roles in a string of Roger Corman productions, including Not Of This Earth<\/em> (1957), A Bucket of Blood<\/em> (1959) and 1963’s The Terror<\/em>. He appeared for directors including Jonathan Kaplan (The Slams, Truck Turner<\/em>), Jonathan Demme (Crazy Mama<\/em>) and Martin Scorsese (New York, New York<\/em>), and had an uncredited cameo in Robert Aldrich’s The Dirty Dozen<\/em>, in 1967. Miller teamed with Joe Dante in a large number of films, including Piranha, The Howling<\/em> and Explorers<\/em>, and would find considerable popular notice in 1984’s Gremlins<\/a><\/em>, playing the cantankerous but lovely Murray Futterman, who encounters the nasty little creatures during that fateful Christmas night. Miller would reprise the role in Gremlins 2<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dick Miller as Mr Futterman in “Gremlins”<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In recent years, Mr Miller appeared in voice roles for various Warner Bros-produced animated series, including Batman: The Animated Series<\/em> and Justice League Unlimited<\/em>. He had small roles in both Small Soldiers<\/em> (1988) and Looney Tunes: Back In Action<\/a><\/em> (2003), and would appear in 2009’s The Hole<\/em>, all for Joe Dante. In 2014 Miller appeared in a documentary about his life and career. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dick Miller passed away on January 30th, aged 90. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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