Biography
Dick Miller (December 25, 1928 – January 30, 2019) was an American character actor who appeared in more than 180 films, including many produced by Roger Corman. He later appeared in the films of directors who began their careers with Corman, including Joe Dante, James Cameron, and Martin Scorsese, with the distinction of appearing in every film directed by Dante. He was known for playing the beleaguered everyman, often in one-scene appearances. Miller's main roles in films included Gremlins, Gr...
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Complete Filmography

The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2025
as Self
THE AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE VAULT is a 2-disc, 500-minute odyssey that collects eight feature-length VHS mixtapes from the crackpots at AGFA—including tw...

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
2021
as Self
Beginning just before his debut as Frankenstein’s creation, this documentary compellingly explores the life and legacy of a cinema legend, presenting ...

AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #1
2020
as Self
Unleashed from the video vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #1 is a brand new compilation of the most electrifying...

Hanukkah
2019
as Rabbi Walter Paisley
A group of Jewish teens are getting ready to party for the holidays but are in for a Festival of Frights. With the help of a wise rabbi, they deduce t...

Hideouser and Hideouser
2019
as Waitress (voice)

The Adventures of Biffle and Shooster
2015
as Walter
Feature compilation of four Biffle and Shooster comedy shorts--"The Biffle Murder Case," "Imitation of Wife," "Schmo Boat" and "Bride of Finklestein"-...

Burying the Ex
2014
as Grumpy Cop
Before horror enthusiast Max can break things off with his girlfriend Evelyn she dies in a bus accident. In time, Max meets another woman only to have...

That Guy Dick Miller
2014
as Self
Documentary about veteran character actor Dick Miller, whose career in and outside of Hollywood has spanned almost 200 films across six decades, featu...
Cutaways
2013
A character cut from Pulp Fiction meets a characters cut from The Conversation.

Corman's World
2011
as Self - Actor
A chronicle of the long career of American filmmaker Roger Corman, the most tenacious and ingenious low-budget producer and director in the US film in...

Machete Maidens Unleashed!
2010
as Self
In the final decades of the 20th century, the Philippines was a country where low-budget exploitation-film producers were free to make nearly any kind...

The Hole
2009
as Pizza Delivery Guy
After moving into a new neighbourhood, brothers Dane & Lucas and their neighbour Julie discover a bottomless hole in the basement of their home. T...

Trail of the Screaming Forehead
2007
as Eddie
A small town infestation of crawling alien foreheads that begin attaching to people and taking them over collides with a scientist's experiments to ex...

Trapped Ashes
2006
as Max (segment "Wraparound")
Trapped in a house of horror, seven people discover that the only way they'll get out alive is to tell their scariest stories.

Looney Tunes: Back in Action
2003
as Security Guard
Fed up with all the attention going to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck quits Hollywood, teams up with recently-fired stuntman Damien Drake Jr. and embarks on a...

Maximum Surge
2003
as Boxing Cornerman
When a super computer is linked to a video game network, the computer programmer who designed the game must enter the virtual reality world of his fan...

Unleashing the Beast: Making ‘The Howling’
2003
Documentary featuring director Joe Dante, screenwriter John Sayles, producer Mike Finnell, stars Dee Wallace Stone, Dick Miller, Robert Picardo, and B...

Route 666
2001
as Bartender
Smith, a mob informer hiding out with the Witness Protection Program, decides to make a break for it and hide out in the Arizona desert. The Feds catc...

It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
2001
as Self
A 60-minute salute to American International Pictures. Entertainment lawyer Samuel Z. Arkoff founded AIP (then called American Releasing Corporation) ...

Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies
2001
as Himself
Hollywood is a town of tinsel and glamour; but there is another Hollywood, a place where maverick independent exploitation filmmakers went toe to toe ...

Small Soldiers
1998
as Joe
When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their battle programming too seriously.

The Second Civil War
1997
as Eddie O'Neill
When a planeload of Pakistani orphans are shipped to his state for permanent relocation, the governor of Idaho defies the president and closes the sta...

The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy
1996
as Peddler
The time is the 21st century, after the fall of the Galactic Republic. Technology is at a standstill, families have been dismantled, and those who hav...

Number One Fan
1995
as Night Manager
A movie star is being stalked by a one-night stand.

Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
1995
as Uncle Willy
Ex-soldier Frank Brayker is the guardian of an ancient key that can unlock tremendous evil; the sinister Collector is a demon who wants the key so he ...

Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 Women
1994
as Officer Murphy
Spoof-miester, Julie Brown does a musical send-up of Tonya Harding and Lorena Bobbit's debutante debacles

Shake, Rattle and Rock!
1994
as Officer Paisley
In 1950s America, teenage rebellion comes easy when something like rock 'n' roll is viewed as sinful. Looking to have a good time while they're young,...

Runaway Daughters
1994
as Roy Farrell
Angie, Mary, and Laura are teenage girls who are fed up with their bland and unexciting small town lives. Mary discovers that she's pregnant after hav...
Mona Must Die
1994
as Father Stilicato
Disillusioned, Eddie is a long-suffering husband who finds passion and happiness with his neighbor, Rachel, a struggling estate agent. Only one thing ...

Midnight Runaround
1994
as O'Doul
Bounty hunter Jack Walsh heads for a small rural community in Oklahoma to bring back a young bail jumper, only to discover that the entire town has un...

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
1993
as Chuckie Sol (voice)
Andrea Beaumont leaves her father to return to Gotham, rekindling an old romance with Bruce Wayne. At the same time, a mysterious figure begins to hun...

Matinee
1993
as Herb Denning
A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalizes on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria with a kitschy horror extr...

The Flash III: Deadly Nightshade
1992
as Fosnight
The Scarlet Speedster teams up with the city's previous superhero, The Nightshade, in two adventures.

Amityville 1992: It's About Time
1992
as Mr. Anderson
A hot-shot architect returns home from his latest business trip with a surprise: an ornate old clock rescued out of a soon-to-be-demolished mansion in...

Unlawful Entry
1992
as Impound Clerk
Happily married Michael and Karen Carr call the police after Karen is held at knife point during a failed robbery attempt in their home. Before long, ...

Quake
1992
as Storekeeper
Set around the tragic events of an earthquake, a young couple experience the horror of being terrorized by a psychotic neighbor in a city where panic ...

Body Waves
1992
as Mr. Matthews
To prove his independence, a cocky teenager bets his father that he can support himself without the family business. But no one is more surprised than...

Evil Toons
1992
as Burt Wentworth
Four sexy young girls are to clean an old house for the new owners. They get delivered an old book full of magic incantations, and while reading it th...

The Woman Who Sinned
1991
as Thomas
A woman contemplates having an affair, which leads her into a web of deceit, suspense, and murder.

Motorama
1991
as Horseshoe Player
A ten year old boy gets tired of life with abusive parents and cashes in his piggy bank and steals a Mustang. He rides off into a surreal America play...

Mob Boss
1990
as Mike
A nerd becomes the head of his father's crime family.

Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1990
as Murray Futterman
Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But...

Ghost Writer
1989
as Club Manager
A writer moves into a Malibu beach house, and comes up against the ghost of an actress who supposedly had committed suicide there 30 years previously,...

Far from Home
1989
as Sheriff Bill Childers
Charlie Cox should have stopped for gas in California. While he's on a cross-country trip with his teenage daughter, Joleen, his car hits empty in a c...

Under the Boardwalk
1989
as Official
It is the final weekend of summer and a group of Californian teenagers are looking forward to an upcoming surf contest. Rival gangs the 'Vals' and the...

The 'Burbs
1989
as Vic, Garbageman #1
When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to susp...

Angel III: The Final Chapter
1988
as Nick Pellegrini
Molly Stewart is now a successful freelance photographer in New York, and after seeing a familiar woman at an art gallery, begins to suspect that she ...

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
1988
as Sgt. Neill
Arriving in the small town of Fallwell, Massachusetts to claim her inheritance, horror hostess Elvira receives a less than enthusiastic reception from...

Amazon Women on the Moon
1987
as Danny Clayton (segment "The French Ventriloquist's Dummy") (uncredited)
Centered around a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird ...

Innerspace
1987
as Cab Driver
Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Accidentally injected into a neurotic hypochondriac, J...

Project X
1987
as Max King
A young inductee into the military is given the task of looking after some chimpanzees used in the mysterious 'Project X'. Getting to know the chimps ...

Armed Response
1986
as Steve
One of Tanaka's underlings has stolen a rare statuette that he had planned to use as a peace offering between the local Yakusa and Chinese Tong. He hi...

Night of the Creeps
1986
as Walt
In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a frate...

Chopping Mall
1986
as Walter Paisley
A group of teenagers that work at the mall all get together for a late night party in one of the stores. When the mall goes on lock down before they c...

Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors
1986
as Self
Actors, directors and special effects technicians are interviewed at a horror-film convention.

After Hours
1985
as Waiter
Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.

Explorers
1985
as Charlie Drake
Middle schooler Ben spends his free time watching sci-fi films, playing video games and reading comic books. Surprisingly, his affinity for all things...

The Terminator
1984
as Pawnshop Clerk
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Con...

Gremlins
1984
as Murray Futterman
After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unlea...

11th Victim
1984
as Investigator Ned
A news anchorwoman from the Midwest comes to Hollywood to learn the truth about the death of her sister, the 11th victim of a killer preying on aspiri...

Swing Shift
1984
as Wallflower at the Swing Shift Jamboree (uncredited)
In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, she takes a job at the local aircraft p...

All the Right Moves
1983
as Teacher in Auditorium
Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football schol...

Get Crazy
1983
as Susie's Dad
Mega-promoter Colin Beverly plans to sabotage the New Year's 1983 concert of small-time operator Max Wolfe. Wolfe's assistants Neil Allen and Willie L...

Space Raiders
1983
as Crazy Mel
A futuristic, sensitive tale of adventure and confrontation when a 10 year old boy is accidentally kidnapped by a spaceship filled with a motley crew ...

Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983
as Walter Paisley
An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the "Twilight Zone" TV series—"Kick the Can", "It's a Good Life" and "Nightmare at 20,000 ...

Lies
1983
as Producer
Struggling actress accepts high paying job to play a rich heiress committed in a lunatic asylum, not knowing she's really being set up as a surrogate ...

Heart Like a Wheel
1983
as Mickey White
Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite the high risks of this kind of raci...

Vortex
1982
as Bit Part
A film noirish atmosphere is created to show detective Lunch (a popular underground musician and poet) plow her way through the plans of a corporate b...

White Dog
1982
as Animal Trainer
A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that’s been raised to kill black people.

National Lampoon's Movie Madness
1982
as Dr. Hans Kleiner ("Success Wanters")
A parody of film genres composed of three shorts, spoofing personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories.

The Aftermath
1982
as Broadcaster (voice)
After a lengthy space mission, two astronauts (Steve Barkett and Larry Latham) return to an Earth transformed by nuclear war. As renegade gangs and mu...

Heartbeeps
1981
as Factory Watchman
Two domestic robots fall in love and run off together.

Smokey Bites the Dust
1981
as Owner of Vehicle
Follows the rivalry between a small-town Southern sheriff and a small-town delinquent who steals cars and then destroys them with the sheriff’s daught...

The Howling
1981
as Walter Paisley - Bookstore Owner
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they s...

Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype
1980
as Irsil / Orson
An ugly, misshapen podiatrist ingests a formula made by a colleague and turns into a handsome, devil-may-care (but violent) ladies' man.

Used Cars
1980
as Man In Bed
When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the ...

The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood
1980
as New York Cop
Xaviera Hollander has to navigate some sleazy studio politics to see the production of the film version of her memoirs.

1941
1979
as Officer Miller
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.

The Lady in Red
1979
as Patek
A farm girl's life turns upside down after she moves to Chicago and becomes trapped in a vicious cycle of prostitution and crime.

Rock 'n' Roll High School
1979
as Police Chief
A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration.

Piranha
1978
as Buck Gardner
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.

Corvette Summer
1978
as Mr. Lucky
Ken loves to design and build exotic cars. When the High School shop class project car, a fully tricked out dream Corvette, is stolen, he begins searc...

I Wanna Hold Your Hand
1978
as Sergeant Brenner
If they missed Beatles' first appearance in the U.S.A. they would hate themselves for the rest of their lives! So four young girls from New Jersey set...

Starhops
1978
as Jerry
After the owner of a failing drive-in restaurant sells his establishment, two waitresses and a French chef try to turn it around.

Game Show Models
1977
as Joe Lippin - Game Show Host
Stuart Guber has decided to drop back into society, by leaving his performance artist girlfriend and accepting a job working for a top record label. T...

New York, New York
1977
as Palm Club Owner
An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long up...

Mr. Billion
1977
as Bernie
An Italian mechanic finds that he has inherited a billion-dollar company from his dead uncle, but he needs to be in San Francisco in 20 days to sign o...

Vigilante Force
1976
as Pianist (uncredited)
In a small town in California, the quiet citizens find their lives disrupted by boisterous, lawless oil-field workers who have infested their communit...

Moving Violation
1976
as Mac
A young drifter and small-town waitress witness a corrupt sheriff murder his own deputy. Framed for the murder and pursued by the sheriff, they run fo...

Cannonball
1976
as Bennie Buckman
Coy "Cannonball" Buckman and his blazing red Pontiac enter the Trans-America Grand Prix, an underground road race spanning the continent in which ther...

Hollywood Boulevard
1976
as Walter Paisley
A Midwestern ingenue arrives in Hollywood to try her luck as an actress. An incompetent agent hooks her up with a production company which specializes...

Darktown Strutters
1975
as Officer Hugo
When a prominent abortion clinic owner goes missing along with a string of other black community leaders, her singing daughter and her fellow female b...

White Line Fever
1975
as Birdie
An independent trucker with a pregnant wife fights cargo crooks and the big shot they work for.

Crazy Mama
1975
as Wilbur Janeway
Melba Stokes, her mother Sheba and daughter Cheryl embark on a crime spree after their California beauty parlor is repossessed. Their destination is A...

Death Race 2000
1975
as Chicken Gang (uncredited)
In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians. Five tea...

Capone
1975
as Joe Pryor
Young Al Capone catches the eye of Johnny Torrio, a criminal visiting New York from Chicago. Torrio invites Capone to move to Illinois to help run his...

Big Bad Mama
1974
as Bonney
Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law.

Summer School Teachers
1974
as Sam
A trio of naive, but eager young Midwestern women go to California to teach summer school classes at Regency High School: Perky and willful Conklin T....

Truck Turner
1974
as Fogarty
Truck Turner and his partner Jerry, who make their living as bounty hunters in Los Angeles, are hired to hunt down Gator, a pimp who has skipped bail.

TNT Jackson
1974
Writer
A woman encounters thugs and drug dealers after traveling to Hong Kong to search for her missing brother.

Candy Stripe Nurses
1974
as Spectator
Young, sexy nurses and their hospital adventures: free-loving Sandy tries to cure a rock star of his sexual problems, uptight Dianne has an affair wit...

Executive Action
1973
as Rifleman - Team B
Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this specu...

The Slams
1973
as Taxi Driver
Rival prison factions surround a Los Angeles convict who has $1.5 million stashed on the outside.

The Student Teachers
1973
as Coach Harris
Sexy student teachers at Valley High School give private lessons while being terrorized by a mad rapist

Fly Me
1973
as Taxi Driver
Stewardesses battle kung fu killers.

The Young Nurses
1973
as Cop
Sexy young nurses apply special therapy in their daily rounds, as they work against a drug ring operating out of the hospital

Night Call Nurses
1972
as Mr. Jensen
The sweet and perky Barbara, the sunny Janis, and the responsible Sandra are a trio of young and attractive nurses who work in the psych ward at a hos...

The Grissom Gang
1971
The Grissom Gang is a remake of the notorious 1949 British melodrama No Orchids For Miss Blandish. Kim Darby plays a 1920s-era debutante who is kidnap...

Which Way to the Front?
1970
Story
Brendan Byers III, one of the richest men in America, has been pronounced 4-F and can't serve his country in its war against Hitler. Byers does not ta...

The Andersonville Trial
1970
as Sketch Artist
A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.

Four Rode Out
1969
Writer
In this western, a Mexican desperado tries to flee his partner, a determined girl friend, and a US Marshal.

The Legend of Lylah Clare
1968
as Reporter at Press Party
A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.

Targets
1968
as Stefan (archive footage) (uncredited)
An aging horror-movie icon's fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles.

The Wild Racers
1968
as Pit Crew Mechanic
Promising young racing car driver Joe Joe Quillico leaves the stock car racing scene in the United States in order to pursue Grand Prix racing in Euro...

The Trip
1967
as Cash
After his wife leaves him, a disillusioned director dives into the drug scene, trying anything his friend suggests.

A Time for Killing
1967
as Zollicoffer
During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison and head for the Mexican border. Along the way, they kill a Union courier bearin...

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1967
as Gangster Dressed as a Cop (uncredited)
Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as ...

The Dirty Dozen
1967
as MP at Hanging (uncredited)
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. Th...

The Wild Angels
1966
as Oil Rigger
A motorcycle gang arrives in a small town in search of a motorcycle that has been stolen by a rival gang; but, pursued by the police, one of its membe...

Wild, Wild Winter
1966
as Rilk
Low-budget beach party rip-off relocated to the slopes, with the plot of Taming of the Shrew loosely pasted on and with beats by the Beau Brummels.

Beach Ball
1965
as Cop #1
Edd Byrnes tries to get an ethnic-music-studies grant to buy instruments for his rock and roll group.

Ski Party
1965
as Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Two college boys from SoCal attend a spring break vacation at a ski lodge in Idaho to get insider tips on how the president of the ski club manages to...

The Girls on the Beach
1965
as First Waiter
The girls of Alpha Beta need to raise $10,000 in two weeks to save the sorority house. Among their schemes to raise the funds are a beauty contest, a ...

X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
1963
as John Trask (uncredited)
A doctor uses special eye drops to give himself x-ray vision, but the new power has disastrous consequences.

The Terror
1963
as Stefan
Lt. Andre Duvalier awakens on a beach to the sight of a strange woman who leads him to the gothic, towering castle that serves as home to an eerie bar...

The Premature Burial
1962
as Mole
An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him.

Atlas
1961
as Greek Soldier (uncredited)
Evil king Praximedes convinces superhero Atlas to fight for him, but Atlas eventually sees the king's true nature and turns against him.

The Little Shop of Horrors
1960
as Burson Fouch
Seymour works in a skid row florist shop and is in love with his beautiful co-worker, Audrey. He creates a new plant that not only talks but cannot su...

A Bucket of Blood
1959
as Walter Paisley
Nerdy Walter Paisley, a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful co-worker,...

War of the Satellites
1958
as Dave Boyer
An "unknown force" declares war against planet Earth when the United Nations disobeys warnings to cease and desist in its attempts at assembling the f...

Sorority Girl
1957
as Mort
A poor-little-rich-girl feels alienated by her mother and enacts a string of revenges on her fellow pupils at a girls' boarding school.

Carnival Rock
1957
as Benny
An ocean-side nightclub owner loves a singer who only has eyes for a gambler.

Rock All Night
1957
as Shorty
Cloud Nine, the local teen hangout, has been taken over by a pair of escaped killers, who hold the local teens hostage. The bartender realizes it's up...

The Undead
1957
as The Leper
Two psychics place a prostitute under hypnosis in order to learn about her past-life experiences. When they unwittingly send her back in time, she fin...

Not of This Earth
1957
as Joe Piper
An alien from planet Davanna, whose population has developed a terminal blood disease caused by nuclear radiation, is sent to Earth to acquire fresh h...

Naked Paradise
1957
as Mitch
Gangster Zac Cotton and his two henchmen, Mitch and Sonny, try to get a boat to get off a tropical island after a botched robbery heist.

It Conquered the World
1956
as Sgt. Neil
An alien from Venus tries to take over the world with the help of a disillusioned human scientist, as his wife, his best friend and the friend's wife ...

The Oklahoma Woman
1956
as Bartender
After six years in jail Steve returns to claim a ranch left him in a will. The town is in the middle of a rough election masterminded by saloon owner ...

Gunslinger
1956
as Jimmy Tonto
After her husband is gunned down, Rose Hood takes his place as sheriff of a small Western town.

Apache Woman
1955
as Tall Tree
A government agent ventures west to look into reports that Apaches are behind a recent wave of frontier attacks. Begins to suspect a set-up.