American character actor (1928–2019), a favourite of directors Roger Corman and Joe Dante, who played a newspaper vendor in The Big Goodbye and the Sanctuary District guard Vin in Past Tense.
Dick Miller was an American character actor, born in 1928, who appeared in scores of films for Roger Corman, starring in A Bucket of Blood, and in nearly every film directed by Joe Dante, including Gremlins. He also has a small role in The Terminator.
In Star Trek: The Next Generation he appears briefly in the first-season episode The Big Goodbye as a news vendor in the Dixon Hill holodeck programme.
His larger role came in 1995 in the Deep Space Nine two-part story Past Tense. He plays Vin, a hard-bitten guard in San Francisco's Sanctuary District A in 2024, who is taken hostage during the Bell Riots and slowly comes to see the residents differently. Miller died in 2019.