Rob DiCaterino · CC BY 2.0

Miller appeared in more than 180 films, most of them for Roger Corman, and became something of a good-luck charm for directors who started their careers under Corman — he appears in every film Joe Dante has ever directed, a distinction shared with no one else in Hollywood. His deadpan turns as the beleaguered everyman ran from Corman's low-budget originals like A Bucket of Blood and The Little Shop of Horrors through Gremlins, The Terminator and The 'Burbs decades later, and his role in Dante's Explorers earned him a Saturn Award nomination.