A true scene stealer, the character actor Dick Miller was a Navy veteran who earned a Phd in psychology, even while he was already appearing on stage.  His 1952 move from New York to California was originally so that he could pursue a career as a writer.  Instead, he ended up becoming one of the most beloved members of Roger Corman’s stock company.  (Famously, in 1952’s Apache Woman, he played both a Native American and the townsperson who shot him.)  Many of the directors who started their careers under Roger Corman continued to cast Dick Miller in their own films, keeping Miller busy as a character actor.  Miller worked with everyone from Martin Scorsese to Joe Dante to James Cameron to Steven Spielberg to Jim Wynorski.  Miller often played characters named Walter Paisley, a reference to his first starring role in Corman’s A Bucket of Blood.

In this scene from 1981’s The Howling, Dick Miller lets two reporters know what’s truly going on with the werewolves.