Dick Miller Tribute

Dick Miller Monsterpalooza Highlight Reel from Elijah Drenner on Vimeo.
I've long had a special fondness for character actor Dick Miller. He had a career spanning decades, usually in small supporting parts. He also appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation on the holodeck in "The Big Goodbye" and as a Sanctuary District guard in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's "Past Tense" two-parter. He died this year, age 90, but as you'll see in the tribute video, he has one last film coming out in 2020.

I've seen only 29 films with Miller, just a fraction of his output. I look forward to seeing many more. 

The Stars in My Eyes

Letterboxd Pro tracks the films I watch, and from that database it's generated a list of my most-watched actors. I'm dismayed that there are only two women and one actor of colour on the list, but I'm unsurprised by the rest of the tally, save perhaps for the inclusion of Dick Miller, who as it turns out was in a bunch of 80s genre films I've seen. (In fact, I've actually seen 25 of his films - reviewing his list of credits reveals that I forgot to log InnerSpace, which I saw in theatres way back in 1987. It's these haphazard connections that have helped me make my Letterboxd inventory more accurate as time goes by.)

I didn't recognize Bess Flowers when Letterboxd first generated this list. As it turns out, she's one of Hollywood's most prolific actresses, appearing in over 700 films, including 23 Best Picture nominees, five of which won the award. Bess probably appears on a lot of Most Watched Stars list for this reason - if you're a film fan, it seems you can hardly avoid her.