15 Star Trek Actors Who Died In 2019

5. Dick Miller (Vin)

Dick Miller was a character actor beyond any and all compare: a face so recognisable that he even had a documentary made about him called That Guy Dick Miller.

In his almost 65-year career, Miller acted in over 180 screen roles, most notably his show-stealing scenes in both Gremlins movies, his part as the gunshop owner in The Terminator, and his lead role in the Roger Corman 1959 comedy-horror classic A Bucket of Blood.

Miller made three appearances in Trek, first showing up as a newspaper vendor in The Next Generation's "The Big Goodbye," before returning for the Deep Space Nine two-parter "Past Tense," where he played Vin, a security guard who gets taken hostage.

The actor continued to take bit-part roles in his later years, before passing away of natural causes on January 30 at the age of 90.