He settled in Los Angeles in the mid-1950s, where he was noticed by producer/director Roger Corman, who cast him in most of his low-budget films, often as dislikeable sorts, such as a vacuum-cleaner salesman in Not of This Earth (1957). Navy for a few years and earned a prize title as a middleweight boxer.
Born in the Bronx, New York to Russian Jewish immigrant parents (Isidor 'Ira' and Rita Blucher Miller), Richard Miller served in the U.S.
