Michael J. Pollard, a legendary character actor who was featured in Bonnie and Clyde, the original Star Trek, and House of 1000 Corpses, died in Los Angeles from cardiac arrest on Nov. 21, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He was 80.

Pollard’s breakout role was as C.W. Moss, the gas station attendant who drove getaway cars in the 1967 gangster classic Bonnie and Clyde, starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. The role got Pollard nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar. In a career spanning seven decades, Pollard created many memorable characters. He led the gang of orphan children in the 1966 Star Trek episode “Miri,” which also featured Kim Darby. That same year he played character inspired by Peter Pan in in the Lost in Space episode “The Magic Mirror.” Pollard originated the role of the jealous boyfriend Hugo Peabody in the original Broadway production of Bye Bye Birdie in 1960. The cast included Dick Van Dyke, Chita Rivera and Julie Newmar.

Michael John Pollack Jr. was born in Passaic, N.J., on May 30, 1939. He studied at Montclair Kimberley Academy before training at the Actors Studio in New York City. He appeared on Broadway with Beatty in 1959 in Loss of Roses and would go on to play Bug Bailey in Beatty’s 1990 film Dick Tracy.

Pollard started as a journeyman TV actor, debuting as a shoeshine boy in an episode Alfred Hitchcock Presents in 1959. He played his first lead, as Homer McCauley in the TV adaptation of William Saroyan’s The Human Comedy the same year. He played Maynard G. Krebs’ (Bob Denver) cousin on a 1959 episode of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. He went on to appear as Barney Fife’s (Don Knotts) cousin Virgil on The Andy Griffith Show, and on classic series like Gunsmoke, The Lucy Show and I Spy.