Dick Miller, a character actor whose reputation as a regular in dozens of low-budget movies produced or directed by Roger Corman led to parts in films by acolytes of Mr. Corman like Joe Dante, Martin Scorsese and James Cameron, died on Jan. 30 in Burbank, Calif. He was 90.

His wife, Lainie Miller, said he died after a heart attack and had congestive heart failure and pneumonia.

Mr. Miller was a diminutive actor with an authentic Bronx accent and youthful good looks that later matured into craggier features. In a career that began in the mid-1950s, he appeared in nearly 200 films and television shows.

Mr. Corman cast Mr. Miller in his first film role, as an Indian in the western “Apache Woman” (1955), and he soon became a stock player in Mr. Corman’s relentless stream of horror, science fiction and crime movies.