Doomed Day Machine

Denny Miller, a classic “hey it’s that guy” of the Bolt VanderHuge variety with a resume combining lead roles in Z-grade dreck like Doomsday Machine, a film annotated by the stars of Cinematic Titanic, and guest starring roles on scores of TV shows, including a stint on Dallas as Max Flowers, Cliff’s foreman on an oil platform who JR bribes to slow down production so that Cliff will default on the loans that he took to secure the offshore oil drilling leases that JR had conned him into buying in the first place, and, in a staggering coincidence, a meathead security guard in an episode of Magnum, PI that I was watching when I learned that Miller was dead, has died at the age of 80. He also played the Visitor Trooper in V who figures out Mike Donovan has infiltrated a Visitor ship, an MP in an episode of MASH, Carol Brady’s high school boyfriend on The Brady Bunch, Tongo the Ape Man on an episode of Gilligan’s Island and for 14 years, he was the Gorton’s Fisherman.