R.I.P. Jonathan Haze: ‘Little Shop Of Horrors’ And ‘The Terror’ Actor Dead At 95

1960’s Little Shop of Horrors star Jonathan Haze died on Nov. 2, Deadline reports. He was 95.

The late actor’s daughter Rebecca Haze confirmed the news to the outlet, as well as The Hollywood Reporter, sharing that he passed away in Los Angeles at his home.

Haze starred in the film, which would be turned into an off-Broadway show in 1982 and a movie musical in 1986, as Seymour Krelborn.

Haze was born Jack Aaron Schachter on April 1, 1929 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, per THR. According to the outlet, he was introduced to Roger Corman, director of the original Little Shop of Horrors and several other films he took part in, after meeting Wyott Ordung. He met Ordung while working at a gas station in Los Angeles.

Per a post from Know Your B-Movie Actors on Tumblr, Haze opened up about the experience of working with Corman in a 1976 interview, explaining that “all of the pictures were kind of like family pictures.”

“Everybody in them were friends and people that you’d known and worked with before…,” he continued. “At the time, maybe, we felt everybody was a soloist and that there wasn’t enough motivation for some of the things we were doing, but everybody was very comfortable working with everybody else and there wasn’t a hell of a lot of competition within that whole group of people. Everybody liked each other and it was fun.”

Per IMDb, Haze earned his first on-screen credit in the 1954 sci-fi horror film Monster from the Ocean Floor. Among his other film credits are The Fast and the Furious (1954), East of Eden (1955), Apache Woman (1955), Five Guns West (1955), Gunslinger (1956), The Terror (1963), and Vice Squad (1982). He most recently appeared in Nobody Smiling, which was released in 2010.

He also made some TV cameos, including on Highway Patrol, Navy Log, Dragnet, and 77 Sunset Strip.

Per Deadline, Haze is survived by his two daughters, his three grandchildren, and his great-grandson.