He was not on the list.
Joseph Wayne Miller, who starred in the Disney movie
“Heavyweights” as a Park Ridge teen, died Tuesday in his sleep at the age of
36.
Patricia Clark said her son, who lived in Edison Park,
suffered from sleep apnea.
Miller had a small part as the nephew of Tom Selleck’s
character in the 1992 movie “Folks.” He played “Salami Sam” in the 1995 film
“Heavyweights,” which followed the hijinks at a weight loss camp for boys.
“When we made ‘Heavyweights,’ being around Joe Miller was
pure joy,” Judd Apatow, a writer and producer of the film, told the New York
Post in a statement. “We could not have loved spending time with him more. He
made everyone around him so happy. What a terrible loss.” Co-star Aaron
Schwartz also remembered Miller in an Instagram post.
In a 1995 interview with the Tribune, Miller called the film
“definitely the best thing that has ever happened to me."
Miller went on to graduate from Maine South High School in
2000. His mother said he worked as a radiology technician, a DJ and a property
manager at her office.
“He was always a good time. In the worst of times, he was
the best time,” Clark said.
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