How many of you love the movie ‘Gremlins’? Talking about my dad Hoyt Axton aka the dad from ‘Gremlins’ on The Wildwood Flower Radio Hour with Kenny Feinstein ! One of the cool things people have told me is that they loved my dad so much in ‘Gremlins’, they used to wish he was their dad! ‘Gremlins’ was his most famous role, but he was also in movies like ‘The Black Stallion’ & he had guest starring roles on a ton of TV shows including “Bonanza”, “I Dream of Jeannie”, “McCloud”, “WKRP In Cincinnat

Here’s a clip of my dad Hoyt Axton in his most famous acting role in the movie ‘Gremlins’ in 1984, plus part of a CNN interview about the movie. He played the main character Billy’s dad, Mr. Peltzer, a struggling inventor, who buys his son a pet creature called a Mogwai (Cantonese for “the devil”) for Christmas from an antique store in Chinatown. The owner’s grandson, who secretly sells Mr. Peltzer the Mogwai, tells him three important rules: don’t expose it to light, don’t get it wet, & don’t f