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| Herman Miranda | |
| Aliases: | None |
| Continuity: | Sleepaway Camp film series |
| Notability: | Supporting character |
| Type: | Business owner |
| Gender: | Male |
| Race: | Human |
| Location: | New York |
| Associations: | Camp New Horizons |
| Relatives: | Lilly Miranda |
| Status: | Deceased |
| Born: | 1939 [1] |
| Died: | July, 1989 |
| First: | Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland |
| Actor: | Michael J. Pollard |
Herman Miranda is a fictional business owner and a supporting character featured in the Sleepaway Camp film series. Played by actor Michael J. Pollard, he appeared in the 1989 film Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland.
Biography[]
Herman Miranda was a middle-aged man who was in his apparent early fifties in the late 1980s. He was married to Lilly Miranda and together the purchased Camp Rolling Hills, which had been shut down in 1988 following a mass murder perpetuated by deranged camp counselor Angela Baker. Herman and Lilly rebranded the site as Camp New Horizons and re-opened it the following year. The Mirandas invited a news crew out to the site to promote it under its new name and new initiative, which focused on bringing in campers from different walks of life for an "experiment in sharing". Lilly tried to keep knowledge of the campground's notorious history away from public knowledge as much as possible.
Unbeknownst to his wife, Herman began carrying on an affair with one of the regulars at the camp site - an underage girl named Jan Hernandez. When the campers were separated into different squads, Herman made sure to take charge of the group that Jan was in.
Angela Baker, using an assumed name, infiltrated the camp as one of the counselors, and the nightmare of murder continued once again. Angela caught Herman after he had finished having sex with Jan and attacked him. She beat him with a broken log, which she then smashed into his face, killing him. She then killed Jan moments later.
Notes & Trivia[]
- The character of Herman Miranda was created by director Michael A. Simpson and screenwriter Fritz Gordon based on concepts originally developed by Robert Hiltzik.
- Actor Michael J. Pollard was 50-years-old when he played the role of Herman Miranda.
- Herman and Lilly Miranda are named after Herman and Lily Munster from The Munsters. Nobody knows why.
- Angela killed Herman primarily for having sex with an underage camper. Ironically however, had Angela not committed a massacre the year prior then Herman and Lily would not have purchased Camp Rolling Hills and none of this would have even happened. Odds are however, that Herman would have likely just found someone else.
- Herman wore a large buckle on his belt with the image of the Playboy rabbit on it.
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- ↑ Year of birth approximated based upon the age of actor Michael J. Pollard.