Jonathan Haze, the actor who played the role of Seymour in the original “The Little Shop of Horrors” movie, has died at the age of 95.

Jonathan’s daughter, Rebecca Haze, told Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter that Jonathan died “peacefully of natural causes” on Saturday at his Los Angeles home.

Haze’s performance as Seymour in 1960’s “The Little Shop of Horrors,” which centers on a plant with a taste for human blood, would inspire countless others in the following decades. The movie was adapted into an off-Broadway musical in 1982 and made into a 1986 movie musical starring Rick Moranis as Seymour. “Little Shop of Horrors” has since played on Broadway, London’s West End and in high school theaters nationwide.

Speaking at a fan event in 2001, Haze shared that the filming of “The Little Shop of Horrors” was particularly grueling. “All the interior scenes in the movie were done in two days, they were like 20-hour days, and then we went out on the streets and did three nights with a second unit, with a totally different crew. It was insane,” Haze said. “We were shooting actually on Skid Row, using real bums as extras. We would pay them 10 cents a walk-through.”

The actor added that he was paid only $400 for his work on the film.

“I don’t think any of us would have been as successful if he hadn’t been on top of what he was doing,” actress Jackie Joseph, who played Audry Fulquard, told author Tom Weaver for his 1998 book, “Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Flashbacks.”

Haze “had practically all the pressure on him,” Joseph added.

“It’s funny to think of ‘professionalism’ when you think of something as dopey as ‘Little Shop,’ but there definitely were professionals on that stage.”

Born Jack Aaron Schachter, Jonathan Haze began his career working the stage for his cousin, drummer Buddy Rich, before spending two years as the stage manager for legendary dancer and singer Josephine Baker.

The acting bug bit Haze during a summer in Connecticut, and shortly after, he hitchhiked to LA.

Haze shared a longtime collaboration with the director of “The Little Shop of Horrors,” Roger Corman. Corman produced Haze’s film debut, the 1954 B-movie “Monster from the Ocean Floor,” directed by Wyott Ordung, who discovered Haze while he was working at a gas station.

“There’s a part for you, a Mexican,” Corman reportedly told Haze after Ordung introduced him to the filmmaker. “But you’ll have to grow a mustache. You’ll also have to bring your own costumes, do your own stunts, and you won’t be paid overtime. You still want it?”

The actor found work in another Corman-produced movie in 1954, playing a supporting role in the crime drama, “The Fast and the Furious.” The following year, Haze appeared in Corman’s directorial debut, “Five Guns West,” a western starring John Lund and Dorothy Malone.

Haze would appear in many more Corman pictures, including “Apache Woman,” “Day the World Ended,” “Gunslinger,” “The Oklahoma Woman,” “It Conquered the World,” “Swamp Women,” “Naked Paradise,” “Not of This Earth,” “Rock All Night,” “Carnival Rock” and “The Viking Women and the Sea Serpent” (aka “The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent”), among others.

His final work on a Corman project was in 1999 when he made a cameo on the director’s TV series “The Phantom Eye.”

Outside of acting, Haze penned the screenplay for “Invasion of the Star Creatures” (1962), was a production manager on Haskell Wexler‘s film “Medium Cool” (1969) and produced “Another Nice Mess” (1972) along with Tom Smothers. He then became the CEO of a company that produced commercials for companies like United Airlines, Kool-Aid, Schlitz Beer and more during the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s.

Haze is survived by two daughters, Rebecca and Deedee; three grandchildren, Andre, Rocco and Ruby; and a great-grandson, Sonny.