Midgets in movies

[Mr. Bronson]

A while back I watched two movies with a little person as the lead character in each. They were James Bond spoofs made in the Philippines named For Your Height Only  (1981) and The Impossible Kid (1982). Both were entertaining bad movies.

Midgets in movies is a good thing.

Can anyone name more movies with midgets?

[Dwight]

Full Moon Pictures movies are full of midgets, there's one that comes out very often who
is a good "character actor". Let's see Ghoulies, Troll, Blood Moon, theres one I bougt a
while back thats got a midget Frankenstein werewolf and mummy, There's one called raw
meat (I think) featuring the actor who is the lead character from Willow (There's plenty there too)
playinga character called "Plates" who launches freshly washed plates with deadly precission.

Speaking of character actors, has Lance Henriksen cloned himself? I see him everywhere.

[Rev. Powell]

Don't forget the classic THE TERROR OF TINY TOWN.  Of course little people played significant roles in THE WIZARD OF OZ and UNDER THE RAINBOW, not to mention FREAKS.

[Psycho Circus]

THE SINFUL DWARF and SWAMP THING spring to mind for me...

[Skull]

Leprechaun, Phantasm, Child's Play (assuming the actor was a Midget)

[retrorussell]

Don't forget Time Bandits!

[Cthulhu]

Living in oblivion comes to mind.

[Flick James]

Don't forget the classic THE TERROR OF TINY TOWN.  Of course little people played significant roles in THE WIZARD OF OZ and UNDER THE RAINBOW, not to mention FREAKS.

UNDER THE RAINBOW!! Wow, Rev, that's one I haven't seen in many a blue moon. What a crappy movie, but somehow I remember liking it when I was a young teen. Perhaps that was because Carrie Fisher was still hot then.

[Jim H]

Full Moon Pictures movies are full of midgets, there's one that comes out very often who
is a good "character actor". Let's see Ghoulies, Troll, Blood Moon, theres one I bougt a
while back thats got a midget Frankenstein werewolf and mummy, There's one called raw
meat (I think) featuring the actor who is the lead character from Willow (There's plenty there too)
playinga character called "Plates" who launches freshly washed plates with deadly precission.

Speaking of character actors, has Lance Henriksen cloned himself? I see him everywhere.

Warwick Davis is Willow.  He's also Wicket in Return of the Jedi - a part he played when he was like 12 or 13, probably making him the coolest kid in school, dwarf or not. 

One of the better dwarf actors is Peter Dinklage, who I best remember from Elf.  Phil Fondacaro is one of the best known ones - he's in Land of the Dead, Willow, Ghoulies II, and numerous others. 

[Flick James]

Speaking of Warwick Davis, how about the Leprechaun franchise? That's Warwick Davis as well.

[Flick James]

From Star Wars to Willow to Leprechaun. An unfortunate career arch.

[Mr. DS]

From Star Wars to Willow to Leprechaun. An unfortunate career arch.

Well he did bounce to the Harry Potter series as Professor Flitwick.  And did appear in the Chronicles of Narnia, Prince Caspian.  Those are pretty big franchises.  

Phil Fondacaro in Hard Rock Zombies Comes to mind.  He was also in Blood Dolls.  

Theres the sadist midget in Bloodsucking Freaks.

More mainstream films like Pirates Of The Carribean and Austin Powers comes to mind.

[RCMerchant]

Angelo Rossitto!


Here he is in Al Adamson's DRACULA VS.FRANKENSTEIN (1971)

He was in HUNDREDS mof films and TV shows! Among them....
.MAD MAX:BEYOND THUNDERDOME (1985)
.LITTLE CIGARS (1973)
.BRAIN OF BLOOD (1971)
.THE MAGIC SWORD (1962)
.INVASION OF THE SAUCERMEN (1957)
.MESA OF LOST WOMEN (1953)
.SCARED TO DEATH (1947) w/ Bela Lugosi
.THE SPIDER WOMAN (1944)
.THE CORPSE VANISHES (1942) w/ Lugosi
.SPOOKS RUN WILD (1941) again with Bela!
.CHILD BRIDE (1938)
.FREAKS (1932)
.SEVEN FOOTPRINTS TO SATAN (1929)
WHILE THER CITY SLEEPS (1927) w/ Lon Chaney Sr.!!!!

[retrorussell]

Was it High Plains Drifter where Billy Barty was in it with Clint Eastwood?

[retrorussell]

And one of the cameramen for Weird Al was a midget in UHF.