Midgets in movies

[SPazzo]

Kenny Baker as R2-D2. 



Also, there was a dwarf in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, played by Verne Troyer.  I actually liked him in that movie.

[Pilgermann]

Angelo Rossitto!


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

God, I need to finish watching that film.  It came on really late at night recently and I was enjoying it but I was too sleepy to finish it.  Rossitto also had a very small role in Something Wicked This Way Comes, a favorite film of mine.

Lots of good films have been mentioned.  I'll add Even Dwarfs Started Small; a strange but great film with a cast of all little people.  The entire thing can be found on YouTube, I think.

[RCMerchant]

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

Close! But no cigar! That was Billy Curtis...who also starred in LITTLE CIGARS (about a midget gangster). He was also the mayor of Munchkin Land in the WIZARD OF OZ. Whish also starred....Billy Barty!-who was one of the Lollipop Kids!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhjRUKCKIG4

[Trevor]

Jordan Prentice in In Bruges. 

I could add Adeleine Poerio in Don't Look Now to this but 

[3mnkids]

Feast 2
Death at a funeral

[AndyC]

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory had quite a few midgets playing Oompa Loompas.

Speaking of which, Deep Roy, who played all the Oompa Loompas in the remake, has been in a lot of really good movies, as well as a few that were bad but well-known just the same. Return of the Jedi (and not as an Ewok!), The Pink Panther Strikes Again, The Dark Crystal, The Neverending Story, the Star Trek reboot, and a few classic TV shows, including Doctor Who during the Tom Baker years.

[vukxfiles]

Sorry guys, but isn't midget a degradory term?

[AndyC]

Sorry guys, but isn't midget a degradory term?

True. They prefer to be called "little people" which is more dignified for some reason that escapes me.

[retrorussell]

Foul Play.

[JaseSF]

Michael Dunn was brilliant as Alexander is Star Trek's "Plato's Stepchildren". He also had a recurring role on "Wild Wild West" as Dr. Miguelito Loveless and made appearances on other TV series such as "Get Smart", "Bonanza", "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and "Burke's Law". He also turned up perhaps most notably to bad movie fans in MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE (1971), THE WEREWOLF OF WASHINGTON, DR. FRANKENSTEIN'S CASTLE OF FREAKS, HOUSE OF THE DAMNED (1974) and THE MUTATIONS (1974)

[Jim H]

Sorry guys, but isn't midget a degradory term?

True. They prefer to be called "little people" which is more dignified for some reason that escapes me.

Dwarf is generally accepted as well, which is what I call them.  Considering they have dwarfism, that's what I call 'em.

[AndyC]

Sorry guys, but isn't midget a degradory term?

True. They prefer to be called "little people" which is more dignified for some reason that escapes me.

Dwarf is generally accepted as well, which is what I call them.  Considering they have dwarfism, that's what I call 'em.

That's my preference as well. It's the proper term, neither a nickname nor a vague PC term.

Although, for some reason, it just seems more fitting to use "midget" in a discussion of cheesy movies.

[Trevor]

Jason "Wee-Man" Acuna is my favourite little person ~ seems like a genuinely nice person. His comment on the Jackass #2 soundtrack went like this:

JA: "Thanks for [Ryan] Dunn being here."
RD: "Huh?" 
JA: "&^%$#@, throwing out *&^%$ M-bombs all day."

[Mr. Bronson]

Wow, that's a lot of movies with little people, thanks for the titles.

I've just seen Forbidden Zone (1982) with Herve Villechaize as King Fausto of the Sixth Dimension. It's a very weird and creative movie. If you like strange movies you might want to see it.

[Raffine]

I'm glad RC mentioned LITTLE CIGARS aka THE LITTLE CIGARS MOB (1973)!

Angel Tompkins stars as a gangster's moll who hooks up with a gang of larcenous midgets who do a terrible Vaudville-type show. Also starring the legendary Billy Curtis (THE TERROR OF TINY TOWN) and Felix Silla (Cousin Itt on TV's The Addams Family).

Yes, this is a real thing! I saw this at the Beautiful Lake Theater way back when. Comcast's On Demand was showing this one for free a couple of months ago.