Very Small Actors

[nrabliam]

Apart from John Mills,Alan Ladd,The Bloke who ..remembered ..Mike Le Vell,

(Kevin in Constipation St),Jimmy Clitheroe,and Audie Murphy,can anyone

come up with more.

[will.15]

How do you define very small? John Mills is listed as 5'8."

[Mr Sloane]

I suppose it depends what you mean by very small but Jimmy Cagney ( as big as they come IMHO).

[Ray]

Kirk and Michael Douglas, and Ian McShane. His Imdb profile says he is 5' 9'', I stood next to him in a shop many years ago and he was shorter than me, and I am 5' 7''.

[frame69]

David Jason appears to be a bit short.

Frame.

[Rowdon]

James Dean's official vital statistics at the time put him down as 5' 10", but people now claim he was nearer 5' 5".



I don't know what "very small" means, though.



I was going to start a thread about this more or less, entitled "How tall is Dick Van Dyke?" because I always thought he was pretty tall, but he's repeatedly out-talled by other actors on Diagnosis Murder... but I googled that question and there's a website about actors' heights; however, not much Brit, and not much agreement, as i remember.

[GoggleboxUK]

Danny De Vito, David Rappaport, Ronnie Corbett and the bloke who played Mike the Cool Person in The Younf Ones are all what I'd consider to be very small actors.

[Steve Crook]

name='nrabliam']Apart from John Mills,Alan Ladd,The Bloke who ..remembered ..Mike Le Vell,

(Kevin in Constipation St),Jimmy Clitheroe,and Audie Murphy,can anyone

come up with more.

Are you limiting it to adult humans?







Steve

[Moor Larkin]

[will.15]

[Moor Larkin]

[MrT]

Arthur Askey was only about 5' tall, and from the film Band Waggon, Moore Marriott looks about the same (even allowing for the slight stoop of the "Harbottle" character)



MrT

[Nick Dando]

Hay Petrie, but a larger than life presence on screen.



David Bennent, of Tin Drum and Legend fame.



Nick

[TomDaws]

I remember Ken Campbell introducing David Rappaport during one of his stage extravaganzas...."Ladies and gentlemen - David Rappaport. NOT the smallest actor in the world !"....(pause).....".but bloody close."

[billy bentley]

Aren't most movie stars "short people" ?

[Gerald Lovell]

Short stalwart of many a production - usually uncredited - Willie Shearer.

[SirOllyBolly]

[cornershop15]

I don't know if 'dwarf' or 'midget' are acceptable terms now but aside from the aforementioned David Rappaport and Angelo Muscat -shown in Moor Larkin's picturte - a few others I remember are Kenny Baker, Herve Villechaize (The Man with the Golden Gun, Fantasy Island) and a very good actor called Michael Dunn. He was in two films with George Segal, Ship of Fools and No Way to Treat a Lady. I vageuely remember him in the former, which I haven't seen since 1986, but in the other movie he played someone who confessed to being a serial killer ("I strangled them ... with my bare hands!")! Needless to say, detective George didn't believe him.



The ironically-titled You're a Big Boy Now, an early Francis Ford Coppola film, Joseph Losey's (awful) Boom!, and Madigan are other films I've seen Michael in, but so long ago I've forgotten what he did in any of them. He was a great character but it was sad seeing him looking serious and having so little to do in his final appearance, the Peter Finch-Liv Ullman film, The Abdication, shortly after which he tragically died at just 38.

This is the only good picture I could find - and WHAT a picture:



Michael Dunn Cutting Wedding Cake



Original caption: Michael Dunn, the 3 foot, 10 inch actor who was nominated

for an Academy Award in Ship of Fools cuts the wedding cake with his bride,

Joy Talbot, following their wedding here [in New York on 14th December 1966].

The bride, a former model, is 5 foot 4 inches tall. It's the first marriage for both.

(Bettmann)



All the films I saw Michael in were shown on TV in the mid-to-late 80s but not since. Does anyone else remember him?

[torinfan]

Jerry Maren, Billy Curtis, and Billy Barty?

[torinfan]

I like Phil Fondacaro