Warwick Davis

Warwick Davis (born February 3, 1970, Epsom, Surrey, England, UK) is an actor noted for being short — he is three feet six inches (about one metre) tall.

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February 3 - 1970 - Actor

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He is probably best known as the title character in Willow, Professor Flitwick in the Harry Potter movies, and a murderous leprechaun in the long-running series of horror films of the same name — see Leprechaun (movie).

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Willow - Professor Flitwick - Harry Potter - Leprechaun - Horror film - Leprechaun (movie)

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Other notable roles include Wicket, the Ewok befriended by Princess Leia in ', his first film role. A little known fact is that during production on the film, he made a movie of his own as Wicket, it was a mockumentary made with help from Return of the Jedi's first assistant director, David Tomblin. The unreleased film was a fictional look at his decision to become an actor and act in the movie and his transformation into Wicket the Ewok. He continued the role as Wicket officially in the made-for-TV movies ' and '.

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Wicket - Ewok - Princess Leia - Production - Mockumentary

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He also had two brief uncredited appearances in ' — one as Wald, the young Rodian friend of Anakin Skywalker (i.e., the same race as Greedo); the other is Weazel, one of the gamblers at the podrace.

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Rodian - Anakin Skywalker - Greedo - Podrace

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Warwick Davis also plays the body of Marvin the Paranoid Android in the 2005 film version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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Marvin the Paranoid Android - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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In addition to his acting career, Davis is the co-founder of a talent agency (Willow Management, founded in 1995) that specialises in representing actors under five feet tall. His agency also recently (2004) began representing actors over seven feet tall.

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Unlike most dwarves (70%) who have a condition called achondroplasia, Warwick's dwarfism is caused by an extremely rare genetic condition called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita. On being a little person, Warwick has said the only real drawback to being small was the associated health problems. Of his own dwarfism (SED), Warwick has said "As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height."

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Achondroplasia - Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita

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Warwick is married and has two children. His wife, Samantha (b. 1971) has achondroplasia, as do his children Annabelle (b. 1998) and Harrison (b. 2003).

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