A Film Giant has passed on... Billy Barty exits stage left

As seen on AICN:

:::dons black armband:::

Too bad, all right. A funny guy.
Was he also the little guy in The Harmonicats, Ed Sullivan act?

I guess the Billy Barty is Dead thread is also dead, so I’ll post here.

Barty was also a hobbit in Ralph Bakshi’s Lord of the Rings. The film was rotoscoped (i.e., the animation was “drawn over” actual footage of the actors) so you can tell it’s Billy Barty by his movements, in addition to his voice.