He also starred as a MacGuyver-type action hero in The Wizard.
You haven’t named any fictional characters with defined heights, only real people who became movie characters. Why is that?
Fonzie was supposed to be 6’ tall, but was played by 5’6" Henry Winkler.
Wolverine is 5’4" or less, but was played by 6’2.5" Hugh Jackman.
Is this meant to be a legitimate objection to my idea, or are you trying to make a joke?
William Wallace: 6’7"
Mel Gibson: 5’8"
difference : 11"
A role played by a dwarf which hasn’t been mentioned yet - There was a dwarf villain on the old “Wild Wild West” TV show, but that show was really never very serious.
Anyone else remember the “Under the Rainbow” movie aobut the littlle actors who were in the Wizard of Oz?
Max dated a dwarf on the first season of “Picket Fences.”
Also the dispatcher with ESP, whose name I forget was awful short if not an actual dwarf.
You sound a lot like a guy looking for an argument. I did not say that actors tend to be shorter than the public at large, only that there are a considerable number. I could easily find 20 famous actors under 5’8" but why would I bother? The fact that you find it interesting that there are very few male actors between 4’10" and 5’3" does not in fact make it so.
“Little Man Syndrome”
Kidding!
See my earlier post.
Note that I took the OP’s question about “serious” to mean that movies such as “Under the Rainbow” and “Foul Play” (and Billy Barty was in both) which were comedies with little people playing comic roles were excluded.
Michael Dunn as Dr. Miguelito Loveless, mentioned in Post 27 for his role in Ship of Fools. He also played Alexander in the Star Trek original series episode Plato’s Stepchildren, which was definitely not a comic role.
Mentioned right off in the OP:
The Terror Of Tiny Town a western with an all-dwarf cast.
I’ve not seen it. Reports vary, some say it’s its a comedy, but not a very good one. Others say it’s intended to be serious, and only funny by accident.
Tony Blair’s wife complained that the actor portraying her husband in The Queen was too short.
Either Don Adams was too short to be Agent 86, or Barbara Feldon was too tall to be Agent 99, because in Get Smart they almost always had Adams standing on a crate or other platform (off camera) to make it seem as though he was taller than Feldon.
Miller writes:
> Is this meant to be a legitimate objection to my idea, or are you trying to make
> a joke?
Partly it’s a joke. I’m 4’11", so I could be cast as Miles. I don’t think it likely that they would cast Dinklage, who’s 6" too short for the role.
Shit, Wendell. I hope you’re not offended. I know we’ve met, but I honestly do not remember your height. If my comment was offensive, please accept my apology. It’s a classic case of foot-in-mouth, with no ill intent at all. A nightmare, really.
The soap “Passions” had a doll brought to life by the resident witch Tabitha, played by the incomparable Josh Ryan Evans. While the character was comic relief at first, he became a very influential and much loved charcter. There was real sadness when Evans died unexpectedly, and Tabitha still thinks about him (unlike most soap characters, who when they die all mention of them disappears in a month)
The Station Agent is a great movie…I love Peter Dinklage. This past weekend I saw Frankie Starlight, which also is a serious movie with a little person as the lead.
CSI had an episode with a murder at a Little People’s convention, so there were oodles of serious roles there.
I remember George Jefferson receiving an award from what he thought was the Small Businessmen’s Association–the “small” modifying “business” but it was actually modifying “man” and a critic of Jefferson’s height. The Jeffersons only realized it when they got to the presentation ceremony and realized that everyone in the room was very short, and some were dwarves.
Sherman Hemsley who portrayed George Jefferson was 5’6"