Billy Barty

Also Credited As:

William John Bertanzetti
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Biography

A gleeful, often rascally presence in features and on television for over six decades, actor Billy Barty was unquestionably one of the most recognizable dwarf performers in Hollywood, thanks to countless screen appearances in everything from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1935) to "Foul Play" (1978), "Legend" (1985) and "Masters of the Universe" (1987). He began his career essaying infants and toddlers in impossible scenarios, like the …
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Job Title

Actor, Music

Born

October 25, 1924

LATEST CREDITS

Sigmund and the Sea Monsters

Sigmund Ooz

Being Different

Actor

Rumpelstiltskin

Rumpelstiltskin

Snow White

Iddy

Under the Rainbow

Otto Kriegling

Television: The First 50 Years

Interviewee

Ace Crawford, Private Eye

Inch; the diminutive owner of The Shanty, a bar on the wharf

Masters of the Universe

Gwildor

Lobster Man From Mars

Throckmorton

The Captain and Tennille

Actor

The Bay City Rollers Show

Actor

Willow

High Aldwin

Cheryl Ladd: Scenes From a Special

Actor

Vaudeville

Actor

Night Patrol

Captain Lewis

Doctor Shrinker

Hugo; the doctor's assistant

Pufnstuf

Actor

The Amazing Dobermans

Clown

Don't Call Us

Lloyd; a client

Legend

Screwball

Great Day

Billy; a derelict

Peter Gunn

Babby; a pool hustler, one of Gunn's contacts

Circus Boy

Little Tom; circus performer

The Bugaloos

Sparky; firefly

Bob Hope Special: Bob Hope's Star-Studded Spoof of the New TV Season -- G Rated -- With Glamour, Glitter & Gags

Actor