Diminutive actor who toured regularly with the Fred Roper Midget Troupe
(also known as the Famous Wonder Midgets) for 12 years during the 1940s
and 1950s, Ronnie was perhaps best remembered as one of the Ewoks in
the film Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983). He was living near Elstree at the time he was cast in
the movie.
Suffered serious injuries in a sequence of falls at his home and died
on April 27, 2007, at the Lymington (England) Hospital.
The troupe of vaudevillian little people, that performed in South
Africa, England and the U.S., was a favorite act of a young Peter Sellers
when he toured with his performer parents.