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Warwick Davis at an event for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

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Warwick Davis

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  • Runs Willow Personal Management, "The biggest agency for short actors in the world".
  • Warwick's grandmother heard a radio announcement calling for people under 4 feet in height to try out for Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983). She took him, then 2-foot-11, to the audition. He was originally cast as a background Ewok, but his role was expanded during filming as he impressed the filmmakers, and when Kenny Baker fell ill, Warwick was chosen to take his place in the key role of the first Ewok met by Princess Leia.
  • He owned a line of Star Wars action figures as a kid. When he was cast in "Return of the Jedi", Mark Hamill bought Warwick a set of action figures that wasn't in his collection.
  • Met his wife Samantha Davis when she was an extra on the set of Willow (1988).
  • Cast as the body of Marvin the Paranoid Android in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), while Marvin's voice was provided by Alan Rickman. Coincidentally, both actors play characters in the Harry Potter film series.
  • His first son, Lloyd, died shortly after birth in September 1991 His second son, George, also died shortly after birth.
  • Davis said in his audio commentary for Willow (1988) that the question he gets asked most frequently by fans is "What was it like to work with Val Kilmer?". Davis said he has very fond memories of working with Val, describing him as having a great, "wacky" sense of humor and being very passionate and dedicated to the job.
  • With his leading roles in Willow and the Leprechaun series, at 3'6 he is one of Hollywood's shortest leading actors, if not the world's shortest leading actor.
  • Portrayed Wicket Wysrti Warrick the Ewok in four films: Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), The Ewok Adventure (1984), Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985) and Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019).
  • Brother-in-law of actress Hayley Burroughs, son-in-law of actor Peter Burroughs.
  • He has appeared in two different adaptations of C.S. Lewis's 1951 fantasy novel "Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia": Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1989) and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008). He played Reepicheep in the former and Nikabrik in the latter.
  • Did not have any lines in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002). Also, this was the last time his primary character, Professor Filius Flitwick, appeared with a beard. (In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), he was credited as "Wizard", and his clean-shaven appearance was used as Flitwick's appearance for the remainder of the franchise.
  • Beginning with 'Wicket' in Return of the Jedi, all of his character names in Star Wars features start with the letter 'w'. The others are: Wald (The Phantom Menace), Wollivan (The Force Awakens), Weeteef Cyubee (Rogue One), Wodibin (The Last Jedi), and Weazel (Solo).
  • One of 14 cast members to appear in all eight "Harry Potter" movies. Besides his role as Professor Flitwick in every movie except Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010), he appeared as Gringott's Goblin, Griphook, in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) (also dubbing Verne Troyer's lines in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001), uncredited), and appeared as a Ministry Goblin (again, uncredited) in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007).
  • In 2014, Eric Potts directed Philip King's "See How They Run" for a UK touring production featuring short actors by Warwick Davis's Reduced Height Theatre Company, where Davis also portrayed The Reverend Lionel Toop. The fine cast of this acclaimed production also included Rachel Denning as Penelope Toop, Francesca Mills as Ida the Maid, Francesca Papagno as Miss Skillon, Phil Holden as Lance-Corporal Clive Winton, Raymond Griffiths as The Intruder, Jon Key as The Bishop of Lax, Jamie John as The Reverend Arthur Humphrey, and Peter Bonner as Sergeant Towers.
  • First name is pronounced "Warrick".
  • Currently appearing on Celebrity Scissorhands - A charity hairdressing show - on BBC3 in the UK (November 2007)
  • Attended The Scandinavian Sci-Fi, Game & Film Convention in Helsingborg, Sweden (October 2009)

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