Photo Credit: DAVID HARRISON Warwick Davis (born February 3, 1970) is an actor noted for being short — he is three feet six inches (about one metre) tall.
He is probably best known as Wicket, the Ewok befriended by Princess Leia in Return of the Jedi, his first film role. He continued the role in the made for TV movies The Ewok Adventure: Caravan of Courage and Ewoks: The Battle for Endor.
He also had two brief uncredited appearances in The Phantom Menace — one as Wald, the young Rodian friend of Anakin Skywalker (i.e., the same race as Greedo); the other is Weazel, one of the gamblers at the podrace.
Other notable roles include the title character in Willow, Professor Flitwick in the Harry Potter movies, and a murderous leprechaun in the long-running series of horror films of the same name — see Leprechaun (movie).
Warwick Davis is also cast to play the body of Marvin the Paranoid Android in the upcoming film version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
In addition to his acting career, Davis is the co-founder of a talent agency that specialises in representing actors under five feet tall.
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