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Billy Barty
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Actor Born: October 25, 1924 in Millsboro, PA Death: December 23, 2000 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:American dwarf actor "Billy Barty" always claimed to have been born in the early '20s, but the evidence of his somewhat wizened, all-knowing countenance in his film appearances of the 1930s would suggest that he was at least ten years shy of the whole truth. At any rate, Barty made many film appearances from at least 1931 onward, most often cast as bratty children due to his height. He was a peripheral member of an Our Gang rip-off in the Mickey McGuire comedy shorts, portrayed the infant-turned-pig in "Alice in Wonderland" (1933), he did a turn in blackface as a "shrunken" Eddie Cantor in "Roman Scandals" (also 1933), and he frequently popped up as a lasciviously leering baby in the risqué musical highlights of "Busby Berkeley"'s Warner Bros. films. One of Barty's most celebrated cinema moments occurred in 1937's "Nothing Sacred", in which, playing a small boy, he pops up out of nowhere to bite... Full Biography
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