Billy Barty co-starred with Mickey Rooney in the Mickey McGuire shorts, a comedy series of the 1920s and 1930s based on the Toonerville Folks comics.
26 Facts About Billy Barty
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Billy Barty appeared as The Child in the 1933 film Footlight Parade.
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Billy Barty is briefly seen in the 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein, in an uncredited role as a baby in one of Dr Pretorius' experiments, although his close-ups were cut out of the picture.
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Billy Barty appeared in Fireman Save My Child, and appeared in two Elvis Presley films, Roustabout and Harum Scarum, as a co-star without dialogue.
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Billy Barty appeared several times on The Dennis Day Show, including once as a leprechaun.
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Billy Barty starred in the Rawhide episode "Prairie Elephant" in 1961.
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Billy Barty appeared as a guest host on KTTV's Sheriff John's Lunch Brigade whenever "Sheriff John" Rovick was on vacation.
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Billy Barty made regular appearances on The Red Skelton Hour during the mid-1960s.
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Billy Barty starred in full-body costumes in two children's television shows produced by Sid and Marty Krofft: as "Sparky the Firefly" in The Bugaloos from 1970 to 1972, and as "Sigmund" in Sigmund and the Sea Monsters from 1974 to 1976.
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Billy Barty was a regular cast member of comedian Redd Foxx's variety show The Redd Foxx Show.
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Billy Barty appeared in an episode of Barney Miller in 1977, and an episode of The Love Boat in 1978.
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In June 1978, Billy Barty guest-starred in the final episode of Man from Atlantis titled "Deadly Carnival".
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Billy Barty guest starred in two episodes of Little House on the Prairie playing a circus member in the episode "Annabelle".
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Billy Barty was regularly seen on Bizarre, a weekly Canadian TV sketch comedy series, airing from 1980 to 1985.
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In 1982, Billy Barty appeared in an episode of Hart to Hart called "A Christmas Hart".
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In 1983, Billy Barty supplied the voice for "Figment" in EPCOT Center's Journey Into Imagination dark ride.
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Billy Barty subsequently supplied a reprisal for the second incarnation, though very brief.
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Billy Barty was an annual guest-star on Canada's Telemiracle telethon, one of the most successful telethons in the world.
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Billy Barty appeared as himself in the 1981 documentary film Being Different.
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Billy Barty was a noted activist for the promotion of rights for others with dwarfism.
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Billy Barty was disappointed with contemporary Herve Villechaize's insistence that they were "midgets" instead of actors with dwarfism.
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Billy Barty founded the Little People of America organization to help people with dwarfism in 1957 when he called upon people of short stature to join him in a get-together in Reno, Nevada.
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In 1981, Billy Barty received a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6922 Hollywood Boulevard for his contributions to the film industry.
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In 1990, Billy Barty was sued in small claims court by two of the writers of his cancelled comedy television series Short Ribbs, which aired for 13 weeks in the autumn of 1989 as a local program on KDOC-TV.
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Billy Barty claimed the lawsuit news was the most publicity he ever got, and compared it to similar press that celebrity Zsa Zsa Gabor received for slapping a Beverly Hills police officer.
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Billy Barty is entombed in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.