Warwick Davis played the title character in Willow and the Leprechaun film series, several characters in the Star Wars film series, most notably the Ewok Wicket, and Professor Filius Flitwick and the goblin Griphook in the Harry Potter film series.
42 Facts About Warwick Davis
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Warwick Davis has presented the ITV game shows Celebrity Squares and Tenable.
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Active within the industry since he was twelve, Warwick Davis is one of the highest grossing supporting actors of all time.
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Warwick Davis was educated at Chinthurst School in Tadworth, Surrey and later the City of London Freemen's School.
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Warwick Davis was born with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita, a rare bone growth disorder that results in dwarfism.
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When Warwick Davis was 11, his grandmother heard a radio advertisement calling for people who were 4 feet tall or shorter to be in Return of the Jedi.
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Warwick Davis was originally cast as an extra Ewok, but when Kenny Baker, who was originally going to be Wicket, fell ill, George Lucas picked Warwick Davis to be the new Wicket after seeing how he carried himself as an Ewok.
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Warwick Davis based his Ewok movements on his dog, who tilted his head from side to side whenever he saw something strange.
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Warwick Davis reprised his role as Wicket in the ABC made-for-TV films Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure and Ewoks: The Battle for Endor.
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In 1987, Warwick Davis was called to Elstree Studios near London to meet with Ron Howard and George Lucas to discuss a new film project called Willow, which was written with Warwick Davis specifically in mind.
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Warwick Davis co-starred with Val Kilmer in the film, which received a Royal Premiere before the Prince and Princess of Wales.
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Warwick Davis then moved to television to be in the BBC Television adaptation of the classic The Chronicles of Narnia, specifically in Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and The Silver Chair and an episode of Zorro filmed in Madrid.
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Warwick Davis played a leprechaun in the 1998 family film A Very Unlucky Leprechaun.
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Warwick Davis played the role of Professor Filius Flitwick in the Harry Potter film series.
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In 2004, Warwick Davis played the character "Plates" in the indie film Skinned Deep, directed by special effects artist Gabriel Bartalos.
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In 2006, Warwick Davis appeared, alongside fellow Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, in an episode of BBC's comedy series Extras as a satirical version of himself.
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Warwick Davis starred in the film version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, as the "body" of Marvin the Paranoid Android.
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Warwick Davis appeared in The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, in which he played Nikabrik the Dwarf, adding to his previous involvement in TV adaptations of the Chronicles of Narnia series.
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Warwick Davis appeared as a contestant on the 2007 series of Children in Need reality show Celebrity Scissorhands.
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Warwick Davis starred as a fictional version of himself in Life's Too Short, written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, who starred.
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In December 2012, Warwick Davis returned to New Wimbledon Theatre to reprise his role in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
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Warwick Davis appeared in the 2008 TV series Merlin as the character Grettir, the gatekeeper to the "lands of king fisher" in the episode "The Eye of the Phoenix" in Series 3.
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Warwick Davis appeared as the character Porridge in the Doctor Who episode "Nightmare in Silver", first broadcast in May 2013.
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In late 2013, Warwick Davis appeared for one month as Patsy in the musical comedy Spamalot, based on the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail in London.
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Warwick Davis appeared in the 2015 sequel Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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In November 2016, Warwick Davis began presenting the daytime ITV game show Tenable.
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Warwick Davis appeared in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, released December 2016, as the rebel fighter Weeteef Cyubee and that was his first Star Wars role with a blaster.
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In December 2017, Warwick Davis appeared as Wodibin, an alien gambler, in Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
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Warwick Davis appeared in the film Solo: A Star Wars Story, released in May 2018, reuniting with his Willow director Ron Howard.
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Warwick Davis briefly appeared in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, reprising his role of Wicket.
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Warwick Davis appeared in the role alongside his son Harrison, who cameoed as Wicket's son Pommet.
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Warwick Davis reprised his role as Willow Ufgood in the Disney+ series Willow to generally positive critic reviews.
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In 1995, Warwick Davis co-founded, with fellow actor and father-in-law Peter Burroughs, the talent agency Willow Management, that specialises in representing actors under five feet tall.
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In October 2012, Warwick Davis appeared in a set of videos with the popular YouTube group The Yogscast, after the hosts of the yogscast's podcast "The YogPod" discussed him in several episodes.
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Warwick Davis is a founder of the Reduced Height Theatre Company, which stages theatrical productions cast exclusively with short actors and using reduced height sets.
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On 15 July 2014, Warwick Davis appeared on stage with Monty Python during their live show Monty Python Live.
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Warwick Davis was the special guest in their "Blackmail" sketch.
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Warwick Davis is married to Samantha, the daughter of Warwick Davis' business partner Peter Burroughs and the sister of actress Hayley Burroughs.
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Warwick Davis met the Burroughs family while filming Willow, where Samantha and Peter had minor roles as Nelwyn villagers.
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Unlike most people with dwarfism who have a condition called achondroplasia, Warwick Davis' dwarfism is caused by an extremely rare genetic condition called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita.
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Warwick Davis has said the only real drawback to being small was the associated health problems.
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Warwick Davis is co-founder of Little People UK, a charity that provides support to people with dwarfism and their families.