Billy Barty

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BIRTHDAY

October 25, 1924

Millsboro, Pennsylvania, United States

DIED

December 23, 2000

RECENT CREDITS

Being Different (FILM) Jan. 1, 2003

Television: The First 50 Years (TV) May. 18, 2001

Burn, Hollywood, Burn (FILM) Feb. 27, 1998

Vaudeville (TV) Nov. 26, 1997

Frasier (TV) Mar. 12, 1996

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BIOGRAPHY

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Perhaps the most recognized midget actor of the last 50 years, Barty began his long career at age three in comedies and children's shows. He played Mickey Rooney's younger brother in the Mickey McGuire shorts before making his feature debut in 1933, and is probably best remembered for his impish performances as mischievous, all-too-knowing children in the Busby Berkeley films, "Footlight Parade" and "Golddiggers of 1933" (both 1933), and as the irascible dwarf in the cockfight episode of "The Day of the Locust" (1975). An activist for the rights of Little People, he started the Billy Barty Foundation in 1975.

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DEATHS: Victor Borge, 91

Dec. 26, 2000

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 26, 2000 -- Comedian and pianist Victor Borge died in his sleep from heart failure, Reuters reports. He was 91. Borge had recently returned to his Greenwich, Conn., home from a concert in Copenhagen when he went to sleep Saturday evening and never woke up. He would have turned 92 on Jan. 3. Borge made a career of falling off his piano, missing keys with his hand...

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