Gallery: In Life's Too Short, Famous Dwarf Tangles With Ricky Gervais
01warwick-davis
*Warwick Davis, star of* Life's Too Short, *tries to maintain an upbeat veneer as he looks for work at the tail end of a showbiz career that included roles in* Star Wars *and the* Harry Potter *movies.*
02peter-dinklage-2
*On the strength of his fierce intelligence, [Peter Dinklage](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0227759/) excelled as Tyrion Lannister in HBO's* [Game of Thrones](http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/index.html) *adaptation (returning April 1). Dinklage won a Golden Globe Best Supporting Actor trophy for that performance, nine years after wowing audiences in* The Station Agent*.*
03michael-j-anderson
*David Lynch's favorite little person, [Michael J. Anderson](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0027199/), appeared in* Mullholland Drive *after blowing TV viewers' minds by speaking backward in* Twin Peaks *as the Man From Another Place. Anderson more recently played Samson (pictured above), the dapper boss of a Depression-era circus troupe possessed with mystical powers, in HBO's* Carnivale.
04verne-troyer
*[Verne Troyer](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0873942/) benefited in 1999 from a brilliant casting move on the part of* Austin Powers *star-creator Mike Myers. As Dr. Evil's "Mini Me," Troyer sang, danced and took pinkie-finger gestures to new heights in* [The Spy Who Shagged Me](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145660/) *and* Goldmember.
05zelda-rubinstein
*[Zelda Rubinstein](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0748289/) creeped out horror fans starting in 1982 when she took on the recurring role of Tangina in the* Poltergeist *movies.*
06david-rappaport
*In* Time Bandits, *[David Rappaport](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0710884/) made one of the more spectacular entrances in fantasy film history when he and five other dwarves burst from the closet of an adventurous boy's bedroom. Rappaport dominated the screen in Terry Gilliam's 1981 fantasy epic as Randall, the self-appointed leader of time-traveling thieves.*
07kenny-baker
*[Kenny Baker](http://www.kennybaker.co.uk/) provided the precise motor function for R2-D2, sci-fi filmdom's most famous droid, in the first three* Star Wars *movies, starting in 1977. He took on the additional role of Paploo in* Return of the Jedi*.* Image courtesy Kennybaker.com
08herve-villechaize
*French actor [Herve Villechaize](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0898199/) played evil sidekick Nick Nack in 1974 James Bond flick* [Man With the Golden Gun](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071807/) *before joining the cast of TV's* Fantasy Island *to shout "The plane, boss, the plane!"*
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*[Karl Slover](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Slover) (right) charmed audiences as one of 124 little people who played munchkins in 1939 classic* The Wizard of Oz. *Slover died last year at age 93.*
10harry-earles
*Tod Browning's unsettling 1932 drama* Freaks *cast the German-born [Harry Earles](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0247361/) as a midget circus leader who falls in love with a taller woman. Three of Earles' six siblings were also dwarfs; all four appeared in* The Wizard of Oz.
