Billy Barty

Billy Barty

Date of Birth: 25 Oct 1924

Country: USA

Total Credits at Criticker: 66 (Actor), 1 (Director)

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    Legend
    A young man must stop the Lord of Darkness from both destroying daylight and marrying the woman he loves
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    Willow
    A reluctant dwarf must play a critical role in protecting a special baby from an evil queen. (imdb)
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    UHF
    Weird Al brings his talent of musical parodies to the movies. A local public station gets a new owner played by Weird Al. The station becomes a hit, with all sorts of hilarious site gags and wacky humor. (imdb)
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    Under the Rainbow
    In World War II era Los Angeles, the manager of the Culver Hotel leaves his nephew in charge for a weekend... (imdb)
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    The Rescuers Down Under
    The RAS agents, Miss Bianca and Bernard, race to Australia to save a boy and a rare golden eagle from a murderous poacher (imdb)
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    Life Stinks
    A filthy rich businessman bets a corporate rival that he can live on the streets of L.A. without the comforts of home or money, which proves to be tougher than he thought. (imdb)
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    Masters of the Universe
    A life-action feature film based on the popular cartoon kids show about a prince turned warrior named He-Man. (imdb)
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    The Day of the Locust
    Tod Hackett, fresh out of Yale, wants to make it as an art director in late 1930's Hollywood - but he finds himself increasingly distracted by his new neighbor Faye, a would-be starlet with possible designs of her own on a lonely, morose accountant. As Tod is drawn deeper into the lurid private lives of studio bosses and film industry workers, he gradually becomes desperate to know if Faye - or anyone - is capable of real love. (imdb)
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    The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington
    The world's most famous madame is called to Washington to testify before Congress. (imdb)
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    Harum Scarum
    Elvis goes to the Middle East. (Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide)
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    Firepower
    Adele Tasca is convinced that her late spouse, a chemist, was murdered by a filthy rich, reclusive entrepreneur, Stegner. When she reports her suspicions to the authorities at the U.S. Justice Department, the officials squeeze mobster Sal Hyman to put a contract out on Stegner. Hyman, in turn, persuades retiree gunsmith Jerry Fanon and his assistant Catlett to bring down Steiger once and for all. (Rotten Tomatoes)
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    Lobster Man from Mars
    Young film student tries to sell his weird movie to a desperate film producer who is in need of a tax write-off. The producer screens the film "Lobster Man From Mars". What follows is one of the most bizarre and funny film within-a-film sendups: Mars suffers from an air leakage, and send the dreaded Lobster Man to Earth to steal its air. The plot is foiled by a mad scientist, a girl, and an army colonel. (imdb)
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    Pufnstuf
    Jimmy runs away to be by himself after a bad day at school. He takes his flute down by the sea to relax. When he lays the flute down it becomes alive. (Turns to solid gold with diamond studs). Plotting to steal is a witch named Witchiepoo. Jimmy hops aboard a beautiful magic talking board that wants to take him out to sea. But the boat actually belongs to the Witch... who turns the boat back into a black evil craft meant to trap Jimmy and bring him to her. (imdb)
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    Out All Night
    A "mama's boy" falls for a spinster who takes care of children at a department store nursery. (imdb)
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    Body Slam
    A music promoter takes a group of wrestlers on tour.
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    The Clown
    Once a famous Ziegfeld star, Dodo Delwyn is reduced to playing clowns in burlesque and amusement parks as a result of his drinking. His son Little Dink idolizes Dodo and faithfully believes in a comeback. He persuades Uncle Goldie, his agent in the good old days, to find a booking for Dodo. He can't and Dink is sent to live with his remarried and wealthy mother, Paula. The unhappy Dink runs back to his father... (imdb)
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    Night Patrol
    Melvin is a pathetic loser of a motorcycle cop who gets demoted to working the night shift as a punishment for his constant screw-ups. During his off-duty time, however, Melvin turns to his secret obsession: comedy. He puts a paper bag over his head and performs in front of audiences as "The Unknown Comic". Unable to balance his two lives, he seeks psychiatric help to try and resolve who he really wants to be. (imdb)
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    Jungle Jim in Pygmy Island
    Jungle Jim heads a search for missing WAC Captain Ann Kingsley; a white midget plays Tembo, the pygmy chief. (imdb)
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    Goldie
    Sailor Spike dates girls whose names he finds in an address book. Each girl has the same tatoo, placed there by another sailor Bill. When Spike meets Bill they become friends. In Calais Spike meets Goldie. Bill warns him against her, but Spike ignores the warning until he finds Bill's tatoo on Goldie as well. (imdb)
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    Diggin\
    When her mortician grandfather leaves on vacation, a young woman temporarily takes over the family funeral home, only to discover that the business is going bankrupt! In order to save her grandfather and the funeral home, she has to employ a few crazy ideas and begins staging extremely creative funerals. (TCM)
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    The Amazing Dobermans
    An ex-con man and his five trained Dobermans help a Treasury Dept. agent stop a racketeer and his gang. (imdb)
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    Rumpelstiltskin
    A musical version of the classic story about a miller's daughter who receives help from a mischievous dwarf, then ends up over her head. Now, she and a mute servant girl may be the only hope for her baby son, John. (imdb)
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    W.C. Fields and Me
    Even a man who hates children and dogs has to love someone. (imdb)
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    Snow White
    Dame Diana Rigg (TV's "The Avengers") and Billy Barty ("Willow") star in this feature-length, live-action, musical version of the classic fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. (imdb)
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    Rabbit Test
    Lionel's life turns around after a one-night stand on top of a pinball table... he becomes the world's first pregnant man! (imdb)
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    The Naked Truth
    Two friends, both named Frank, accidentally obtain a suitcase at the airport. It contains incriminating evidence against a mafia boss, who sends his Terminator-like lackie to find them. The Franks hide by impersonating make-up women for a beauty pageant. While in drag, the mafioso falls in love with one of the Franks.
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    A Family Matter
    Originally titled Vendetta: Secrets of a Mafia Bride, this 2-part TV movie stars supermodel Carol Alt as Nancy, the ward of Mafia don Frank Latella (Eli Wallach). Part One gets off to an explosive start when Nancy witnesses her father's murder. Raised by Latella, our heroine lives for the day that she can avenge her dad's death. Little does she know that her own fiancé (Eric Roberts) was the man who pulled the trigger. (allrovi.com)
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    Mickey\
    Mickey's Race (1933) - Short Film
    Mickey and his gang of children enter a mule in a racing contest. (imdb)
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    Idle Eyes
    Idle Eyes (1928) - Short Film
    The film begins with Ben Turpin looking for some food. He's a hobo and is resorting to trying to steal food from a baby. That 'baby' is actually four year-old midget, Billy Barty. After spending some time in the park mooching, the film changes locales--to a beauty salon. (imdb)
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    Mickey\
    Mickey's Luck (1930) - Short Film
    Mickey and the gang become fire fighters. Features ridiculous stunts (including a car getting hit by a train, and Spencer Bell sharing a scene with a live lion). (youtube.com)
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    Mickey\
    Mickey, Stinky, and Billy all try to compete in an Ape Man contest.
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    Mickey\
    Mickey's Pals (1927) - Short Film
    The second short from the "Mickey McGuire" film series. The series was based on Fontaine Fox's popular comic strip "Toonerville Trolley". "Mickey McGuire" was a popular rival to Hal Roach's Our Gang series. Perhaps the most notable note about the series is that it launched Mickey Rooney's film career. The film follows Mickey McGuire (Rooney) and his pals as they start a "Pet Xchange". (youtube.com)
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    Mickey\
    Mickey's Eleven (1927) - Short Film
    Mickey and the gang play a game of football against Stinky Davis.
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    Mickey in School
    It's the first day back at school for Mickey and the gang, which means plenty of pain for the schoolteacher. But things really heat up when a fire breaks out in the schoolhouse.
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    Mickey the Detective
    Mickey and the gang play detective. Later, the dog gets stuck with a professor's time bomb.
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    Mickey\
    Mickey Rooney's second sound film. In it, we find Mickey and the gang putting on their own school performance.
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    Mickey\
    Mickey's Mix-Up (1929) - Short Film
    An early sound short, where Mickey and the gang put on another show.
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    Mickey\
    The film finds Mickey and Hambone trying to dig up some dirt on Stinky Davis' father.
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    Mickey\
    Mickey's Champs (1930) - Short Film
    Mickey and the kids befriend a couple of tramps. But when the tramps are accused of stealing, Mickey and Hambone find themselves trying to expose who they think is the real crook: a doctor in a spooky house.
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    Mickey\
    A high society lady tries to bring peace between the Mickey's Scorpions and Stinky Davis' gang.
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    Mickey\
    A sound remake of "Mickey's Eleven", in which the gang play yet another game of football against Stinky Davis.
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    Mickey\
    A.k.a. "Mickey's Revolution". Needing to raise money for their caddy friend, Mickey and the gang put on a show.
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    Mickey\
    Mickey and the gang come across a baby. Billy Barty plays a dual role.
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    Mickey\
    Mickey and the gang wind up in Harold Lloyd territory, when the kids work as window washers on a dangerous skyscraper.
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    Mickey\
    One of the few films in the series without Mickey Rooney. Costar Marvin Stephens ("Katrink'") stands in for Rooney. The short finds the gang preparing for a Christmas party for the poor kids in the neighborhood.
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    Mickey\
    One of the few films in the series without Mickey Rooney. Costar Marvin Stephens ("Katrink'") stands in for Rooney. The film finds the gang competing with Stinky's gang in the junior Olympics.
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    Mickey\
    Mickey and the gang get ready for a big game of football. But Stinky Davis has a few tricks up his sleeve to stop the gang from winning. Special guest star USC coach Howard Jones.
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    Mickey\
    Mickey and the gang put on their own circus, but Stinky Davis and his pals constantly try to disrupt it.
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    Mickey\
    Mickey and the gang go prospecting, but find themselves in a haunted house.
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    Mickey\
    In order to pay back Stinky Davis, Mickey becomes an organ grinder, and later put on a minstrel show.
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    Mickey\
    Mickey's Rescue (1934) - Short Film
    When Billy get adopted by a rich couple, Mickey and the gang spring into action to bring their pal back home.
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    Mickey\
    The final Mickey McGuire comedy finds Mickey and the gang putting together a medicine show in order to help out Hambone's Uncle Nemo.
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    Second Hand Kisses
    Knockabout comedy in which woman marries widower each having a child of their own which the other knows nothing about.
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    The Cockeyed Family
    Amos faces a few difficulties as he tries to drive his cross-eyed wife and their two rambunctious children to California. (imdb)
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    Ma\
    This Mack Sennett produced short has Donald Novis playing Danny O'Brien, a young singer whose mother takes him to a talent agent office where she demands that the owners listen to him.
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    Foul Play
    A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church. (imdb)
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    The Paul Lynde Halloween Special
    Witchiepoo and the Wicked Witch of the West give Paul Lynde three wishes for Halloween.
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    Tough Guys
    Two elderly gangsters are released from prison only to find they have trouble fitting in as old men who still take no guff from anyone. (imdb)
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    The Undead
    Two psychical researchers procure the services of a lady of the night and send her back in time under hypnosis. She finds herself in the body of a past existence - a woman in medieval times waiting to be beheaded as a witch. By avoiding this fate she unwittingly starts to alter history. (imdb)
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    Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
    Two boys try to maintain normal lives while secretly having adventures with families of sea monsters and genies. (imdb)
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    The Waltons
    The Waltons (1971) - TV Series
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    Mickey\
    Mickey Rooney -- credited as McGuire, as he would be through the run of the series -- inducts a new member into the gang, tries to put little brother Billy Barty to bed for a nap, and wins a basketball game against Stinky Davis' team in this episode of the series.
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    No Kidding
    No Kidding (1928) - Short Film
    Snub and Loback are incompetent handymen, botching one assignment after another,until they cause their boss's lunch to hit him in the face. Fired, they walk home, but a girl asks them to mind a baby. they take it home instead, and try to keep him from discovery by the landlord.
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    Mickey\
    Part of the Mickey McGuire short series starring Mickey McGuire. Currently only reel #2 has been found.
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    Who\
    Billy takes a trip to the the zoo with his wife and two sons. He is proud to show his knowledge about wild animals to his older son, who is preparing for an exam. The whole family starts by looking at the zebras before watching the leopard tamer. Then Billy gets doused by an elephant while his younger boy plays with monkeys in their cage. But Billy's misadventures are not over yet, for one of his sons has thrown his wife's handbag into the lions cage.
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    A Hollywood Theme Song
    A singing doughboy on the Western Front volunteers for a dangerous mission behind enemy lines.
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