Michael Gilden

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| birth_place = Los Angeles, California
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Michael Jeffrey Gilden (September 22, 1962 – December 5, 2006) was an American actor with dwarfism.

Biography

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The {{convert|4|ft|m|adj=on}}-tall Gilden had a form of dwarfism.{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180430161412/http://articles.latimes.com/1990-03-17/local/me-130_1_tall-man|archive-date=April 30, 2018|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-03-17-me-130-story.html|title=Short and Tall Lend a Hand|author=Leslie Berger|work=Los Angeles Times|date=March 17, 1990|url-status=live|access-date=April 30, 2018}} He lived and worked in Los Angeles.

Gilden performed or did stunt work in a variety of television series and films, including Charmed, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Family Law, Cybill, NCIS and Pulp Fiction (the page in the Jack Rabbit Slim scene), and had a role as an Ewok in the film Return of the Jedi. He appeared twice in Season 4 of NCIS. Gilden was also a Financial Advisor.

In August 1997, he met Meredith Eaton through mutual friends in Atlanta, Georgia. Gilden encouraged Eaton to pursue a career in acting,{{citation needed|date=October 2024}} and she became an actress in 1999. The couple married on May 20, 2001.

Gilden committed suicide on December 5, 2006, hanging himself in his Los Angeles home. He was 44.{{cite web | url=https://variety.com/2006/scene/markets-festivals/actor-gilden-dies-at-44-1117955558/ | title=Actor Gilden dies at 44 | work=Variety | date=11 December 2006 | accessdate=28 August 2017}}

Filmography

= Film =

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Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes
1981 \| Under the Rainbow \| Hotel Rainbow Guest \|
1983 \| Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi \| Ewok #28 \|
1990 \| Nerds of a Feather \| Little Army of Little Russian Soldiers \|
1993 \| Freaked \| Eye \|
1994 \| Pulp Fiction \| Phillip Morris Page \|
2000 \| Once Upon a Christmas \| Dunder \| TV movie
2001 \| Snow White: The Fairest of Them All \| Monday \| TV movie
2002 \| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation \| Lawrence Ames \| Episode: "A Little Murder"
2003 \| Nudity Required \| Little Dirk \|
2006 \| NCIS \| Marty Pearson \| Two episodes

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Year

! Title

! Role

! Notes

1981

| Under the Rainbow

| Hotel Rainbow Guest

1983

| Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi

| Ewok #28

1990