Phil Fondacaro
Born: 1958-11-08 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
Phil Fondacaro (born November 8, 1958) is an American actor. A dwarf actor at 3 feet 6 inches (1.07 m), Fondacaro began acting in 1981, with the film Under the Rainbow. Fondacaro appeared in 1983's Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, the third Star Wars film, as an Ewok, the only one to have a death scene. In 1986, he portrayed the invisible friend of a young Michael Gerber in the Disney Sunday Movie Fuzz Bucket, and also appeared in the fantasy film Troll. In 1987, he portrayed "Sir Nigel Pennyweight" in the cult horror film Ghoulies II. His performance is frequently praised, and he has been called the best actor in the film. In the same year, he appeared as "Greaser Greg" in The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, a theatrical adaptation of the popular trading cards. In 1988's Willow, he appeared alongside Warwick Davis, one of his Jedi co-stars, who, thanks in large part to his Willow role, became one of the most famous dwarf actors in the film industry. Other prominent roles of Fondacaro's include "Hooded dwarf" in Phantasm II, Cousin Itt in Addams Family Reunion, and a dramatic turn as a dwarf with an average-sized son in "A Clown's Prayer", an episode of Touched by an Angel. He also played a dwarf with an average-sized daughter in the CSI episode, "A Little Murder". He also had a recurring role on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch as "Roland". Fondacaro is married to Elena Bertagnolli, manager of another famous dwarf actor, Verne Troyer, and is represented by his wife's company, Fonolli Management. Fondacaro's brother Sal is also an actor, having appeared in Under the Rainbow, Return of the Jedi, and Invaders from Mars, all with his brother. Description above from the Wikipedia article Phil Fondacaro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2025
- The Devil Inside Her as Dwarf (archive footage)
2024
- Watchmen: Chapter II as Tom Ryan / Big Figure (voice)
2012
- DevilDolls as Ray Vernon (segment: Dangerous Toys
2009
- Immortally Yours as Michael Bates
2006
- Evil Bong as Club Patron
2005
- Land of the Dead as Chihuahua
- Decadent Evil as Ivan
- Once Upon a Halloween as Creeper (voice) (archive sound)
2004
- The Polar Express as Elf
2001
- The Theory of the Leisure Class as Millionaire
2000
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Kevin Marcus
- Bit Players as Gus Wolfson
- Sideshow as Abbot Graves
1999
- Blood Dolls as Hylas
1998
- Hercules as Additional Voices (voice)
- Addams Family Reunion as Cousin Itt
- Sweet Jane as Bob
- The Elevator as Dwarf Rabbi
1997
- The Creeps as Dracula
1996
- Sabrina, the Teenage Witch as Roland
- The Pretender as Doorman
- Hellraiser: Bloodline as Surgeon - The Jester (uncredited)
- Bordello of Blood as Vincent Prather
1995
- Sliders as Bounty Hunter
- Nature of the Beast as Harliss
1994
- Touched by an Angel as Leroy Tucker
1993
- Double, Double, Toil and Trouble as Oscar
- Dollman vs. Demonic Toys as Ray Vernon
1992
- Renegade as Little Tom Masion
1991
- The Doors as Man at Birthday Party
- Brotherhood of the Gun as Antonio
1990
- Northern Exposure as Green Man
- Meridian as Dwarf
- Night Angel as Sammael
1989
- Quantum Leap as Big Moe
- Tales from the Crypt as Emmet
- Nerds of a Feather as Little Army of Little Russian Soldiers
- Monster High as Stinksucker
1988
- Willow as Vohnkar
- Phantasm II as Hooded Dwarf (uncredited)
- I'm Gonna Git You Sucka as Evans Brother (uncredited)
- Memories of Me as Horace Bosco
1987
- Married... with Children as Alien
- thirtysomething
- Ghoulies II as Sir Nigel Pennyweight
- Steele Justice as Bartender Dan
- The Yattering And Jack as The Yattering
- The Garbage Pail Kids Movie as Greaser Greg - Suit
1986
- Troll as Malcolm Mallory / Torok the Troll
- Fuzzbucket as Fuzzbucket
1985
- The Black Cauldron as Creeper / Henchman (voice)
- American Drive-In as Rocky Magellan (as H.G. Golas)
- Hard Rock Zombies as Mickey (as H.G. Golas)
1984
- Tales from the Darkside as The Yattering
- The Dungeonmaster as Stone Canyon People (segment "Stone Canyon Giant")
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as Bernard
1983
- Return of the Jedi as Ewok
- Rapunzel as Munchkin
- Something Wicked This Way Comes as Demon Clown (uncredited)
1982
- Faerie Tale Theatre as Munchkin
1981
- Under the Rainbow as Hotel Rainbow Guest