Name
Michael Gilden
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1962-09-22
Deathday
2006-12-05 (44 years old)
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Biography
Michael Jeffrey Gilden was an American actor with dwarfism. 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, and had a role as an Ewok in the film Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. He appeared twice in Season 4 of the hit series 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, 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. He was buried in a private service at Mission Hills, California, on December 10.
Known For
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A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a wa...
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Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba th...
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Set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink ...
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Snow White's mother dies during childbirth, leaving baby Snow and father John for dead on ...
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In World War II era Los Angeles, the manager of the Culver Hotel leaves his nephew in char...
- 1994 Pulp Fiction as Page for Phillip Morris
- 1993 Freaked as Eye
- 1989 Nerds of a Feather as Little Army of Little Russian Soldiers
- 1981 Under the Rainbow as Hotel Rainbow Guest
- 1983 Return of the Jedi as Ewok
- 2001 Snow White as Monday
- 2016 The Hollywood Shorties
- 2000 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ( 1 episode ) as Lawrence Ames
- 1996 The Pretender ( 1 episode ) as Elf
- 1998 Charmed ( 4 episodes ) as Finnegan
- 1995 Cybill ( 1 episode ) as Harvey
- 2003 NCIS ( 2 episodes ) as Marty Pearson
- 1999 Family Law ( 2 episodes ) as Robert Silver
- 1996 Aliens in the Family ( 8 episodes ) as Snizzy (body)
- 2000 Nikki ( 1 episode ) as Dwarf Dwight
