Deep Roy

Deep Roy ( * 1957 in Nairobi, Kenya, also Gordeep Roy, but actually Mohinder Purba ) is a midget, born in Kenya, British actor, stuntman, writer and puppeteer.

Life and work

Roy is the son of Indian parents. His ancestors belonged to the Indian Maharaja Vinepal. He is 1.32 meters tall. After his father had moved the family to the UK, Deep Roy first began to work in cabarets as a stand- up comedian. His first television role was Roy in 1976 in an episode of the crime series The Avengers and melon (The New Avengers ), and was in the same year also appear in his first feature film, in Blake Edwards ' Inspector Clouseau, the "best" man in Interpol (The Pink Panther Strikes Again ), in which he played a diminutive agent, the inspector Clouseau on the Munich Oktoberfest should bring " around the corner". In 1977, he starred in several episodes of the British science fiction series Doctor Who and played 1985 " Tin Man " in the Disney fantasy film Oz - A fantastic world ( Return to Oz ).

Because of its small size, Roy played a whole series of unusual characters in film and television and has also been repeatedly "other" used as a stuntman as a "double" for children's performer and. So moviegoers know him as " tiny " with his racing snail in Wolfgang Petersen's film adaptation of The NeverEnding Story (1984 ) and as androids Redwing - escape from the black droids (1984). Twice he stepped in monkey costume at once along with " Tarzan" Christopher Lambert in Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes ( Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, 1984) and once in the remake of Planet of the Apes (2001 ), where he mimed the same two characters - a monkey boy and the "daughter " of a monkey senators.

In the movie The Dark Crystal ( The Dark Crystal, 1982) slipped Roy as an additional puppeteer in one of the fantasy characters of Jim Henson, and in Return of the Jedi ( Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, 1983) he was in the costume of Droopy McCool in the band at the court of the villain "Jabba the Hut". In 2000, Deep Roy stood beside Jim Carrey in the movie The Grinch ( How the Grinch Stole Christmas ) before the camera.

In the eighth season of the television series The X-Files ( X-Files ), episode here and not here ( Badlaa, U.S. Air Date January 21, 2001 ), he played an Indian beggar.

With the U.S. director Tim Burton Deep Roy has realized some film projects after the turn of the century. Besides the already mentioned remake of Planet of the Apes put him Burton Big Fish (2003), and in the animated film Corpse Bride - Corpse Bride ( Corpse Bride, 2005) was Deep Roy one of the speakers. He played his " extensive " role in Burton's remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ( Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 2005). He embodied with computer support all staff in the factory, the so-called " Oompa Loompas ". For the role Roy had to complete an extensive training and learn singing, dancing and playing various instruments.

2009 impacts Roy in Star Trek and Transformers - Revenge with.