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| image=[[Image:220px-Billy_Barty_2.jpg|250px]]
| name=Billy Barty
| lifetime=[[25 October]], [[1924]] - [[23 December]], [[2000]]
| played=Body double for [[Bilbo Baggins]], rotoscoped [[Samwise Gamgee]]
| film=[[The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)]]
| played2=
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| imdb=[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000863/ profile]
|}}
'''Billy Barty''' ([[25 October]], [[1924]] – [[23 December]], [[2000]]) was a little person and an American film and television actor.  His career spanned the 1920s to the 1990s.  He was also an activist on behalf of people with dwarfism and he founded the "Little People of America" to aid others like himself.
'''Billy Barty''' ([[25 October]], [[1924]] – [[23 December]], [[2000]]) was a little person and an American film and television actor.  His career spanned the 1920s to the 1990s.  He was also an activist on behalf of people with dwarfism and he founded the "Little People of America" to aid others like himself.



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220px-Billy Barty 2.jpg
Billy Barty
Lifetime25 October, 1924 - 23 December, 2000
PortrayedBody double for Bilbo Baggins, rotoscoped Samwise Gamgee in:
 The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)
IMDbprofile

Billy Barty (25 October, 192423 December, 2000) was a little person and an American film and television actor. His career spanned the 1920s to the 1990s. He was also an activist on behalf of people with dwarfism and he founded the "Little People of America" to aid others like himself.

In The Lord of the Rings (1978 film), Billy was the body double for the part of Bilbo Baggins and played Samwise Gamgee in rotoscoped footage.

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