Angelo Rossitto
Angelo Salvatore Rossitto (February 18, 1908 – September 21, 1991) was an American actor and voice artist. He had dwarfism and was 2'11" (89 cm) tall, and was often billed as Little Angie or Moe. Angelo first appeared in silent films opposite Lon Chaney and John Barrymore. On-screen, he portrayed everything from dwarfs, midgets, gnomes, and pygmies as well as monsters, villains, and aliens, with appearances in more than 70 films. Rossitto was born in Omaha, Nebraska to Salvatore Rossitto and Carmela Caniglia, both born in Carlentini, Province of Siracusa, Sicily, Italy, and had a sister, Josephine Rossitto. He was discovered by John Barrymore and made his screen debut opposite Barrymore in The Beloved Rogue (1927). That same year he appeared in Warner Brother's Old San Francisco. He appeared in the controversial 1932 film Freaks directed by Tod Browning, and another controversial film, 1938's Child Bride. During the 1940s, he appeared in several poverty row movies starring Bela Lugosi. He appeared frequently in television series and mini-series, particularly best known for the police drama Baretta, and his later film roles included appearances in Alex in Wonderland (1970), Brain of Blood (1971), Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971), Little Cigars (1973), and Fairy Tales (1978). His last major role was as "Master" opposite Mel Gibson in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985). Rossitto appears alongside singer/songwriter Tom Waits and Lee Kolima on the cover art of Waits' 1983 album Swordfishtrombones, which pays homage to his performance in Freaks. He also appears on the cover of Bob Dylan's album The Basement Tapes.
The Wizard of Oz
as Munchkin Villager (uncredited)Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow...
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
as MasterMad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of a technological society, and when exiled, becomes...
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Doctor Dolittle
as Dwarf (uncredited)A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail.
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Freaks
as AngelenoA circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his...
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Pocketful of Miracles
as Angie (uncredited)A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society...
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Babes in Toyland
as Elmer - Second Little Pig / 1st Sandman in Cave (uncredited)Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the...
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The Greatest Show on Earth
as DwarfTo ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian,...
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
as Little Person #1In a small American town, a diabolical circus arrives, granting wishes for the townsfolk, but...
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The Other Side of the Wind
as AngeloSurrounded by fans and skeptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford returns from years...
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Requiem for a Heavyweight
as Midget Wrestler Outside Wrestling Ring (uncredited)Mountain Rivera is a veteran heavyweight and near-champion who suddenly finds himself washed up...
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Hellzapoppin'
as Dwarf Devil (uncredited)Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring...
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The Stone Killer
as Little Man in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian...
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The Other
as Sideshow Performer (uncredited)A series of gruesome accidents plague a small American farming community in the summer of 1935,...
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The Magic Sword
as 2nd DwarfThe son of a sorceress, armed with weapons, armour and six magically summoned knights, goes on a...
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From a Whisper to a Scream
as TinkerThe uncle of an executed murderess relates four stories of his hometown, Oldfield, to a...
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The Spider Woman
as Obongo - Pygmy (uncredited)Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female...
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Galaxina
as Monster from EggGalaxina is a lifelike, voluptuous android who is assigned to oversee the operations of an...
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Galaxina
as uncreditedGalaxina is a lifelike, voluptuous android who is assigned to oversee the operations of an...
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as Grazbo the Evil DwarfDracula conspires with a mad doctor to resurrect the Frankenstein Monster.
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Fairy Tales
as OttoOn his twenty-first birthday, the Prince goes on a quest that takes him across the land...
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The Trip
as Dwarf in Forest Fantasy (uncredited)After his wife leaves him, a disillusioned director dives into the drug scene, trying anything...
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The Dark
as Angie (uncredited)At night the Mangler stalks the streets of Los Angeles, killing and mutilating random victims....
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Invasion of the Saucer-Men
as Saucer ManA teenage couple making out in the woods accidentally runs over an alien creature with their...
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Alex in Wonderland
as Fellini #1Bohemian Alex Morrison has just finished directing his first feature length movie. In its...
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The Wild and the Innocent
as Midget (uncredited)Charming tale of mountaineer-trapper Murphy's first taste "big city" life with young, sweet...
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The Corpse Vanishes
as Toby (as Angelo)A scientist keeps his wife young by killing, stealing the bodies of, and taking the gland fluid...
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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
as DwarfThe Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century,...
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Mesa of Lost Women
as Dwarf Lab AssistantA mad scientist, Dr. Aranya (Jackie Coogan), has created giant spiders in his Mexican lab in...
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Doomed to Die
as Newsboy #3 in MontageShipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle'...
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Reunion in France
as Citizen in Bomb Shelter (uncredited)Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a...
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The Baron of Arizona
as Angie -- GypsyThe U.S. government recognizes land grants made when the West was under Spanish rule. This...
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Scared to Death
as IndigoA woman is married to the son of a doctor, the proprietor of a private sanatorium, where she is...
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The Big House
as Inmate (uncredited)Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where...
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The Beloved Rogue
as Beppo - the DwarfFrançois Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an...
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Child Bride
as AngeloJennie is a twelve-year-old girl living with her parents in extremely rural mountain country....
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I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?
as Little PianistOliver is in trouble. He's been caught embezzling money from his father's company, and unless he...
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Spooks Run Wild
as LuigiA group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.
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Dementia
as Newsboy (uncredited)In a shadowy world stitched from nightmares, a young woman's harrowing journey in a seedy hotel...
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Pufnstuf
as Seymore Spider / ClangJimmy (Jack Wild) ventures to Living Island with his magical, talking flute, Freddy. Once there,...
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Mr. Wong in Chinatown
as Mute DwarfA pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a...
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The Clones
as Man at Phone BoothA scientist discovers a plot to clone other scientists so the government can control the weather.
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Old San Francisco
as Chang Loo - the DwarfIn San Francisco, a villainous landowner with underworld connections seeks to steal the property...
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Little Cigars
as AngeloA gangster's former mistress hooks up with a troupe of circus midgets who, as a sideline, rob...
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The Story of Mankind
as Dwarf in Nero's CourtThe devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
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The Perils of Pauline
as Pygmy Leader's AssistantPauline becomes involved in a series of adventures around the world and is aided by her ever...
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Mongo's Back in Town
as TremblesProfessional killer is hired by his brother, a gang boss, to wipe out a rival gangster.
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Brain of Blood
as DorroAmir, the benevolent ruler of Kalid, is dying, but there is hope. Freshly deceased, he is flown...
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Smokey Bites the Dust
as Desk ClerkFollows the rivalry between a small-town Southern sheriff and a small-town delinquent who steals...
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Seven Footprints to Satan
as The DwarfA young man of society wants to make an expedition to Africa, but his fiancée asks him for help...
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While the City Sleeps
as Member of Skeeter's GangA tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an...
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Confessions of an Opium Eater
as Newspaper BoyVincent Price stars in this early '60s adaptation of Thomas De Quincey's thriller about an opium...
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The Bandit Queen
as NinoZara Montalve, half Spanish and half America, returns to her native California in time to see...
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The Master Gunfighter
as Side show midgetDon Santiago (Richard Angarola) is a vicious man who helps provoke an Indian massacre that will...
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Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
as Luigi / Indigo (archive footage)A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.
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Carnival Lady
as DwarfWhen his bank fails, a young man loses not only all his money but his fiancée, deserts him, too....
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The Making of 'Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome'
as SelfFollows the cast and crew of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome filming in the heat and dust of central...
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One Stolen Night
as The DwarfWhen his ne'er-do-well brother embezzles the commissary funds of their cavalry unit stationed in...
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Star Trek: The Next Generation
as Spectator (uncredited)Follow the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the...
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Starsky & Hutch
as Big BenStreetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch'...
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The Rockford Files
as Dwarf Patient (uncredited)Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con...
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The Incredible Hulk
as Tom Thumb (uncredited)During an experiment gone bad, radiation turns a scientist into a raging green behemoth whenever...
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Amazing Stories
as VaudevillianA truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and...
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The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
as uncreditedThe Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries is a television series which aired for three seasons on ABC....
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The Rebel
as GodfreyThe Rebel is a 76-episode American western television series starring Nick Adams that debuted on...
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Baretta
as uncreditedBaretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show...
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Blind Pencil SellerAgents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin work for a secret intelligence service working under the...
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Branded
as Shooting Gallery Man (uncredited)Branded is an American Western series which aired on NBC from 1965 through 1966, sponsored by...
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Gunsmoke
as Billy (uncredited)Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...
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Shirley Temple's Storybook
as MouseShirley Temple's Storybook is an American children's anthology series hosted and narrated by...
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Shirley Temple's Storybook
as DwarfShirley Temple's Storybook is an American children's anthology series hosted and narrated by...
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H.R. Pufnstuf
as Seymore SpiderH.R. Pufnstuf is a children's television series produced by Sid and Marty Krofft in the United...
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Jason of Star Command
as BorkJason of Star Command is a live action television series by Filmation which ran between 1978 and...
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T.H.E. Cat
as Circus Dwarf (uncredited)T.H.E. Cat is an American action drama that aired during the 1966-1967 television season on NBC,...
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The Snoop Sisters
as Little IgorTwo elderly mystery novelists solve real crimes.
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Lidsville
as Mr. BigLidsville is Sid and Marty Krofft's third television show following H.R. Pufnstuf and The...
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Kung Fu
as Angelo (uncredited)The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in...
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