Michael Gilden

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: Acting

Born: Los Angeles, California, USA, 1962-09-22

Died: 2006-12-05

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1981	Under the Rainbow	Hotel Rainbow Guest	52
2	1983	Return of the Jedi	Ewok	79
3	1989	Nerds of a Feather	Little Army of Little Russian Soldiers	10
4	1993	Freaked	Eye	61
5	1994	Pulp Fiction	Page for Phillip Morris	85
6	2001	Snow White	Monday (Red)	59
7	2016	The Hollywood Shorties		70

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1995	Cybill		58
2	1996	Aliens in the Family	Snizzy (body)	63
3	1996	The Pretender	Elf	74
4	1998	Charmed	Finnegan	82
5	1999	Family Law	Robert Silver	82
6	2000	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Lawrence Ames	76
7	2000	Nikki	Dwarf Dwight	55
8	2003	NCIS	Marty Pearson	76

Michael Gilden

Film

Television