WARWICK DAVIS BIOGRAPHY

Warwick's first starring role came about purely by chance. In 1981 his grandmother saw an advertisement for actors under 4' to play Ewoks in Star Wars Return of the Jedi. Warwick who at the time was 11 years old was cast as an Ewok extra. Warwick's actions and jestures caught the eye of director George Lucas who saw in Warwick everything he had imagined an Ewok to be. George recast Warwick as Wicket the head Ewok who went on to become one of the head creature characters in the Star Wars movies. Warwick says

"He based Wickets inquisitive nature on the movements of his pet dog".

When the Wicket action figure was released in stores Lucas had the name on the box read Wicket W Warwick as a sort of thankyou to Warwick for bringing his creations to life. George Lucas cast Warwick as Wicket in two more Ewok adventures he wrote for television.
Caravan of Courage in 1984 and Ewoks and the Battle of Endor in 1985. As well as Battle for Endor in 1985 Warwick was also cast by Lucas in the movie Labyrinth with David Bowie as one of the Goblin Guards.

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In 1987 Warwick attended a meeting with George Lucas and Ron Howard to discuss the film Willow which was written by George Lucas with Warwick in mind. This would be Warwicks first opportunity to act 'without a mask' as up until now he had been hidden from the camera. He could now prove that his acting repertuoir extended beyond creatures and their animalistic reactions and that it actually extended to portraying human emotions. The epic fantasy which also starred Val Kilmer opened to a royal premiere attended by the Prince and Princess of Wales. Even though the film was a box office flop it launched the carrer of Warwick Davis!

After extensive world wide promotion work for Willow, Warwick returned to England to star in the BBC's Chronicles of Narnia series. He starred in The Voyage of the Dawn Tredder as the mouse Repicheep and also in the Silver Chair as Glimfeather the owl. Again Warwick was back 'behind the mask' sort of re-visiting the role of Wicket (especially Repicheep who is a little like a talking Wicket)

Up until this point in his career Warwick had played nothing but 'goodies' so when Warwick got the call from his agent about Leprechaun, he was all to happy to be playing a baddy, Warwick said

"It's every actors dream to play an evil character a part to really get your thespian teeth into".

Warwick went on to make Leprechaun in 1991, it became a cult success in America and gave birth to 3 sequels which all star Warwick. ( Leprechaun 1 also starred Jennifer Aniston pre-friends). To take on the role of the Leprechaun Warwick had to spend three hours in make-up each day.

In 1995 Warwick starred alongside Ted Danson in the TV Movie 'Gullivers Travels' in which he played Grildrig.

Warwick's most recent movie is Prince Valiant where he plays Valiants sidekick Petchet.

Besides film acting Warwick has been busy in theatres, starring in Kevin Woods Peter Pan with Robert Powell during the 1996/97 christmas pantomime season.

Warwick has also written his own Action\Adventure television series 'Spymaster'. The inspiration for writing this series came from Warwick's yearning to play the perfect role

"something where he can wear jeans and a T-shirt that takes place in a non-fantasy environment".

Warwick says

"There is a distinct lack of television that the whole family can watch together and enjoy on different levels. I think that children could relate more easily to characters there own size, whilst the adults could laugh with the characters as they deal with life on the 'short' side".

Several production companies have shown interest in this show, so Warwicks dream of the perfect role might not be that far away from becoming a reality.

Recently Warwick starred in the movie 'A very Unlucky Leprechaun' a film about a family who move into a mansion inhabited by a leprechaun.

Warwick will also be working alongside George Lucas in the most anticipated film of all time The Star Wars Prequel as Wald.