Michael Gilden
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Michael Gilden | |
Born | September 22, 1962 Los Angeles, California |
Died | December 5, 2006 Los Angeles, California |
Spouse(s) | Meredith Eaton |
Michael Gilden (b. September 22, 1962 - d. December 5, 2006) was an American actor with dwarfism (height 4'6" or 1.37 m). 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_(TV series) and Pulp Fiction, and had a role as an Ewok in the film Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. Gilden was also a stock broker.
He married actress Meredith Eaton on May 20, 2001, whom he met in a chat room on American Online. He had a previous marriage to a woman named Elena Fondacaro, Verne Troyer's manager .
He committed suicide by hanging at age 44 at his Los Angeles residence. Gilden was buried in a private service at Mission Hills, California on December 10. In 2002 he coincidentally played a man at a little person's convention in Las Vegas in the CSI episode 'A Little Murder' who had apparently committed suicide by hanging.
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