Arturo Gil
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Arturo Gil (born March 13, 1960 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American dwarf actor who has appeared in many films, television programs, and commercials.
Arturo, standing three and half feet tall, has been featured in films like Spaceballs, Monkeybone, The Fantasticks, Dirty Work, The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas, Silent Tongue, and Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey and TV shows like Charmed, Ally McBeal, Just Shoot Me!, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, The Parkers, Unhappily Ever After, The Man Show, Cram, and currently as Machete on the hit Spanish TV show Estudio 2 on KRCA 62 in Los Angeles.
[edit] Biography
Arturo Gil was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, but soon after his birth, he and his family moved to San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he lived for 13 years, becoming fluent in Spanish and English. He returned to New Orleans as a teenager and on his 18th birthday Arturo began to pursue a career as a disc jockey. He secured a job in the French Quarter at a nightclub spinning disco, jazz, R&B and rock-and-roll. He later joined WWOZ as a staff volunteer, where he produced jazz and R&B radio shows. Arturo also worked at WRNO-FM part-time as a DJ and shortwave radio broadcast engineer.
With the encouragement of his older brother, Arturo moved to southern California, with hopes to break into FM radio as a disc jockey. Instead he found a position as computer operator at a circuit board manufacturer running reports, programming, and troubleshooting. While he was continuing his computer work, friends encouraged him to pursue acting. Taking their suggestion, Arturo began his film and TV career by working on several student, low-budget, and non-union films. In 1985, while working on Mel Brooks' Spaceballs, Arturo received his Screen Actors Guild card.
[edit] Partial filmography
- Agent One-Half (filming in 2007)
- Estudio 2
- Cram (game show) (as Dr. Damnearkilter)
- Wasabi Tuna (2003)
- Monkeybone (2001)
- Passions (as Cecil)
- Spaceballs (1987)
