Martin Klebba

Martin Klebba
Klebba and Meredith Eaton, May 2007
Born	(1969-06-23) June 23, 1969 Troy, Michigan, U.S.
Other names	Marty the Midget
Education	Athens High School
Occupations	Actor stunt performer
Years active	1992–present
Height	4 ft 1 in (124 cm)
Spouse	Michelle Dilgard ​ (m. 2011)​

Martin Klebba (born June 23, 1969) is an American character actor and stunt performer. Klebba has a form of dwarfism called acromicric dysplasia; he is 4 feet 1 inch (1.24 m). Klebba is best known for his role as Marty in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.

Personal life

Klebba was born and grew up in Troy, Michigan, graduating from Athens High School.

As of May 2011, Martin was engaged to Michelle Dilgard, mentioning in an interview that in his free time, he likes to play video games with his son when he visits and spend time with his fiancée. Martin is the father of son Alec and daughter Makenzie.

Klebba runs a nonprofit foundation called Coalition for Dwarf Advocacy, which gives 100% of its donations to the cause of helping little people.

Career

Early career

Klebba was an occasional guest on The Howard Stern Show in the 1990s, and was given the nickname "Marty the Midget".

Film

Klebba has acted in various productions, most notably the Pirates of the Caribbean series, as Marty, one of Captain Jack Sparrow's Black Pearl crew, in films one through three, and five. In 2003, he played the ring announcer in the Cradle 2 the Grave. In 2009, Klebba played the role of "Count Le Petite" in All's Faire in Love, a romantic comedy set at a Renaissance fair. He has also been in low budget horror/comedy films Feast II: Sloppy Seconds & Feast III: The Happy Finish as "Thunder."

He has numerous stunt credits as well including Hancock, Zombieland, Bedtime Stories, Evan Almighty, Meet the Spartans, Epic Movie, and Van Helsing. Wearing motion capture pajamas, "Marty" stood in for the Dimorphodon who grapples with Chris Pratt in Jurassic World.

Television

Klebba starred as Friday, one of the seven dwarfs, in the 2001 made-for-TV film Snow White: The Fairest of Them All. In 2003, Klebba starred as Hank Dingo in the Comedy Central made-for-TV movie Knee High P.I.. He also made an appearance as a demon in the Charmed, season 6 episode Witch Wars (2004). He has also appeared in iCarly and Drake & Josh as Nug Nug.

Klebba made many appearances as Randall Winston in the television series Scrubs. He starred in the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode "The Chick Chop Flick Shop" (2007) as Dickie Jones, and in the CSI: NY episode "Uncertainty Rules" (2010) as Calvin Moore. Also in 2010, Klebba guest starred as Hibachi in Pair of Kings, a Disney TV series. He played Todd Moore in the Bones (TV series) season 5 episode "Dwarf in the Dirt"' (2010).

Klebba has also been featured on the TLC reality show, Little People, Big World, with his good friend Amy Roloff. He will be featured in one episode of VH-1's I'm Married to a... in which his average sized wife talks about being married to a little person.

In 2011, Klebba appeared on The Cape as a series regular named "Rollo". He also appeared once again in Mirror Mirror (2012), which starred Julia Roberts, Armie Hammer, and Lily Collins.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2001	Planet of the Apes	Monkey Grinder's Pet	Uncredited
2001	Corky Romano	Mini Bouncer	Uncredited
2001	How High	Party Guest	Uncredited
2001	Snow White: The Fairest of Them All	Friday	Television film
2002	Run Ronnie Run	Music Video Doorman
2002	Big Fat Liar	Kissing Bandit	Uncredited
2002	Death to Smoochy	Rhinette / Krinkle Kid #3
2002	Men in Black II	Family Child Alien
2002	Austin Powers in Goldmember	Dancer	Uncredited
2002	Blood Shot	Secret Weapon	Short film
2003	National Security	Security Guard	Uncredited
2003	Cradle 2 the Grave	Fight Announcer
2003	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	Marty
2003	El Matador	Me Too
2003	A Light in the Forest	Boar
2003	Looney Tunes: Back in Action	Dancing Yosemite Sam
2003	The Haunted Mansion	Pickwick	Uncredited; only known as "Happy Ghost"
2004	Van Helsing	Dwerger	Uncredited
2005	Americano	Matador
2006	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	Marty
2007	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End	Marty
2007	Cougar Club	Short Boss Man	Uncredited
2007	The Santa Trap	Special Ops Elf
2008	Hancock	Prisoner	Uncredited
2008	Feast II: Sloppy Seconds	Thunder	Direct-to-DVD
2009	Feast III: The Happy Finish	Thunder	Direct-to-DVD
2009	American High School	Principal Mann	Direct-to-DVD
2010	A Short Film	Cowboy	Short film
2011	Night of the Little Dead	Little Dead	Short film
2011	Pair of Kings	Hibachi	Guest
2011	In the Gray		Producer
2012	Project X	Dwarf partygoer	credited as "Angry Little Person"
2012	Mirror Mirror	Butcher
2013	Movie 43	Killer Chaun
2013	Oz the Great and Powerful	Nikko
2013	Blood Shot	Marud
2014	The Hungover Games	Fruito
2014	The Bag Man	Guano
2014	Left Behind	Melvin Weir
2015	Jurassic World	Dimorphodon	Stunt performer
2015	Ted 2	Chucky
2016	Range 15	Zombie Klebba
2016	All Hallows Eve	Barnaby
2017	Eloise	Mental Patient
2017	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales	Marty
2019	Viy 2: Journey to China	Captain
2021	Pacific Rim: The Black	Spyder	Animated series; voice role

External links

• Martin Klebba at IMDb