Kiran Shah: Misc

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Up to date as of February 02, 2010

Kiran Shah (b. September 28, 1956),sometimes credited as Kirin Shaw, is a Kenyan actor and stunt man who has performed as a body puppeteer in various Muppet/Creature Shop productions. Shah served as the stunt double for Miss Piggy in The Great Muppet Caper. Shah also performed certain stunt scenes for Jen and The Chamberlain in The Dark Crystal. For the Creature Shop Hallmark TV version of Alice in Wonderland, Shah was the sole body puppeteer for The White Rabbit.

Shah's other film roles include portraying an Ewok in Return of the Jedi, Abu in Raiders of the Lost Ark, and most recently a prominent role as Grinarrbik in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

This article uses material from the "Kiran Shah" article on the Muppet wiki at Wikia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.

Up to date as of February 04, 2010

Kiran Shah (born September 28, 1956) is a 4' 1" Kenyan-born actor and stuntman who played an Ewok in Return of the Jedi. Shah's many film credits include Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Dark Crystal, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and the Lord of the Rings trilogy (where he was Elijah Wood's scale double as Frodo).

Since 2003, Shah has held the Guinness World Record as the "shortest professional stuntman currently working in film."

This article uses material from the "Kiran Shah" article on the Starwars wiki at Wikia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.