Basic Information About Hervé Villechaize
| Category | Celebrities › Actors |
|---|---|
| Professions | Actor |
| Net worth | $100,000 |
| Date of birth | 1943-04-23 |
| Place of birth | Paris |
| Date of death | 1993-09-04 (aged 50) |
| Nationality | France |
| Spouse | Camille Hagen - (5 September 1980 - 3 November 1982) (divorced) 2 February - Anne Sadowski (1970 - 1979) (divorced) |
| Gender | Male |
| Height | 3 ft 9 in (1.168 m) |
| Social Media | ↗︎ Wikipedia ↗︎ IMDb |
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What Movie Awards did Hervé Villechaize win?
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Hervé Villechaize awards
| Award Name | State | Movie / Series Name | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Globe - Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television | Nominee | Fantasy Island | 1982 |
Hervé Villechaize roles
| Movie / Series | Role |
|---|---|
| Pixels | Alien Tattoo (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| The Man with the Golden Gun | Nick Nack (as Herve Villechaize) |
| Two Moon Junction | Smiley (as Herve Villechaize) |
| Airplane II: The Sequel | Little Breather |
| Hee Haw | Self 1 episode, 1985 |
| Taxi | Self 1 episode, 1980 |
| Diff'rent Strokes | Self 1 episode, 1984 |
| The Larry Sanders Show | Hervé Villechaize (uncredited) unknown episodes |
| The Ben Stiller Show | Hervé Villechaize 1 episode, 1992 |
| Faerie Tale Theatre | Guest Interviewee / ... 2 episodes, 1982-1985 |
| Fantasy Island | Tattoo 132 episodes, 1977-1983 |
Hervé Villechaize's Movie/Shows Salary
| Movie / Series | Salary |
|---|---|
| Fantasy Island (1977) | $25,000 per episode |
Interesting Facts about Hervé Villechaize
- Committed suicide in North Hollywood, California. Died of self-inflicted gunshot wound.
- He lived in North Hollywood on W. Killion Street.
- Famous for the line "The plane! The plane!" that he said in each episode of Fantasy Island (1977) with his French accent.
- His brother Patrick has said that Hervé was of English, French, Italian, and German descent.
- The reason for his suicide was not career woes, as is commonly believed, but because he was in nearly constant pain as his body aged. While small externally, his internal organs were of normal size, and crowded each other over the years. In his last months, he had to sleep in a kneeling position, because lying down made it impossible to breathe.
- Became involved with children's charities during his heyday, including opening a halfway house for runaways and troubled youths. He enjoyed helping children, who found it easy to relate to him because of his height.
- Used to share a room with actor/director/writer Matthew Bright.
- Was friends with Mary Woronov.
- Best remembered by the public for his role as "Tattoo" in the TV series Fantasy Island (1977).
- Adopted at the age of two by his stepfather, Andre Villechaize, according to his common law wife Kathy Self. Herve's biological father is unknown.
- Due to his resemblance to Felipe González (former president of Spain between 1984-1996), Herve parodied him in a well known Spanish TV show called Viaje con nosotros (1988). In Spain he is still known as "Felipe Gonzalez's double".
- Same height as David Rappaport, who also died of a self-inflicted gunshot.
- Was the director's choice for the role of Gurney Halleck in Alejandro Jodorowsky's "Dune".
- When 12 spent 6 months in an American clinic where doctors tried everything to encourage is growth. It was while he was in the clinic that he started to draw and is parents enrolled him at La Grande chaumiere in Paris where he started painting. and by 16 had a one man exhibition in Paris.
