Deep Roy Biography

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Gurdeep Roy — sometimes credited as Roy Deep, Gordeep Roy, or just plain Deep Roy — is an actor, stuntman and puppeteer.

Born Mohinder Purba in Nairobi, Kenya, Roy is a 4 feet 4 inches (132 centimetres) tall dwarf.

Because of his short stature, he has played a variety of unusual characters in his acting career. He has played apes in two movies: Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes and again in the 2001 remake of Planet of the Apes; (playing: young gorilla boy and the senator's daughter, respectively). Roy played all of the Oompa-Loompas in Tim Burton's 2005 adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Deep had extensive training for the role in dance, yoga, and even some minor instrument playing. He also had a cameo role in Corpse Bride (another Tim Burton movie), supplying General Bonesapart's voice.

Roy played the role of the "pig-brained Peking Homonculus" or "Mr. Sin", a villain with a distinct appetite for homicide, in the 1977 Doctor Who episode "The Talons of Weng-Chiang".

Deep Roy has also appeared in How The Grinch Stole Christmas, in the credits as one of the post office clerks, The X-Files, Blake's 7, Flash Gordon (a character named after Federico Fellini), Return To Oz, Big Fish, The NeverEnding Story, as the rider of the "racing snail" (credited as "Teeny Weeny") and Return of the Jedi, as a member of the Max Rebo band. In late 2006 he appeared as a "mini-me" style David Hasselhoff character, alongside the real Hasselhoff, in a series of UK TV adverts for Pipex broadband.

Deep is often confused with Kiran Shah; they are both dwarf Kenyan actors of Indian descent who got their starts in film and television in the late 70s.

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• 1. Tin Man: Return to Oz was pretty good, but wasn't Tip the character who fought the Gnome king?
  From Return to Oz. Submitted by Kevin P (5 months ago)

• 1. Oompa Loompa: Listen close, listen hard / The tale of Violet Beauregarde / This gentle girl she sees no wrong / Chewing, chewing, chewing, chewing, chewing, chewing all day long / Chewing, chewing all day long / Chewing, chewing all day long / Chewing, chewing all day long / She goes on chewing till at last / Her chewing muscles grow so fast / From her face her giant chin / Sticks out just like a violin / Chewing, chewing all day long / Chewing, chewing all day long / Chewing, chewing all day long / Oompa Loompa, Oompa Loompa, Oompa Loompa, Oompa Loompa/ For years and years she chews away / Her jaws get stronger every day / And with one great tremendous chew / They bite the poor girl's tongue in two / And that is why we try so hard / To save Miss Violet Beauregarde / Chewing, chewing all day long / Chewing, chewing all day long / Chewing, chewing, chewing, chewing, chewing, chewing all day long./ Chewing, chewing all day long./ Chewing, chewing all day long.
  From Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Submitted by Lea L (12 months ago)

• 1. Oompa Loompa: Augustus Gloop / Augustus Gloop / The great big greedy Nincompoop / Augustus Gloop, so big and vile, so greedy foul and infantile / Come on, we cry, the time is ripe to send him shooting up the pipe / But don't, dear children be alarmed, Augustus Gloop will not be harmed, Augustus Gloop will not be harmed / Although of course we must admit, he will be altered quite a bit / Slowly wheels go round and round, and cogs begin to grind and pound / This greedy brute, this louces ear, is loved by people everywhere, for who could hate or bare a grudge against a luscious bit of fudge?
  From Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Submitted by Lea L (12 months ago)