生于纽约布鲁克林，身高仅1米57，自小就随家人登台演出。1926年他6岁时首登银幕，在短片《不被信任》里饰演一个小侏儒。次年至1933年，主演50多集两本长的喜剧片集《米基·迈奎尔》，名声渐隆。1935年在《仲夏夜之梦》中扮演普克，再获...
海蒂·麦克丹尼尔斯是奥斯卡历史上第一位黑人获奖演员，在此之前虽然黑人演员众多，但甚至连被提名的都没有。而其貌不扬的哈蒂能够荣膺此艳，不可不说是她演技超群所致。
A rather wanderlust fellow before he latched onto acting, Denver Pyle--who made a career of playing drawling, somewhat slow Southern types--was actually born in Colorado in 1920, to a farming family. He attended a university for a time but dropped out to become a drummer. When that didn't pan out he drifted from job to job, doing everything from working the oil fields in Oklahoma to the shrimp boats in Texas. In 1940 he moseyed off to Los Angeles and briefly found employment as a (somewhat unlikely) NBC page. That particular career was interrupted by World War II, and Pyle enlisted in the navy. Wounded in the battle of Guadalcanal, he received a medical discharge in 1943.
