Michael Dunn was an American actor and singer with dwarfism. He was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for The Ballad of the Sad Café, and for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in Stanley Kramer's Ship of Fools, but best remembered for a recurring role as antagonist Dr. Miguelito Quixote Loveless in the 1960s television adventure series The Wild Wild West. He inspired a number of later actors with dwarfism, including Zelda Rubinstein, Eric the Actor, and Mark Povinelli.
Dunn as Dr. Loveless in The Wild Wild West (1968)
Dunn with Richard Kiel in The Wild Wild West, 1966
Dunn as Antaeus with Priscilla Pointer in The Inner Journey.
Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play
The Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play is an honor presented at the Tony Awards, a ceremony established in 1947 as the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, to actors for quality supporting roles in a Broadway play. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, to "honor the best performances and stage productions of the previous year."
2023 recipient: Brandon Uranowitz
Arthur Kennedy won for Death of a Salesman (1949)
Eli Wallach won for The Rose Tattoo (1951)
Ed Begley won for Inherit the Wind (1956)