He played all the Oompa-Loompas (165 of them) in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He has worked for Burton in three other films, Big Fish (2003), Corpse Bride (2005), where he supplied General Bonesapart's voice, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (also 2005). He has played apes in two movies: Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes and again in the Tim Burton remake of Planet of the Apes (2001) in two roles, one as a young gorilla boy and as Thade's niece. He is uncredited on the film but can be seen in many behind-the-scenes photos dressed as Yoda for perspective shots filmed towards the end of production. He portrayed the Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. In 1979, Roy played a genetically engineered life form "Decima" in the first season Blake's 7 episode "The Web", the diminutive chess genius, "The Klute", in the second season Blake's 7 episode "Gambit" and he voiced the character "Moloch", in the third season Blake's 7 episode "Moloch". Sin, the "pig-brained Peking Homunculus", a villain with a distinct appetite for homicide, in the Doctor Who serial The Talons of Weng-Chiang. He made his film debut later that same year, in The Pink Panther Strikes Again, as the Italian Assassin. He made his professional screen acting debut in a 1976 episode of The New Avengers, titled "Target!" as a character named Klokoe. In April 1970, Roy opened on the UK stage in Ray Cooney's Miracle Worker at the Palace Theatre, Westcliff-on-Sea. He later enrolled in The Slim Wood School of Comedy and got his start in the entertainment arena in England in 1970 as a stand-up comic in local cabaret clubs. He studied accounting in London before dropping out at 18. Roy was born on 1 December 1957 in Nairobi to Indian parents in a Sikh family. At 132 centimetres (4 ft 4 in) tall, he has often been cast as diminutive characters, such as Teeny Weeny in The NeverEnding Story and the Oompa-Loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Keenser in Star Trek, and subsequent films (" Kelvin Timeline"), and in television series such as The X-Files, Doctor Who, and Eastbound & Down. Gurdeep Roy (born Mohinder Purba 1 December 1957), known professionally as Deep Roy, is a Kenyan-British actor, puppeteer, and stuntman.
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