Warwick Davis Uncovers Performing Runs In Family | Who Do You Think You Are

[@GamerplayerWT]

Warwick has a great smile!

[@ambertiamzon1479]

I couldn't help thinking the same thing Warwick has great smile ! My mom said he's aged well and I think he's fascinating.

[@lunaflamed]

Amber Tiamzon Yes, he has ages rather well. First saw him at the Theatre in the movie Willow. If memory serves, he was about 16 in that movie. Still have a bit of a crush on him TBH.

[@theinvisiblequeen]

And such a nice voice I could listen to him read the dictionary!

[@smdias65]

Having done genealogy research myself, I love it when your digging uncovers a story, instead of just names and dates.

[@shanemccandless8112]

Warwick davis is great smile

[@kaguth]

Damn, poor Warwick was so happy to discover there was a performer in the family...then.

[@shanemccandless8112]

I love warwick davis tenable

[@sigma_curry]

Awesome he was a violinist. Well then.

[@skippymagrue]

He was on Top Gear and out of the whole group, he was the fastest in the new car. He had brought his pedal extenders, but since it was a manual, the had to improvise with a Pringles can.

[@stahppls2293]

"Can you make a living being a musician?" says the actor

[@TerryWaitesRadiator]

Bigamy, syphilis, blacking up as a minstrel.

[@donnaleeflournoy-mancuso5675]

I am related to the Mannings in the UK.. The name came from Isle of Man.. ❤🐻

[@kaleahcollins4567]

He was a part of Vaudeville

[@junebrumbeloe6939]

My maternal great grandmother was a Manning

[@sophiecardy6389]

Is this episode going go aired on tv?

[@charlottebruce979]

It's already been on TV, this is where this is taken from.

[@trekgirl65]

@@charlottebruce979 cable television

[@NicoleHRRCP]

Willow!

[@stahppls2293]

"OH YAY HE'S A PERFORMER---" "He did blackface."

[@theinvisiblequeen]

In those days it wasn't a big deal.

[@lucygray6162]

Somehow I don't think an ancestor wearing blackface in a skit compares to finding out your ancestor was a child molester or serial killer or abandoned a wife with 11 children who all wound up dying in a work house. Time to stop apologizing for something that happened in another time and culture. If you didn't do it personally, you are not responsible, regardless of outside pressure to react a certain way.

[@KaiMcCall11]

@@lucygray6162it’s still wrong.

[@saraho9568]

I was curious to see if his Dwarfism was hereditary but he hasn't found any.

[@AmyHellrigel]

It could just be on a different hereditary line, he seems to following a strictly patriarchal history

[@MaylarArt]

Actually, the explanation is probably the syphilis. I'm not going to go into a whole lot medicine here, but in short, there is a thing called "congenital syphilis", which if directly transferred to a newborn was usually fatal (even today if not noticed very early), but if survived could cause whole myriad of consequences (including dwarfism). However, if treated in time, it doesn't have to cause immediate consequences if survived and one can end up leading a normal life, not even knowing they had it if not told, then go having children, etc. But the thing is, it doesn't stop at two generations only, so a next generation and even the next generation can have it (all from, for example, great grandfather suffering from initial syphilis) and it can be absolutely invisible or manifested as eye problems or jaw being prominent or similar things that we wouldn't immediately catch as signs (in some cases it caused increased headaches and vertigo or rhinitis, so very broad symptoms). Or it can go and again cause things like dwarfism or whole lot of various other more serious things. Sorry if I was too long in explanation or didn't explain very well, I hope it make sense. Anyway, there is definitely a possibility of that being a cause and then again, there is a possibility of something entirely else, of course, as there are several types of dwarfism and the causes of it are various.

[@saraho9568]

@@MaylarArt Thanks, that's interesting.

[@MaylarArt]

@@saraho9568 No problem. It isn't a pleasant thing to talk about, but it is interesting medically.

[@saphorr]

@@MaylarArt Davis has spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), which is caused by a mutation of the COL2A1 gene on human chromosome 12. It has absolutely nothing at all to do with syphilis. It is heritable, but because both of his parents are normal-sized, the mutation must have occurred spontaneously in his own development so none of his ancestors would have had it.

[@Brett.Crealy-kh1sk]

Don't be horrified of your ancestors work! He had to feed himself, and how can we judge the conditions of those times?