Addams Family/Buck Rogers actor Felix Silla dead

Felix Silla, a versatile actor best known for his role as hairy Cousin Itt on TV's "The Addams Family," died Friday after battling pancreatic cancer. He was 84.

His friend of more than 40 years and former co-star on NBC's "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century," Gil Gerard announced the news on Twitter.

Silla, a longtime resident of Las Vegas, weighed just 70 pounds and was under 4 feet tall, according to FOX 23 Tulsa.

He also appeared in "Buck Rogers" as Twiki the robot sidekick, a hang-gliding Ewok in the 1983 "Star Wars: Episode VI -- Return of the Jedi," and the villain Livak opposite George Segal in the 1975 film -- and sequel to "The Maltese Falcon" -- "The Black Bird."

Silla was born on Jan. 11, 1937 in Roccacasale, Italy and came to the United States in 1955 when he began to tour with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, working as a trapeze artist, tumbler and bareback horse rider, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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