Biographie

Girardot's body rests in an unmarked grave at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, CA.

One of the tiniest of Hollywood's character actors, Etienne appears as the office manager in John Ford's "The Whole Town's Talking" where he can be seen in the corridor of police headquarters talking to Donald Meek, another extremely diminutive character actor. Meek appears to be even taller than Etienne.

The son of an artist, on stage from the age of seventeen at the Haymarket Theatre in London. In the U.S. from 1893, first theatrical performance as Lord Babberly in "Charley's Aunt".

Survived by his widow, Dr. Violetta Shelton, an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist; and a sister in England.

Appeared in no less than 26 Broadway shows from 1900-1932, including the comedy, Twentieth Century (1932).