Every Warwick Davis Star Wars Role and Cameo - A list

Warwick Davis is one of those rare Star Wars figures who quietly threads the whole galaxy together.

He begins as Wicket W. Warrick in Return of the Jedi, a child actor hidden inside an Ewok suit on the forest moon of Endor. Then he returns again and again, sometimes as Wicket, sometimes as a podracing spectator, sometimes as a Rodian child, sometimes as a rebel fighter, a casino alien, a criminal, a droid, or a voice in animation. Across decades, Davis becomes more than a cameo machine. He becomes a living continuity marker.

His Star Wars career is also a reminder of how the saga works at the creature-and-character level. Star Wars is not only Luke, Leia, Vader, Rey, Palpatine, and the grand machinery of the Force. It is also the small figures in the corners of the frame, the aliens in the cantinas, the rebels under helmets, the Ewoks in the trees, and the performers whose physical work gives the galaxy texture.

The original version of this article correctly centered Warwick Davis as a Star Wars regular, but it needed a broader pass. This updated guide expands his appearances into a card-based list, adds more lore, corrects a few role details, and links out to related Astromech pages on the Star Wars hub, the Star Wars timeline, the Ewok films, the prequel era, Rogue One, Andor, Yoda, and more.

Davis was born on February 3, 1970, in Epsom, Surrey, England. He was born with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita, a rare form of dwarfism. His first major role came when he was cast as Wicket in Return of the Jedi, a part that launched a career spanning Star Wars, Willow, Harry Potter, The Chronicles of Narnia, television presenting, voice acting, and advocacy for performers with dwarfism.

Warwick Davis in Star Wars costume, representing his many roles as Wicket, Weazel, Wald, Wollivan, Weeteef Cyu-Bee and other characters across the saga — Warwick Davis is one of Star Wars’ great recurring performers, moving from Wicket the Ewok to a whole gallery of background aliens, rebels, voices, and saga cameos.

Quick List: Warwick Davis Star Wars Roles

Project	Year	Role or roles	Why it matters
Return of the Jedi	1983	Wicket W. Warrick	The breakout role that made Davis part of Star Wars history.
Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure	1984	Wicket	Expands Wicket from side character to emotional co-lead.
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor	1985	Wicket	Gives Wicket more personality, bravery, and survival-story weight.
The Phantom Menace	1999	Wald, Weazel, Yoda walking-double work, and additional Tatooine background work	Returns Davis to Star Wars in the prequel era, especially around Anakin’s Tatooine world.
The Force Awakens	2015	Wollivan	Connects Davis to the sequel trilogy through Maz Kanata’s castle.
Rogue One	2016	Weeteef Cyu-Bee	Places Davis inside the grittier rebel world of Saw Gerrera’s Partisans.
The Last Jedi	2017	Wodibin, plus other Canto Bight material	Another casino-world creature cameo in the sequel trilogy.
Star Wars Rebels	2017 to 2018	Rukh, voice	Moves Davis into animation as Grand Admiral Thrawn’s dangerous Noghri assassin.
Solo: A Star Wars Story	2018	Weazel, plus additional droid and background roles	Brings Weazel back from The Phantom Menace and ties him to Enfys Nest’s Cloud-Riders.
The Rise of Skywalker	2019	Wicket W. Warrick, plus additional background work	Returns Wicket to Endor in the saga finale, with Davis’ son Harrison appearing as Pommet Warrick.
Tales of the Empire	2024	Rukh, voice	Continues Davis’ connection to Thrawn-era Imperial storytelling.

Small correction from the older version

Some older fan writeups mix up the later sequel and Solo character names. Wodibin is associated with The Last Jedi. In Solo: A Star Wars Story, Davis returns as Weazel, the same character name used in The Phantom Menace, now reframed as part of Enfys Nest’s anti-Imperial circle.

Warwick Davis Star Wars Appearances in Card Form

1983, Original Trilogy

1. Return of the Jedi, Wicket W. Warrick

Warwick Davis’ first Star Wars role remains his most famous. In Return of the Jedi, he plays Wicket W. Warrick, the young Ewok scout who discovers Princess Leia after she is separated from the Rebel strike team on Endor. Wicket’s first scenes are small, funny, and disarming, but they do important story work. He becomes Leia’s bridge into Ewok society.

Without Wicket, the Rebels may never gain the trust of Bright Tree Village. Without the Ewoks, the shield generator assault becomes far less plausible. The Empire underestimates the local population, and that arrogance costs it the battle. Wicket is cute, yes, but he is also part of the saga’s larger theme that imperial power often fails because it cannot read the people it occupies.

The role also gives Return of the Jedi its fairy-tale texture. Endor is a forest-world of traps, tribes, primitive-looking weapons, and spiritual community set against a galaxy of machines. Wicket sits right at that contrast. He is the small figure who helps bring down a giant system.

1984, Ewok TV Movie

2. Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure, Wicket

Davis returned as Wicket in Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure, a made-for-television Star Wars story that gives the Ewoks more space than Return of the Jedi could. The film follows the Towani children, Mace and Cindel, after their family crashes on Endor. Wicket becomes a friend and guide, helping pull the story away from galactic war and toward survival fantasy.

This appearance matters because it expands Wicket from “the Ewok Leia meets” into a proper recurring character. We see more of his curiosity, bravery, and bond with outsiders. The tone is gentler and more child-focused than the main saga, but that is also its value. It shows Endor as a living world, not just a battleground for the final act of the Galactic Civil War.

1985, Ewok TV Movie

3. Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, Wicket

Ewoks: The Battle for Endor gives Wicket an even more active role. The film is darker than Caravan of Courage, with Cindel and Wicket forced into a more dangerous survival story after the Ewok village is attacked. The tone moves from gentle quest fantasy toward adventure, loss, and defense of home.

For Davis, this is one of the more meaningful extensions of Wicket. The character becomes more than an expressive mascot. He is a protector, companion, and emotional anchor for Cindel. The film also shows how Ewok culture could carry Star Wars storytelling even without Jedi, Sith, smugglers, or the main Rebel Alliance plotline.

1999, Prequel Era

4. The Phantom Menace, Wald, Weazel, Yoda, and Tatooine Background Work

Davis returned to the saga in The Phantom Menace, and he did not simply play one character. He appears as Wald, a young Rodian friend of Anakin Skywalker, and as Weazel, a Mos Espa spectator and gambler seen around the podracing world. He also contributed to Yoda’s walking shots in the original version of the film before later digital revisions changed how Yoda appeared.

This is a fun cluster of roles because it places Davis deep inside the lived-in texture of Tatooine. The prequel’s Tatooine is not just Luke’s desert myth in reverse. It is Anakin’s world of slavery, podracing, junk shops, gamblers, local children, and background aliens. Wald and Weazel help make that environment feel socially dense.

The Yoda connection is also worth noting. Davis had already helped give physical life to Wicket, a character defined through body movement and expressive costume work. His Yoda body-double contribution belongs to the same tradition: creature performance as an essential part of Star Wars language.

2015, Sequel Trilogy

5. The Force Awakens, Wollivan

In The Force Awakens, Davis plays Wollivan, an alien patron in Maz Kanata’s castle on Takodana. It is a brief appearance, but the setting matters. Maz’s castle is the sequel trilogy’s closest equivalent to the Mos Eisley cantina, a gathering place where smugglers, spies, refugees, pirates, and old galactic memory all crowd into one location.

Wollivan is part of that background density. The role is not plot-heavy, but it helps connect the sequel trilogy back to the creature-performance tradition that made the original films feel so tactile. Star Wars needs these faces in the margins. They tell the audience the galaxy has history beyond the lead characters.

2016, Rogue One Era

6. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Weeteef Cyu-Bee

In Rogue One, Davis plays Weeteef Cyu-Bee, a member of Saw Gerrera’s Partisans on Jedha. This is one of his strongest later Star Wars appearances because it places him in the rougher, more militarized corner of the franchise. Weeteef is not a cute background alien. He is a guerrilla fighter in a movement that has been radicalized by occupation, extraction, and Imperial violence.

That makes the role a long way from Wicket, but not as far as it first appears. Both characters are local fighters resisting a massive military power. Wicket defends Endor against the Empire. Weeteef fights from the ruins of Jedha’s political and spiritual crisis. One belongs to Star Wars’ fairy-tale mode. The other belongs to its insurgency mode.

The Jedha connection also matters. By the time of Rogue One, kyber, faith, occupation, and rebellion are all tangled together. Davis’ role places him inside one of the best modern Star Wars depictions of resistance under pressure.

2017, Sequel Trilogy

7. The Last Jedi, Wodibin and Canto Bight Material

In The Last Jedi, Davis appears as Wodibin, one of the alien figures connected with the Canto Bight casino world. The exact weight of the role is small, but the setting is one of the film’s key thematic spaces. Canto Bight shows the galaxy’s war economy from the leisure class side: wealth, weapons, gambling, spectacle, and moral rot under polished surfaces.

Davis’ presence here again fits the saga’s background tradition. The Star Wars galaxy is built from accumulated small roles, creatures, masks, voice work, and visual oddities. Even a brief casino cameo contributes to the sense that the galaxy has more species, professions, vices, and social strata than the central plot can stop to explain.

It is also worth separating Wodibin from Dobbu Scay. Dobbu Scay, the tiny gambler who mistakes BB-8 for a slot machine, is usually associated with Mark Hamill’s cameo. Davis’ role is Wodibin, keeping his own thread of sequel-creature appearances alive.

2017 to 2018, Animation

8. Star Wars Rebels, Rukh

Davis voiced Rukh in Star Wars Rebels, giving him a role in one of the most important animated branches of modern Star Wars canon. Rukh is a Noghri assassin and bodyguard associated with Grand Admiral Thrawn, which places Davis near one of the franchise’s great strategic villains.

This role matters because it shifts Davis from masked and creature performance into voice performance within the animated canon. Rukh is not a comic cameo. He is a threat. His presence supports Thrawn’s aura as a calculating Imperial commander who uses specialized agents, cultural knowledge, and intimidation as weapons.

The Rebels connection also matters because the series feeds directly into the later Ahsoka-era stories, where Thrawn’s return becomes a major concern for the New Republic era.

2018, Standalone Film

9. Solo: A Star Wars Story, Weazel and Additional Roles

Solo: A Star Wars Story brings Davis back as Weazel, the character name previously attached to his The Phantom Menace appearance. This is a lovely deep-cut continuity move. In the prequel era, Weazel is seen around the Mos Espa podracing scene. In Solo, he appears in connection with Enfys Nest’s Cloud-Riders.

That gives the character a surprisingly interesting evolution. Weazel goes from Tatooine’s gambling and underworld-adjacent culture to a rebel-adjacent group resisting exploitation. Whether read as direct character growth or playful continuity stitching, it gives Davis’ prequel cameo a second life.

Solo is also one of the clearest examples of Star Wars using background roles as lore glue. A face from the margins can return decades later in a different political context, making the galaxy feel both large and weirdly interconnected.

2019, Saga Finale

10. The Rise of Skywalker, Wicket Returns

Davis returned as Wicket in The Rise of Skywalker, appearing briefly on Endor after the defeat of Palpatine. The cameo is short, but it has real franchise weight. Wicket was Davis’ first Star Wars role, and the saga finale brings him back as a visual echo of Return of the Jedi.

The moment also includes Davis’ son Harrison Davis as Pommet Warrick, Wicket’s son. That gives the cameo a personal generational layer. Star Wars is already obsessed with family, inheritance, legacy, and children living in the shadow of earlier stories. Here, that theme exists behind the scenes and on screen at the same time.

For fans, it is a small Endor grace note. For Davis’ Star Wars career, it closes a circle: the child actor who became Wicket returns decades later with his own son beside him.

2024, Animation

11. Tales of the Empire, Rukh Returns

Davis’ connection to Rukh continued through Tales of the Empire, keeping him tied to Thrawn-adjacent Imperial storytelling. This is a useful reminder that Davis’ Star Wars career is not only live action and not only nostalgia. He remains part of the franchise’s animated connective tissue.

Rukh is a strong contrast to Wicket. Wicket represents local courage, warmth, and Rebel alliance-building. Rukh represents elite Imperial violence and loyalty to a cold strategist. That range is part of what makes Davis’ Star Wars record so unusual. He has played beloved heroes, background oddballs, rebels, criminals, and killers.

Final Thought

Warwick Davis’ Star Wars story is unusual because it is both tiny in screen time and enormous in continuity. Wicket alone would have made him a beloved part of the saga. But the later roles turn him into something else: a recurring signature hidden across the franchise.

He is there in the original trilogy’s forest battle. He is there in the prequel era’s Tatooine dust. He is there in the sequel trilogy’s castles and casinos. He is there in the grimy rebellion of Rogue One. He is there in animation, in Thrawn’s orbit, giving voice to danger. He is there at the end of the Skywalker Saga, back on Endor where it all began.

That is a very Star Wars kind of legacy. A small figure, seen again and again, quietly holding the galaxy together.