at Bridgeport, Connecticut on October 8, 1862. He received the Commandery degrees (Masonic Knight Templar) in Hamilton Commandery No. 5 (Bridgeport, Connecticut), in 1863. Screen portrayals George Brasno portrayed General Tom Thumb in the 1934 film The Mighty Barnum. Jimmy Clitheroe portrayed General Tom Thumb in the 1967 film Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon. Paul Miller portrayed General Tom Thumb in the 1986 TV film Barnum! Sandor Raski portrayed General Tom Thumb in the 1986 TV film Barnum. Ed Gale portrayed General Tom Thumb in the 1995 TV film Tad. Josh Ryan Evans portrayed General Tom Thumb in the 1999 TV film P.T. Barnum. Sam Humphrey portrayed General Tom Thumb in the 2017 musical film The Greatest Showman. See also Stamford Museum, where a suit of his clothes is displayed for comparison with those of Daniel Lambert. Tom Thumb House (Middleborough, Massachusetts), his summer house. Middleborough Historical Museum, which exhibits a large collection of Tom Thumb memorabilia. References Further reading Lehman, Eric D. Becoming Tom Thumb: Charles Stratton, P.T. Barnum, and the Dawn of American Celebrity (Wesleyan University Press, distributed by University Press of New England; 2013) 276 pages; scholarly biography American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers (Tarcher/Penguin 2005), by Marc Hartzman. External links "Sideshow Ephemera Gallery: General Tom Thumb" by James G. Mundie – biographical essay with photos Harper's portrait and report on General Tom Thumb's Wedding Details of a museum in Middleboro, MA. A town where they made their home. – Link points to RoadsideAmerica.com "Tom Thumb" at the Disability History Museum The South Dakota Music Museum where a violin given to him, purported by P.T. Barnum to be a Stradivarius, rests in the Everist Gallery. American circus performers People from Bridgeport, Connecticut Tom Thumb Entertainers with dwarfism Sideshow performers Burials at Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport 1838 births 1883 deaths