WARWICK Davis was left more than £500,000 by his film star wife Samantha after she died in March.
The TV icon, 54, was bequeathed the huge sum following his lifelong partner’s death aged 53.
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Star Wars and Harry Potter actor Warwick, who met Samantha on a film set at just 17, was designated as the sole trustee in her will.
Documents seen by The Sun show her estate was worth £536,830 when she died.
Her final will was signed in 1998 and went unchanged for the rest of her life.
Nicknamed “Sammy”, she met fellow actor Warwick while shooting Disney fantasy flick Willow in 1988.
They got hitched three years later and settled near Peterborough, Cambs, before having three children – Annabelle, 27, Harrison, 21, and Lloyd, who tragically died in infancy in 1991.
Samantha was diagnosed with achondroplasia, a bone growth disorder that causes dwarfism, as a child.
A similar condition – spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita – affects her widower Warwick.
The tireless campaigner set up the Little People UK charity for other individuals with dwarfism in 2012.
It has since raised hundreds of thousands to help people with the debilitating conditions that cause dwarfism, which Warwick said felt like “the worst flu you’ve had, every day”.
Samantha’s struggles
- Samantha and Warwick lost their baby Lloyd just nine days after he was born in 1991 after inheriting dwarfism from both his parents caused complications.
- The couple lost a second child when Samantha miscarried at 20 weeks in 1993, with the couple naming the baby George.
- Samantha suffered another two miscarriages before giving birth to Annabelle and Harrison.
- The actress underwent numerous surgeries in her lifetime due to her achondroplasia, a bone growth disorder that causes disproportionate dwarfism.
- In 2019, she was raced to hospital after complications following decompression surgery on her spine.
- Samantha had contracted life-threatening sepsis and Warwick was preparing himself to say ‘goodbye’.
- The infection causes the body’s immune system to go into overdrive and attack tissues and organs, which can be lethal and lead to amputations.
- Sam survived but had it not been for her medical team acting so quickly, she could have lost fingers, toes or limbs.
- After being discharged, Warwick ‘played doctor’ for three months – mixing vials of antibiotics, loading them into syringes and carefully feeding them into Sam’s heart through a drip.
- In March 2024, it was announced Samantha had sadly passed away.
After Samantha’s death, the Tenable quiz show host led tributes, writing: “She was passionate about helping people, without judgement.
“She had time for everyone and a genuine listening ear”.
Davis said his wife’s mobility had become impaired after she contracted sepsis in 2018, but remained was “determined it would not impact her quality of life”.
He added: “She was my most trusted confidante and an ardent supporter of everything I did in my career”.
Warwick previously opened up about his wife’s health after she was rushed to hospital with sepsis in 2018.
The actor told The Sun that her health dramatically declined ahead of a family caravan holiday.
Speaking of the horror a few years later, he said: “The next few hours were the longest of my life as I waited on the ward with our children in the empty space left by Sam’s hospital bed.”
Warwick has also spoken movingly about how the combination of both his and Samantha’s conditions resulted in the deaths of two of their babies.
The first, Lloyd, sadly died after nine days as his lungs were too small to support normal function.
They also lost another son, George, when Samantha was 19 weeks pregnant.
He said: “It’s something that a baby won’t survive. But Lloyd survived for nine days, but yeah he was beautiful.
“It was a tough time. And yeah, we had a stillborn too.”
Warwick insisted the tragedies brought him closer to his wife, and said: “That kind of stuff just makes you stronger.”
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