Etienne Girardot (22 February 1856 – 10 November 1939) was a diminutive stage and film actor of Anglo-French parentage born in London, England.

[2] The son of French painter Ernest Gustave Girardot, he studied at an art school, but left at age seventeen to go on stage.

He was a success, with numerous Broadway shows to his credit,[2] including the 1893 production of Charley's Aunt, in which he played Lord Fancourt Babberley for three years.

Among his film roles were the harmless lunatic who fancies himself a millionaire in the 1934 screwball comedy Twentieth Century, with John Barrymore and Carole Lombard, and the harassed coroner in three murder mysteries starring William Powell as detective Philo Vance.

He was survived by his wife Dr. Violetta Shelton, an "eye, ear, nose and throat specialist.