Billy Curtis
Acting
Born: June 27, 1909 · Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
Died: November 9, 1988 (aged 79)
Highest Rated
Biography
Billy Curtis (June 27, 1909 - November 9, 1988) was an American film and television actor. He was a dwarf who had a 50-year career in a variety of roles. He was born on 27 June 1909 in Springfield, Massachusetts, and died November 9, 1988 in Dayton, Nevada, of a heart attack. According to the IMDb site, his birth name was Luigi Curto, and his height was 4 feet 2 inches (1.27 m). The bulk of his work was in the western and science fiction genres. One of his early jobs was as one of the Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz. He also appeared in Adventures of Superman in the 1950s. Most notably, Curtis worked in westerns, including the Clint Eastwood feature, High Plains Drifter in which he featured as Mordecai, a friendly dwarf sympathetic to Eastwood, he also appeared in the 1938 Musical/Western The Terror of Tiny Town. This film is, as far as is known, the world's only Western with an all-dwarf cast. Many of the actors in Tinytown were part of a performing troupe called Singer's Midgets, who also played Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz, released in 1939. He also had a starring role in American International Pictures' 1973 release, Little Cigars, about a gang of "midgets" on a crime spree.
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Movies (43)
The Wizard of Oz
Munchkin (uncredited)
Planet of the Apes
Child Ape (uncredited)
High Plains Drifter
Mordecai
Friendly Persuasion
Midget at County Fair (uncredited)
Limelight
Midget in Agent's Office (uncredited)
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Midget
Hello, Dolly!
Little Person (uncredited)
Saboteur
Midget - Circus Troupe
Robin and the 7 Hoods
Newsboy (uncredited)
Buck Privates Come Home
1947
The Legend of Lylah Clare
Clown (uncredited)
Eating Raoul
Little Person
Man of a Thousand Faces
Harry Earles (uncredited)
Two on a Guillotine
Big Mike (uncredited)
Head Office
Reverend Lynch
The Comic
Lifeguard in Film (uncredited)
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Elf #2
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Barnaby
Hellzapoppin'
Bodyguard (uncredited)
Princess of the Nile
Tut (uncredited)
Aphrodisiac!: The Sexual Secret of Marijuana
Man on the Street Interviewee
The Wild McCullochs
Charlie P.
Superman and the Mole Men
Mole-Man (uncredited)
April Showers
Capt. Rudolph L. Nemo
The Hard Way
Vaudeville Midget (Uncredited)
Jungle Moon Men
Damu
Evil Roy Slade
Toy Cowboy (uncredited)
Lucky Legs
Newsboy
Loose Shoes
Menchkin
Emergency Landing
Judge
The Terror of Tiny Town
The Hero (Buck Lawson)
Little Cigars
Slick Bender
Maisie Was a Lady
Midget (Uncredited)
Don't Lie
Melinda, the chimp
White House Madness
Secret Service Man
Pygmy Island
Makuba
Three Texas Steers
Hercules - the Midget
Father Guido Sarducci's Vatican Inquirer: The Pope's Tour
Monsignor Duffy
Ice-Capades
George
Norwood
Edmund B. Ratner
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
Midget
Homicide for Three
Circus Performer
Out of Sight
The Man From F.L.U.S.H.
TV Shows (24)
Knots Landing
Billy Curtis · 1 eps
Star Trek
Small, copper skinned ambassador (uncredited) · 1 eps
Get Smart
El Lobo-Ito · 1 eps
Get Smart
Tiny Allen (uncredited) · 1 eps
Bewitched
Jack O'Lantern · 1 eps
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
Batman
Midget · 2 eps
The Twilight Zone
Creature (segment "Personal Demons") · 1 eps
Laverne & Shirley
1 eps
77 Sunset Strip
1 eps
Gunsmoke
Arizona · 1 eps
Here's Lucy
Herman · 1 eps
The Monkees
Midget · 1 eps
Adventures in Paradise
Captain Borcher · 1 eps
Adventures of Superman
1 eps
Adventures of Superman
Mole-Man #1 (uncredited) · 2 eps
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
General Yoomak · 1 eps
Faerie Tale Theatre
Barnaby · 1 eps
The Cisco Kid
The Laughing Badman · 1 eps
87th Precinct
1 eps
Tightrope
1 eps
Shirley Temple's Storybook
Boomalakka Wee · 1 eps
Shirley Temple's Storybook
Dwarf · 1 eps
Monster Squad
The Ringmaster · 1 eps
