Billy Curtis
Acting
Born 1909-06-27
Died 1988-11-09
Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
69 credits
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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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Filmography
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Acting
52 credits
Star Trek
Batman
Bewitched
Knots Landing
Get Smart
The Twilight Zone
Adventures of Superman
Gunsmoke
The Wizard of Oz
Faerie Tale Theatre
Here's Lucy
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
The Monkees
Adventures in Paradise
Planet of the Apes
This Is Your Life
Shirley Temple's Storybook
The Cisco Kid
High Plains Drifter
Hello, Dolly!
Monster Squad
Saboteur
Friendly Persuasion
Limelight
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Robin and the 7 Hoods
Head Office
Princess of the Nile
Eating Raoul
Man of a Thousand Faces
The Legend of Lylah Clare
Superman and the Mole Men
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Hellzapoppin'
Backstage Party
The Comic
Loose Shoes
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Two on a Guillotine
The Hard Way
Aphrodisiac: The Love Secret
Evil Roy Slade
April Showers
Three Texas Steers
Out of Sight
Lucky Legs
Little Cigars
The Terror of Tiny Town
Maisie Was a Lady
Emergency Landing
Pygmy Island
Homicide for Three
Other credits
8 credits
The Beverly Hillbillies
Laverne & Shirley
77 Sunset Strip
Dirty Harry
87th Precinct
Tightrope
The Greatest Show on Earth
Buck Privates Come Home
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