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person_profile-Billy Curtis

Billy Curtis Died at age: 79

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Billy Curtis

Date of Birth:

Jun 27, 1909

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Nov 09, 1988

Biography of

Billy Curtis

    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 of

Billy Curtis

Found 39 Movies in total

Head Office

Reverend Lynch ( Actor )

... 1985

... 1984

Eating Raoul

Little Person ( Actor )

... 1982

Loose Shoes

Menchkin ( Actor )

... 1978

The Wild McCullochs

Charlie P. ( Actor )

... 1975

White House Madness

Secret Service Man ( Actor )

... 1975

Little Cigars

Slick Bender ( Actor )

... 1973

High Plains Drifter

Mordecai ( Actor )

... 1973

Evil Roy Slade

Toy Cowboy (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1972

Aphrodisiac: The Love Secret

Man on the Street Interviewee ( Actor )

... 1971

Norwood

Edmund B. Ratner ( Actor )

... 1970

Hello, Dolly!

Little Person (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1969

The Legend of Lylah Clare

Clown (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1968

Planet of the Apes

Child Ape (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1968

Out of Sight

The Man From F.L.U.S.H. ( Actor )

... 1966

Robin and the 7 Hoods

Newsboy ( Actor )

... 1964

Back Stage Party

Self ( Actor )

... 1961

Man of a Thousand Faces

Harry Earles (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1957

... 1957

Friendly Persuasion

Midget at County Fair (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1956

Jungle Moon Men

Damu ( Actor )

... 1955

Princess of the Nile

Tut (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1954

... 1952

Superman and the Mole-Men

Mole-Man (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1951

Pygmy Island

Makuba ( Actor )

... 1950

Homicide for Three

Circus Performer ( Actor )

... 1948

April Showers

Capt. Rudolph L. Nemo ( Actor )

... 1948

The Hard Way

Vaudeville Midget (Uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1943

Lucky Legs

Newsboy ( Actor )

... 1942

Saboteur

Midget - Circus Troupe ( Actor )

... 1942

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!

Midget ( Actor )

... 1942

Hellzapoppin'

Bodyguard (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1941

Ice-Capades

George ( Actor )

... 1941

Emergency Landing

Judge ( Actor )

... 1941

Maisie Was a Lady

Midget (Uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1941

The Wizard of Oz

Munchkin ( Actor )

Stunts

... 1939

Three Texas Steers

Hercules - the Midget ( Actor )

... 1939

The Terror of Tiny Town

The Hero (Buck Lawson) ( Actor )

... 1938