Billy Curtis

Billy Curtis

Acting 1909-06-27 Springfield, Massachusetts, USA

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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1985 Reverend Lynch
1985 Creature (segment "Personal Demons")
1982 Little Person
1982 Barnaby
1979 General Yoomak
1979 Billy Curtis
1978 Menchkin
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1976 The Ringmaster
1975 Secret Service Man
1975 Charlie P.
1973 Mordecai
1973 Slick Bender
1972 Toy Cowboy (uncredited)
1971 Man on the Street Interviewee
1971 Stunts
1970 Edmund B. Ratner
1969 Little Person (uncredited)
1969 Lifeguard in Film (uncredited)
1968 Child Ape (uncredited)
1968 Clown (uncredited)
1968 Herman
1966 The Man From F.L.U.S.H.
1966 Small, copper skinned ambassador (uncredited)
1966 Midget
1966 Midget
1965 Big Mike (uncredited)
1964 Newsboy
1964 Jack O'Lantern
1961 Self
1959 Captain Borcher
1959
1958 Boomalakka Wee
1957 Midget
1957 Harry Earles (uncredited)
1956 Midget at County Fair (uncredited)
1955 Damu
1955 Arizona
1954 Tut (uncredited)
1952 Midget in Agent's Office (uncredited)
1952 Self
1952 Mole-Man #1 (uncredited)
1951 Mole-Man (uncredited)
1950 Makuba
1950 The Laughing Badman
1948 Circus Performer
1948 Capt. Rudolph L. Nemo
1943 Vaudeville Midget (Uncredited)
1942 Melinda, the chimp
1942 Midget
1942 Newsboy
1942 Midget - Circus Troupe
1941 Judge
1941 George
1941 Bodyguard (uncredited)
1941 Midget (Uncredited)
1939 Munchkin (uncredited)
1939 Hercules - the Midget
1938 The Hero (Buck Lawson)