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Billy Curtis

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.

Personal information

Birthday

1909-06-27

Birth Place

Springfield, Massachusetts, USA

Movies and TV shows :

poster

77 Sunset Strip

1958

6.7

TV
poster

87th Precinct

1961

7.5

TV
poster

Adventures in Paradise

1959

5.7

TV
poster

Adventures of Superman

1952

6.7

TV
Aphrodisiac: The Love Secret

Aphrodisiac: The Love Secret

1971

4.7

Movie
April Showers

April Showers

1948

6.0

Movie
Back Stage Party

Back Stage Party

1961

7.0

Movie
poster

Batman

1966

7.3

TV
poster

Bewitched

1964

7.9

TV
Bob Hope Christmas Show

Bob Hope Christmas Show

1965

0.0

Movie
Buck Privates Come Home

Buck Privates Come Home

1947

6.3

Movie
poster

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

1979

6.9

TV
Don't Lie

Don't Lie

1942

6.5

Movie
Eating Raoul

Eating Raoul

1982

6.5

Movie
Emergency Landing

Emergency Landing

1941

5.8

Movie
Evil Roy Slade

Evil Roy Slade

1972

6.2

Movie
poster

Faerie Tale Theatre

1982

8.2

TV
Father Guido Sarducci's Vatican Inquirer: The Pope's Tour

Father Guido Sarducci's Vatican Inquirer: The Pope's Tour

1986

0.0

Movie
Friendly Persuasion

Friendly Persuasion

1956

6.6

Movie
poster

Gunsmoke

1955

6.5

TV
Head Office

Head Office

1985

5.2

Movie
Hello, Dolly!

Hello, Dolly!

1969

6.9

Movie
Hellzapoppin'

Hellzapoppin'

1941

7.1

Movie
poster

Here's Lucy

1968

6.9

TV
High Plains Drifter

High Plains Drifter

1973

7.3

Movie
Homicide for Three

Homicide for Three

1948

5.0

Movie
Ice-Capades

Ice-Capades

1941

5.0

Movie
Jungle Moon Men

Jungle Moon Men

1955

4.7

Movie
poster

Knots Landing

1979

6.8

TV
poster

Laverne & Shirley

1976

7.2

TV
Limelight

Limelight

1952

7.9

Movie
Little Cigars

Little Cigars

1973

5.2

Movie
Loose Shoes

Loose Shoes

1978

3.5

Movie
Lucky Legs

Lucky Legs

1942

0.0

Movie
Maisie Was a Lady

Maisie Was a Lady

1941

6.8

Movie
Man of a Thousand Faces

Man of a Thousand Faces

1957

6.7

Movie
poster

Monster Squad

1976

5.3

TV
Norwood

Norwood

1970

5.6

Movie
Out of Sight

Out of Sight

1966

4.8

Movie
Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes

1968

7.6

Movie
Princess of the Nile

Princess of the Nile

1954

7.1

Movie
Pygmy Island

Pygmy Island

1950

4.0

Movie
Robin and the 7 Hoods

Robin and the 7 Hoods

1964

6.0

Movie
Saboteur

Saboteur

1942

6.9

Movie
poster

Shirley Temple's Storybook

1958

5.8

TV
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

1984

6.0

Movie
poster

Star Trek

1966

8.0

TV
Superman and the Mole-Men

Superman and the Mole-Men

1951

5.3

Movie
The Adventures of Super Pup

The Adventures of Super Pup

1958

3.0

Movie
poster

The Beverly Hillbillies

1962

6.9

TV
poster

The Greatest Show on Earth

1963

5.0

TV
The Hard Way

The Hard Way

1943

6.6

Movie
The Incredible Shrinking Man

The Incredible Shrinking Man

1957

7.5

Movie
The Legend of Lylah Clare

The Legend of Lylah Clare

1968

6.1

Movie
poster

The Monkees

1966

6.5

TV
The Terror of Tiny Town

The Terror of Tiny Town

1938

3.4

Movie
poster

The Twilight Zone

1985

7.7

TV
The Wild McCullochs

The Wild McCullochs

1975

4.0

Movie
The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz

1939

7.6

Movie
poster

This Is Your Life

1952

6.6

TV
Three Texas Steers

Three Texas Steers

1939

5.2

Movie
poster

Tightrope

1959

5.5

TV
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!

1942

3.5

Movie
White House Madness

White House Madness

1975

0.0

Movie