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.
68 acting credits
Acting · 68
Star Trek
1966
Bewitched
1964
Knots Landing
1979
Batman
1966
Get Smart
1965
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
The Twilight Zone
1985
Laverne & Shirley
1976
Here's Lucy
1968
77 Sunset Strip
1958
Gunsmoke
1955
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
1979
Adventures in Paradise
1959
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
Adventures of Superman
1952
The Wizard of Oz
1939
Shirley Temple's Storybook
1958
This Is Your Life
1952
The Monkees
1966
The Cisco Kid
1950
87th Precinct
1961
Planet of the Apes
1968
Tightrope
1959
The Greatest Show on Earth
1963
Monster Squad
1976
High Plains Drifter
1973
Hello, Dolly!
1969
Robin and the 7 Hoods
1964
The Incredible Shrinking Man
1957
Friendly Persuasion
1956
Saboteur
1942
Limelight
1952
Superman and the Mole Men
1951
Eating Raoul
1982
Man of a Thousand Faces
1957
Evil Roy Slade
1972
Hellzapoppin'
1941
Head Office
1985
The Comic
1969
The Hard Way
1943
Princess of the Nile
1954
The Wild McCullochs
1975
The Legend of Lylah Clare
1968
Buck Privates Come Home
1947
Loose Shoes
1978
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
1942
April Showers
1948
Ice-Capades
1941
Out of Sight
1966
Norwood
1970
Aphrodisiac: The Love Secret
1971
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1984
Lucky Legs
1942
Little Cigars
1973
Two on a Guillotine
1965
Emergency Landing
1941
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
1984
Jungle Moon Men
1955
The Terror of Tiny Town
1938
Maisie Was a Lady
1941
Homicide for Three
1948
Pygmy Island
1950
Three Texas Steers
1939
Bob Hope Christmas Show
1965
White House Madness
1975
Don't Lie
1942
Backstage Party
1961
Father Guido Sarducci's Vatican Inquirer: The Pope's Tour
1986