Billy Curtis
Actor/Actriz
45
Películas
21
Series
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.
Como Actor/Actriz
Viaje a las estrellas
Small, copper skinned ambassador (uncredited)
Hechizada
Jack O'Lantern
Batman
Midget
Knots Landing
Billy Curtis
El superagente 86
El Lobo-Ito
Los Beverly Ricos (The Beverly Hillbillies)
La Dimensión Desconocida
Creature (segment "Personal Demons")
Here's Lucy
Herman
Laverne & Shirley
Buck Rogers: El aventurero del espacio
General Yoomak
El mago de Oz
Munchkin (uncredited)
Gunsmoke
Arizona
Adventures in Paradise
Captain Borcher
Faerie Tale Theatre
Barnaby
77 Sunset Strip
Superman
El planeta de los simios
Child Ape (uncredited)
The Monkees
Midget
87th Precinct
Shirley Temple's Storybook
Boomalakka Wee
This Is Your Life
Self
Tightrope
La venganza del muerto
Mordecai
Hello, Dolly!
Little Person (uncredited)
Candilejas
Midget in Agent's Office (uncredited)
Monster Squad
The Ringmaster
Saboteur
Midget - Circus Troupe
El Increíble Hombre Menguante
Midget
Robin de Chicago
Newsboy
Eating Raoul
Little Person