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