Billy Curtis
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1909-06-27
Deathday 1988-11-09 (79 years old)
Place of Birth Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
Also Known As Luigi Curto
Billy Curtis
Biography
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.
Known For
Actor
as Monsignor Duffy
as Reverend Lynch
as Barnaby
as Little Person
as Barnaby
as Billy Curtis
as General Yoomak
as Menchkin
as The Ringmaster
as Charlie P.
as Secret Service Man
as Slick Bender
as Mordecai
as Toy Cowboy (uncredited)
as Man on the Street Interviewee
as Edmund B. Ratner
as Little Person (uncredited)
as Child Ape (uncredited)
as Herman
as The Man From F.L.U.S.H.
as Small, copper skinned ambassador (uncredited)
as Midget
as Newsboy
as Self
as Captain Borcher
as Super Pup / Bark Bent
as Harry Earles (uncredited)
as Midget
as Midget at County Fair (uncredited)
as Damu
as Arizona
as Tut (uncredited)
as Midget in Agent's Office (uncredited)
as Self
as Mole-Man (uncredited)
as Makuba
as Circus Performer
as Capt. Rudolph L. Nemo
as Vaudeville Midget (Uncredited)
as Newsboy
as Midget - Circus Troupe
as Melinda, the chimp
as Midget
as Bodyguard (uncredited)
as George
as Judge
as Midget (Uncredited)
as Munchkin (uncredited)
as Hercules - the Midget
as The Hero (Buck Lawson)
Crew
as Stunts
as Stunts