Acting credits
65
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Actor
Billy Curtis
Acting
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Movies: 45Series: 21Crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 102426
IMDb ID: nm0193260
Known for: Acting
Born: June 27, 1909
Died: November 9, 1988
Age: 79
Place of birth: Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1938 - 1986
Years active: 49
Average TMDB rating: 6.82
Wikidata: Q863063
Also known as
Luigi Curto
Other jobs
Stunts (1)
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.
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Movie credits linked with Billy Curtis.
Father Guido Sarducci's Vatican Inquirer: The Pope's Tour
as Monsignor Duffy
1986 Movie
5.3
Head Office
as Reverend Lynch
1985 Movie
5.6
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
as Elf #2
1984 Movie
6.0
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
as Barnaby
1984 Movie
6.4
Eating Raoul
as Little Person
1982 Movie
3.6
Loose Shoes
as Menchkin
1978 Movie
3.7
The Wild McCullochs
as Charlie P.
1975 Movie
White House Madness
as Secret Service Man
1975 Movie
4.6
Little Cigars
as Slick Bender
1973 Movie
7.3
High Plains Drifter
as Mordecai
1973 Movie
6.2
Evil Roy Slade
as Toy Cowboy (uncredited)
1972 Movie
7.4
Dirty Harry
Stunts
1971 Movie
4.5
Aphrodisiac: The Love Secret
as Man on the Street Interviewee
1971 Movie
5.6
Norwood
as Edmund B. Ratner
1970 Movie
7.0
Hello, Dolly!
as Little Person (uncredited)
1969 Movie
5.9
The Comic
as Lifeguard in Film (uncredited)
1969 Movie
5.9
The Legend of Lylah Clare
as Clown (uncredited)
1968 Movie
7.6
Planet of the Apes
as Child Ape (uncredited)
1968 Movie
4.8
Out of Sight
as The Man From F.L.U.S.H.
1966 Movie
6.1
Two on a Guillotine
as Big Mike (uncredited)
1965 Movie
6.1
Robin and the 7 Hoods
as Newsboy
1964 Movie
7.0
Backstage Party
as Self
1961 Movie
6.7
Man of a Thousand Faces
as Harry Earles (uncredited)
1957 Movie
7.5
The Incredible Shrinking Man
as Midget
1957 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Billy Curtis.
7.8
The Twilight Zone
as Creature (segment "Personal Demons") • 1 eps
1985 Series
8.1
Faerie Tale Theatre
as Barnaby • 1 eps
1982 Series
6.8
Knots Landing
as Billy Curtis • 1 eps
1979 Series
7.0
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
as General Yoomak • 1 eps
1979 Series
5.3
Monster Squad
as The Ringmaster • 1 eps
1976 Series
7.1
Laverne & Shirley
1 eps
1976 Series
6.7
Here's Lucy
as Herman • 1 eps
1968 Series
6.5
The Monkees
as Midget • 1 eps
1966 Series
8.0
Star Trek
as Small, copper skinned ambassador (uncredited) • 1 eps
1966 Series
7.3
Batman
as Midget • 2 eps
1966 Series
7.9
Get Smart
as El Lobo-Ito • 1 eps
1965 Series
7.9
Bewitched
as Jack O'Lantern • 1 eps
1964 Series
6.9
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962 Series
7.5
87th Precinct
1 eps
1961 Series
5.7
Adventures in Paradise
as Captain Borcher • 1 eps
1959 Series
5.5
Tightrope
1 eps
1959 Series
6.7
77 Sunset Strip
1 eps
1958 Series
6.2
Shirley Temple's Storybook
as Boomalakka Wee • 1 eps
1958 Series
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Arizona • 1 eps
1955 Series
6.4
This Is Your Life
as Self • 1 eps
1952 Series
6.6
Adventures of Superman
1 eps
1952 Series