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.
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The Wizard of Oz
as Munchkin (uncredited)Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow...
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High Plains Drifter
as MordecaiA gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen...
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Hello, Dolly!
as Little Person (uncredited)Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the...
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The Incredible Shrinking Man
as MidgetA dangerous combination of radiation and insecticide causes the unfortunate Scott Carey to...
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Saboteur
as Midget - Circus TroupeAircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of...
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Robin and the 7 Hoods
as NewsboyIn prohibition-era Chicago, the corrupt sheriff and Guy Gisborne, a south-side racketeer, knock...
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Eating Raoul
as Little PersonA relatively boring Los Angeles couple discover a bizarre, if not murderous way to get funding...
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Hellzapoppin'
as Bodyguard (uncredited)Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring...
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Head Office
as Reverend LynchIn this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son (Judge...
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Superman and the Mole-Men
as Mole-Man (uncredited)Reporters Clark Kent and Lois Lane arrive in the small town of Silsby to witness the drilling of...
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Man of a Thousand Faces
as Harry Earles (uncredited)The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon...
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Evil Roy Slade
as Toy Cowboy (uncredited)Orphaned and left in the desert as an infant, Evil Roy Slade (John Astin) grew up alone—save for...
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April Showers
as Capt. Rudolph L. NemoA married couple who have a song-and-dance act in vaudeville are in trouble. Their struggling...
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The Hard Way
as Vaudeville Midget (Uncredited)Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their...
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Out of Sight
as The Man From F.L.U.S.H.Teenage beach party/spy spoof/musical comedy about a plot to bomb a music fair. As his boss is...
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Ice-Capades
as GeorgeBob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he...
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Three Texas Steers
as Hercules - the MidgetNancy Evans, lovely circus owner, has a ranch that she's never visited, but for sentimental...
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Norwood
as Edmund B. RatnerA Vietnam veteran returns to his Texas home but feels restless and decides to become a radio singer.
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Little Cigars
as Slick BenderA gangster's former mistress hooks up with a troupe of circus midgets who, as a sideline, rob...
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The Terror of Tiny Town
as The Hero (Buck Lawson)Using a conventional Western story with an all dwarf cast, the filmmakers were able to showcase...
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Princess of the Nile
as Tut (uncredited)Shalimar, an Egyptian princess, striving to rid her country of its Bedouin conquerors, forms an...
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Pygmy Island
as MakubaJungle Jim searches for a female Army captain who's gone missing.
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Loose Shoes
as MenchkinBroad satire and buffoonery presented as a series of movie trailers. Among the titles and...
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Aphrodisiac!: The Sexual Secret of Marijuana
as Man on the Street IntervieweeA documentary examining the use of marijuana by young people in the late 1960s and early 1970s....
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Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
as MidgetJackie Gleason and Jack Durant are teamed for the first and only time as Hank and Jed, a pair of...
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Maisie Was a Lady
as Midget (Uncredited)Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who...
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
as BarnabySnow White must flee from her evil stepmother. She's taken in by the lovable seven dwarves. Will...
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Jungle Moon Men
as DamuPriestess Oma is forever young in this Jungle Jim knockoff of "She" or the La of Opar stories...
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The Wild McCullochs
as Charlie P.A story about the rich McCulloch Family, their overbearing father and the children's misguided...
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Lucky Legs
as NewsboyChorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle....
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Homicide for Three
as Circus PerformerWhile on shore leave to celebrate his first anniversary, Lt. Peter Duluth (Warren Douglas) takes...
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Emergency Landing
as JudgeA test pilot and his weather observer develop a "robot" control so airplanes can be flown...
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Don't Lie
as Melinda, the chimpAfter Buckwheat tells the gang he's seen a big monkey, Spanky, Froggy and Mickey decide to teach...
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White House Madness
as Secret Service ManThe Nixon Administration falls apart in a farcical manner in the time of the Watergate Scandal.
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Bewitched
as uncreditedSamantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine...
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Batman
as MidgetWealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually...
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Star Trek
as Small, copper skinned ambassador (uncredited)Space. The Final Frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the...
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The Twilight Zone
as uncreditedThis 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original...
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The Beverly Hillbillies
as uncreditedJed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells...
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
as General Yoomak20th-century astronaut Buck Rogers awakens in the 25th century after a freak accident puts him...
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77 Sunset Strip
as uncreditedStu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this...
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Adventures in Paradise
as Captain BorcherAdventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on...
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Faerie Tale Theatre
as BarnabyA live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.
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Gunsmoke
as ArizonaGunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...
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Laverne & Shirley
as uncreditedLaverne & Shirley is an American television sitcom that ran on ABC from January 27, 1976 to May...
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The Monkees
as uncreditedMicky, Mike, Peter, and Davy are four young men in mid-1960s LA, members of a struggling...
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Adventures of Superman
as uncreditedAnnouncer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a...
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This Is Your Life
as SelfThis Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally...
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Knots Landing
as uncreditedThe domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a...
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87th Precinct
as uncredited87th Precinct is an American crime drama starring Robert Lansing, Gena Rowlands, and Ron Harper,...
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Tightrope
as uncreditedTightrope is an American crime drama series that aired on CBS from September 1959 to September...
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Monster Squad
as The RingmasterMonster Squad is a television series that aired Saturday mornings on NBC from 1976-1977 that is...
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