Cast
Billy Curtis
Acting
Cast
Billy Curtis
Known for
Acting
Born
1909-06-27
From
Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
Died
1988-11-09
Also known as Luigi Curto
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.
★7.6
MOVIE1939
The Wizard of Oz
as Munchkin (uncredited)
★7.7
MOVIE1968
Planet of the Apes
as Child Ape (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1969
Hello, Dolly!
as Little Person (uncredited)
★7.3
MOVIE1973
High Plains Drifter
as Mordecai
★6.2
MOVIE1964
Robin and the 7 Hoods
as Newsboy
★5.9
MOVIE1984
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
as Elf #2
★7.0
MOVIE1961
Backstage Party
as Self
★7.9
MOVIE1952
Limelight
as Midget in Agent's Office (uncredited)
★5.4
MOVIE1985
Head Office
as Reverend Lynch
★6.6
MOVIE1956
Friendly Persuasion
as Midget at County Fair (uncredited)
★7.5
MOVIE1957
The Incredible Shrinking Man
as Midget
★6.9
MOVIE1942
Saboteur
as Midget - Circus Troupe
★6.0
MOVIE1968
The Legend of Lylah Clare
as Clown (uncredited)
★7.3
MOVIE1954
Princess of the Nile
as Tut (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1982
Eating Raoul
as Little Person
★6.4
MOVIE1984
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
as Barnaby
★5.4
MOVIE1951
Superman and the Mole Men
as Mole-Man (uncredited)
★9.0
MOVIE1942
Lucky Legs
as Newsboy
★7.2
MOVIE1941
Hellzapoppin'
as Bodyguard (uncredited)
★6.2
MOVIE1965
Two on a Guillotine
as Big Mike (uncredited)
★6.4
MOVIE1943
The Hard Way
as Vaudeville Midget (Uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1947
Buck Privates Come Home
★6.8
MOVIE1957
Man of a Thousand Faces
as Harry Earles (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1972
Evil Roy Slade
as Toy Cowboy (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1948
April Showers
as Capt. Rudolph L. Nemo
★5.3
MOVIE1942
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
as Midget
★3.9
MOVIE1978
Loose Shoes
as Menchkin
★6.1
MOVIE1969
The Comic
as Lifeguard in Film (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1941
Maisie Was a Lady
as Midget (Uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1975
White House Madness
as Secret Service Man
★4.8
MOVIE1950
Pygmy Island
as Makuba
★6.3
MOVIE1941
Emergency Landing
as Judge
★4.5
MOVIE1975
The Wild McCullochs
as Charlie P.
★4.7
MOVIE1971
Aphrodisiac: The Love Secret
as Man on the Street Interviewee
★5.0
MOVIE1939
Three Texas Steers
as Hercules - the Midget
★5.7
MOVIE1948
Homicide for Three
as Circus Performer
★6.1
MOVIE1970
Norwood
as Edmund B. Ratner
★7.0
MOVIE1965
Bob Hope Christmas Show
as Self
★5.9
MOVIE1941
Ice-Capades
as George
★5.3
MOVIE1973
Little Cigars
as Slick Bender
★3.5
MOVIE1938
The Terror of Tiny Town
as The Hero (Buck Lawson)
★5.4
MOVIE1966
Out of Sight
as The Man From F.L.U.S.H.
★5.4
MOVIE1955
Jungle Moon Men
as Damu
★6.5
MOVIE1942
Don't Lie
as Melinda, the chimp
MOVIE1986
Father Guido Sarducci's Vatican Inquirer: The Pope's Tour
as Monsignor Duffy