Billy Curtis

Acting 1 Film 1973 – 1973

27 Jun 1909 (79 yaş, vefat)

Vefat: 09 Nov 1988

Springfield, Massachusetts, USA

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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Mordecai Munchkin (uncredited) Child Ape (uncredited) Midget The Hero (Buck Lawson) Little Person Mole-Man (uncredited) Makuba Slick Bender Circus Performer Secret Service Man Judge Man on the Street Interviewee Tut (uncredited) The Man From F.L.U.S.H. Newsboy Charlie P. Little Person (uncredited) Hercules - the Midget Damu Melinda, the chimp Toy Cowboy (uncredited) Capt. Rudolph L. Nemo Midget in Agent's Office (uncredited) Monsignor Duffy Midget at County Fair (uncredited) Edmund B. Ratner Midget - Circus Troupe Barnaby George Menchkin Bodyguard (uncredited) Harry Earles (uncredited) Vaudeville Midget (Uncredited) Reverend Lynch Midget (Uncredited) Clown (uncredited) Big Mike (uncredited) Lifeguard in Film (uncredited) Elf #2 Small, copper skinned ambassador (uncredited) Herman Creature (segment "Personal Demons") General Yoomak Billy Curtis The Ringmaster Arizona Jack O'Lantern Captain Borcher Boomalakka Wee Dwarf Mole-Man #1 (uncredited) The Laughing Badman El Lobo-Ito Tiny Allen (uncredited)

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