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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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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1909-06-27
- event Death Date 1988-11-09
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 3.6
- info Birth Place Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Billy Curtis
7.5
The Incredible Shrinking Man
1957-02-22
7.4
High Plains Drifter
1973-04-19
3.4
The Terror of Tiny Town
1938-12-01
6.5
Eating Raoul
1982-03-24
5.2
Superman and the Mole-Men
1951-11-23
4
Pygmy Island
1950-11-22
5.2
Little Cigars
1973-06-22
5
Homicide for Three
1948-12-08
0
White House Madness
1975-01-01
5.8
Emergency Landing
1941-03-07
4.7
Aphrodisiac: The Love Secret
1971-11-05
7.1
Princess of the Nile
1954-07-01
7.6
The Wizard of Oz
1939-08-15
4.8
Out of Sight
1966-05-12
6.1
Robin and the 7 Hoods
1964-06-24
4
The Wild McCullochs
1975-05-21
7
Hello, Dolly!
1969-12-12
5.2
Three Texas Steers
1939-05-12
4.7
Jungle Moon Men
1955-04-08
6.5
Don't Lie
1942-04-04
6.2
Evil Roy Slade
1972-02-18
7.7
Planet of the Apes
1968-02-07
3
The Adventures of Super Pup
1958-01-01
6
April Showers
1948-03-27
6.3
Buck Privates Come Home
1947-04-04
8
Limelight
1952-10-23
3.5
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
1942-04-02
0
Father Guido Sarducci's Vatican Inquirer: The Pope's Tour
1986-10-18
6.6
Friendly Persuasion
1956-11-25
5.6
Norwood
1970-11-24
0
Lucky Legs
1942-10-01
6.9
Saboteur
1942-04-24
6
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1984-07-16
5
Ice-Capades
1941-08-19
3.5
Loose Shoes
1978-09-01
7.1
Hellzapoppin'
1941-12-25
6.7
Man of a Thousand Faces
1957-08-15
6.6
The Hard Way
1943-01-13
5.2
Head Office
1985-06-06
7
Back Stage Party
1961-12-17
6.8
Maisie Was a Lady
1941-01-10
8.1
Star Trek
1966-09-08
6.7
77 Sunset Strip
1958-10-10
7
Here's Lucy
1968-09-23
7.3
Batman
1966-01-12
7.7
The Twilight Zone
1985-09-27
6.9
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962-09-26
6.9
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
1979-09-20
6.8
Knots Landing
1979-12-27
7.2
Laverne & Shirley
1976-01-27
5.3
Monster Squad
1976-09-11
6.5
Gunsmoke
1955-09-10
7.9
Bewitched
1964-09-17
7.5
87th Precinct
1961-09-25
6.5
The Monkees
1966-09-12
5
The Greatest Show on Earth
1963-09-17
6.4
This Is Your Life
1952-10-01
6.6
Adventures of Superman
1952-09-19
5.7
Adventures in Paradise
1959-10-05
5.5
Tightrope
1959-09-08
8.5
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982-09-11
