
Acting
Born June 27, 1909 · 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.

Father Guido Sarducci's Vatican Inquirer: The Pope's Tour
1986

Head Office
1985

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
1984

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1984

Eating Raoul
1982

Loose Shoes
1978

The Wild McCullochs
1975

White House Madness
1975

Little Cigars
1973

High Plains Drifter
1973

Evil Roy Slade
1972

Aphrodisiac: The Love Secret
1971

Norwood
1970

Hello, Dolly!
1969

The Comic
1969

The Legend of Lylah Clare
1968

Planet of the Apes
1968

Out of Sight
1966
Bob Hope Christmas Show
1965

Two on a Guillotine
1965

Robin and the 7 Hoods
1964

Backstage Party
1961

Man of a Thousand Faces
1957

The Incredible Shrinking Man
1957

Friendly Persuasion
1956

Jungle Moon Men
1955

Princess of the Nile
1954

Limelight
1952

Superman and the Mole Men
1951

Pygmy Island
1950

Homicide for Three
1948

April Showers
1948

Buck Privates Come Home
1947

The Hard Way
1943

Lucky Legs
1942

Saboteur
1942

Don't Lie
1942

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
1942

Hellzapoppin'
1941

Ice-Capades
1941

Emergency Landing
1941

Maisie Was a Lady
1941

The Wizard of Oz
1939

Three Texas Steers
1939

The Terror of Tiny Town
1938