
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.

Faerie Tale Theatre

宇宙大作戦

ライムライト

それ行けスマート

奥さまは魔女

The Twilight Zone

猿の惑星

オズの魔法使

The Incredible Shrinking Man

87th Precinct

荒野のストレンジャー

バットマン

Hellzapoppin'

Laverne & Shirley

Princess of the Nile

ハロー・ドーリー!

Backstage Party

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

逃走迷路

じゃじゃ馬億万長者

77 Sunset Strip

Maisie Was a Lady

Knots Landing

Here's Lucy

Man of a Thousand Faces

Friendly Persuasion

Gunsmoke

Adventures of Superman

The Monkees

Don't Lie

Eating Raoul

This Is Your Life

Buck Privates Come Home

The Hard Way

Evil Roy Slade

Shirley Temple's Storybook

Robin and the 7 Hoods

Two on a Guillotine

April Showers

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

The Legend of Lylah Clare

The Comic

Emergency Landing

Adventures in Paradise

Norwood

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

Ice-Capades

Tightrope

Superman and the Mole Men

Monster Squad

Head Office

Homicide for Three

Three Texas Steers

Out of Sight

Jungle Moon Men

Little Cigars

Aphrodisiac: The Love Secret

Pygmy Island

The Wild McCullochs

Loose Shoes

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!

The Terror of Tiny Town

White House Madness

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

Lucky Legs