Billy Curtis

Billy Curtis

Birthday: 1909-06-27

Deathday: 1988-11-09

Place of birth: Springfield, Massachusetts, USA

Also known as: Luigi Curto

imdb_id: nm0193260

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.

Played in movies:

Limelight

Score: 7.9

Planet of the Apes

Score: 7.6

The Wizard of Oz

Score: 7.6

The Incredible Shrinking Man

Score: 7.5

High Plains Drifter

Score: 7.3

Hellzapoppin'

Score: 7.1

Princess of the Nile

Score: 7.1

Backstage Party

Score: 7.0

Hello, Dolly!

Score: 7.0

Saboteur

Score: 6.9

Maisie Was a Lady

Score: 6.8

Man of a Thousand Faces

Score: 6.7

Friendly Persuasion

Score: 6.6

The Hard Way

Score: 6.6

Don't Lie

Score: 6.5

Eating Raoul

Score: 6.5

Buck Privates Come Home

Score: 6.3

Evil Roy Slade

Score: 6.2

Robin and the 7 Hoods

Score: 6.1

Two on a Guillotine

Score: 6.1

The Legend of Lylah Clare

Score: 6.1

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Score: 6.0

April Showers

Score: 6.0

The Comic

Score: 5.9

Emergency Landing

Score: 5.8

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

Score: 5.6

Norwood

Score: 5.6

Ice-Capades

Score: 5.5

Superman and the Mole Men

Score: 5.3

Little Cigars

Score: 5.2

Head Office

Score: 5.2

Homicide for Three

Score: 5.0

Three Texas Steers

Score: 4.9

Out of Sight

Score: 4.8

Jungle Moon Men

Score: 4.7

Aphrodisiac: The Love Secret

Score: 4.7

The Wild McCullochs

Score: 4.0

Pygmy Island

Score: 4.0

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!

Score: 3.5

Loose Shoes

Score: 3.5

The Terror of Tiny Town

Score: 3.4

Bob Hope Christmas Show

Score: 0.0

Lucky Legs

Score: 0.0

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

Score: 0.0

White House Madness

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Faerie Tale Theatre

Score: 8.1

Star Trek

Score: 8.0

Bewitched

Score: 7.9

The Twilight Zone

Score: 7.7

87th Precinct

Score: 7.5

Batman

Score: 7.3

Laverne & Shirley

Score: 7.2

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

Score: 7.0

The Beverly Hillbillies

Score: 6.9

Adventures of Superman

Score: 6.7

Adventures of Superman

Score: 6.7

Knots Landing

Score: 6.7

77 Sunset Strip

Score: 6.7

Here's Lucy

Score: 6.7

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

The Monkees

Score: 6.5

This Is Your Life

Score: 6.4

Shirley Temple's Storybook

Score: 6.2

Shirley Temple's Storybook

Score: 6.2

Adventures in Paradise

Score: 5.7

Tightrope

Score: 5.5

Monster Squad

Score: 5.3

The Greatest Show on Earth

Score: 5.0