Billy Curtis

About

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...

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Star TrekSeries • 1966BewitchedSeries • 1964Knots LandingSeries • 1979Get SmartSeries • 1965BatmanSeries • 1966The Beverly HillbilliesSeries • 1962The Twilight ZoneSeries • 1985Laverne & ShirleySeries • 1976Here's LucySeries • 1968GunsmokeSeries • 195577 Sunset StripSeries • 1958Adventures in ParadiseSeries • 1959The MonkeesSeries • 1966Buck Rogers in the 25th CenturySeries • 1979Faerie Tale TheatreSeries • 1982Adventures of SupermanSeries • 1952The Wizard of OzMovie • 1939The Cisco KidSeries • 195087th PrecinctSeries • 1961Shirley Temple's StorybookSeries • 1958Planet of the ApesMovie • 1968TightropeSeries • 1959Monster SquadSeries • 1976Hello, Dolly!Movie • 1969