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 worlds only Western with an all-dwarf cast. Many of the actors in Tinytown were part of a performing troupe called Singers 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.
Midget
Film 1957
Mordecai
Film 1973
The Hero (Buck Lawson)
Film 1938
Mole-Man (uncredited)
Film 1951
Makuba
Film 1950
Circus Performer
Film 1948
Secret Service Man
Film 1975
Judge
Film 1941
Man on the Street Interviewee
Film 1971
Tut (uncredited)
Film 1954
Munchkin (uncredited)
Film 1939
The Man From F.L.U.S.H.
Film 1966
Charlie P.
Film 1975
Little Person (uncredited)
Film 1969
Hercules - the Midget
Film 1939
Damu
Film 1955
Melinda, the chimp
Film 1942
Toy Cowboy (uncredited)
Film 1972
Child Ape (uncredited)
Film 1968
Super Pup / Bark Bent
Film 1958
Capt. Rudolph L. Nemo
Film 1948
Film 1947
Midget in Agent's Office (uncredited)
Film 1952
Midget
Film 1942
Monsignor Duffy
Film 1986
Midget at County Fair (uncredited)
Film 1956
Newsboy
Film 1942
Midget - Circus Troupe
Film 1942
George
Film 1941
Menchkin
Film 1978
Bodyguard (uncredited)
Film 1941
Harry Earles (uncredited)
Film 1957
Vaudeville Midget (Uncredited)
Film 1943
Self
Film 1961
Midget (Uncredited)
Film 1941
Film 1965
Clown (uncredited)
Film 1968
Small, copper skinned ambassador (uncredited)
Tv 1966
Tv 1958
Tv 1985
Tv 1962
General Yoomak
Tv 1979
Billy Curtis
Tv 1979
Tv 1976
The Ringmaster
Tv 1976
Tv 1964
Tv 1961
Tv 1966
Tv 1963
Self
Tv 1952
Tv 1952
Captain Borcher
Tv 1959
Tv 1959
Boomalakka Wee
Tv 1958
Dwarf
Tv 1958