The Wizard of Oz1939
As Munchkin (uncredited)
TMDb 7.6 / 10
Billy Curtis
Born
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.
Filmography (45)
Planet of the Apes1968
As Child Ape (uncredited)
TMDb 7.7 / 10
High Plains Drifter1973
As Mordecai
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Hello, Dolly!1969
As Little Person (uncredited)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Limelight1952
As Midget in Agent's Office (uncredited)
TMDb 7.9 / 10
Friendly Persuasion1956
As Midget at County Fair (uncredited)
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Saboteur1942
As Midget - Circus Troupe
TMDb 6.9 / 10
The Incredible Shrinking Man1957
As Midget
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Robin and the 7 Hoods1964
As Newsboy (uncredited)
TMDb 6.2 / 10
The Legend of Lylah Clare1968
As Clown (uncredited)
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Superman and the Mole Men1951
As Mole-Man (uncredited)
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Eating Raoul1982
As Little Person
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Head Office1985
As Reverend Lynch
TMDb 5.4 / 10
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear1984
As Elf #2
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Buck Privates Come Home1947
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Hellzapoppin'1941
As Bodyguard (uncredited)
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Man of a Thousand Faces1957
As Harry Earles (uncredited)
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Princess of the Nile1954
As Tut (uncredited)
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Maisie Was a Lady1941
As Midget (Uncredited)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Two on a Guillotine1965
As Big Mike (uncredited)
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs1984
As Barnaby
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Backstage Party1961
As Self
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Loose Shoes1978
As Menchkin
TMDb 3.9 / 10
The Comic1969
As Lifeguard in Film (uncredited)
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Hard Way1943
As Vaudeville Midget (Uncredited)
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Ice-Capades1941
As George
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Evil Roy Slade1972
As Toy Cowboy (uncredited)
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Aphrodisiac: The Love Secret1971
As Man on the Street Interviewee
TMDb 4.5 / 10
The Wild McCullochs1975
As Charlie P.
TMDb 4.5 / 10
Father Guido Sarducci's Vatican Inquirer: The Pope's Tour1986
As Monsignor Duffy
Three Texas Steers1939
As Hercules - the Midget
TMDb 5.0 / 10
April Showers1948
As Capt. Rudolph L. Nemo
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Out of Sight1966
As The Man From F.L.U.S.H.
TMDb 5.3 / 10
The Terror of Tiny Town1938
As The Hero (Buck Lawson)
TMDb 3.4 / 10
Lucky Legs1942
As Newsboy
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Homicide for Three1948
As Circus Performer
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Jungle Moon Men1955
As Damu
TMDb 5.4 / 10
White House Madness1975
As Secret Service Man
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Little Cigars1973
As Slick Bender
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Bob Hope Christmas Show
Bob Hope Christmas Show1965
As Self
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Norwood1970
As Edmund B. Ratner
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Pygmy Island1950
As Makuba
TMDb 4.8 / 10
Emergency Landing1941
As Judge
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!1942
As Midget
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Don't Lie1942
As Melinda, the chimp
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Filmography and biography: TMDb