Billy Curtis
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.
Known for
Star Trek
Small, copper skinned ambassador (uncredited)
Bewitched
Jack O'Lantern
Batman
Midget
Knots Landing
Billy Curtis
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Twilight Zone
Creature (segment "Personal Demons")
Get Smart
El Lobo-Ito
Get Smart
Tiny Allen (uncredited)
Here's Lucy
Herman
Laverne & Shirley
Adventures in Paradise
Captain Borcher
Gunsmoke
Arizona
Faerie Tale Theatre
Barnaby
77 Sunset Strip
The Wizard of Oz
Munchkin (uncredited)
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
General Yoomak
Adventures of Superman
Adventures of Superman
Mole-Man #1 (uncredited)
The Monkees
Midget
The Comic
Lifeguard in Film (uncredited)
Planet of the Apes
Child Ape (uncredited)
Shirley Temple's Storybook
Boomalakka Wee
Shirley Temple's Storybook
Dwarf
The Greatest Show on Earth
87th Precinct
This Is Your Life
Self
The Cisco Kid
The Laughing Badman
Head Office
Reverend Lynch
Limelight
Midget in Agent's Office (uncredited)
Hello, Dolly!
Little Person (uncredited)
Tightrope
Backstage Party
Self
Hellzapoppin'
Bodyguard (uncredited)
April Showers
Capt. Rudolph L. Nemo
High Plains Drifter
Mordecai
Robin and the 7 Hoods
Newsboy
Monster Squad
The Ringmaster
Princess of the Nile
Tut (uncredited)
Ice-Capades
George
Friendly Persuasion
Midget at County Fair (uncredited)
Don't Lie
Melinda, the chimp
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Midget
Saboteur
Midget - Circus Troupe
Buck Privates Come Home
The Legend of Lylah Clare
Clown (uncredited)
Aphrodisiac: The Love Secret
Man on the Street Interviewee
Man of a Thousand Faces
Harry Earles (uncredited)
Superman and the Mole Men
Mole-Man (uncredited)
The Hard Way
Vaudeville Midget (Uncredited)
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Elf #2
Eating Raoul
Little Person
Evil Roy Slade
Toy Cowboy (uncredited)
The Terror of Tiny Town
The Hero (Buck Lawson)
Two on a Guillotine
Big Mike (uncredited)
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
Midget
Jungle Moon Men
Damu
The Wild McCullochs
Charlie P.
Maisie Was a Lady
Midget (Uncredited)
Bob Hope Christmas Show
Self
Three Texas Steers
Hercules - the Midget
Norwood
Edmund B. Ratner
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Barnaby
Loose Shoes
Menchkin
Emergency Landing
Judge
Out of Sight
The Man From F.L.U.S.H.
Homicide for Three
Circus Performer
Pygmy Island
Makuba
Little Cigars
Slick Bender
Father Guido Sarducci's Vatican Inquirer: The Pope's Tour
Monsignor Duffy
Lucky Legs
Newsboy
White House Madness
Secret Service Man