Billy Curtis
Acting
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.
Superman and the Mole Men
as Mole-Man (uncredited)
Age 42 (now 79)
Aphrodisiac: The Love Secret
as Man on the Street Interviewee
Age 62 (now 79)
Father Guido Sarducci's Vatican Inquirer: The Pope's Tour
as Monsignor Duffy
Age 77 (now 79)
Aphrodisiac: The Love Secret
as Man on the Street Interviewee
Age 62 (now 79)
Man of a Thousand Faces
as Harry Earles (uncredited)
Age 48 (now 79)
Friendly Persuasion
as Midget at County Fair (uncredited)
Age 47 (now 79)
Superman and the Mole Men
as Mole-Man (uncredited)
Age 42 (now 79)
The Twilight Zone
as Creature (segment "Personal Demons")
Age 76 (now 79)
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
as General Yoomak
Age 70 (now 79)
Shirley Temple's Storybook
as Boomalakka Wee
Age 48 (now 79)
Adventures of Superman
as Mole-Man #1 (uncredited)
Age 43 (now 79)Gathering insights...
Also Known As
Luigi Curto
IMDB
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