Billy Curtis
- Recitazione
- 27 giugno 1909 · Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
- 9 novembre 1988
Biografia
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.
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Filmografia
- Father Guido Sarducci's Vatican Inquirer: The Pope's Tour · Monsignor Duffy
- Ai confini della realtà · Creature (segment "Personal Demons")
- Palle d'acciaio · Reverend Lynch
- Un detective dal paradiso · Elf #2
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs · Barnaby
- Il castello delle fiabe · Barnaby
- Eating Raoul · Little Person
- California · Billy Curtis
- Buck Rogers · General Yoomak
- Loose Shoes · Menchkin
- Monster Squad · The Ringmaster
- Laverne & Shirley
- The Wild McCullochs · Charlie P.
- White House Madness · Secret Service Man
- La gang dei bassotti · Slick Bender
- Lo straniero senza nome · Mordecai
- Evil Roy Slade · Toy Cowboy (uncredited)
- Ispettore Callaghan: Il caso Scorpio è tuo!! · Stunts
- Aphrodisiac!: The Sexual Secret of Marijuana · Man on the Street Interviewee
- Norwood · Edmund B. Ratner
- Hello, Dolly! · Little Person (uncredited)
- Il comico · Lifeguard in Film (uncredited)
- Here's Lucy · Herman
- Quando muore una stella · Clown (uncredited)
- Il pianeta delle scimmie · Child Ape (uncredited)
- I Monkees · Midget
- Star Trek · Small, copper skinned ambassador (uncredited)
- Out of Sight · The Man From F.L.U.S.H.
- Batman · Midget
- Bob Hope Christmas Show · In persona
- Get Smart · El Lobo-Ito, Tiny Allen (uncredited)
- Il boia è di scena · Big Mike (uncredited)
- Vita da strega · Jack O'Lantern
- I 4 di Chicago · Newsboy (uncredited)
- The Greatest Show on Earth
- The Beverly Hillbillies
- Backstage Party · In persona
- 87° squadra
- Avventure in paradiso · Captain Borcher
- Tightrope
- Indirizzo permanente
- Shirley Temple's Storybook · Boomalakka Wee, Dwarf
- L'uomo dai mille volti · Harry Earles (uncredited)
- Radiazioni B-X: Distruzione Uomo · Midget
- La legge del Signore · Midget at County Fair (uncredited)
- Gunsmoke · Arizona
- La valle degli uomini luna · Damu
- La principessa del Nilo · Tut (uncredited)
- Luci della ribalta · Midget in Agent's Office (uncredited)
- This Is Your Life · In persona
- Adventures of Superman · Mole-Man #1 (uncredited)
- Superman and the Mole Men · Mole-Man (uncredited)
- L'isola dei pigmei · Makuba
- The Cisco Kid · The Laughing Badman
- The Bob Hope Show · In persona
- Homicide for Three · Circus Performer
- April Showers · Capt. Rudolph L. Nemo
- Addio all'esercito
- The Hard Way · Vaudeville Midget (Uncredited)
- Lucky Legs · Newsboy
- Sabotatori · Midget - Circus Troupe
- Don't Lie · Melinda, the chimp
- Tramp, Tramp, Tramp! · Midget
- Hellzapoppin' - Il cabaret dell'inferno · Bodyguard (uncredited)
- Ice-Capades · George
- Emergency Landing · Judge
- Maisie Was a Lady · Midget (Uncredited)
- Il mago di Oz · Munchkin (uncredited)
- Texas Kid · Hercules - the Midget
- The Terror of Tiny Town · The Hero (Buck Lawson)