Billy Curtis
- Atuação
- 27 de junho de 1909 · Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
- 9 de novembro de 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
- Além da Imaginação · Creature (segment "Personal Demons")
- Executivos em Apuros · Reverend Lynch
- Uma História Natalina · Elf #2
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs · Barnaby
- Teatro dos Contos de Fada · Barnaby
- Eating Raoul · Little Person
- Knots Landing · Billy Curtis
- Buck Rogers no Século 25 · General Yoomak
- Loose Shoes · Menchkin
- Monster Squad · The Ringmaster
- Laverne & Shirley
- The Wild McCullochs · Charlie P.
- White House Madness · Secret Service Man
- Little Cigars · Slick Bender
- O Estranho Sem Nome · Mordecai
- O Perverso Roy Slade · Toy Cowboy (uncredited)
- Perseguidor Implacável · Stunts
- Aphrodisiac!: The Sexual Secret of Marijuana · Man on the Street Interviewee
- Norwood · Edmund B. Ratner
- Alô, Dolly! · Little Person (uncredited)
- Glória e Lágrimas de um Cômico · Lifeguard in Film (uncredited)
- Here's Lucy · Herman
- A Lenda de Lylah Clare · Clown (uncredited)
- O Planeta dos Macacos · Child Ape (uncredited)
- Os Monkees · Midget
- Jornada nas Estrelas · Small, copper skinned ambassador (uncredited)
- Out of Sight · The Man From F.L.U.S.H.
- Batman e Robin · Midget
- Bob Hope Christmas Show · Em pessoa
- Agente 86 · El Lobo-Ito, Tiny Allen (uncredited)
- Two on a Guillotine · Big Mike (uncredited)
- A Feiticeira · Jack O'Lantern
- Robin Hood de Chicago · Newsboy (uncredited)
- The Greatest Show on Earth
- A Família Buscapé
- Backstage Party · Em pessoa
- 87th Precinct
- Adventures in Paradise · Captain Borcher
- Tightrope
- 77 Sunset Strip
- Shirley Temple's Storybook · Boomalakka Wee, Dwarf
- O Homem das Mil Caras · Harry Earles (uncredited)
- O Incrível Homem Que Encolheu · Midget
- Sublime Tentação · Midget at County Fair (uncredited)
- Gunsmoke · Arizona
- Jungle Moon Men · Damu
- A Princesa do Nilo · Tut (uncredited)
- Luzes da Ribalta · Midget in Agent's Office (uncredited)
- This Is Your Life · Em pessoa
- As Aventuras do Super-Homem · Mole-Man #1 (uncredited)
- Superman e os Homens-Toupeira · Mole-Man (uncredited)
- Pygmy Island · Makuba
- The Cisco Kid · The Laughing Badman
- The Bob Hope Show · Em pessoa
- Homicide for Three · Circus Performer
- April Showers · Capt. Rudolph L. Nemo
- Buck Privates Come Home
- É Difícil Ser Feliz · Vaudeville Midget (Uncredited)
- Lucky Legs · Newsboy
- Sabotador · Midget - Circus Troupe
- Don't Lie · Melinda, the chimp
- Tramp, Tramp, Tramp! · Midget
- Pandemônio · Bodyguard (uncredited)
- Ice-Capades · George
- Emergency Landing · Judge
- Maisie na Alta Roda · Midget (Uncredited)
- O Mágico de Oz · Munchkin (uncredited)
- Three Texas Steers · Hercules - the Midget
- The Terror of Tiny Town · The Hero (Buck Lawson)