1909-06-27 ( 115 years old ) in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
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.
Movies
Head Office
1985-06-06
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1984-07-16
Eating Raoul
1982-03-24
Loose Shoes
1978-09-01
The Wild McCullochs
1975-05-21
White House Madness
1975-01-01
Little Cigars
1973-06-22
High Plains Drifter
1973-04-19
Evil Roy Slade
1972-02-18
Aphrodisiac: The Love Secret
1971-11-05
Norwood
1970-11-24
Hello, Dolly!
1969-12-12
The Legend of Lylah Clare
1968-08-21
Planet of the Apes
1968-02-07
Out of Sight
1966-05-12
Bob Hope Christmas Show
1965-12-15
Two on a Guillotine
1965-01-13
Robin and the 7 Hoods
1964-06-24
Backstage Party
1961-12-17
The Adventures of Super Pup
1958-01-01
Man of a Thousand Faces
1957-08-15
The Incredible Shrinking Man
1957-02-22
Friendly Persuasion
1956-11-25
Jungle Moon Men
1955-04-08
Princess of the Nile
1954-07-01
Limelight
1952-10-23
Superman and the Mole Men
1951-11-23
Pygmy Island
1950-11-22
Homicide for Three
1948-12-08
April Showers
1948-03-27
Buck Privates Come Home
1947-04-04
The Hard Way
1943-01-13
Lucky Legs
1942-10-01
Saboteur
1942-04-24
Don't Lie
1942-04-04
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp!
1942-04-02
Hellzapoppin'
1941-12-25
Ice-Capades
1941-08-19
Emergency Landing
1941-03-07
Maisie Was a Lady
1941-01-10
The Wizard of Oz
1939-08-15
Three Texas Steers
1939-05-12
The Terror of Tiny Town
1938-12-01
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