Billy Curtis

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Diminutive American actor Billy Curtis avoided the usual onus of freak-show employment as a youth, opting for a mainstream job as a shoe clerk. Encouraged by stock company actress Shirley Booth to take a little person role in a stage production, Curtis soon became a professional actor, with numerous Broadway musical productions to his credit. Curtis' big movie season was 1938-39: he was cast in The Wizard of Oz (1939) (albeit with voice dubbed by Pinto Colvig) and as the cowboy hero of the all-dwarf western The Terror of Tiny Town (1938). This last epic was one of the few instances that Curtis was cast as a good guy; many of his screen characters were ill-tempered and pugnacious, willing to bite a kneecap if unable to punch out an opponent. Seldom accepting a role which demeaned or patronized little people, Curtis played an obnoxious vaudeville performer compelled to sit on Gary Cooper's lap in Meet John Doe (1941), a suspicious circus star willing to turn Robert Cummings over to the cops in Saboteur (1942), and one of the many fair-weather friends of The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957). Billy Curtis' career thrived into the 1970s, notably with solid parts in the Clint Eastwood western High Plains Drifter (1973) and the crime-caper melodrama Little Cigars (1973), in which he had second billing as a diminutive criminal mastermind. Billy Curtis retired in the 1980s, except for the occasional interview or Wizard of Oz cast reunion. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Prime Video has the most number of Billy Curtis’s flixes, followed by DIRECTV compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Billy Curtis on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1973 to 1981. See the full graphs of the number of Billy Curtis movies released per year from 1973 till 1981.

Top Genres

Billy Curtis works mostly in Comedy Genre followed by Documentary Genre flixes. 40% of Billy Curtis movies are Comedy Genre movies. See Top Genres that Billy Curtis worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Billy Curtis has worked on is 7.2.

7.2 / 10

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Comedy,Crime,Drama
Little Cigars (1973)

A gangster's former mistress hooks up with a troupe of circus midgets who, as a sideline, rob banks and casinos.

5.3/1092 min

Available in 4 platform(s).