Billy Curtis
출생 : 1909-06-27, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
사망 : 1988-11-09
약력
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.
Reverend Lynch
In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son (Judge Reinhold) moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions. But against his better judgment, he falls for a woman (the chairman's daughter, no less) who's leading a protest against the company's shady business practices. "Saturday Night Live" writer-performer Michael O'Donoghue scripted this satire co-starring Danny DeVito and Jane Seymour.
Barnaby
Snow White must flee from her evil stepmother. She's taken in by the lovable seven dwarves. Will the wicked queen be able to get rid of her rival?
Little Person
A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discover a bizarre, if not murderous way to get funding for opening a restaurant.
Menchkin
Broad satire and buffoonery presented as a series of movie trailers. Among the titles and subjects are: "The Howard Huge Story", "Skate-boarders from Hell", "The Invasion of the Penis Snatchers", Woody Allen (pre-Mia), movie trailer come-ons, Charlie Chaplin, war movies, Billy Jack. The source of the title is presented about an hour into the film.
Charlie P.
A story about the rich McCulloch Family, their overbearing father and the children's misguided blaming him for everything that doesn't go right.
Slick Bender
A gangster's former mistress hooks up with a troupe of circus midgets who, as a sideline, rob banks and casinos.
Mordecai
서부의 황야, 호수 주변에 위치한 아름다운 라고시라는 어느 작은 마을에 이름 없는 한 이방인이 말을 타고 나타난다. 마을 사람들은 그를 무법자라 생각해 두려워하고, 그들이 고용한 세 명의 총잡이가 이 이방인을 쓰러뜨리려 하지만 실패한다. 그는 마을을 떠나지 않고, 방을 구해 이곳에 당분간 머무르려고 한다. 그리고 한 무리의 또 다른 무법자들이 복수를 위해 돌아오고 마을은 술렁거린다. 스테이시와 칼린 형제들이 감옥에서 나와 다시 이 마을로 돌아와 복수하리라는 것을 잘 알고 있기 때문이다. 이제 마을 사람들은 이름 없는 그 이방인이 무법자들로부터 자신들을 지켜주기를 바라게 된다.
Toy Cowboy (uncredited)
Orphaned and left in the desert as an infant, Evil Roy Slade (John Astin) grew up alone—save for his teddy bear—and mean. As an adult, he is notorious for being the "meanest villain in the West"—so he's thrown for quite a loop when he falls for sweet schoolteacher Betsy Potter (Pamela Austin). There's also Nelson L. Stool (Mickey Rooney), a railroad tycoon, who, along with his dimwitted nephew Clifford (Henry Gibson), is trying to get revenge on Evil Roy Slade for robbing him.
Man on the Street Interviewee
A documentary examining the use of marijuana by young people in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Included are interviews with people who regularly use marijuana and testify to its beneficial effects as an aphrodisiac and scenes of nude encounter groups, instructions for making marijuana brownies, soldiers in Vietnam smoking marijuana, etc.
Edmund B. Ratner
A Vietnam veteran returns to his Texas home but feels restless and decides to become a radio singer.
Little Person (uncredited)
1890년 뉴욕 시, 중매쟁이로 이름 높은 돌리는 사별한 후 혼자 살고 있는 여인. 아름답고 밝은 성격, 사람들의 문제를 도와주는 해결사지만 정작 자신은 너무 외롭게 살아가고 있다. 욘커스에서 비료사업을 하고 있는 구두쇠에 고집불통 반더겔더는 조카 에멘가드가 빈털터리 예술가 앰브로스와 사랑에 빠지자 돌리에게 조카의 중매를 맡긴다. 그리고 반더겔더 또한 돌리가 소개 시켜준 모자 가게의 몰로이에게 청혼하러 뉴욕으로 갈 예정이었다. 한편, 반더겔더의 가게에서 일하는 해클과 터커는 반더겔더가 없는 틈을 타 뉴욕구경을 하기로 결심하고 돌리는 모자가게 몰로이에게 찾아가 보라며 그들을 부추긴다. 마음속에 반더겔더를 담고 있었던 돌리는 몰로이와 반더겔더를 교묘히 떼어놓을 생각이었던 것. 모자가게로 찾아온 해클은 한눈에 몰로이에게 한눈에 반하고 마는데...
Child Ape (uncredited)
지구 시각 2673년 3월 26일, 삭막해진 세상에 모든 미련을 버린 테일러 일행을 태운 우주선이 1년 6개월만에 어느 행성의 바다에 불시착한다. 그들은 이곳이 지구에서 320광년 떨어져 있고, 오리온좌의 태양 주위를 돌고 있는 어느 이름 모를 행성으로 추측한다. 행성의 생명체 유무를 위해 사막 위의 긴나긴 탐사 여행을 하던 그들은 곧 원시인의 무리를 발견하지만, 곧 말을 타고 총을 쏘아대는 원숭이들 무리에 쫓기게 된다. 이 행성은 바로 원숭이들의 지배 하에 있었고, 인간의 모습과 거의 비슷한 원시인들은 야생 동물처럼 살고 있었다.
The Man From F.L.U.S.H.
Teenage beach party/spy spoof/musical comedy about a plot to bomb a music fair. As his boss is on vacation, a superspy's butler must come to the rescue, while being pursued by a trio of gorgeous assassins who're agents of F.L.U.S.H. Features George Barris hotrods, along with the musical talents of Gary Lewis and the Playboys, The Astronauts, The Knickerbockers, Freddy and the Dreamers, and the only film appearance of The Turtles.
Self
Party, enterianment, and Behind the scenes
Super Pup / Bark Bent
Harry Earles (uncredited)
청각장애인을 부모로 둔 체이니(제임스 캐그니 분)는 극장에서 판토마임과 막간 사이의 촌극 연기자로 일하고 있었다. 그러던 어느 날, 클레바 클라이튼(도로시 말론 분)을 만난 체이니는 그녀를 조수로 채용하게 된다. 함께 일하면서 사랑에 빠진 두 사람은 결혼까지 하게 되지만 체이니가 자신의 양친이 청각장애인이라는 사실을 밝히자, 클레바는 혐오감을 감추지 않는다. 심지어는 아들을 낳고 나서도 아기가 청각 장애일 거라며 쳐다보지도 않으려 한다. 아기가 정상이었음에도 클레바는 불안 증세를 보였고, 체이니가 극장에서 성공을 거듭할수록 그녀의 증세는 더해간다. 결국 클레바는 체이니와 어린 아들을 남겨두고 집을 나가버리고, 체이니는 부양할 돈이 없어 아들마저 다른 가정에 빼앗기고 만다. 결국 체이니는 아들을 되찾겠다는 일념으로 헐리우드를 행한다. 그 곳에서 그는 자신의 재능을 이용해 할 수 있는 일이라면 무엇이든 서슴지 않고 모두 다 해낸다.
Midget
영화 "나는 전설이다"의 원작 소설 작가이기도 한 리처드 매드슨의 소설 "줄어드는 남자"를 원작으로 한다. 몸이 점점 줄어들어 손가락 크기 만해진 한 남자의 이야기.
Damu
Priestess Oma is forever young in this Jungle Jim knockoff of "She" or the La of Opar stories from "Tarzan". The Jungle Jim-type character is played by Weissmuller using his own name.
Tut (uncredited)
Shalimar, an Egyptian princess, striving to rid her country of its Bedouin conquerors, forms an alliance with Prince Haidi, son of the Caliph of Bagdad. She practices her intrigues both at the court and, disguised as a dancing girl, in the market place.
Mole-Man (uncredited)
Reporters Clark Kent and Lois Lane arrive in the small town of Silsby to witness the drilling of the world's deepest oil well. The drill, however, has penetrated the underground home of a race of small, furry people who then come to the surface at night to look around. The fact that they glow in the dark scares the townfolk, who form a mob, led by the vicious Luke Benson, intent on killing the strange people. Only Superman has a chance to prevent this tragedy.
Circus Performer
While on shore leave to celebrate his first anniversary, Lt. Peter Duluth (Warren Douglas) takes his wife, Iris (Audrey Long), to a Los Angeles hotel but is turned away. When mysterious Colette (Stephanie Bachelor) offers them her suite, the young couple becomes entangled in a murder plot. Aided by two PIs, Peter and Iris find two corpses and are desperate to locate Colette before she becomes the next victim, but the killers are one step ahead.
Capt. Rudolph L. Nemo
A married couple who have a song-and-dance act in vaudeville are in trouble. Their struggling act is going nowhere, they're almost broke and they have to do something to get them back on top or they'll really be in trouble. They decide to put their young son in the act in hopes of attracting some new attention. The boy turns out to be a major talent, audiences love him and the act is on its way to the top. That's when an organization whose purpose is to stop children from performing on stage shows up, and they're dead set on breaking up the act.
Vaudeville Midget (Uncredited)
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
Newsboy
Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the money on a production called "Lucky Legs" that will star her. Unfortunately, the money has "made the rounds" prior to reaching Gloria and several less-than-scrupulous characters set out to separate Gloria from her inheritance.
Midget (Circus Troupe)
캘리포니아의 항공기 제조 공장, 이곳에서 일하던 배리(Barry Kane: 로버트 커밍 분)는 친구와 함께 휴식 기간에 공장을 나오다가 우연히 프라이(Frank Fry: 노먼 로이드 분)라는 사람을 만나게 된다. 그때 공장에서 화제가 발생하고 그 방화사건에 배리의 친구가 희생을 당하게 된다. 갑작스런 친구의 죽음을 슬퍼하고 있던 배리는 방화범이라는 누명을 쓰고 경찰의 수사에서 용의자로 지목된다. 그가 친구에게 건네준 소화기가 휘발유로 가득차 있었다는 것과 우연히 마주쳤던 프라이라는 직원을 찾을 수 없다는 이유 때문이다. 도망자의 신세가 되어 프라이를 추적하는 배리, 도중에 인기 모델인 팻(Patricia Martin: 프리실라 레인 분)을 만나게 되는데 그녀는 처음엔 그를 믿지 않다가 결국 그와 함께 범인 추적에 나선다. 우여곡절 끝에 뉴욕에 도착한 배리 일행. 그들은 그 방화사건 뒤에 아메리칸 나치 조직이 있음을 알게 되는데.
Melinda, the chimp
After Buckwheat tells the gang he's seen a big monkey, Spanky, Froggy and Mickey decide to teach him once and for all not to lie. What the gang doesn't know is that the monkey is real, and hilarity will ensue.
Midget
Jackie Gleason and Jack Durant are teamed for the first and only time as Hank and Jed, a pair of dimwitted barbers who are forced into bankruptcy because all their customers have marched off to war. Figuring that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em, Hank and Jed try to join the Army themselves, only to be rejected for a variety of reasons (When asked to read the eye-chart, Hank says he can't-not because he can't see, but because he can't read).
Bodyguard (uncredited)
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
George
Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arrives too late, so decides to film a woman skating on a different New York rink and pass her off as Karen. The scheme backfires when promoter Larry Herman takes a look at Bob's film and decides to make the skater a star. Unfortunately, it's actually amateur (and illegal immigrant) Marie Bergin in the newsreel footage, not the great figure skater from Switzerland. Chaos ensues as Bob tries to straighten everybody out.
Judge
A test pilot and his weather observer develop a "robot" control so airplanes can be flown without pilots, but enemy agents get wind of it and try to steal it or destroy it.
Midget (Uncredited)
Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid. Maisie soon finds herself trying to mend the family's many problems.
Munchkin
회오리 바람에 휩쓸려 오즈의 나라로 내던져진 도로시는 집으로 되돌아갈 수 있는 유일한 길이 위대한 오즈의 마법사를 만나는 것임을 알고 그를 찾아 긴 여정이 시작된다. 도로시는 애견 토토와 함께 노란 길을 따라 오즈의 마법사가 사는 에메랄드 시티로 향한다. 도중에 만난 세 명의 친구들, 지능을 얻고자 하는 허수아비와 심장을 원하는 양철 나뭇꾼, 용기를 가지고 싶어하는 겁장이 사자와 함께 오즈의 마법사에게 자신의 소원이 이루어지도록 부탁하기 위해 도로시와 함께 경쾌한 발걸음을 옮긴다. 그러나 도로시 일행을 방해하기 위해 뒤쫓아오는 서쪽 나라 마녀의 검은 그림자.
Hercules - the Midget
Nancy Evans, lovely circus owner, has a ranch that she's never visited, but for sentimental reasons won't sell to Mike Abbott. Her partners, secretly in league with Abbott, sabotage the circus to force Nancy to sell the ranch; instead, she goes there to live. Will her neighbors, the Three Mesquiteers, be a match for the secret swindlers? And what's so valuable about that run-down ranch anyway?
The Hero (Buck Lawson)
Using a conventional Western story with an all dwarf cast, the filmmakers were able to showcase gags such as cowboys entering the local saloon by walking under the swinging doors, and pint-sized cowboys galloping around on Shetland ponies while roping calves.
