Billy Curtis
Nascimento : 1909-06-27, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
Morte : 1988-11-09
História
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
Casal ambiciona mudar-se do edifício onde mora e abrir seu próprio negócio. Mas o marido perde o emprego e, para financiar seus planos, decide colocar um anúncio para encontros sexuais, o que transforma a casa num cenário de grandes confusões.
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
Um pistoleiro a soldo é contratado para proteger uma cidade dos ataques de três criminosos.
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)
Dolly Levy é uma viúva socialite que trabalha como casamenteira. Ela viaja para Yonkers para encontrar uma parceira para o "meio-milionário" Horace Vandergelder. Dory insentiva os dois funcionário de Vangergelder a viajar para Nova Yorque para procurar garotas onde acaba se metendo em grandes confusões.
Child Ape (uncredited)
George Taylor, um astronauta americano, viaja por séculos em estado de hibernação. Ao acordar, ele e seus companheiros se vêem em um planeta dominado por macacos, no qual os humanos são tratados como escravos e nem mesmo tem o dom da fala.
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)
A turbulenta vida e carreira profissional do ator de vaudeville e estrela do cinema mudo de horror Lon Chaney (1883-1930), o homem das mil caras; homem de muitos infortúnios pessoais que nem mesmo seu grande sucesso conseguiu mitigar. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Midget
Scott Carey começa a diminuir de tamanho sem uma explicação aparente e tem de aprender a lidar com esta situação absurda. É considerado um clássico da ficção científica.
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)
Ano 1249 DC, Shalimar (Debra Paget), uma princesa egípcia, lutando para libertar seu país dos conquistadores beduínos, e contra um conselheiro misterioso do Príncipe Selim, seu pai, forma uma aliança com o Príncipe Haidi (Jeffrey Hunter), filho do Califa de Bagdad. Vivendo uma vida dupla, Shalimar semeia intrigas tanto na corte quanto disfarçada como dançarina, no mercado local.
Mole-Man (uncredited)
Clark Kent e Lois Lane vão a uma cidadezinha do Texas fazer uma matéria sobre o poço de petróleo mais fundo do mundo. Porém, desse mesmo buraco começam a sair pequenas criaturas meio humanas meio toupeiras, e os habitantes ficam aterrorizados. Cabe ao Superman agora convencer a todos que eles não são uma ameaça.
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)
O excitante thriller do tempo de guerra, realizado por Alfred Hitchcock em 1942, estrelando Robert Cummings no papel de operário de uma fábrica de aviões de Los Angeles que testemunha o bombardeamento da fábrica por um agente Nazista. Durante a mortífera explosão, o melhor amigo de Cummings morre e ele próprio é erroneamente acusado de sabotagem. Para limpar o seu nome, Cummings inicia uma inexorável perseguição através do país que o leva de Boulder Dam ao Radio City Music Hall, em Nova Iorque e, finalmente, a um perigoso confronto no topo da Estátua da Liberdade. O primeiro filme de Hitchcock com um elenco totalmente norte-americano, desenrola-se a uma velocidade alucinante até atingir um clímax de arrepiar, criando uma excitante obra de artes do suspense.
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)
A Showgirl Maisie Ravier se encontra mais uma vez sem trabalho. Então ela conhece um playboy rico que a contrata para ser a nova empregada de sua família. Maisie logo se vê tentando consertar os muitos problemas da família. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)
Munchkin
Dorothy e seu cachorro Totó são levados para a terra mágica de Oz quando um ciclone passa pela fazenda de seus avós no Kansas. Eles viajam em direção à Cidade Esmeralda para encontrar o Mago Oz e no caminho encontram um Espantalho, que precisa de um cérebro, um Homem de Lata sem um coração e um Leão Covarde que quer coragem. O Mago pede ao grupo que tragam a vassoura da Bruxa Malvada do Oeste a fim de ganharem sua ajuda.
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.
