Billy Curtis Biography

Fast Facts

• Led a drive to give people suffering from dwarfism full membership and privileges in the Screen Actors Guild in 1970
• Studied at Northwestern University, during which time he performed in a dance act with his sister, Mary
• Despite suffering from dwarfism, he had a successful career in the entertainment industry for 50 years
• Started out doing vaudeville and performing dances with his sister before starting his own midget wrestling show
• Worked as a stuntman for child actors like Shirley Temple, Darryl Hickman, and Butch Jenkins
• Best known for his role as Mordecai in "High Plains Drifter" and as The Hero in "The Terror of Tiny Town․"
• Had an uncredited role as a Munchkin Father in the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz․"