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Billy Curtis

1909 – 1988
Billy Curtis is honored in The Film Examiner Encyclopedia as an iconic character actor whose unforgettable face and voice elevated classic motion pictures and television series across the Golden Age of entertainment. Mike Jones's Video Boneyard archive currently preserves 35 physical recordings spanning 15 productions featuring Billy Curtis.

Archival Holdings in The Video Boneyard

The following 15 canonical motion pictures and broadcast master recordings featuring Billy Curtis are preserved in the studio archives:

Year Production Title Character / Role Director / Studio The Video Boneyard Status
1939 The Wizard of Oz Featured Cast Victor Fleming / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Vault Archive Master Archival Master
1941 Meet John Doe Featured Cast Frank Capra / Archive Vault Archive Master Unrenewed PD
1942 Saboteur Featured Cast Alfred Hitchcock / Universal Pictures Vault Archive Master Archival Master
1951 Superman and the Mole Men Featured Cast Lee Sholem / Archive Vault Archive Master Archival Master
1953 The Unknown People: Part II Mole-Man #1 (uncredited) Unknown / Archive Vault Archive Master Archival Master
1957 Man of a Thousand Faces Featured Cast Joseph Pevney / Universal Pictures Vault Archive Master Archival Master
1957 The Incredible Shrinking Man 2 Copies Supporting Cast Jack Arnold / Universal Pictures Vault Archive Master Archival Master
1966 Batman 19 Copies Featured Cast Unknown / 20th Century Fox Television Vault Archive Master Archival Master
1966 Holy Rat Race Midget William A. Graham / Archive Vault Archive Master Archival Master
1966 The Greatest Spy on Earth 2 Copies Tiny Allen (uncredited) Unknown / Archive Vault Archive Master Archival Master
1966 The Spy Who Came In from the Cool Midget Unknown / Archive Vault Archive Master Archival Master
1966 True or False-Face Midget William A. Graham / Archive Vault Archive Master Archival Master
1967 Witness for the Persecution El Lobo-Ito Unknown / Archive Vault Archive Master Archival Master
1968 Planet of the Apes Featured Cast Franklin J. Schaffner / 20th Century Studios Vault Archive Master Archival Master
1981 Shgoratchx! General Yoomak Unknown / Archive Vault Archive Master Archival Master
⚖️ Archival Preservation & Scholarship: All film excerpts, technical specifications, and character credits cataloged in this dossier are curated for film scholarship, legal public domain verification, and historical media education under 17 U.S.C. § 107.