Template:Realworld Billy Curtis (born Luigi Curto) (27 June 1909 – 9 November 1988; age 79) played a "small copper-skinned ambassador" in TOS: "Journey to Babel", for which he went uncredited.
Curtis' film career started in 1939 with a role in the classic movie The Wizard of Oz. Curtis went on to appear in over eighty movie and television roles. In 1951 he played an uncredited "Mole-Man" in the film Superman and the Mole-Men, which featured Jeff Corey. Seven years later he starred (wearing a dog costume) in the failed television pilot The Adventures of Superpup. In 1966 he appeared in two episodes of Batman, playing one of the henchmen of False Face, portrayed by Malachi Throne. In 1968, Curtis portrayed a child ape in the science fiction classic Planet of the Apes, which role also went uncredited. The film featured James Daly, Lou Wagner, Paul Lambert, Jane Ross, Felix Silla, music by Jerry Goldsmith and designs by Wah Chang. He also played a small role as a circus midget in another classic science fiction film, The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), written by Richard Matheson (based on his own novel) and featuring William Schallert.
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