# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ray-bolger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:59:17.825Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ray-bolger"
name: "Ray Bolger"
slug: "ray-bolger"
description: "Raymond Wallace Bolger was an American actor, dancer, singer, vaudevillian, and stage performer who started his movie career in the silent-film era. Bolger was a major Broadway performer in the 1930s and beyond. He is best known for his roles in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie The Wizard of Oz (1939) as Hunk and the Scarecrow and in Walt Disney's holiday musical fantasy Babes in Toyland in 1961 as the villainous Barnaby."
tagline: "American actor (1904–1987)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ray_Bolger_1942.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1904-01-10"
deathDate: "1987-01-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump