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Ray Bolger

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American actor (1904-1987)

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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.

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Bolger as the Scarecrow in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 1939 adaptation of The Wizard of OzBolger as the Scarecrow in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 1939 adaptation of The Wizard of OzBolger in a publicity photo for The Bell Telephone Hour, 1963Bolger in a publicity photo for The Bell Telephone Hour, 1963Ray and Gwendolyn Bolger's grave at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver CityRay and Gwendolyn Bolger's grave at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City

Filmography 38

The Wizard of Oz1939 · ★ 7.6
Annie1982 · ★ 6.6
The Great Ziegfeld1936 · ★ 6.3
Babes in Toyland1961 · ★ 5.9
That's Entertainment!1974 · ★ 7.4
The Harvey Girls1946 · ★ 6.6
That's Entertainment! III1994
That's Dancing!1985
Stage Door Canteen1943
Just You and Me, Kid1979
April in Paris1952
The Daydreamer1966
Sweethearts1938
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Making of a Movie Classic1990
Rosalie1937
The Runner Stumbles1979
Sunny1941
Look for the Silver Lining1949
Make Mine Laughs1949
A Star Is Born World Premiere1954
Another Romance of Celluloid: Electrical Power1938
Four Jacks and a Jill1942
Three on a Date1978
Judy Garland: By Myself2004
The Dark Side of the Rainbow2000
Where's Charley?1952
Peter and the Magic Egg1983
The Making of the Wizard of Oz1979
Vaudeville1997
The All-Star Christmas Show1958
Backstage Party1961
The Entertainer1976
The Whimsical World of Oz1985
Heaven Only Knows1979
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression2009
To Oz! The Making of a Classic2009
Oz
The Wizard of Oz at Sphere2025

73 credits on file

Television 24

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962
The Love Boat1977
Little House on the Prairie1974
The Mike Douglas Show1961
Fantasy Island1978
Tony Awards1956
The Red Skelton Show1951
The Merv Griffin Show1962
Battlestar Galactica1978
What's My Line?1950
Baretta1975
The Colgate Comedy Hour1950
Omnibus1967
The Partridge Family1970
MGM Parade1955
Diff'rent Strokes1978
The Bob Hope Show1950
The Wonderful World of Disney1954
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show1956
Nanny and the Professor1970
Donny & Marie1976
The Hollywood Palace1964
The Bell Telephone Hour1959
The George Gobel Show1954

Awards 2

1960star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
1949Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical

In their orbit 1

Connected to Ray 6

Dick Van DykeAlso in The Runner Stumbles (1979)BuddyAlso in The Wizard of Oz (1939)Angela LansburyAlso in The Harvey Girls (1946)Yehudi MenuhinAlso in Stage Door Canteen (1943)P. G. WodehouseAlso in Rosalie (1937)Ginger RogersAlso in That's Entertainment! (1974)

About this person

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.

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Country
United States
Category
Actors
Type
Actor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1904 to 1987 · aged 83
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