Who played the 'Scarecrow' in the Judy Garland film, 'The Wizard Of Oz'?
"The Wizard of Oz (1939 film) The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Widely considered to be one of the greatest films in cinema history, it is the best-known and most commercially successful adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's book ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz."" It was directed primarily by Victor Fleming (who left production to take over direction on the troubled ""Gone with the Wind"" production). It stars Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale, alongside Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Frank Morgan, Billie Burke, and Margaret Hamilton, with Charley Grapewin, Pat"
"Ray Bolger Raymond Wallace Bolger (January 10, 1904 – January 15, 1987) was an American film and television actor, vaudevillian, TV presenter, singer, dancer (particularly of tap) and stage performer (particularly musical theatre) who started in the silent film era. He was a major Broadway performer in the 1930s and beyond (see below). He is best known for his role as the Scarecrow and his Kansas counterpart farm worker ""Hunk"" in MGM's classic ""The Wizard of Oz"" (1939) and the villainous Barnaby in Walt Disney's musical fantasy ""Babes in Toyland"". He was also the host of his eponymous television show,"
"The Wizard of Oz (1925 film) The Wizard of Oz is a 1925 American silent fantasy-adventure comedy film directed by Larry Semon, who also performs in the lead role as a Kansas farmhand and later in the story disguised as the Scarecrow. This production, which is the only completed 1920s adaptation of L. Frank Baum's novel ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"", costars Dorothy Dwan as Dorothy, Oliver Hardy as the Tin Woodman in a portion of the film, and Spencer Bell briefly disguised as a less ""cowardly"" Lion than in the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer version of Baum's work. The 1925 film,"
"Scarecrow of Oz"". Mombi appears in the 1969 feature film ""The Wonderful Land of Oz"", played by Zisca, whose real name is Franzisca Baum, but is not related to L. Frank Baum. She sings the eerie song, ""The Powder of Life,"" proudly proclaiming herself as a witch and not minding at all that Tip has called her one. Her appearance is largely modeled on Margaret Hamilton's in ""The Wizard of Oz"" (1939), but with her hair more down, dark circles under her eyes, a paler appearance and a more strained gait. There is purple highlighting in her clothes, emphasizing her"
"this cropping manner may no longer exist. His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz is a 1914 American silent fantasy adventure film directed by J. Farrell MacDonald and written and produced by L. Frank Baum. It stars Violet MacMillan, Frank Moore, Vivian Reed, Todd Wright, Pierre Couderc, and Fred Woodward. The film had a troubled distribution history; it opened on October 14, 1914, to little success, though it was received as well above average fare by critics of the time. Early in 1915, it was reissued under the title The New Wizard of Oz and"
"old for the part. However, she contacted Rob Cohen of Universal Pictures, who offered to have them finance the film if she were to play Dorothy, at which point he acquiesced. The resulting film version of ""The Wiz"" also starred former Motown star Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow, Nipsey Russell as the Tin Man, Richard Pryor as the Wizard, jazz singer Thelma Carpenter as Miss One (the name ""Addapearle"" was not used for this production) and Lena Horne as Glinda. Ted Ross and Mabel King reprised their roles of the Lion and Evillene from the Broadway production. Sidney Lumet served"
"Lewis Croft Lewis Croft (May 2, 1919 – April 29, 2008) was an American actor with dwarfism, best known for his role as a Munchkin soldier in the 1939 film ""The Wizard of Oz"". Lewis Croft was born in Shelley, Idaho in 1919 to Samuel and Roseland Crofts. Growing up in a large family, he was the fourth of 14 children. He left home when he turned 16 to work in circuses and sideshows under the stage name ""Idaho Lewis"" in order to support himself and his other siblings. Shortly after, he was offered a role in The Wizard of"
"Scarecrow (1973 film) Scarecrow is a 1973 U.S. road movie directed by Jerry Schatzberg, and starring Gene Hackman and Al Pacino. The story revolves around the relationship between two men who travel from California, aiming to start a business in Pittsburgh. At the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, it tied for the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, the highest honor. While a box office bomb in its own country, it later gained cult status. Two vagabonds, Max Millan, a short-tempered ex-convict, and Francis Lionel Delbuchi, a childlike ex-sailor, meet on the road in California and agree to become partners"
"Cemetery. Lewis Croft Lewis Croft (May 2, 1919 – April 29, 2008) was an American actor with dwarfism, best known for his role as a Munchkin soldier in the 1939 film ""The Wizard of Oz"". Lewis Croft was born in Shelley, Idaho in 1919 to Samuel and Roseland Crofts. Growing up in a large family, he was the fourth of 14 children. He left home when he turned 16 to work in circuses and sideshows under the stage name ""Idaho Lewis"" in order to support himself and his other siblings. Shortly after, he was offered a role in The Wizard"
"Peter Finch (""Network""), Victor Fleming (""The Wizard of Oz""), Janet Gaynor (""A Star Is Born""), Curtis Harrington (""Night Tide""), Zoltan Korda (""The Thief of Bagdad""), Darren McGavin (""The Man with the Golden Arm""), Adolphe Menjou (""Paths of Glory""), Paul Muni (""Scarface""), Dudley Nichols (""Stagecoach""), Maila Nurmi (""Plan 9 from Outer Space""), Nelson Riddle (""Lolita""), Vito Scotti (""The Godfather""), Ann Sheridan (""They Drive by Night""), Constance and Norma Talmadge (""Intolerance"", ""Camille""), Eddie Little (""Another Day in Paradise""), Eddie Bunker (""Straight Time""), Gregg Toland (""Citizen Kane""), Edgar G. Ulmer (""Detour""), Peter Lorre (""Casablanca""), Clifton Webb (""Laura""), William Hurlbut (""Bride of Frankenstein"") and"
"The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True is a 1995 television musical performance based on the 1939 film ""The Wizard of Oz"" (starring Judy Garland). The book and score of the film were performed on stage at Lincoln Center to benefit the Children's Defense Fund. The concert featured guest performers including Jackson Browne as the Scarecrow, Roger Daltrey as the Tin Man, Natalie Cole as Glinda, Joel Grey as the Wizard (a role he reprised in ""Wicked""), Jewel as Dorothy, Nathan Lane as the Cowardly Lion, Debra Winger as"
"His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz is a 1914 American silent fantasy adventure film directed by J. Farrell MacDonald and written and produced by L. Frank Baum. It stars Violet MacMillan, Frank Moore, Vivian Reed, Todd Wright, Pierre Couderc, and Fred Woodward. The film had a troubled distribution history; it opened on October 14, 1914, to little success, though it was received as well above average fare by critics of the time. Early in 1915, it was reissued under the title The New Wizard of Oz and was slightly more successful. The film is"
"album, ""Untapped"", that same year. Hinton Battle Hinton Battle (born November 29, 1956) is a German-born American actor, singer, dancer, and dance instructor. He has won three Tony Awards, all in the category of Featured Actor in a Musical. He was the first to portray the Scarecrow in the stage version of ""The Wiz"" (a role assumed by Michael Jackson in the 1978 film adaptation). Battle was born in Neubrücke, Hoppstädten, West Germany, part of the Baumholder Army Military Community, and raised in Washington, D.C. and New York City. His mother was a homemaker and his father a U.S. army"
"Jerry Schatzberg Jerry Schatzberg (born June 26, 1927) is a photographer and film director. Schatzberg was born to a Jewish family of furriers and grew up in the Bronx. He photographed for magazines such as ""Vogue"", ""Esquire"" and ""McCalls"". He made his debut as a feature film director with 1970's ""Puzzle of a Downfall Child"" starring Faye Dunaway. He went on to direct films such as ""The Panic in Needle Park"", which starred Al Pacino in 1971, ""Scarecrow"", which shared the grand prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, ""The Seduction of Joe Tynan"", ""Honeysuckle Rose"" with Willie Nelson, ""Misunderstood"""
"Mickey Carroll Mickey Carroll (July 8, 1919 – May 7, 2009) was an American actor, who worked in radio and film, and was one of the last surviving actors who portrayed a munchkin in the 1939 film ""The Wizard of Oz"". Born Michael Finocchiaro in St. Louis, Missouri, Carroll was the son of Italian immigrants. He was born along with a twin sister, who, unlike Carroll, was of average size. As a child Carroll began dance lessons at the Fox Theater in St. Louis. At 17 he was one of six bellhops in the 'Call for Phillip Morris' live radio"
"Jakob ""Jackie"" Gerlich Jakob E. ""Jackie"" Gerlich (September 21, 1917 – December 27, 1960) was an American dwarf actor and circus entertainer most notable for his appearance in the 1939 American film ""The Wizard of Oz"". Gerlich was born in Vienna, Austria. He emigrated to America when he arrived in New York City on the S.S. President Roosevelt ocean liner on March 13, 1936. His first acting experience was in ""The Wizard of Oz"", where he played the red member of the Lollipop Guild. Jerry Maren and Harry Doll were the other two members of the Lollipop Guild in the"
"Lee Dixon (actor) Lee Dixon (January 22, 1914 – January 8, 1953) was an actor in 1930s and 1940s. He appeared in Hollywood musicals and other films, as well as on the Broadway stage. Lee Dixon is best remembered for creating the role of Will Parker in the original Broadway production of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical ""Oklahoma!"" In the summer of 1942, Dixon created the role of the Scarecrow, at The Municipal Opera Association of St. Louis, in the first ever stage production of ""The Wizard of Oz"" to use the songs from the 1939 MGM film. Evelyn Wyckoff"
"Scarecrow in a production of ""The Wizard of Oz"". Subsequently, he was approached by an agent and began appearing on television and in commercials for Sunny Jim peanut butter, Cocoa Puffs, Pop-Tarts, and Kinney Shoes. At age six, he starred in several made-for-television films. In 1991, he played both David Collins and Daniel Collins in the ""Dark Shadows"" 1991 television series, and appeared in the movie ""A River Runs Through It"" . During 1992–93, he played in ""The Powers That Be"", a sitcom starring John Forsythe, as a clever young boy named Pierce Van Horne. Also in 1992, he portrayed"
"be the dream of a little girl who has fallen asleep listening to the story of Kynd and Kruel, said to be the story of ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"". The film also introduced the idea of the farmhands also being the Scarecrow, Tin Woodsman and Cowardly Lion, albeit as costumes they don in order to conceal themselves in Oz. In the 1939 movie ""The Wizard of Oz"", Dorothy was played by Judy Garland, who received an Academy Juvenile Award for her performance. Since she was sixteen years old at the time of filming, Garland's maturing figure was bound into"
"Jack Haley John Joseph Haley Jr (August 10, 1897 – June 6, 1979) was an American vaudevillian, actor, radio host, comedian, singer and dancer best known for his portrayal of the Tin Man and his farmhand counterpart ""Hickory"" in the classic 1939 MGM film ""The Wizard of Oz"". Haley was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Canadian-born parents John Joseph Haley Sr. and Ellen Curley Haley. His father was a sailor by trade and died in a ship wreck off the coast of Nova Scotia on February 1, 1898, when Jack was only six months old. He had one older brother,"
"week before his death. On June 6, 1979, Haley died of a heart attack at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California at the age of 81. He is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California. Haley's autobiography, ""Heart of the Tin Man"", was published in 2000. Jack Haley John Joseph Haley Jr (August 10, 1897 – June 6, 1979) was an American vaudevillian, actor, radio host, comedian, singer and dancer best known for his portrayal of the Tin Man and his farmhand counterpart ""Hickory"" in the classic 1939 MGM film ""The Wizard of Oz"". Haley was born"
"member of the Guthrie Theatre Company) since 1997. John Carroll Lynch John Carroll Lynch (born August 1, 1963) is an American character actor and film director. He first gained notice for his role as Norm Gunderson in ""Fargo"". He is also known for his television work on the ABC sitcom ""The Drew Carey Show"" as the title character's cross-dressing brother, Steve Carey, as well as on """" and """" as Twisty the Clown. His films include ""Face/Off"", ""Gran Torino"", ""Shutter Island"", ""Ted 2"", ""The Invitation"", and ""Zodiac"". Most recently, he portrayed McDonald's co-founder Maurice McDonald in ""The Founder"". He made"
"John Carroll Lynch John Carroll Lynch (born August 1, 1963) is an American character actor and film director. He first gained notice for his role as Norm Gunderson in ""Fargo"". He is also known for his television work on the ABC sitcom ""The Drew Carey Show"" as the title character's cross-dressing brother, Steve Carey, as well as on """" and """" as Twisty the Clown. His films include ""Face/Off"", ""Gran Torino"", ""Shutter Island"", ""Ted 2"", ""The Invitation"", and ""Zodiac"". Most recently, he portrayed McDonald's co-founder Maurice McDonald in ""The Founder"". He made his directorial debut with the 2017 film ""Lucky""."
"Los Angeles. Scatman Crothers Benjamin Sherman Crothers (May 23, 1910 – November 22, 1986), known professionally as Scatman Crothers, was an American actor and musician. He played Louie the Garbage Man on the TV show ""Chico and the Man"" and Dick Hallorann in Stanley Kubrick's ""The Shining"" (1980). He was also a prolific voiceover actor who provided the voices of Meadowlark Lemon in the Harlem Globetrotters animated TV series, Jazz the Autobot in ""The Transformers"" and """" (1986), the title character in ""Hong Kong Phooey"", and Scat Cat in the animated Disney film ""The Aristocats"" (1970). Crothers was born in"
"Caren Marsh Doll Caren Marsh Doll (born April 6, 1919), born as Caren Morris, and credited also as Caren Marsh, is an American stage and screen actress and dancer, specialising in modern dance and tap, who was Judy Garland's dance stand-in for ""The Wizard of Oz"" (1939) and a ""Ziegfeld Girl"" in 1941. For over two decades, she appeared in motion pictures with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Studios. Her younger sister was television and film actress Dorothy Morris. Although not a credited cast member, she is one of a few known surviving personnel to have worked on the MGM film ""The Wizard"
"Scatman Crothers Benjamin Sherman Crothers (May 23, 1910 – November 22, 1986), known professionally as Scatman Crothers, was an American actor and musician. He played Louie the Garbage Man on the TV show ""Chico and the Man"" and Dick Hallorann in Stanley Kubrick's ""The Shining"" (1980). He was also a prolific voiceover actor who provided the voices of Meadowlark Lemon in the Harlem Globetrotters animated TV series, Jazz the Autobot in ""The Transformers"" and """" (1986), the title character in ""Hong Kong Phooey"", and Scat Cat in the animated Disney film ""The Aristocats"" (1970). Crothers was born in Terre Haute,"
"him. Scarecrow, Sr. is voiced by ""Andy Milder"". In the 2013 film ""Oz the Great and Powerful"", the Scarecrow's origins are explained; being fabricated by the townspeople of Oz as a diversionary tactic during the retaliatory attack on the Emerald City. In the 1925 film, ""Wizard of Oz"", the Scarecrow and the Tin Man were actually human farmhands, who were blown to Oz by the tornado along with Dorothy. Dorothy, in another major departure from the novel, turns out to be the rightful ruler of Oz, having been exiled to Kansas as a baby. Hinton Battle originated the role of"
"Charlie Becker Karl Becker (November 24, 1887 – December 28, 1968) billed as Charlie Becker, was a German American actor. He was 3'9"" in height, and is probably best known for appearing as the Munchkinland Mayor in ""The Wizard of Oz"" (1939). Ken Darby dubbed the Mayor's vocals in the film. Becker was born near Frankfurt, Germany in the town of Muschenheim. As a teenager, he worked as a butcher, but often struggled to use the knives and other equipment, and was ridiculed by his fellow workers. When he was about 19, he began performing in travelling ""midget shows"", and"
"Jerry Maren Gerard Marenghi (January 24, 1920 – May 24, 2018), known as Jerry Maren, was an American actor who played a Munchkin member of the Lollipop Guild in the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film, ""The Wizard of Oz."" He became the last surviving Munchkin following the death of Ruth Duccini on January 16, 2014, and was also the last surviving cast member with a speaking or singing role. Gerard Marenghi, eventually known as Jerry Maren, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the youngest of eleven or twelve children. His father, Emil Marenghi, worked at a shoe factory. His four brothers and five"
"Hinton Battle Hinton Battle (born November 29, 1956) is a German-born American actor, singer, dancer, and dance instructor. He has won three Tony Awards, all in the category of Featured Actor in a Musical. He was the first to portray the Scarecrow in the stage version of ""The Wiz"" (a role assumed by Michael Jackson in the 1978 film adaptation). Battle was born in Neubrücke, Hoppstädten, West Germany, part of the Baumholder Army Military Community, and raised in Washington, D.C. and New York City. His mother was a homemaker and his father a U.S. army officer. Battle's talent became apparent"
"Clegg"". It was taken up by Disney in 1963 and dramatized in the three-part TV miniseries ""The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh"" starring Patrick McGoohan; this was later re-edited and released theatrically as ""Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow"". A film directed by Jerry Schatzberg in 1973 starring Al Pacino and Gene Hackman is titled ""Scarecrow"" and deals with two characters on a journey reminiscent of the one in L. Frank Baum's book. The Scarecrow is a character in the DC Comics universe, a supervillain and antagonist of Batman; Cillian Murphy portrays the character in Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy. Similar characters, known"
"is dressed as the Scarecrow after a tornado took him, Scooby, and Scrappy to ""Ahz"", a direct spoof of Oz with a different spelling by its enunciation. Justin Case, an English bicycle acrobat, appeared briefly as the Scarecrow in the 1985 film ""Return to Oz"". American voice actor Michael Gough voices the Scarecrow in 2011's direct-to-DVD animated film ""Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz"". The Scarecrow appeared in """" (which is based on ""Dorothy of Oz"") voiced by Dan Aykroyd. The Scarecrow appeared in the ""Once Upon a Time"" episode ""Our Decay"" voiced by Paul Scheer. Many years"
"the Scarecrow in Barry Mahon's ""The Wonderful Land of Oz"" (1969), as well as doing the makeup for that film. Elijah Kelley portrayed the Scarecrow in the TV special ""The Wiz Live!"", as well as the farmhand Sticks. In the animated film ""Journey Back to Oz"" (produced in 1964 but not released until the 1970s), the Scarecrow was voiced by Mickey Rooney. In an episode of ""The World's Greatest Super Friends"", Aquaman temporarily became the Scarecrow after a tornado took him, Superman and Wonder Woman to Mister Mxyzptlk’s planet of Oz. In a 1981 episode of ""Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo"", Shaggy"