Biography
Raymond Wallace Bolger was an American vaudevillian, eccentric dancer, comedian, actor and singer best known for his performance as the Scarecrow in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. He first became interested in dancing as a teenager and, while working as a bank clerk in Boston, participated in dance contests and attended musical performances. In 1923, after being fired from a later job as an insurance clerk, he formed a short-lived vaudeville act, Sanford and Bolger, with Ralph Sanford. He went on to perform in several revues in the 1920s and early 1930s, as well as Gus Edwards' variety show Ritz Carlton Nights.
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Awards & recognition
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame · 1960
- Tony Award — Best Actor in a Musical · 1949
- Tony Award — Best Actor in a Musical · 1962 · nominated
Filmography23 titles
Little House on the Prairie
The Wizard of Oz
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
That's Entertainment!
The Red Skelton Show
Diff'rent Strokes
Battlestar Galactica
That's Entertainment! III
What's My Line?
That's Dancing!
The Partridge Family
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Annie
The Harvey Girls
Fantasy Island
The Love Boat
Stage Door Canteen
The Great Ziegfeld
Rosalie
Babes in Toyland
Sunny
Just You and Me, Kid
April in Paris