The Wizard of Oz (1939) Cast and Crew
by alexisajet | created - 17 Jan 2018 | updated - 17 Jan 2018 | Public
1. Victor Fleming
Director | Gone with the Wind
Victor Fleming entered the film business as a stuntman in 1910, mainly doing stunt driving - which came easy to him, as he had been a mechanic and professional race-car driver. He became interested in working on the other side of the camera, and eventually got a job as a cameraman on many of the ...
2. King Vidor
Director | War and Peace
King Vidor was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter of Hungarian descent. He was born in Galveston, Texas to lumberman Charles Shelton Vidor and his wife Kate Wallis. King's paternal grandfather Károly (Charles) Vidor had fled Hungary as a refugee following the failed ...
3. George Cukor
Director | My Fair Lady
George Cukor was an American film director of Hungarian-Jewish descent, better known for directing comedies and literary adaptations. He once won the Academy Award for Best Director, and was nominated other four times for the same Award.
In 1899, George Dewey Cukor was born on the Lower East Side of...
4. Norman Taurog
Director | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
A successful child actor (on stage from 1907) and rather less successful romantic lead, baby-faced Norman Taurog found being behind the camera a more rewarding experience. Before becoming a director, he paid his dues as a prop man and editor. By 1919, he was put in charge of two-reel comedies, ...
5. Mervyn LeRoy
Director | Gypsy
The great San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 was a tragedy for Mervyn LeRoy. While he and his father managed to survive, they lost everything they had. To make money, LeRoy sold newspapers and entered talent contests as a singer. When he entered vaudeville, his act was "LeRoy and Cooper--Two...
6. Noel Langley
Writer | The Wizard of Oz
Noel Langley was a South African novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1961.
Langley was born on December 25, 1911 in Durban, South Africa. His parents were Aubrey Samuel Langley and Dora Agnes Allison. Aubrey served as the ...
7. Florence Ryerson
Writer | The Wizard of Oz
Florence Ryerson was an American playwright, screenwriter, and short story writer. She is mostly remembered as the co-writer of the fantasy film "The Wizard of Oz" (1939).
In 1892, she was born under the name of Florence Willard in Glendale, California. She was the daughter of journalist Charles ...
8. Edgar Allan Woolf
Writer | The Wizard of Oz
Edgar Allan Woolf was an American playwright and screenwriter. He is mostly remembered as a co-writer of the fantasy film "The Wizard of Oz" (1939).
Woolf was born in New York City to inventor Albert E. Woolf and his wife Rosamond Wimpfheimer. His father was an inventor of electrical devices.
Woolf ...
9. Herbert Stothart
Music_department | The Wizard of Oz
Of Scottish and German ancestry, Herbert Stothart was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1885. At first, he was slated for a career as a teacher of history. However, he became enamored with music while singing in a school choir, and again, later, while attending the University of Wisconsin. There, he...
10. Harold Rosson
Cinematographer | The Asphalt Jungle
Harold G. "Hal" Rosson, a cinematographer known for his subtle and imaginative lighting, was born in Genaseo, New York, on August 24, 1895, although some sources cite his birthday as April 6, 1895, or in 1889.
Rosson entered the movie industry in 1908 as an actor at the Vitagraph Studios in Brooklyn...
11. Blanche Sewell
Editor | The Wizard of Oz
Blanche Sewell was born on October 27, 1898 in Lowe, Oklahoma, USA. She was an editor, known for The Wizard of Oz (1939), Grand Hotel (1932) and The Pirate (1948). She was married to Leon Warren Bourgeau. She died on February 2, 1949 in Burbank, California, USA.
12. Judy Garland
Actress | The Wizard of Oz
One of the brightest, most tragic movie stars of Hollywood's Golden Era, Judy Garland was a much-loved character whose warmth and spirit, along with her rich and exuberant voice, kept theatre-goers entertained with an array of delightful musicals.
She was born Frances Ethel Gumm on 10 June 1922 in ...
13. Frank Morgan
Actor | The Wizard of Oz
Jovial, somewhat flamboyant Frank Morgan (born Francis Wuppermann) will forever be remembered as the title character in The Wizard of Oz (1939), but he was a veteran and respected actor long before he played that part, and turned in outstanding performances both before and after that film. One of ...
14. Ray Bolger
Actor | The Wizard of Oz
Ray Bolger was born Raymond Wallace Bolger on January 10, 1904 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, to Anne C. (Wallace) and James Edward Bolger, both Irish-Americans. Ray began his career in vaudeville. He was half of a team called "Sanford and Bolger" and also did numerous Broadway shows on his own. ...
15. Jack Haley
Actor | The Wizard of Oz
Jack Haley was a movie and vaudeville actor who is always remembered as the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz (1939). The Tin Man role was originally was going to Buddy Ebsen, but due to allergic reaction from the aluminum powder makeup, Ebsen was taken out of the casting and Haley replaced him. To avoid...
16. Bert Lahr
Actor | The Wizard of Oz
Fittingly known to be a "Leo" for his horoscope, Bert Lahr is always remembered as the Cowardly Lion in (and the farmer "Zeke") The Wizard of Oz (1939). But during his acting career, he has been known for being in burlesque, vaudeville, and Broadway.
Dropped out of high school at the age of fifteen ...
17. Billie Burke
Actress | The Wizard of Oz
Billie Burke was born Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke on August 7, 1885 in Washington, D.C. Her father was a circus clown, and as a child she toured the United States and Europe with the circus (before motion pictures and after the stage, circuses were the biggest form of entertainment in the...
18. Margaret Hamilton
Actress | The Wizard of Oz
Margaret Hamilton was born December 9, 1902 in Cleveland, Ohio, to Jennie (Adams) and Walter Hamilton. She later attended Hathaway Brown School in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and practiced acting doing children's theater while a Junior League of Cleveland member. Margaret had already built her resume ...
19. Clara Blandick
Actress | The Wizard of Oz
Clara Blandick was an American actress born as Clara Dickey and born aboard an American ship off the coast of Hong Kong on June 4, 1880. Little is known about her early life until she became an actress. She grew up in Boston and first acted on stage in E.H. Sothern's 'Richard Lovelace'. Although ...
20. Charley Grapewin
Actor | The Wizard of Oz
This old codger film favorite, born in 1869 (some reports say 1875), got into the entertainment field at an early age, first as a circus performer (aerialist and trapeze artist). When acting sparked his interest, he worked in a series of stock companies while writing stage plays that he himself ...
21. Pat Walshe
Actor | The Wizard of Oz
Born in 1900, he worked in vaudeville as a child and appeared in Broadway in "A Good Little Devil." As an adult he continued to appear in vaudeville but also joined various circuses and Midget Troupes. He had a specialist interest in portraying animals and was a veteran animal impersonator. He ...
22. Mitchell Lewis
Actor | Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ
Mitchell Lewis was born on June 26, 1880 in Syracuse, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), Salomé (1922) and The Mutiny of the Elsinore (1920). He was married to Rosabel Morrison and Nan Frances Ryan. He died on August 24, 1956 in Woodland Hills, ...
23. Adriana Caselotti
Soundtrack | Documentary Now!
Adriana was born into an operatic family. Her father Guido, an immigrant from Italy, taught music in New York City. Her mother Maria, originally from Naples, sang at the Royal Opera. Her sister Louise was a noted opera singer & voice teacher. At 18, she was chosen by Walt Disney to voice Snow White...
25. Meinhardt Raabe
Self | Little People
Raabe was born in Watertown, Wisconsin, in 1915. In 1934, he was a member of the Midget City cast at the Chicago World's Fair. The money from his appearances at the fair and other places was how he paid for his bachelor's in accounting and master's in business administration.
His wife, Marie ...
26. Jackie Gerlich
Self | The Mike Wallace Interview
Jackie Gerlich was born on September 21, 1917 in Vienna, Austria. He was an actor, known for The Mike Wallace Interview (1957). He died on December 27, 1960 in Sarasota, Florida, USA.
27. Jerry Maren
Actor | House
Born to Italian emigrant parents, Emilio Marenghi and Raffaella Scanzillo, young Jerry took dancing lessons when he was young and aspired to be an actor. In November 1938, standing just 3' 4", he met up with the Oz-bound group of little people in New York and went by bus to California. There he was...
28. Harry Earles
Actor | Freaks
Harry/Kurt (stage name/real name) came over to the U.S. from Germany around 1915 with his sister, Grace/Freida. Once they arrived, they worked for a man named Earles, at which time they adopted his last name. In the early 1920s, their sister Daisy/Hilda joined them and in the mid- to late 1920s, ...
29. Gracie Doll
Gracie Doll was born on March 12, 1899 in Stolpen, Germany. She was an actress. She died on November 8, 1970 in Sarasota, Florida, USA.
30. Daisy Earles
Actress | Freaks
Daisy Earles came to the U.S. from Germany in the early 1920s, joining her brother and sister Harry Earles and Gracie Doll. The three of them, soon joined by sister Tiny Doll, made a handful of appearances in films before retiring from the film business in 1930 in favor of working for the Ringling ...
31. Tiny Doll
Tiny Doll was born on July 23, 1914 in Stolpen, Germany. She was an actress. She died on September 6, 2004 in Sarasota, Florida, USA.
32. Billy Curtis
Actor | High Plains Drifter
Diminutive American actor Billy Curtis avoided the usual onus of freak-show employment as a youth, opting for a mainstream job as a shoe clerk. Encouraged by stock company actress Shirley Booth to take a little person role in a stage production, Curtis soon became a professional actor, with ...
33. Harry Monty
Actor | The Lord of the Rings
Harry Monty was born on April 15, 1904 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Lord of the Rings (1978), Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958) and Space Patrol (1950). He died on December 28, 1999 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
34. Mickey Carroll
Self | Home Life of a Buffalo
At age 7, he began dance lessons at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri. It was at the Fox that he met entertainer Jack Haley. Haley took him to Hollywood, where one of his first jobs was as "Mickey" in approximately seven of the Spanky and Our Gang series. At 17 he was one of six bellhops in ...
35. Olga Nardone
Olga Nardone was born on June 8, 1921 in Newton, Massachusetts, USA. She was an actress. She died on September 24, 2010 in Newton, Massachusetts, USA.
36. Margaret Pellegrini
Self | The Yellow Brick Road and Beyond
Margaret Pellegrini was born on September 23, 1923 in Tuscumbia, Alabama, USA. She was an actress, known for The Yellow Brick Road and Beyond (2009), I Married a Munchkin (1994) and We're Off to See the Munchkins (1993). She was married to Willie Pellegrini. She died on August 7, 2013 in Glendale, ...
37. Ruth Duccini
Actress | Under the Rainbow
Ruth Duccini was born on July 23, 1918 in Rush City, Minnesota, USA. She was an actress, known for Under the Rainbow (1981), The Daily Show (1996) and The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz (2013). She was married to Fred Duccini. She died on January 16, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
38. Leo Singer
Director | Mayday
Leo Singer is known for Air Crash Investigation (2003), Monsterquest (2007) and The Will (2010).
39. William H. O'Docharty
Actor | The Terror of Tiny Town
William H. O'Docharty was born on September 12, 1920 in El Campo, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Terror of Tiny Town (1938). He died on December 20, 1988 in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA.
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