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Bolger was a major Broadway performer in the 1930s and beyond. He is best known for his roles in The Wizard of Oz (1939) as the Scarecrow and in Walt Disney's holiday musical fantasy Babes in Toyland in 1961 as the villainous Barnaby. Bolger was the host of The Ray Bolger Show on TV from 1953 to 1955, originally titled Where's Raymond? [3]
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.
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.
Jan 16, 1987 · Ray Bolger, the angular, disjointed hoofer whose crackling voice and lilting smile made him a favorite of film fans and theatergoers for nearly 60 years, died Thursday.
Aug 23, 2019 · In lesser makeup horror stories, actor Ray Bolger—who played the Scarecrow—removed the rubber prosthetics mask from his face the last day of filming to discover he had burlap scars around his...
Jan 16, 1987 · Ray Bolger, the loose-limbed song-and-dance man who became known to millions as the Scarecrow in ''The Wizard of Oz,'' died yesterday of cancer in Los Angeles. He...
Ray Bolger began his career in vaudeville. He was half of a team called "Sanford and Bolger" and also did numerous Broadway shows on his own. He, like Gene Kelly, was a song-and-dance man as well as an actor.
Jan 15, 2022 · Actor Ray Bolger died of bladder cancer on January 15, 1987, at age 83 after a brief battle with the disease. He’s best known for playing Scarecrow in the seminal film The Wizard of Oz. Treatments for bladder cancer can include surgery, biological therapy, chemotherapy, and in some cases, immunotherapy.
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Jul 10, 2014 · This, after all, is none other than Ray Bolger, the legendary Hollywood song-and-dance man best known for his role as the Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz. In the film, as everyone knows, the ...