Birthday: Aug 13, 1895
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

Bert Lahr

Bert Lahr (born Irving Lahrheim; August 13, 1895 – December 4, 1967) was an American actor and comedian. Lahr is remembered today for his roles as the Cowardly Lion and the farmworker Zeke in the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, but was also well-known for work in burlesque, vaudeville, and on Broadway. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bert Lahr, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

Movie	Cast	Year
The Wizard of Oz	"Zeke" / Cowardly Lion	1939
The Sound of Laughter	Egbert Bunting / Roland Montague	1963
The Night They Raided Minsky's	Professor Spats	1968
Just Around the Corner	Gus	1938
Ship Ahoy	Skip Owens	1942
Mr. Broadway	Bert Lahr	1933
Meet the People	Commander	1944
Always Leave Them Laughing	Eddie Eagen	1949
Flying High	Emil 'Rusty' Krouse	1931
Sing Your Worries Away	Clarence 'Chow' Brewster	1942
Henry the Ache	King Henry VIII	1934
Rose Marie	Barney McCorkle	1954
A Tale of Old Whiff	voice	1960
Merry Go Round of 1938	Bert	1937
Zaza	Cascart	1938
The Second Greatest Sex	Job McClure	1955
Josette	Barney Barnaby	1938
Love and Hisses	Sugar Boles	1937
That's Entertainment!	(archive footage)	1974
Whose Baby Are You?	Bert Halibut	1936
The Fantasticks	Ben Hucklebee	1964
Mister Universe	Joe Pulaski	1951
The Dark Side of the Rainbow	'Zeke' (archive footage)	2000
Faint Heart	Rudolf	1929
The Great Waltz	Hans Ebesteder	1955
Hizzoner	Bert Lahr, Cop	1933
No More West	Gunpowder Bert	1934
Shemp Cocktail: A Toast to the Original Stooge	Self (archive footage)	2008
To Oz! The Making of a Classic	Self	2009
The Big Parade of Comedy	The Commander (archive footage)	1964
Anything Goes	Moonface	1954
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic	Self (archive footage)	1990
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression	Self (archive)	2009
The Dark Side of Oz	Zeke / Cowardly Lion (archive footage)	1995
Boy, Oh Boy	The Butler	1936
Harold Arlen's Home Movies on set of The Wizard of Oz		1939
Series	Cast	Year
The Colgate Comedy Hour	Self	1950
The Merv Griffin Show	Self	1962
Omnibus		1952
General Electric Theater	Mr. O'Malley	1953
Hallmark Hall of Fame	Hucklebee	1951
The Hollywood Palace	Self	1964
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre		1963
The Philco Television Playhouse	Skid Johnson	1948
Summer Fun		1966
The Steve Allen Show	Self	1956
The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	1948
What's My Line?	Self	1950

Bert Lahr

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