Ray Bolger actor
- All known tv series 23
- Total known movies 35
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. He was signed to a contract with MGM in 1936 and his first role was as himself in The Great Ziegfeld (1936). This was soon followed by a role opposite Eleanor Powell in Rosalie (1937). His first dancing and singing role was in Sweethearts (1938), where he did the wooden shoes number with red-headed soprano/actress Jeanette MacDonald. This got him noticed by MGM producers and resulted in his being cast in his most famous role, that of the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz (1939). Surprisingly, even though the film was a success, Bolgers contract with MGM ended. He went to RKO to make Four Jacks and a Jill (1942). After this, Bolger went to Broadway, where he received his greatest satisfaction. In 1953 he turned to television and got his own sitcom, Wheres Raymond? (1953), later changed to The Ray Bolger Show. After his series ended, Bolger made frequent guest appearances on TV and had some small roles in movies. In 1985 he co-hosted Thats Dancing! (1985) with Liza Minnelli. Bolger died in 1987 at the age of 83. Interred at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, USA, in the Mausoleum, Crypt F2, Block 35.
"Hunk" / Scarecrow
Movie 1939
Barnaby
Movie 1961
Sam Winthrop Putnam
Movie 1952
Self - Host
Movie 1985
Ray Bolger
Movie 1936
Bill Delroy
Movie 1937
Self
Movie 1979
Jack Donahue
Movie 1949
Charley Wykeham
Movie 1952
Bunny Billings
Movie 1941
Nifty Sullivan, a Jack
Movie 1942
Uncle Amos (voice)
Movie 1983
'Hunk' (archive footage)
Movie 2000
Self - Actor (archive sound)
Movie 2004
Self (uncredited)
Movie 1938
Self
Movie 1954
Ray Bolger
Movie 1943
Self
Movie 1985
Self
Movie 2009
Sound Effects Man at Radio Station (uncredited)
Movie 1982
Self (archive footage)
Movie 1990
Self
Movie 1961
Andrew
Movie 1978
Self (archive)
Movie 2009
Hunk / Scarecrow (archive footage)
Movie 1995
Movie 1939
Self
Tv 1950
Tv 1974
Horace McDonald
Tv 1977
Tv 1978
Tv 1975
Self
Tv 1976
Alfred Boggs
Tv 1953
Tv 1970
Self - Host
Tv 1964
Self
Tv 1956
Raymond Wallace
Tv 1953
Self
Tv 1954
Self
Tv 1963
Self
Tv 1961
Stan Maylor
Tv 1953
Andy Hopkins
Tv 1977
Self - Mystery Guest
Tv 1950
Self
Tv 1959
Self - Host
Tv 1959
Self (archive footage)
Tv 1967
