Ray Bolger
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA — Jan 10 1904• Died Jan 15 1987
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Biography
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…
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Ray Bolger's Credits
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The Love Boat
Horace McDonald
Little House on the Prairie
Toby Noe
Fantasy Island
Spencer Randolph
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self - Host
Omnibus
Self
Baretta
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Self
The Partridge Family
Grandpa Fred Renfrew
Battlestar Galactica
Vector
MGM Parade
The Wizard of Oz
"Hunk" / Scarecrow
Nanny and the Professor
Uncle Horace
The Hollywood Palace
Self - Host
The Bell Telephone Hour
Self
The George Gobel Show
Self
The Wonderful World of Disney
Self
Captains and the Kings
R.J. Squibbs
The Judy Garland Show
Self
Annie
Sound Effects Man at Radio Station (uncredited)
Diff'rent Strokes
General Electric Theater
Alfred Boggs
Where's Raymond?
Raymond Wallace
The Harvey Girls
Chris Maule
Babes in Toyland
Barnaby
The All-Star Christmas Show
Self
The Daydreamer
The Pieman
April in Paris
Sam Winthrop Putnam
Judy Garland: By Myself
Self - Actor (archive sound)
That's Entertainment!
(archive footage)
That's Dancing!
Self - Host
The Great Ziegfeld
Ray Bolger
Stage Door Canteen
Ray Bolger
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Making of a Movie Classic
Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage)
Oz
Self / Scarecrow (archive footage)
A Star Is Born World Premiere
Self
Peter and the Magic Egg
Uncle Amos (voice)
Sweethearts
Hans
Sunny
Bunny Billings
Rosalie
Bill Delroy
Four Jacks and a Jill
Nifty Sullivan, a Jack
Just You and Me, Kid
Tom
The Dark Side of the Rainbow
'Hunk' (archive footage)
Look for the Silver Lining
Jack Donahue
Another Romance of Celluloid: Electrical Power
Self (uncredited)
Where's Charley?
Charley Wykeham
The Entertainer
Billy Rice
Three on a Date
Andrew
Backstage Party
Self
To Oz! The Making of a Classic
Self
The Runner Stumbles
Monsignor Nicholson
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
Self (archive footage)
The Making of the Wizard of Oz
Self
Heaven Only Knows
Simon
Make Mine Laughs
(archive footage)
The Whimsical World of Oz
Self
Tony Awards
Self - Presenter