The Wizard of Oz (1939 Film) - Voice Cast

Voice Cast

  • Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale
  • Frank Morgan as Professor Marvel / Doorman / Cabbie / Guard / The Wizard
  • Ray Bolger as Hunk / Scarecrow
  • Jack Haley as Hickory / Tin Man
  • Bert Lahr as Zeke / Cowardly Lion
  • Billie Burke as Glinda the Good Witch of the North
  • Margaret Hamilton as Miss Almira Gulch / The Wicked Witch of the West
  • Clara Blandick as Aunt Em
  • Charley Grapewin as Uncle Henry
  • Pat Walshe as Nikko (the Head Flying Monkey)
  • Terry as Toto
  • The Singer Midgets as the Munchkins
  • Jerry Maren as The Lollipop Kid/Munchkin
  • Mitchell Lewis as the Winkie Guard Captain (uncredited)

Only two of the Singer Midgets' actual voices are heard in the film (when Dorothy gets in the horse-drawn carriage and the two Munchkins present her with a bouquet); the rest of their vocalizations were dubbed by professional singers and voice actors, including Pinto Colvig, Abe Dinovitch and Billy Bletcher, and singing groups The King's Men, The Debutantes and Ken Darby Singers. Although the Wicked Witch's guards spoke their own dialogue, their singing was also dubbed by others and was slowed down. Adriana Caselotti voiced Juliet, and Abe Dinovitch and Candy Candido voiced the Apple Trees.

Pat Walshe was the last surviving significant member of the cast when he died in December 1991, aged 91. Meinhardt Raabe was one of the last surviving Munchkin actors, and the last surviving cast member with any dialogue when he died in April 2010, aged 94.

Jerry Maren (born January 24, 1920), who played the middle Munchkin of the Lollipop Guild (in green costume) who hands the lollipop to Dorothy, is an American actor and one of only three confirmed surviving dwarf Munchkins from the film. The other two surviving Munchkin cast members are Margaret Williams Pellegrini and Ruth Robinson Duccini, making Maren the last surviving male Munchkin from the film. He recently has made appearances on the reality show Hollywood Treasure, on the SyFy Channel.

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