Bert Lahr

Bert Lahr

Born: August 13, 1895
Died: December 4, 1967
in New York City, New York, United States
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.

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To Oz! The Making of a Classic
Title: To Oz! The Making of a Classic
Character: Self
Released: September 23, 2009
Type: Movie
A look into how L. Frank Baum's classic novel was transformed into one of the most beloved films of all time including archival interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, and rare musical outtakes.
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Shemp Cocktail: A Toast to the Original Stooge
Title: Shemp Cocktail: A Toast to the Original Stooge
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: March 18, 2008
Type: Movie
A compilation that highlights works from the Three Stooges. It includes the shorts Brideless Groom, Sing a Song of Six Pants, and Malice in the Palace, also Ed Wynn's live TV Camel Comedy Caravan starring Shemp, Larry, and Moe.
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The Dark Side of the Rainbow
Title: The Dark Side of the Rainbow
Character: 'Zeke' (archive footage)
Released: July 4, 2000
Type: Movie
The movie The Wizard of Oz (1939) with the soundtrack replaced by Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon (1973); several uncanny moments of synchronisation and a generally darker tone than the original film.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic
Title: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 20, 1990
Type: Movie
Documentary about the making of the 1939 MGM classic film The Wizard of Oz. Includes interviews of cast and crew members, their families and fans of the film.
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That's Entertainment!
Title: That's Entertainment!
Character: (archive footage)
Released: June 21, 1974
Type: Movie
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
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The Night They Raided Minsky's
Title: The Night They Raided Minsky's
Character: Professor Spats
Released: December 22, 1968
Type: Movie
Rachel arrives in New York from her Amish community intent on becoming a dancer. Unfortunately Billy Minsky's Burlesque is hardly the place for her Dances From The Bible. But the show's comedian Raymond sees a way of wrong-footing the local do-gooders by announcing the new Paris sensation "Mme Fifi" and putting on Rachel's performance as the place is raided. All too complicated, the more so since her father is scouring the town for her and both Raymond and his straight-man Chick are falling for Rachel.
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Title: Summer Fun
Released: July 22, 1966
Type: TV
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The Fantasticks
Title: The Fantasticks
Character: Hucklebee
Released: October 17, 1964
Type: Movie
Neighboring widowers plot to romantically unite their son and daughter by pretending to feud and forbidding the two children to associate with each other. Their scheme works and the two youngsters fall head-over-heels in love. To end their "feud" the fathers hire a bandit and his henchmen to fake an abduction and allow the son to rout the assailants. The plan works, but the two love birds discover that requited love is much less exciting than forbidden romance and they break off their relationship. Matt, the son, resolves to see the world and receives a severe buffeting, while Luisa, the daughter, has an unhappy romance with the bandit, who steals her most precious possession, her mother's necklace. Matt returns, sadder but wiser, and the two former lovers reunite.
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The Big Parade of Comedy
Title: The Big Parade of Comedy
Character: The Commander (archive footage)
Released: September 2, 1964
Type: Movie
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
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Title: The Hollywood Palace
Character: Self
Released: January 4, 1964
Type: TV
The Hollywood Palace is an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly on ABC from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970. Originally titled The Saturday Night Hollywood Palace, it began as a mid-season replacement for The Jerry Lewis Show, another variety show which had lasted only three months. It was staged in Hollywood at the former Hollywood Playhouse on Vine Street, which was renamed The Hollywood Palace during the show's duration and is today known as Avalon Hollywood. A little-known starlet named Raquel Welch was cast during the first season as the "Billboard Girl", who placed the names of the acts on a placard.
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The Sound of Laughter
Title: The Sound of Laughter
Character: Egbert Bunting / Roland Montague
Released: December 17, 1963
Type: Movie
A compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's.
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Title: Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Released: October 4, 1963
Type: TV
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.
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Title: The Merv Griffin Show
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.
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A Tale of Old Whiff
Title: A Tale of Old Whiff
Character: voice
Released: January 6, 1960
Type: Movie
A 70mm scope cartoon in which a dog learns to smell in order to become a detective.
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Title: The Steve Allen Show
Character: Self
Released: June 24, 1956
Type: TV
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The Great Waltz
Title: The Great Waltz
Character: Hans Ebesteder
Released: November 4, 1955
Type: Movie
Johann Strauss, Jr., a would-be composer of waltzes in mid-19th Century Vienna, attempts to thwart his father's efforts to prevent his success when the older man becomes jealous of his melodic skill.
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The Second Greatest Sex
Title: The Second Greatest Sex
Character: Job McClure
Released: September 30, 1955
Type: Movie
In 1880, Osawkie, Kansas is feuding with rival town Mandaroon over which will be county seat, keeping the town's men away from home most of the time. The last straw is when Matt Davis feels compelled to go on a new foray on his wedding night; his bride Liza (just call her Lysistrata) takes teacher Cassie's advice and organizes a marital strike to make the men-folk stop their nonsense.
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Rose Marie
Title: Rose Marie
Character: Barney McCorkle
Released: March 3, 1954
Type: Movie
Rose Marie Lemaitre, an orphan living in the Canadian wilderness, falls in love with her guardian, Mike Malone, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The feeling is mutual. But, when she leaves to learn proper etiquette, Rose Marie meets a trapper named James Duval, who also falls for her. Further complications arise when Native American Chief Black Eagle -- a rival of Duval's -- is murdered.
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Anything Goes
Title: Anything Goes
Character: Moonface
Released: February 28, 1954
Type: Movie
On an ocean liner, a nightclub singer tries to help a fellow American romance an English heiress who is being forced to return home to marry a man she doesn't love. The American must avoid his boss who is traveling on the same vessel and disguises himself as a gangster traveling with a minister who is, in fact, a disguised gangster on the lam.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Mr. O'Malley
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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Title: Omnibus
Released: November 9, 1952
Type: TV
Omnibus is an American, commercially sponsored, educational television series.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Hucklebee
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Mister Universe
Title: Mister Universe
Character: Joe Pulaski
Released: January 10, 1951
Type: Movie
A gullible and honest "Mr. Universe" winner, Tommy Tomkins, gets added to the stable of a con-man and a wrestling prompter.
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Title: The Colgate Comedy Hour
Character: Self
Released: September 10, 1950
Type: TV
The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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Always Leave Them Laughing
Title: Always Leave Them Laughing
Character: Eddie Eagen
Released: November 26, 1949
Type: Movie
A self-absorbed comedian steps all over his friends and colleagues in order to achieve success.
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Title: The Philco Television Playhouse
Character: Skid Johnson
Released: October 3, 1948
Type: TV
The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self - Comedian
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Meet the People
Title: Meet the People
Character: Commander
Released: June 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A idealistic shipyard worker interests a beautiful Hollywood star in staging a musical tribute to the war industry, but they disagree on some important issues.
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Ship Ahoy
Title: Ship Ahoy
Character: Skip Owens
Released: April 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for the US Government, but fails to see why she would be involved.
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Sing Your Worries Away
Title: Sing Your Worries Away
Character: Clarence 'Chow' Brewster
Released: March 6, 1942
Type: Movie
This package for comedy and the musical numbers has Luke Brown being drugged by the gangster operators of the swank Boathouse Inn; most notably Roxie a sexy pickpocket. Brown has information that Chow Brewster and his cousin have inherited $3,000,000. The owner of the Inn intends to keep Brown under wraps until they can drive Chow to suicide. He will then marry Chow's cousin before she finds out about her inheritance.
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The Wizard of Oz
Title: The Wizard of Oz
Character: Zeke / Cowardly Lion
Released: August 15, 1939
Type: Movie
Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.
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Zaza
Title: Zaza
Character: Cascart
Released: December 29, 1938
Type: Movie
A seductive music hall star falls in love with a married aristocrat.
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Just Around the Corner
Title: Just Around the Corner
Character: Gus
Released: November 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with Corporal Jones.
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Josette
Title: Josette
Character: Barney Barnaby
Released: June 3, 1938
Type: Movie
Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer with whom they both fall in love.
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Love and Hisses
Title: Love and Hisses
Character: Sugar Boles
Released: December 21, 1937
Type: Movie
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.
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Merry Go Round of 1938
Title: Merry Go Round of 1938
Character: Bert
Released: November 14, 1937
Type: Movie
Two screwy characters travel to Hollywood and cause mischief.
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Whose Baby Are You?
Title: Whose Baby Are You?
Character: Bert Halibut
Released: October 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Druggist George Haggerty's wife is about to give birth. Because all his customers pay on credit, he has no money, and the phone company is taking out the pay phone. Pal Bert Lahr agrees to get the news on his phone, and forward it to Haggerty. To top it off, Haggerty is getting a business loan, and doesn't want anyone to know about it, so Lahr agrees to not mention it when anyone is about. Naturally, Lahr's fiancee shows up when Lahr gets the call, and thinks it's his child.
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No More West
Title: No More West
Character: Gunpowder Bert
Released: March 29, 1934
Type: Movie
Bert Lahr is a big city boy hung up on tales of the Old West. When his playing cowboys and Indians causes a ruckus, he's brought before a judge who prescribes him rest and relaxation...out West.
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Henry the Ache
Title: Henry the Ache
Character: King Henry VIII
Released: January 25, 1934
Type: Movie
Shemp Howard stars in this old parody of the then-current film "King Henry The Eighth". Also starring Bert Lahr in the title role.
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Hizzoner
Title: Hizzoner
Character: Bert Lahr, Cop
Released: November 17, 1933
Type: Movie
In this comedy short not-so-smart copper Bert Lahr gets in over his head when he becomes a mock candidate for mayor.
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Mr. Broadway
Title: Mr. Broadway
Character: Bert Lahr
Released: September 12, 1933
Type: Movie
Ed Sullivan shows night spots all over New York in this movie, joking and listening to stories the patrons tell.
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Flying High
Title: Flying High
Character: Emil 'Rusty' Krouse
Released: November 14, 1931
Type: Movie
An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption.
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Faint Heart
Title: Faint Heart
Character: Rudolf
Released: December 21, 1929
Type: Movie
Felix Rudolff is a dressmaker tailor and later dresses like a policeman after seeing a parade He becomes a rookie policeman who handcuffs Dynamite Dan. He doesn't stay captured. Felix Rudolff has to deal with a live and kicking Dynamite Dan. Rufolff ends up with the collar and the girl.