Ray Bolger


Ray Bolger Profile Photo
Actor

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...

Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S

Date of Birth: Jan 10, 1904

Date of Death: Jan 15, 1987


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Filmography

Actor (26 Known Credits)


That's Entertainment! III

(archive footage)

That's Dancing!

Himself - Host

The Whimsical World of Oz

Himself / The Scarecrow

The Runner Stumbles

Monsignor Nicholson

The Entertainer

Billy Rice

That's Entertainment!

Clips from 'The Wizard of Oz' and 'The Harvey Girls' (archive footage)

The Daydreamer

The Pieman

Tony Awards

Presenter

April in Paris

Sam Winthrop Putnam

Where's Charley?

Charley Wykeham

Make Mine Laughs

(archive footage)

The Harvey Girls

Chris Maule

Four Jacks and a Jill

Nifty Sullivan, a Jack

Sunny

Bunny Billings

The Wizard of Oz

"Hunk" / The Scarecrow

Rosalie

Bill Delroy

Himself
(archive footage)
Himself - Host
Himself / The Scarecrow
Monsignor Nicholson
Billy Rice
Clips from 'The Wizard of Oz' and 'The Harvey Girls' (archive footage)
The Pieman
Barnaby
Tony Awards (1956 - 2022)
Presenter
Sam Winthrop Putnam
Charley Wykeham
Jack Donahue
(archive footage)
Chris Maule
Ray Bolger
Nifty Sullivan, a Jack
Sunny (1941)
Bunny Billings
"Hunk" / The Scarecrow
Sweethearts (1938)
Hans
Rosalie (1937)
Bill Delroy
Ray Bolger

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