Bert Lahr Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Bert Lahr (born Irving Lahrheim; August 13, 1895 – December 4, 1967) was an American actor and comedian. Lahr is remembered largely for his role as Kansas farmworker Zeke and the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz (1939). He was very well known for work in burlesque, vaudeville, and on Broadway.
Full Name
Bert Lahr
Net Worth
$14 Million
Date Of Birth
August 13, 1895
Died
December 4, 1967, New York City, New York, United States
Place Of Birth
Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Height
1.75 m
Occupation
Actor, comedian
Profession
Actor, Comedian
Nationality
American
Spouse
Mildred Schroeder, Mercedes Delpino
Children
John Lahr, Jane Lahr, Herbert Lahr
Parents
Jacob Lahrheim, Augusta Lahrheim
Nicknames
Bert Lahr, Lahr, Bert
IMDB
Awards
Tony Award for Best Lead Actor in a Musical
Nominations
Tony Award for Best Lead Actor in a Play
Movies
The Wizard of Oz, The Night They Raided Minsky's, Meet the People, Just Around the Corner, Ship Ahoy, Flying High, Rose Marie, Always Leave Them Laughing, Sing Your Worries Away, Merry Go Round of 1938, The Second Greatest Sex, Love and Hisses, Zaza, Hollywood Party, Henry the Ache, The Great Waltz,...
Slow warbling vibrato singing voice, most notably used in The Wizard of Oz (1939), but also noted in other movies including Rose Marie (1954), as well as on Broadway.
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Quote
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[on 'Tin Man' Jack Haley, often found snoozing on the set] That son-of-a-bitch could sleep hung up on a meat hook, and I can't sleep at night!
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Hollywood is the only community in the world where the entire population is suffering from 'rumourtism.'
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Cole Porter was a horrible piano player. 'Oompah, oompah,' he played with a slow, wooden tempo. If you didn't know who it was, you'd have thought he was a learner.
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Mildred, why aren't my clothes laid out? I've got a seven o'clock call. [last words]
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If you want to be a success in Hollywood, be sure and go to New York.
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After The Wizard of Oz (1939), I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions.
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Fact
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(11/3/1956) Was one of the hosts of the first telecast of the classic film The Wizard of Oz (1939) (the others were Judy Garland's daughter Liza Minnelli, who was ten at the time, and twelve-year-old Oz expert Justin G. Schiller). This marked the only time on television that an actor who played a leading role in the film, as well as one of the offspring of an actress who starred in it, hosted the presentation.
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According to his son John Lahr in "Notes on a Cowardly Lion" (the official biography), Lahr had terminal cancer but did not know it when he signed to do "The Night They Raided Minsky's". He agreed to shoot an extensive night scene outdoors in New York City on a cold December night, leading to the pneumonia that was the immediate cause of his death. His completed scenes were left in the film, which was edited around them.
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Actor Tommy Bond who was also Butch in the Little Rascals and Jimmy Olsen in the original Atom Man vs. Superman (1950) serials, was a regular on Lahr's radio show in the 1930s, and played his son.
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Had three children: Herbert Lahr (born 1929), John Lahr (born July 12, 1941) and Jane Lahr (born September 2, 1943).
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Had appeared in a total of 18 Broadway shows from 1927 through 1964.
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Judy Garland heard of Lahr's death as she was about to go on stage in Las Vegas. At her performance that night, she dedicated "Over the Rainbow" to the memory of Lahr, or, as she referred to him on that occasion, "my beloved Cowardly Lion.".
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His first wife, Mercedes Delpino, was mentally ill and lived in an asylum beginning in 1930.
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Even though he divorced his first wife, he still loved her and divorced her only because her severe mental state made it impossible for her to function in a marriage. When she died, he did not speak a word for three days.
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He began seeing his future second wife Mildred in the early 1930s while his first wife was institutionalized. Mildred left him in March 1936 and married another man because he would not divorce his first wife. Mildred left her first husband by the end of 1936 and went back to Lahr, who obtained a divorce from his first wife a year later.
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Won Broadway's 1964 Tony Award as Best Actor (Musical) for "Foxy". He also had a Tony Award nomination the previous year (1963) as Best Actor (Dramatic) for "The Beauty Part".
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Following his death, he was interred at Union Field Cemetery in Ridgewood, Queens County, New York.
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His son, John Lahr, is now a drama critic with the New Yorker.
performer: "I'm A Mountie Who Never Got His Man" - uncredited
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1954
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Always Leave Them Laughing
1949
performer: "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" 1909 - uncredited
Meet the People
1944
performer: "Heave Ho" 1944
Ship Ahoy
1942
"The Last Call for Love" 1942 / performer: "A Life on the Ocean Wave" 1838 uncredited, "I'll Take Tallulah" 1942, "How About You?" 1941
Sing Your Worries Away
1942
performer: "Cindy Lou McWilliams" 1942, "Nothing Can Change My Mind" 1942, "Sally"
The Wizard of Oz
1939
performer: "If I Only Had the Nerve/We're Off To See The Wizard" 1939, "The Merry Old Land of Oz" 1939, "If I Were King of the Forest" 1939 - uncredited
Just Around the Corner
1938
performer: "This Is a Happy Little Ditty" 1938 - uncredited
Merry-Go-Round of 1938
1937
performer: "Song of the Woodman", "Six of One and a Half-Dozen of the Other"
Flying High
1931
performer: "It'll Be the First Time for Me" 1931, "Happy Days Are Here Again" 1929 - uncredited
Faint Heart
1929
Short performer: "The Prisoner's Song" - uncredited
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Wizard of Oz
1939
additional dialogue - uncredited
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Hollywood Squares
1967
TV Series
Himself
The Joey Bishop Show
1967
TV Series
Himself
The Ed Sullivan Show
1950-1967
TV Series
Himself
The 19th Annual Tony Awards
1965
TV Special
Himself - Presenter
The Hollywood Palace
1965
TV Series
Himself
The 18th Annual Tony Awards
1964
TV Special
Himself - Winner: Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
What's My Line?
1951-1964
TV Series
Himself - Mystery Guest
Stump the Stars
1963
TV Series
Himself - Guest Panelist
The Merv Griffin Show
1963
TV Series
Himself
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1963
TV Series
Himself
The Arthur Murray Party
1950-1960
TV Series
Himself
The George Gobel Show
1958
TV Series
Himself
The 11th Annual Tony Awards
1957
TV Special
Himself - Presenter
The Patrice Munsel Show
1957
TV Series
Himself
Standard Oil New Jersey Presents Its 75th Anniversary Entertainment
1957
TV Movie
Himself
Washington Square
1956
TV Series
Himself
The Julius LaRosa Show
1956
TV Series
Himself
The NBC Comedy Hour
1956
TV Series
Himself
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1955
TV Series
Himself - Comic Actor
Person to Person
1954
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Dave Garroway Show
1954
TV Series
Himself
All Star Revue
1953
TV Series
Himself
The Buick Circus Hour
1953
TV Series
Himself
The U.S. Royal Showcase
1952
TV Series
Himself
The Ezio Pinza Show
1951
TV Series
Himself
The Saturday Night Revue with Jack Carter
1951
TV Series
Himself
Texaco Star Theatre
1949-1951
TV Series
Himself
Cavalcade of Stars
1949
TV Series
Himself
The Lamb's Gambol
1949
TV Series
Himself
Hour Glass
1946
TV Series
Himself
Houston Post Contest Winners Arrive in Los Angeles
1939
Short
Himself
Archive Footage
Known for movies
The Wizard of Oz (1939) as 'Zeke' / The Cowardly Lion
Ship Ahoy (1942) as Skip Owens
Sing Your Worries Away (1942) as Clarence 'Chow' Brewster
