Bert Lahr (1895 - 1967)

American actor and comedian, best remembered as the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz.

* August 13, 1895 New York, New York
 as Irving Lahrheim
 December 4, 1967 New York, New York



Books on Bert Lahr

John Lahr
Notes on a Cowardly Lion, The Biography of Bert Lahr
New York, 1970

Books with substantial mentioning of Bert Lahr

Ronald L. Smith
Who's Who in Comedy, Comedians, Comics and Clowns From Vaudeville to Today's Stand-ups
New York, Oxford, 1992

James Robert Parish and William T. Leonard with Gregory W. Mank and Charles Hoyt
The Funsters
New Rochelle, New York, 1979

Books with an entry on Bert Lahr

Stanley Appelbaum and James Camner (editors) Stars of the American Musical Theater in Historic Photographs Stanley Appelbaum and James Camner (editors)
Stars of the American Musical Theater in Historic Photographs, 361 Portraits from the 1860s to 1950
New York, 1981

Joe Franklin Encyclopedia of Comedians Joe Franklin
Encyclopedia of Comedians
Secaucus, N.J., 1979

Films

1931
Flying High

1937
Merry Go Round of 1938

1938
Josette
Just Around the Corner
Zaza

1939
The Wizard of Oz

1942
Ship Ahoy
Sing Your Worries Away

1944
Meet the People

1949
Always Leave Them Laughing

1954
Rose Marie

1955
The Great Waltz
The Second Greatest Sex

1964
The Big Parade of Comedy

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