Bert Lahr

Total Box Office:
 $5.1M
Highest Rated:
99% The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Lowest Rated:
99% The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Birthday:
Aug 13
Birthplace:
Not Available
Bio:
"How many lion parts are there?" Thus did Bert Lahr, a major comedy star on Broadway, sum up his occasionally interesting but largely unfulfilling film career. Dropping out of school at 15 to join a juvenile vaudeville act, Lahr worked his way up from second comic to top banana on the Columbia…

Filmography


MOVIES   

Rating Title Credit Box Office Year
Hidden Hollywood
  • Actor
-- 1997
Vaudeville
  • Actor
  • Director
-- 1997
The Night They Raided Minsky's (The Night They Invented Striptease)
  • Prof.Spats
-- 1968
The Great Waltz
  • Actor
-- 1955
Rose Marie
  • Barney McGorkle
-- 1954
Meet The People
  • The Commander
-- 1944
Ship Ahoy
  • "Skip" Owens
-- 1942
Sing Your Worries Away
  • Chow Brewster
-- 1942
99% The Wizard of Oz
  • The Cowardly Lion
$5.1M 1939
Just Around the Corner
  • Gus
-- 1938
Flying High
  • Rusty
-- 1931

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Quotes from Bert Lahr's Characters

    1. The Cowardly Lion: What makes a King out of a slave? Courage!
    From The Wizard of Oz. Submitted by Stefan G (42 days ago)
    1. Dorothy Gale: My goodness, what a fuss you're making! Well naturally, when you go around picking on things weaker than you are. Why, you're nothing but a great big coward!
    2. The Cowardly Lion: You're right, I am a coward! I haven't any courage at all. I even scare myself.
    From The Wizard of Oz. Submitted by Adam O (7 months ago)
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