He then moved on to Broadway, where he starred in the Ziegfeld Follies and other musicals. His most famous role was the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz, for which he won a special Academy Award.
Bert Lahr is best known for his role as the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz (1939). He began his career in vaudeville and burlesque at the age of fifteen, eventually becoming the top billing of the Columbia Burlesque Circuit. He then moved on to Broadway, where he starred in the Ziegfeld Follies and other musicals. His performance in The Wizard of Oz earned him a special Academy Award.
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The Wizard of Oz (1939)
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$3,000 a week. |
Fittingly known to be a "Leo" for his horoscope, Bert Lahr is always remembered as the Cowardly Lion in (and the farmer "Zeke") The Wizard of Oz (1939). But during his acting career, he has been known for being in burlesque, vaudeville, and Broadway.
Dropped out of high school at the age of fifteen for a juvenile vaudeville act, Lahr worked his way up to the top billing of the Columbia Burlesque Circuit. When in Broadway, Lahr usually plays a comic actor in plays which he starred in such as the classic routine The Song of the Woodman, which he would later perform in Merry-Go-Round of 1938 (1937).
Aside from The Wizard of Oz (1939), Lahr's movie career never caught on because his gestures and reactions were too broad. Lahr died in 1967.
