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Bert Lahr was born on this day in 1895
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LAHR (lar) American
comic actor
After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions ~ Bert Lahr
Bert Lahr, born Irving Lahrheim, (August 13, 1895 – December 4, 1967) was a Tony Award-winning American comic actor. Born in New York City, he is best remembered today for his role as the Cowardly Lion (and the farmworker "Zeke") in the classic 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, but known during his life for a career in burlesque, vaudeville and Broadway.
In 1967, Lahr died of pneumonia in New York City in the middle of filming The Night They Raided Minksy's, forcing producers to use a double in several scenes. Fittingly, this last role was as a burlesque comic. Lahr is buried in Field Cemetery, Flushing, Queens.
His son, New Yorker theater critic John Lahr, wrote a biography of his father's life titled Notes on a Cowardly Lion.
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