Bert Lahr

Actor 8 · 1938 – 2025 · 🎬 8 · 🇺🇸 United States

Irving Lahrheim, known professionally as Bert Lahr, was an American actor and comedian. He was best known for his role as the Cowardly Lion, as well as his counterpart Kansas farmworker "Zeke", in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer adaptation of The Wizard of Oz (1939). He was well known for his quick-witted humor and his work in burlesque and vaudeville and on Broadway.

All · 8 🎬 Movies · 8

Comedy documentary Adventure Music Fantasy

Highlights

The Wizard of Oz at Sphere

The Wizard of Oz at Sphere

2025

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression

2009

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic

1990

Frequent Collaborators

Ray Bolger

Ray Bolger

4 shared

Jack Haley

4 shared

Judy Garland

Judy Garland

4 shared

Billie Burke

3 shared

Frank Morgan

3 shared

Margaret Hamilton

Margaret Hamilton

3 shared

All decades 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s

🎬 Movies

The Wizard of Oz at Sphere

The Wizard of Oz at Sphere

actor

2025

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression

actor

2009

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic

actor

1990

The Night They Raided Minsky's

The Night They Raided Minsky's

actor

1968

Rose Marie

Rose Marie

actor

1954

The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz

actor

1939

Zaza

Zaza

actor

1939

Josette

Josette

actor

1938

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