CalendarZ

  1. Home
  2. On This Day
  3. January
  4. 10
  5. Ray Bolger

Births on January 10

Ray Bolger
1904Jan, 10

Ray Bolger

Ray Bolger, American actor and dancer (d. 1987)
Raymond Wallace Bolger (January 10, 1904 – January 15, 1987) was an American actor, dancer, singer, vaudevillian and stage performer (particularly musical theatre) who started in the silent-film era.

He was a major Broadway performer in the 1930s and beyond, he is best known for his role in The Wizard of Oz (1939) as the Scarecrow, (briefly he also appeared as his Kansas farm worker counterpart "Hunk") and in Walt Disney's holiday musical fantasy Babes in Toyland as villain Barnaby.

Bolger was the host of The Ray Bolger Show on TV from 1953 to 1955, originally titled Where's Raymond?

References

Choose Another Date

Events on 1904

  • 17Jan

    The Cherry Orchard

    Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
  • 3Mar

    Thomas Edison

    Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's phonograph cylinder.
  • 8Apr

    The Book of the Law

    British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of The Book of the Law.
  • 5May

    Cy Young

    Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
  • 16Nov

    Vacuum tube

    English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).