Munchkin

{{Short description|Fictional ethnic group from the Oz series by L. Frank Baum}} {{other uses}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}} {{Infobox character |name = The Munchkins |image = Munchkins.png |caption = W. W. Denslow's depiction of Munchkins, from first edition of ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' |series = Oz books |first = ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' (1900) |creator = L. Frank Baum |noinfo = yes | species =Humanoid, similar to dwarves or gnomes |origin= Munchkin Country }} A '''Munchkin''' is a native of the fictional Munchkin Country in the Oz books by American author L. Frank Baum. Although a common fixture in Germanic fairy tales{{cn|date=November 2025}}, they are introduced to modern audiences with the first appearance in the classic children's novel ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' (1900) where they welcome Dorothy Gale to their city in Oz. The Munchkins are described as being the same height as Dorothy and they wear only shades of blue clothing, as blue is the Munchkins' favorite color. Blue is also the predominating color that officially represents the eastern quadrant in the Land of Oz. The Munchkins have appeared in various media, including the 1939 film ''The Wizard of Oz'', as well as in various other films and comedy acts.

==Concept== [[File:Richard Wagner Münchner Kindl am Faß.jpg|thumb|Depiction of the {{lang|de|Münchner Kindl}} in an advertisement {{circa|1910}}.]] While Baum may have written about it, there are no surviving notes for the composition of ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz''. The lack of this information has resulted in speculation of the term origins he used in the book, which include the word "Munchkin".<ref name="origin">{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/annotatedwizardo0000baum |url-access=registration |title=The Annotated Wizard of Oz: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |author1=Lyman Frank Baum |author2-link=Martin Gardner |author2=Martin Gardner |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |year=2000 |page=[https://archive.org/details/annotatedwizardo0000baum/page/39 39] |access-date=20 July 2018 |author1-link=Lyman Frank Baum }}</ref> Baum researcher Brian Attebery has hypothesized that there might be a connection to the {{lang|de|Münchner Kindl}} ('Munich child'), the emblem of the Bavarian city of Munich.<ref name="origin"/> The symbol was originally a 13th-century statue of a monk, looking down from the town hall in Munich. Over the years, the image was reproduced many times, for instance as a figure on beer steins, and eventually evolved into a boy wearing a pointed hood.<ref>Corinna Erhard: ''Das Münchner Kindl auf dem Rathaus – wer stand Modell?'' In: Corinna Erhard: ''München in 50 Antworten.'' München-Verlag, München 2011, {{ISBN|978-3-937090-57-3}}, S. 16.</ref> Baum's family had German origins, suggesting that Baum could have seen one such reproduction in his childhood.

It is also possible that "Munchkin" came from the German word {{lang|de|Männchen}}, which means "mannikin" or "little figure". In 1900, Baum published a book about window displays in which he stressed the importance of mannequins in attracting customers.<ref name="Smithsonian">Emily and Per Ola d'Aulaire, "Mannequins: our fantasy figures of high fashion," ''Smithsonian'', Vol. 22, no. 1, April 1991</ref> Another possibility is a connection to Baron Munchausen. This fictional character is based on a real baron who told outrageous tall tales based on his military career.<ref name="origin" /><ref>{{cite journal|last=Fisher|first=Jill A.|title=Investigating the Barons: narrative and nomenclature in Munchausen syndrome|journal=Perspectives in Biology and Medicine|date=Spring 2006|volume=49|issue=2|pages=250–62|doi=10.1353/pbm.2006.0024|pmid=16702708|s2cid=12418075}}</ref> It is also possible that the name is related to Thumbkin, Bumpkin, etc., pet names given to fingers of the hand in nursery rhymes.<ref name="origin" />

Like the other Oz terms, the word "Munchkin" ends in a diminutive which in this case refers to the size of the natives.<ref name="origin" />

==Literature== ===Oz Books by Frank Baum=== {{Quote box |salign=right|align=left|width=35%|quote="she noticed coming down toward her a group of the queerest people she had ever seen. They were not as big as the grown folk she had always been used to; but neither were they very small. In fact, they seemed about as tall as Dorothy, who was a well-grown child for her age, although they were, so far as looks go, many years older." |author = – L. Frank Baum}}

The Munchkins are first mentioned (quote shown) in an excerpt from chapter two of ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'', titled "The Council with the Munchkins". Dorothy initially meets only three of them, along with the Good Witch of the North. The rest of the Munchkins then come out of hiding and are shown to be grateful towards Dorothy for killing their evil ruler the Wicked Witch of the East. Dorothy later eventually finds the yellow brick road and along the way attends a banquet held by a Munchkin man named Boq. Sometime in the book a background story is also given about a "Munchkin maiden" (named Nimmie Amee in later books), who was the former love interest of the Tin Woodman.<ref name="Snow">Jack Snow, ''Who's Who in Oz'', Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1954; New York, Peter Bedrick Books, 1988; p. 144.</ref>

Baum also included the Munchkin characters in his later works as minor and major individual characters. The Munchkin Jinjur is the main antagonist in Baum's second book The Marvelous Land of Oz, where she seeks to overthrow the Scarecrow and take over the Emerald City. Jinjur makes a brief appearance in the next book, entitled Ozma of Oz, and is brought back in Baum's twelfth book, ''The Tin Woodman of Oz''. By this time, she is shown to be a more prominent character who is helpful and friendly to Dorothy and her friends. Two other major Munchkin characters also appear in ''The Tin Woodman of Oz'': Tommy Kwikstep and Nimmie Amee. The former appears in the story asking for a wish for running an errand for a witch; the latter is the name given to the mystery "Munchkin maiden" from the first book, who was the former lover of the Tin Woodman. More information is revealed that tells about the Tin Woodman's origin and their tragic love story.<ref name="Snow"/> Lastly, the Munchkin Unc Nunkie appears in Baum's seventh book, ''The Patchwork Girl of Oz'', where he is accidentally turned to stone. His Munchkin nephew Ojo successfully goes on a quest in search of an antidote while learning more about himself in the process.

===Subsequent Oz books=== L. Frank Baum died on 6 May 1919 after which other writers took up writing additional Oz stories. In some cases these books were written under Baum's name and included the Munchkins. There is at least one known Munchkin character that was created after Baum's death that appears as a major character. Zif is a Munchkin boy who appears in John R. Neill's first adaptation called The Royal Book of Oz. Zif is a student at the College of Art and Athletic Perfection; he is both respectful and resentful towards his teacher Wogglebog who considers Zif a "nobody or a nothing". The Munchkin characters that Baum had created in his lifetime also appear in these additional works.

==Film and musicals== ===Early works (1902–1933)=== While the 1939 film is the most well known adaptation (see section below), it was not the first outside work to show the Munchkins in film or musical format. One of the first musical adaptations of Baum's books took place in 1902; it was also dubbed ''The Wizard of Oz''.<ref>Fricke, Stillman, Scarfone. ''The Wizard of Oz: The 50th Anniversary Pictorial History''</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Chicago Theater Collection – Historic Programs: Grand Opera House, Wizard of Oz |date=27 July 1902 |url=http://cdm16818.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/CPB01/id/4383/rec/42 |access-date=19 January 2015}}</ref> The Munchkins make their appearance in act one, called "The Storm", in which they are shown dancing around their maypole, not noticing that Dorothy's house has fallen to earth killing the Wicked Witch of the East.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X_7VbOGM8iMC|title=Oz Before the Rainbow|author=Mark Evan Swartz|publisher=JHU Press|access-date=1 July 2018|isbn=978-0-8018-7092-7|year=2002}}</ref> The first film adaptation of Baum's works, titled The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, was released in 1910, followed by three sequels. However, it was not until 1914 that Munchkin characters first appeared in film works. Ojo the Lucky and Unc Nunkie both appear in a film titled ''The Patchwork Girl of Oz'' (based on the book of the same name). This film stars American actress Violet MacMillan as Ojo and was produced by Baum.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rDBuDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT88|title=Historicising Transmedia Storytelling: Early Twentieth-Century Transmedia Story Worlds|author=Matthew Freeman|publisher=Routledge|page=88|date=3 November 2016|isbn=978-1-315-43950-1}}</ref>

===1939 film=== [[File:Munchkins-film.jpg|right|thumb|The Munchkins (specifically the "Lollipop Guild") as depicted in the 1939 film ''The Wizard of Oz''. L–R: Jackie Gerlich, Jerry Maren, and Harry Doll.]]

The 1939 movie musical ''The Wizard of Oz'' was loosely based on Baum's novel. Notable differences of the Munchkins include their country name of Munchkinland and their clothes of many colors instead of an all-blue attire. In the musical, the Munchkins are portrayed by the thirty-odd members of the Singer Midgets, a European performing troupe made up of adult actors with dwarfism. Their numbers were swelled when a national talent search brought in a further ninety-four little men, women, and teenagers, with a few average-sized children were also included as background extras<ref name="TMC">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612181219/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/852/The-Wizard-of-Oz/notes.html|archive-date=June 12, 2020|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/852/the-wizard-of-oz#notes|title=Wizard of Oz Notes |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |url-status=dead|access-date=24 April 2017}}</ref> in order to make up the 124 characters requested by MGM.<ref>Yours Retro magazine; Summer 2024; Issue No. 78; page 40</ref>

In the musical, the Munchkins first appear when Dorothy and Toto arrive in the Land of Oz after her house lands on the Wicked Witch of the East. The Munchkins hide from all the commotion until Glinda the Good Witch arrives reassuring them that everything is okay. Dorothy tells them how she arrived in the Land of Oz (through a musical number) and the Munchkins celebrate. To make it official, a Barrister and a number of City Fathers insist to the Mayor of the Munchkin City that they must make sure that the Wicked Witch of the East is really dead before the celebration continues. The Coroner confirms this by saying that the witch is "not only merely dead" but is indeed "most sincerely dead" while showing a Certificate of Death. The Munchkins then celebrate further as Dorothy receives gifts from the "Lullaby League" and the "Lollipop Guild". Near the end of the song, the Wicked Witch of the West arrives, which causes the Munchkins to panic. After the Wicked Witch of the West leaves, Glinda tells Dorothy to follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City as the Munchkins guide her out of Munchkinland. [[File:The Munchkins Star.jpg|thumb|Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame]] The Munchkin actors have since not avoided controversy with alleged behavior behind the scenes. In a 1967 interview, Judy Garland referred to all of the Munchkins as "little drunks" who got intoxicated every night to the point where they had to be picked up in "butterfly nets". These accusations were denied as fabrications by Munchkin Margaret Pellegrini, who said only "a couple of kids from Germany even drank beer".<ref>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229103424/http://articles.latimes.com/2013/aug/07/local/la-me-margaret-pellegrini-20130808 |archive-date=29 December 2014 |url=https://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-margaret-pellegrini-20130808,0,3512643.story |title=Margaret Pellegrini dies at 89; actress played Munchkin in 'Oz' |website=Los Angeles Times |date=8 August 2013 |access-date=21 April 2017 }}</ref> On 20 November 2007, the Munchkins were given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Seven of the surviving Munchkin actors from the film were present. As a result of the popularity of the 1939 film, the word "munchkin" has entered the English language as a reference to small children, persons with dwarfism, or anything of diminutive stature.

====Actors and actresses====

The following is a list of actors who portrayed the Munchkins in the 1939 film. Most of the dwarfs hired were acquired for MGM by Leo Singer, the proprietor of Singer's Midgets.<ref>{{cite book| last = Harmetz | first = Aljean | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nSFQAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA193 | title = The Making of the Wizard of Oz | publisher = Chicago Review Press | edition = 75th Anniversary Updated | location = Chicago | date = 2013 | page = 193 | isbn = 978-1-61374-832-9}}</ref> A ''Daily Variety'' news story from 17 August 1938, stated 124 dwarves had been signed to play Munchkins; modern sources place the number either at 122 or 124. An additional dozen or so child actors were hired to make up for the shortage of dwarves.<ref name="TMC"/> At least one Munchkin actor, Dale Paullin (stage name Paul Dale), did not make the final cut for the movie.<ref name="Paul Dale">{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204155331/http://whotv.com/2013/04/10/iowas-munchkin-paullin-sets-the-record-straight/ |archive-date=4 February 2017 |url=http://whotv.com/2013/04/10/iowas-munchkin-paullin-sets-the-record-straight/ |title=IOWA'S MUNCHKIN: Paullin Sets The Record Straight |work=whotv.com|date=10 April 2013|access-date=7 July 2017}}</ref> Only two actors (Joseph Koziel and Frank Cucksey) used their actual voices for the dialogue exchanged with Dorothy where she is given the flowers. The rest of the voices, such as the "Munchkin chorus", were created by Pinto Colvig and Billy Bletcher<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-06-07 |title=MichaelBarrier.com -- Funnyworld Revisited: Billy Bletcher |url=https://www.michaelbarrier.com/Funnyworld/Bletcher/Bletcher.htm |access-date=2024-02-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230607185340/https://www.michaelbarrier.com/Funnyworld/Bletcher/Bletcher.htm |archive-date=7 June 2023 }}</ref> with their voices recorded at a slow speed, which were subsequently sped-up when played back.<ref name="Real voice">{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140921024712/http://articles.courant.com/2002-07-04/features/0207040446_1_wizard-song-judy-garland-fairy-tales |archive-date=21 September 2014 |url=https://www.courant.com/2002/07/04/were-off-to-sing-the-wizard/ |title=We're Off to Sing the Wizard |work=Hartford Courant|author=Roger Catlin|date=4 July 2002|access-date=12 February 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1989, author Stephen Cox researched, found, and wrote about the surviving Munchkin actors fifty years after they made the film. He wrote about them in his book, ''The Munchkins Remember'' (1989, E.P. Dutton), which was later revised as ''The Munchkins of Oz'' (Cumberland House), and his book remained in print for nearly two decades. When he wrote the book, 33 of the actors with dwarfism who appeared in the film were still alive and were interviewed. Several of them outlived all the major cast, as well as the original Tin Man Buddy Ebsen. Jerry Maren, who played the green "Lollipop Guild" member, was the last living adult Munchkin actor. Maren was the only Munchkin alive when the film's longest living cast member, Shep Houghton, an extra, died in 2016.

:''Notes: Some of the information presented in the table below may never be complete as Social Security records remain sparse prior to the mid-twentieth century. Other factors such as immigration and foreign citizenship also add to this difficulty. Stage names and/or aliases are present in italics and quotation marks.''

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto" |-valign=bottom ! Actor !! Born !! Died !! Part(s) played |- | Gladys W. Allison<ref name="Munchkin Actors">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D0w5WxGi0ggC&pg=PA239|title=The Wizardry of Oz: The Artistry and Magic of the 1939 M-G-M Classic|author=Jay Scarfone, William Stillman|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|date=June 2004|isbn=978-1-61774-843-1}}</ref> || {{Unknown}} || {{Unknown}} ||Played a villager |- | John Ballas<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V96tee1l2q8C&pg=PA451|title=British Film Institute Film Classics, Volume 1|author=Rob White |author2=Edward Buscombe |publisher=Taylor & Francis|access-date=2 February 2014|isbn=978-1-57958-328-6|year=2003}}</ref> || 1903<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180125145707/http://cnhillsborough.blogspot.com/2015/03/four-feet-tall-and-searching.html|archive-date=25 January 2018|url=http://cnhillsborough.blogspot.com/2015/03/four-feet-tall-and-searching.html|title=Four Feet Tall and Searching|author=Greg Gillette|work=cnhillsborough.blogspot.com|date=3 March 2015|access-date=5 July 2017}}</ref> || {{unknown}}  || Played a villager |- | Franz Balluch ''("Mike")''<ref name="Munchkin Actors"/> || {{unknown}} || 1987{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=163}} || Played a villager |- | Josefine Balluch<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rq46IH1nWb8C&q=Josefine|title=The Wizard of Oz|author=Rushdie, Salman|publisher=Macmillan|year=1992|page=67|isbn=0851703003}}</ref> || {{unknown}} || 1984{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=163}} || Played a villager |- | John T. Bambury<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || 1891<ref name="Bambury">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xqUYAQAAIAAJ&q=John+Bambury+1891+Pennsylvania|title=The Ultimate Directory of Silent and Sound Era Performers: A Necrology of Actors and Actresses|author=Billy H. Doyle|publisher=Scarecrow Press|year=1999|quote=Bambury, John ( 1938 ) : b . Pennsylvania, 10 Jul 1891; d . Los Angeles County, CA, 4 Nov 1960|page=30|isbn=9780810835474 }}</ref>  || 1960<ref name="Bambury"/> || Played a soldier |- | Charlie Becker || 1887<ref name="Becker">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7-DgDAAAQBAJ&dq=Charlie+Becker+died+1968&pg=PA51|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.|author=Scott Wilson|publisher=McFarland|year=2016|page=51|isbn=978-0-7864-7992-4 }}</ref> || 1968<ref name="Becker"/>{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=173}} || Played "The Mayor of Munchkinland".<ref name="Becker"/>{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=173}} |- | Freda Betsky<ref name="Munchkin Actors"/><ref>{{cite news|title=Little People|publisher=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|page=140|date=25 September 1949}}</ref> || {{unknown}}  || {{unknown}} || Played a villager |- | Henry Boers || 1896<ref name="1938 Midget Jamboree">{{Cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141208090329/http://www.phreeque.com/midget_jamboree.html|archive-date=8 December 2014|url=http://www.phreeque.com/midget_jamboree.html|title=1938 Midget Jamboree|work=phreeque.com|access-date=2 February 2014}}</ref> || {{unknown}}  || Played a villager |- | Theodore Boers || 1894<ref name="1938 Midget Jamboree"/> || 1945<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yBEEAAAAMBAJ&q=Teddy+Boers+1894&pg=PT32|title=Billboard Mar 17, 1945|magazine=Billboard Magazine|date=17 March 1945|access-date=24 April 2017}}</ref> || Played a villager |- | Christie Buresh (''"Kristina Buresova"'')<ref name="BB Buresova">{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JiAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT35&dq=Kristina+Buresova+midget&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiw38bip_WTAxVKMlkFHeW_DXEQ6AF6BAgHEAM#v=onepage&q=Kristina%20Buresova%20midget&f=false|title=Billboard October 4, 1947|magazine=Billboard Magazine|volume=59|number=39|date=October 4, 1947|accessdate=April 17, 2026}}</ref><ref name="Buresova alias">{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Report/2_HphvJr7vkC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=buresova+midget&pg=RA38-PP32&printsec=frontcover|title=Ludmila Buresova, alias Buresh; Kristina Buresova, alias Buresh; and Edward Buresh, alias Eduard Bures|work=Congressional Report|number=1077|date=April 17, 1948|accessdate=April 17, 2026}}</ref> || 1907<ref name="BB Buresova" /> || {{unknown}}  || Played a villager |- | Eddie Buresh (''"Edward Buresova"'')<ref name="BB Buresova" /><ref name="Buresova alias"/> || 1909<ref name="BB Buresova" /> || {{unknown}}  || Played a villager |- | Lida Buresh (''"Ludmila Buresova"'')<ref name="BB Buresova" /><ref name="Buresova alias"/> || 1906<ref name="BB Buresova" /> || {{unknown}}  || Played a villager |- | Mickey Carroll || 1919<ref name="Carroll">{{cite web|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140201203640/http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/stltoday/obituary.aspx?n=mickey-carroll&pid=127041935|archive-date=1 February 2014|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/stltoday/obituary.aspx?n=mickey-carroll&pid=127041935 |title=Mickey Carroll Obituary |work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|date=7 May 2009 |access-date=20 April 2017}}</ref> || 2009<ref name="Carroll"/> || Played a fiddler, a town crier, and a soldier |- | Casper ''"Colonel"'' Balsam<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || 1904<ref name="Balsam">{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20241203211905/https://auctions.potterauctions.com/LotDetail.aspx?inventoryid=55025|archivedate=December 3, 2024|url=https://auctions.potterauctions.com/LotDetail.aspx?inventoryid=55025|title=Lot #455: BALSAM, Casper "Col." (1904-1968). Colonel Casper.|work=Potters Auctions|accessdate=December 3, 2024}}</ref> || 1968<ref name="Balsam"/> || Played a villager |- | Nona A. Cooper<ref name="Munchkin Actors"/> || 1875<ref name="Cooper">{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZAoEAAAAMBAJ&q=Nona+Cooper+midget+1953&pg=PT1|title=Billboard Sep 19, 1953|magazine=Billboard Magazine|date=19 September 1953|access-date=24 January 2018}}</ref> || 1953<ref name="Cooper"/> || Played a villager |- | Thomas J. Cottonaro<ref name="Munchkin Actors"/> || 1914<ref name="Cottonaro">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505065538/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-22351965.html|archive-date=5 May 2016|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-22351965.html|title=EX-ACTOR THOMAS J. COTTONARO, A 'WIZARD OF OZ' MUNCHKIN, DIES|publisher=Highbeam|date=9 February 2001|access-date=2 March 2016}}</ref> || 2001<ref name="Cottonaro"/> || Played a villager |- | Elizabeth Coulter<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || {{Unknown}} || {{Unknown}} || Played a villager  |- | Lewis Croft || 1919<ref name="Croft">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170421020301/http://www.nwitimes.com/entertainment/columnists/offbeat/wizard-of-oz-munchkin-soldier-lewis-croft-dead-at-age/article_6bcaa4e3-1d46-59c2-9337-cb8691ab0cc2.html|archive-date=21 April 2017|url=http://www.nwitimes.com/entertainment/columnists/offbeat/wizard-of-oz-munchkin-soldier-lewis-croft-dead-at-age/article_6bcaa4e3-1d46-59c2-9337-cb8691ab0cc2.html|title='Wizard of Oz' Munchkin soldier Lewis Croft dead at age 88|publisher=nwitimes.com|author=Philip Potempa|date=11 May 2008|access-date=28 February 2016}}</ref> || 2008<ref name="Croft"/> || Played a soldier<ref name="Croft"/> |- | Frank Cucksey|| 1919<ref name="phreeque.com">{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141208034347/http://www.phreeque.com/nate_eagle.html |archive-date=8 December 2014 |url=http://www.phreeque.com/nate_eagle.html |title=Nate Eagle's Hollywood Midgets |access-date=22 January 2014 }}</ref> || 1984<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19840918&id=bdYeAAAAIBAJ&pg=1711,2504846&hl=en |title=Frank H. Cucksey Obituary |work=Sarasota Herald |date=18 September 1984|access-date=28 February 2016}}</ref> || Played a villager who gives Dorothy flowers{{efn|name=real voice|Frank Cucksey, and Joseph Koziel were the only two munchkins whose real voices were used. Their dialogue is as follows: "We thank you very sweetly, for doing it so neatly" (Joseph), "You've killed her so completely, that we thank you very sweetly" (Frank).<ref name="Real voice"/>}} |- | Billy Curtis || 1909<ref name="Curtis">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424150130/http://articles.latimes.com/1988-11-12/news/mn-388_1_billy-Curtis|archive-date=24 April 2016|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-11-12-mn-388-story.html|title=Actor, Double: Billy Curtis; Midget Had Film Career|work=Los Angeles Times|author=Burt A. Folkart|date=12 November 1988|url-status=live|access-date=2 March 2016}}</ref> || 1988<ref name="Curtis"/> || Played the Braggart{{efn|The "Braggart" can be heard saying: "and ohhhh what happened then was rich".}} |- | Eugene S. David Jr. || {{unknown}} || {{unknown}} || Played a fiddler<ref name="SRP">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170421024549/http://thetandd.com/lifestyles/two-munchkins-actors-in-wizard-of-oz-worked-at-srp/article_28131251-c9f1-50f6-a3d8-661df1593cc7.html|archive-date=21 April 2017|url=http://thetandd.com/lifestyles/two-munchkins-actors-in-wizard-of-oz-worked-at-srp/article_28131251-c9f1-50f6-a3d8-661df1593cc7.html|title=Two 'Munchkins' actors in 'Wizard of Oz' worked at SRP|publisher=thetandd.com|author=Ron Baxley Jr.|date=26 July 2015|access-date=24 February 2016}}</ref> |- | Eulie H. David || 1921{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=217}} || 1972{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=217}} || Played a soldier<ref name="SRP"/> |- | Ethel W. Denis<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || 1894<ref>{{cite book|title=Obituaries (12/25/68)|publisher=The Arizona Republic|page=54|date=25 December 1968}}</ref> || 1968<ref name="Prince Denis">{{cite news |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170421025827/http://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/24/obituaries/prince-denis-84-performer-who-played-munchkin-mayor.html|archive-date=21 April 2017|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/24/obituaries/prince-denis-84-performer-who-played-munchkin-mayor.html |work=The New York Times |title=Prince Denis, 84, Performer Who Played Munchkin Mayor |date=24 June 1984 |url-status=live |access-date=22 January 2014}}</ref> || Played a villager |- | Prince Denis{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=156}} || 1900<ref name="Prince Denis"/> || 1984<ref name="Prince Denis"/> || Played the Sergeant-at-Arms{{efn|It was falsely reported in 1984 that Prince Denis played the role of the Munchkin Mayor.{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=163}}}} |- | Hazel I. Derthick || 1906<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170421032013/http://articles.latimes.com/1985-06-09/news/cb-10158_1_wizard|archive-date=21 April 2017|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-06-09-cb-10158-story.html|title=Remembering Life Over the Rainbow: Former Munchkin Returns to Oz|work=Los Angeles Times|author=Kathee Yamamoto|date=9 June 1985|url-status=live|access-date=28 February 2016}}</ref> || {{unknown}} || Played a villager |- | Daisy Earles || 1907<ref name="DH">{{cite book |last1=Kérchy |first1=Anna |last2=Zittlau |first2=Andrea |title=Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows and 'Enfreakment' |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S8AwBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA272 |year=2013 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=978-1-4438-4642-4 }}</ref> || 1980<ref name="Telegraph Tiny Doll">{{cite news|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170421032438/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1471733/Tiny-Doll.html|archive-date=21 April 2017|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1471733/Tiny-Doll.html|title=Tiny Doll|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=15 September 2004|access-date=25 February 2016}}</ref> || Played a "munchkin maiden"<ref name="Telegraph Tiny Doll"/> |- | Gracie Doll Earles || 1899<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S8AwBwAAQBAJ&dq=Gracie+Doll+born+1899+munchkin&pg=PA272|title=Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows and Enfreakment|author=Anna Kérchy|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|year=2013|page=272|isbn=978-1-4438-4642-4 }}</ref> || 1970<ref name="Telegraph Tiny Doll"/> || Played a "munchkin maiden"<ref name="Telegraph Tiny Doll"/> |- | Harry Doll Earles || 1902<ref name="DH"/> || 1985<ref name="Telegraph Tiny Doll"/> || Blue member of The Lollipop Guild<ref name="Telegraph Tiny Doll"/><ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312081813/http://www.dove.org/the-munchkins-of-oz-exclusive-dove-interviews-part-2/|archive-date=12 March 2016|url=http://www.dove.org/the-munchkins-of-oz-exclusive-dove-interviews-part-2/|title=The Munchkins of Oz: Exclusive Dove Interviews (Part 2)|publisher=dove.org|author=Edwin L. Carpenter|date=27 November 2007|access-date=24 February 2016}}</ref> |- | Tiny Doll Earles || 1914<ref name="Telegraph Tiny Doll"/> || 2004<ref name="Telegraph Tiny Doll"/> || Played a "munchkin maiden"<ref name="Telegraph Tiny Doll"/> |- | Major Doyle ''("James D. Doyle")''<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || 1869{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=159-160}} || 1940{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=159-160}} || Played a villager |- | Ruth Robinson Duccini|| 1918<ref name="Duccini">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170421035955/http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-25758075|archive-date=21 April 2017|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-25758075|title=Munchkin actress Ruth Duccini dies at 95|publisher=BBC|date=17 January 2014|access-date=21 April 2017}}</ref> || 2014<ref name="Duccini"/> || Played a villager |- | Carl M. Erickson<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || 1917<ref name="Erickson">{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7goEAAAAMBAJ&q=Carl+Erickson+midget&pg=PA61|title=The Final Curtain|work=Billboard Magazine|page=61|date=21 April 1958|access-date=8 July 2017}}</ref> || 1958<ref name="Erickson"/> || Played the 2nd Trumpeter |- | Fern Formica || 1925<ref name="Fern">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170421041126/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1991-03-18/features/9101240885_1_munchkins-margaret-pellegrini-oz|archive-date=21 April 2017|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1991-03-18/features/9101240885_1_munchkins-margaret-pellegrini-oz|title=50 Years After Entering Oz, 2 Munchkins Still Step Along The Yellow Brick Road|work=Chicago Tribune|author=Howard Reich|date=18 March 1991|access-date=2 March 2016}}</ref> || {{unknown}}  || Played a villager and a "sleepyhead" |- | Addie Eva Frank<ref>{{cite magazine|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180711225627/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-wizard-of-oz-the-last-munchkin-and-the-little-people-left-behind|archivedate=July 11, 2018|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-wizard-of-oz-the-last-munchkin-and-the-little-people-left-behind|title=The Wizard of Oz, The Last Munchkin, and The Little People Left behind|magazine=The New Yorker|date=11 July 2018 |accessdate=November 30, 2024 |last1=Weinstock |first1=Matt }}</ref> || {{Unknown}} || {{Unknown}} || Played a villager |- | Thaisa L. Gardner<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || {{unknown}}  || {{unknown}} || Played a villager |- | Jakob ''"Jackie"'' Gerlich || 1925{{efn|Although often disputed as 1917 or 1925, Gerlich was born Leo Fuks in 1925, but used the passport of his older brother, Jakob Gerlich (born 1917) in order to emigrate to the U.S. at age thirteen; he continued using his older brother's name post-Oz.}}|| 1960<ref name="Jakob">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PuYMBAAAQBAJ&q=jackie+gerlich+1960&pg=PT143|title=The Wizard of Oz FAQ: All That's Left to Know About Life, According to Oz|author=David J. Hogan|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|date=June 2014|isbn=978-1-4803-9719-4}}</ref> || Red member of The Lollipop Guild |- | William A. Giblin || 1916<ref name="Giblin">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170421051656/https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22486/lot/68/|archive-date=21 April 2017|url=https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22486/lot/68/|title=A Munchkin soldier's jacket from The Wizard of Oz|publisher=bonhams.com|access-date=24 February 2016}}</ref> || 1985<ref name="Giblin"/> || Played a soldier<ref name="Giblin"/> |- | Jack S. Glicken || 1900<ref name="Glicken">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306104326/http://ibase.sdsu.edu/view-item?i=129000&WINID=1456716615749|archive-date=6 March 2016|url=http://ibase.sdsu.edu/view-item?i=129000&WINID=1456716615749|title=Capt. Jack Glicken, Exposition, 1935|publisher=ibase.sdsu.edu|access-date=28 February 2016}}</ref> || 1950<ref name="Glicken"/> || Played a city father |- | Carolyn E. Granger<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || 1915<ref name="Granger">{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20231101015501/https://www.geaugamapleleaf.com/arts-and-theater/return-to-oz-with-plenty-of-munchkins-for-company/|archivedate=November 1, 2023|url=http://www.geaugamapleleaf.com/arts-and-theater/return-to-oz-with-plenty-of-munchkins-for-company/|title=Return to Oz with Plenty of Munchkins for Company|work=geaugamapleleaf.com|author=Jamie Ward|date=8 May 2014|access-date=8 July 2017}}</ref> || 1973<ref name="Granger"/> || Played a villager |- | Joseph Herbst<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || 1908{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=217}} || {{Unknown|Disputed}}{{efn|According to Stephen Cox, Herbst was born in Birkfeld Austria on April 19, 1908 and died on July 6, 1993 in Joliet, Illinois.{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=217}} However this contradicts claims made by Joseph Herbst's cousin who claimed he died in 1989 and was in his "late 80s" in 1988.<ref name="Herbstc">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126210908/http://www.nwitimes.com/entertainment/columnists/offbeat/reader-proud-of-family-roots-to-famed-oz-munchkin/article_6a9c8858-4062-50bf-8f00-45ed79f21083.html|archive-date=January 26, 2021|url=http://www.nwitimes.com/entertainment/columnists/offbeat/reader-proud-of-family-roots-to-famed-oz-munchkin/article_6a9c8858-4062-50bf-8f00-45ed79f21083.html|title=Reader proud of family roots to famed 'Oz' Munchkin|publisher=nwitimes.com|author=Philip Potempa|date=12 September 2008|access-date=28 February 2016}}</ref>}} || Played a soldier |- | Jakob Hofbauer || 1898{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=172}} || {{Unknown}}{{efn|According to Stephen Cox it is unknown what became of Jakob Hofbauer; he is rumored to have died in the late 1950s.{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=172}}}} || Played a soldier{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=172}} |- | Clarence C. Howerton ''("Major Mite")'' || 1913<ref name=AS>{{cite book|author=Marc Hartzman|title=American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_ruXJxuyNfgC&pg=PA191|date=21 September 2006|publisher=Penguin Group USA|isbn=978-1-58542-530-3|page=191}}</ref> || 1975<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.mortythedog.com/2011/08/major-mite.html |title=Major Mite |work=The White Tops |date=Sep–Oct 1992 |access-date=9 November 2013 |pages=11–14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103224708/http://www.mortythedog.com/2011/08/major-mite.html |archive-date=November 3, 2013 }}</ref> || Played the 3rd Trumpeter<ref name=AS/> |- | Helen M. Hoy<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || 1898<ref name="HHoy">{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xREEAAAAMBAJ&q=Marguerite+Hoy+midget&pg=PT32|title=The Final Curtain|work=Billboard Magazine|page=33|date=10 March 1945|access-date=8 July 2017}}</ref> || 1945<ref name="HHoy"/> || Played a villager |- | Marguerite A. Hoy<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || {{Unknown}}  || {{Unknown}} || Played a villager |- | James R. Hulse IV<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || 1915{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=156}} || 1964{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=156}}<ref>Per records at Green Lawn Cemetery in Columbus, OH James R. Hulse IV died in 1964 and is buried in section 106</ref> || Played a villager |- | Robert Kanter ''("Little Lord Robert")''<ref name="Munchkin Actors"/> || 1886{{efn|There is a source that mentions Robert Kanter aka "Little Lord Robert" signing a postcard in 1908 when he was 22 years old. This means he was born in 1886 at the latest.<ref name="LLLage">{{cite web|url=https://www.pbagalleries.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/349/lot/106182/Cabinet-Card-photograph-of-Little-Lord-Robert-signed-at-the-age-of-22-traveled-with-the-Ringling-Bros-Circus-and-appeared-in-the-movie-The-Wizard-of-Oz-as-a-munchkin|title=Little Lord Robert cabinet card, signed in 1908 midget in Wizard of Oz|work=pbagalleries.com|access-date=14 June 2018}}</ref>}} || {{unknown}} || Played a soldier |- | Charles E. Kelley<ref name="Munchkin Actors"/> || {{Unknown}} || {{Unknown}} || Played a soldier |- | Jessie E. Kelley ''("Jessie Becker")''<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || {{unknown}}  || {{unknown}} || Played a villager |- | Frank Kikel<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || {{unknown}}  || {{unknown}} || Played a villager |- | Bernard Klima ''("Harry")'' || 1897<ref name="phreeque.com"/> || 1957<ref name="phreeque.com"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XM4NAAAAIBAJ&pg=4921,470062&dq=harry-klima+1957|title=Circus Midget Dies in Mexico|newspaper=St. Petersburg Times|page=11|date=December 17, 1957|accessdate=December 3, 2024}}</ref> || Played a villager |- | Mitzi Koestner<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || 1894{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=218}} || 1975{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=218}} || Played a villager |- | Emma Koestner<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || 1900{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=218}} || 1984{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=218}} || Played a villager |- | Willi Koestner<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || 1908{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=218}} || 1974{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=218}} || Played a soldier<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170421215640/http://media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/11189/11537056_2.jpg?v=8CE8190A887E290|archive-date=21 April 2017|url=http://media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/11189/11537056_2.jpg?v=8CE8190A887E290|title=Willi Koestner photo|publisher=liveauctiongroup.net|access-date=24 February 2016}}</ref> |- | Adam Edwin Kozicki ''("Eddie Adams")''<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || {{Unknown}}  || {{Unknown}} || Played a fiddler<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/30470562_eddie-adams-munchkin-fiddler-orange-jacket-designed|title=Eddie Adams "Munchkin Fiddler" orange jacket designed|work=liveauctioneers.com|date=18 October 2014 |access-date=12 February 2018}}</ref> |- | Joseph J. Koziel<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || 1919<ref name="Koziel">{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210130012133/https://www.shawlocal.com/bureau-county-republican/news/local/2021/01/29/did-you-know-one-of-the-wizard-of-oz-munchkins-was-a-spring-valley-native/|archivedate=January 30, 2021|url=https://www.shawlocal.com/bureau-county-republican/news/local/2021/01/29/did-you-know-one-of-the-wizard-of-oz-munchkins-was-a-spring-valley-native/|title=Did you know one of 'The Wizard of Oz' munchkins was a Spring Valley native?|author=Goldie Rapp|work=Shaw Local|date=January 30, 2021|accessdate=October 31, 2023}}</ref> || 1967<ref name="Koziel"/> || Played a villager who gives Dorothy flowers{{efn|name=real voice}} |- | Dolly F. Kramer<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || 1904<ref name="1938 Midget Jamboree"/> || 1995<ref name="1938 Midget Jamboree"/> || Played a villager |- | Emil Kranzler<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || 1910<ref name="LPOA">{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20231031212555/https://lpaarchive.org/charter-member-info/|archivedate=October 31, 2023|url=https://lpaarchive.org/charter-member-info/|title=Charter Members|work=Little People of America|accessdate=October 31, 2023}}</ref> || 1993<ref name="LPOA"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/123248997/|title=Obituaries|work=Arizona Republic|page=92|date=10 April 1993|access-date=8 July 2017}}</ref> || Played a villager |- | Nita Krebs || 1905<ref name="phreeque.com"/> || 1991<ref name="phreeque.com"/><ref name="Krebs">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160503074952/http://variety.com/1991/scene/people-news/nita-krebs-99125563/|archive-date=3 May 2016|url=https://variety.com/1991/scene/people-news/nita-krebs-99125563/|title=Nita Krebs|work=Variety magazine|date=28 January 1991}}</ref> || Member of The Lullaby League and a villager<ref name="Krebs"/> |- | Jeane LaBarbera ''("Little Jean")'' || 1909<ref name="LaBarbera">{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304085434/http://missioncreep.com/mundie/gallery/little/little15.htm |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url=http://missioncreep.com/mundie/gallery/little/little15.htm |title=Jeane La Barbera and Robert Drake |url-status=live |access-date=21 April 2017}}</ref> || 1993<ref name="LaBarbera"/> || Played a villager |- | Hilda Lange<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || 1911<ref name="LPOA"/> || 1975<ref name="LPOA"/> || Played a villager |- | John Leal ''("Johnny")''<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || 1905<ref name="Leal">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180125150608/http://articles.latimes.com/1996-11-12/local/me-63921_1_john-leal|archive-date=25 January 2018|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-11-12-me-63921-story.html|title=John Leal; Played Munchkin in 'Wizard of Oz'|work=Los Angeles Times|date=12 November 1996|url-status=live|access-date=25 January 2018}}</ref> || 1996<ref name="Leal"/> || Played a villager |- | Ann Rice Leslie<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || 1900<ref name="Leslie">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170425135931/https://pastimes13.wordpress.com/tag/ann-rice-leslie/|archive-date=25 April 2017|url=https://pastimes13.wordpress.com/tag/ann-rice-leslie/|title=Come out, come out, wherever you are. A memorable munchkin from The Wizard of Oz|work=pastimes13.wordpress.com|access-date=25 April 2017}}</ref> || 1973<ref name="Leslie"/> || Played a villager |- | Charles Ludwig<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || 1889<ref name="sideshow">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016142601/http://www.sideshowworld.com/13-TGOD/2008/tgod-MidgetCity.html|archive-date=16 October 2015|url=http://www.sideshowworld.com/13-TGOD/2008/tgod-MidgetCity.html|title=Midgets Break Ground for their City|work=sideshowworld.com|access-date=6 July 2017}}</ref> || 1941<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170707022114/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/150043449/|archive-date=7 July 2017|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/150043449/|title=Two Killed When Sedan Skids into Bus on Bay Bridge; Midget Hit, Dies; Fatal Heart Attack Follows Auto Crash|publisher=Oakland Tribune|page=19|date=1 April 1941|access-date=6 July 2017}}</ref> || Played a villager |- | Dominick Magro<ref>Scarfone, Jay (2004). The Wizardry of Oz: The Artistry and Magic of the 1939 M-G-M Classic. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 248. {{ISBN|1557836248}}.</ref> || 1909<ref name="Magro">{{cite news|title=Obituaries: Dominick Magro|newspaper=San Diego Union|date=January 5, 1959|page=b5}}</ref> || 1959<ref name="Magro"/> || Played a villager |- | Carlos Manzo<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || 1915<ref name="Manzo">{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FCEEAAAAMBAJ&q=Carlos+Manzo+midget+died&pg=PA51|title=The Final Curtain|work=Billboard Magazine|page=51|date=2 July 1955|access-date=8 July 2017}}</ref> || 1955<ref name="Manzo"/> || Played a villager |- | Howard Marco<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || 1884<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EQwEAAAAMBAJ&q=Howard+Marco+midget&pg=PT39|title=RB Registrants, 45–65, Get Big Play in Met Press|work=Billboard Magazine|date=9 May 1942|page=40}}</ref> || {{unknown}} || Played a villager |- | Jerry Maren || 1920<ref>{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927065843/http://www.nwitimes.com/entertainment/columnists/offbeat/article_0d30beff-4719-5852-a813-0659e9cf1d39.html|archivedate=September 27, 2012|url=http://www.nwitimes.com/entertainment/columnists/offbeat/article_0d30beff-4719-5852-a813-0659e9cf1d39.html|title=OFFBEAT: 'Wizard of Oz' Munchkin's wife, Elizabeth Maren, dead at 69|date=January 31, 2011 |access-date=December 3, 2024}}</ref> || 2018<ref>{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180607043628/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/06/arts/jerry-maren-dead-wizard-of-oz-munchkin.html|archivedate=June 7, 2018|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/06/arts/jerry-maren-dead-wizard-of-oz-munchkin.html|title=Jerry Maren, Who Sang and Danced as a Munchkin in Oz, Dies at 98|date=6 June 2018|work=The New York Times}}</ref> || Green member of The Lollipop Guild |- | Bela Matina ''("Mike Rogers")''<ref name="Munchkin Actors"/><ref name="Guinness">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N2ExOXxw6cAC&pg=PA133|title=Shortest Twins|publisher=Guinness World Records|date=30 April 2013|isbn=978-0-345-54711-8}}</ref> || 1902<ref name="MatinaFH">{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230308171617/https://www.rwbakerfh.com/obituaries/lajos-and-majtus-bela-matina-1|archivedate=March 8, 2023|url=https://www.rwbakerfh.com/obituaries/lajos-and-majtus-bela-matina-1|title=Lajos and Majtus & Bela Matina|work=R. W. Baker & Company Funeral Home|accessdate=December 4, 2024}}</ref> || 1954<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_Ux8EAAAAMBAJ/bub_gb_Ux8EAAAAMBAJ_djvu.txt|title=Full text of "Billboard" June 12, 1954|publisher=Billboard Magazine|date=12 June 1954|access-date=26 April 2017}}</ref> || Played a villager |- | Lajos Matina ''("Leo Rogers")''<ref name="Munchkin Actors"/> || 1893<ref name="MatinaFH"/> || 1975<ref name="MatinaFH"/> || Played a villager |- | Matyus Matina ''("Ike Rogers")''<ref name="Munchkin Actors"/><ref name="Guinness"/> || 1902<ref name="MatinaFH"/> || 1965<ref name="MatinaFH"/> || Played a villager |- | Walter M. B. Miller<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || 1906{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=163}} || 1987{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=163}} || Played a soldier and a flying monkey{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=163}} |- | George Ministeri<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || 1906{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=151}} || 1986{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=151}} || Played the coachman and a villager{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=151}} |- | Harry Monty || 1904<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/161386438/|title=Lichtenstein, Hymie (obituary)|newspaper=The Los Angeles Times|date=December 30, 1999|page=26}}</ref> || 1999<ref name="Monty">{{cite news | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313040150/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/587029.stm | archive-date=13 March 2016 | url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/587029.stm | title=Wizard of Oz 'Munchkin' dies aged 95 | work=BBC News | url-status=live | date=1 January 2000 }}</ref> || Played a villager and a flying monkey<ref name="Monty"/> |- | Yvonne Bistany Moray<ref name="Munchkin Actors"/> || {{unknown}} || {{unknown}}{{efn|According to friends, Yvonne died sometime in the 1970s.{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=163}}}} || Member of The Lullaby League and a villager{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=163}} |- | Johnny Maroldo ''("Johnny Winters")'' || 1905{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=158}} || 1985{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=158}} || Played the Commander of the Navy{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=158}} |- | Marie ''Bernadet'' Maroldo ''("Marie Winters")'' || 1901{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=158}} || 1979{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=158}} || Played a villager{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=158}} |- | Olga C. Nardone || 1921<ref name="Nardone">{{cite news|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210711012445/https://www.baltimoresun.com/bs-mtblog-2010-12-olga_nardone_19212010_oz_loses-story.html|archivedate=July 11, 2021|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/bs-mtblog-2010-12-olga_nardone_19212010_oz_loses-story.html|title=Olga Nardone, 1921-2010: 'Oz' loses more of its living memory|author=Michael Sragow|newspaper=Baltimore Sun|date=November 30, 2010|accessdate=December 3, 2024}}</ref> || 2010<ref name="Nardone"/> || Member of The Lullaby League, and a sleepyhead.<ref name="Nardone"/> |- | Nels P. Nelson<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/><ref name="OZ Museum">{{cite web|url=https://ozmuseum.com/blogs/news/16444324-little-people-humongous-hearts-part-five|title=LITTLE PEOPLE…HUMONGOUS HEARTS – Part Five|work=OZ Museum|access-date=February 3, 2020}}</ref>{{efn|Nels was interviewed in the 1993 documentary "We're off to see the munchkins".<ref name="OZ Museum"/>}} || 1918<ref name="Nelson">{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20231101073153/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-05-05-me-53919-story.html|archivedate=November 1, 2023|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-05-05-me-53919-story.html|title=Obituaries May 5, 1994|work=Los Angeles Times|date=May 5, 1994|access-date=February 3, 2020}}</ref> || 1994<ref name="Nelson"/> || Played a villager |- | Margaret C. Nickloy ''("Princess Marguerite")'' || 1902<ref name="Nickloy">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FOHgDAAAQBAJ&q=Princess+Marguerite+midget+1961&pg=PA549|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.|author=Scott Wilson|publisher=McFarland|page=549|isbn=978-1-4766-2599-7|date=19 August 2016}}</ref> || 1961<ref name="Nickloy"/> || Played a villager |- | Franklin H. O'Baugh || 1922<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304122045/http://www.thegurdontimes.com/article/20150821/NEWS/150829916|archive-date=4 March 2016|url=http://www.thegurdontimes.com/article/20150821/NEWS/150829916|title=Local man appeared in Wizard of Oz|publisher=thegurdontimes.com|author=Wendy Richter|work=Gurdon Times |date=22 August 2015|access-date=26 February 2016}}</ref><ref name="OBaugh">{{cite web|url=http://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1042&context=history|title=Franklin Haltom O'Baugh: A Short Biography|author=Hannah Pearce|work=scholarlycommons.obu.edu|date=8 December 2016|access-date=5 July 2017}}</ref> || 1963<ref name="OBaugh"/> || Played a soldier<ref name="OBaugh"/> |- | William H. O'Docharty<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || 1920{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=151}} || 1988{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=151}} || Played the coach footman and a villager{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=151}} |- | Hildred C. Olson<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || 1906<ref name="Olson">{{cite news|title=Minnesotan who played Munchkin in 'The Wizard of Oz' gets monument in her hometown|author=Boyd Huppert|work=KARE (TV)|date=June 19, 2023|quote=Mary Couser, Hildred’s grandniece, was 15 years old when Hildred died in 1958 at the age of 52.}}</ref> || 1958<ref name="Olson"/> || Played a villager |- | Frank Packard<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || {{Unknown}} || {{Unknown}} || Played a villager |- | Nicholas Page ''("Nicky")'' || 1904{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=163}} || 1978{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=163}} || Played a soldier and a city father<ref name="TMC"/>{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=163}} |- | Leona ''Megest'' Parks ''("Duchess Leona")'' || 1897<ref name="1938 Midget Jamboree"/> || {{unknown}} || Played a villager |- | Margaret Williams Pellegrini || 1923<ref name="Fern"/><ref name="Pellegrini">{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229103424/http://articles.latimes.com/2013/aug/07/local/la-me-margaret-pellegrini-20130808|archive-date=29 December 2014|url=https://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-margaret-pellegrini-20130808,0,3512643.story |title=Margaret Pellegrini dies at 89; actress played Munchkin in 'Oz' |website=Los Angeles Times|date=8 August 2013 |access-date=21 April 2017}}</ref> || 2013<ref name="Pellegrini"/> || Played a "sleepyhead" and the "flower pot munchkin".<ref name="Pellegrini"/> |- | Johnny Pizo<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || {{Unknown}} || {{Unknown}} || Played a villager |- | Leon Polinsky ''("Prince Leon")''<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MN3Huu6A7FcC&q=Leon+Polinsky+midget+munchkin&pg=PA125|title=Egg Harbor City|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|author=Mark W. Maxwell|page=125|year=2010|isbn=978-0-7385-6572-9}}</ref> || 1918{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=219}} || 1955{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=219}} || Played a villager |- | Lillian Porter{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=18}} || 1917<ref name="Porter">{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210519172456/https://www.historyforsale.com/lillian-porter-autographed-inscribed-photograph/dc22717|archivedate=May 19, 2021|url=https://www.historyforsale.com/lillian-porter-autographed-inscribed-photograph/dc22717|title=Lilian Porter - Autographed Incribed Photograph - HFSID 22717|work=History For Sale|accessdate=December 4, 2024}}</ref> || 1997<ref name="Porter"/> || Played a villager |- | Meinhardt Raabe || 1915<ref name="Raabe">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104023339/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/10/movies/10raabe.html|archive-date=4 November 2016|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/10/movies/10raabe.html|title=Meinhardt Raabe, Famous Munchkin, Is Dead at 94|author=Fox, Margalit|date=9 April 2010|work=The New York Times|access-date=15 November 2011}}</ref> || 2010<ref name="Raabe"/> || Played the coroner{{efn|Raabe certifies the death of the ''Wicked Witch of the East''.<ref name="Raabe"/>}} |- | Margaret Raia || 1928{{efn|During production, MGM officials discovered that Raia was underage (child actresses were hired for background fill). She was subsequently expelled from the set halfway through filming.{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=6}}}} || 2003<ref name="Margaret Raia">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304065250/http://www.sptimes.com/2003/08/20/news_pf/Pasco/_Oz__film_actor_never.shtml|archive-date=4 March 2016|url=http://www.sptimes.com/2003/08/20/news_pf/Pasco/_Oz__film_actor_never.shtml|title='Oz' film actor never measured stature in inches|work=St. Petersburg Times|author=Michelle Miller|date=30 August 2003|access-date=26 February 2016}}</ref> || Played a villager<ref name="Margaret Raia"/> |- | Matthew Raia || {{Unknown}} || {{Unknown}} || Played a city father<ref name="Margaret Raia"/> |- | Friedrich Retter ''("Freddie")''<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || 1899<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/52681106/|title=Travel Ban Lifted for German Midget|publisher=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle|page=17|date=13 January 1942|access-date=8 July 2017}}</ref> || {{Unknown}} || Played a fiddler and villager |- | Billy Rhodes ''("Little Billy")''<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RrNGDwAAQBAJ&q=Billy+Rhodes+1967&pg=PT89|title=Classic Cliffhangers: Volume 1 1914–1940|author=Hank Davis|date=January 2018 |publisher=Midnight Marquee & BearManor Media}}</ref><ref name="SW1968">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kq7KDU038mUC&q=Billy+Rhodes+midget+1967&pg=PA238|title=Screen World 1968|author=John Willis|publisher=Biblo & Tannen Publishers|page=238|isbn=978-0-8196-0309-8|date=June 1983}}</ref> || 1895<ref name="SW1968"/> || 1967<ref name="SW1968"/> || Played the barrister |- | Gertrude H. Rice<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || {{Unknown}} || {{Unknown}} || Played a villager |- | Hazel Rice<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || {{Unknown}} || {{Unknown}} || Played a villager |- | Sandor Roka<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NQ2BAAAAMAAJ&q=Sandor+Roka|title=It's a Small World: All about Midgets|author=Walter Bodin, Burnet Hershey|publisher=Coward-McCann|page=289|year=1934}}</ref> || 1896<ref name="Roka">{{cite web|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/sarasota-news-dec-04-1954-p-13/|title=Roka Dies; Famous Midget|publisher=Sarasota News|page=13|date=December 4, 1954|access-date=February 4, 2020}}</ref> || 1954<ref name="Roka"/> || Played a villager |- | Jimmie Rosen || 1892{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=220}} || 1973{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=220}} || Played a villager |- | Charles F. ''"Wojnarski"'' Royal<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || 1900<ref name="Wojnarski">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140926015210/http://www.phreeque.com/stella_royale.html|archive-date=26 September 2014|url=http://www.phreeque.com:80/stella_royale.html|title=Wojnarski family midgets|work=phreeque.com|access-date=22 April 2017}}</ref> || 1947<ref name="Wojnarski"/> || Played a soldier |- | Helen J. ''"Wojnarski"'' Royal<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || 1897<ref name="Wojnarski"/> || 1958<ref name="Wojnarski"/> || Played a villager |- | Stella A. ''"Wojnarski"'' Royal || 1903<ref name="Wojnarski"/> || 1959<ref name="Wojnarski"/> || Played a villager |- | Albert Ruddinger<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || {{Unknown}} || {{Unknown}} || Played a villager |- | Elsie R. Schultz<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || 1892{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=163}} || 1987{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=163}} || Played a villager |- | Charles Silvern<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || {{unknown}} || 1976<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150422223310/http://www.otrr.org/FILES/Magz_pdf/Hello%20Again/HA_V10_(05)_May79.pdf|archive-date=April 22, 2015|url=http://www.otrr.org/FILES/Magz_pdf/Hello%20Again/HA_V10_%2805%29_May79.pdf|title=Hello Again|author=Jay Hickerson|work=otrr.org|date=May 1979|access-date=July 7, 2017|quote=Charles Silvern, Apr 1, 76, midget-actor, performer...}}</ref> || Played a villager |- | Garland Slatton ''("Earl")'' || 1917<ref name="1938 Midget Jamboree"/> || 1995<ref name="1938 Midget Jamboree"/> || Played a soldier |- | Karl Slover<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170110141547/http://www.foxnews.com/story/2007/11/21/munchkins-get-star-on-hollywood-walk-fame.html|archive-date=10 January 2017|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,312413,00.html|title=Munchkins Get Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame|work=Fox News|date=21 November 2007|access-date=21 April 2017}}</ref> || 1918<ref name="Slover">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170421144204/http://articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/17/local/la-me-karl-slover-20111117|archive-date=April 21, 2017|url=https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-xpm-2011-nov-17-la-me-karl-slover-20111117-story.html|title=Karl Slover dies at 93; among the last of the Munchkins|work=Los Angeles Times|date=November 17, 2011|access-date=February 27, 2016}}</ref> || 2011<ref name="Slover"/> || Played the lead trumpeter, a soldier, and a villager<ref name="Slover"/> |- | Ruth E. Smith<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || {{Unknown}}  || 1985<ref name="Paul Dale"/> || Played a villager |- | Elmer Spangler<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || 1910<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/97654940/|title=Elmer Spangler professes|publisher=Detroit Free Press|page=1|date=22 August 1933|access-date=9 July 2017}}</ref> || {{unknown}} || Played a villager |- | Pernell St. Aubin || 1922<ref name="phreeque.com"/> || 1987<ref name="phreeque.com"/><ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017054801/http://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-0508290065aug29-story.html|archive-date=17 October 2015|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-0508290065aug29-story.html|title=The Midget Club|work=Chicago Tribune|date=29 August 2005 |access-date=28 February 2016}}</ref> || Played a soldier<ref name="phreeque.com"/> |- | Carl Stephan<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || {{unknown}} || {{unknown}} || Played a villager |- | Alta M. Stevens<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || {{unknown}} || {{unknown}} || Played a villager{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=141}}  |- | George Suchsie<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || {{Unknown}} || {{Unknown}} || Played a villager |- | Charlotte V. Sullivan<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || {{Unknown}}  || {{Unknown}} || Played a villager |- | Clarence Swensen || 1917<ref>{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20241201162356/https://www.syracuse.com/news/2009/02/munchkin_actor_clarence_swense.html|archivedate=December 1, 2024|url=https://www.syracuse.com/news/2009/02/munchkin_actor_clarence_swense.html|title='Munchkin' actor Clarence Swensen dies; was regular at Chittenango Oz celebrations|work=Syracuse|date=February 26, 2009}}</ref> || 2009<ref>{{cite news|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203074142/http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/austin/entries/2009/02/26/former_munchkin_dies_at_91.html/|archive-date=February 3, 2014|url=http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/austin/entries/2009/02/26/former_munchkin_dies_at_91.html/|title=Former Munchkin dies at 91|last=Banta|first=Bob|work=Austin-American Statesman|date=February 26, 2009|accessdate=December 4, 2024}}</ref> || Played a soldier<ref>{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090303135446/http://www.lastingtribute.co.uk/tribute/swensen/303170|archivedate=March 3, 2009|url=http://www.lastingtribute.co.uk/tribute/swensen/3031710|title=Clarence Swensen Actor: Died in 2009|work=Lasting Tribute|accessdate=December 4, 2024}}</ref> |- | Betty Tanner<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170421152409/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1992-05-10/news/9205100438_1_oz-fest-munchkins-emerald-city|archive-date=21 April 2017|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1992/05/10/8-munchkins-find-there-is-no-place-like-kansas/|title=8 Munchkins Find There Is No Place Like Kansas|work=Orlando Sentinel|date=May 10, 1992|access-date=March 2, 2016}}</ref> || {{unknown}} || 1994{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=145}} || Played a villager |- | Arnold Vierling || 1919{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=160}} || 1949{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=160}} || Played a villager |- | Gus Wayne || 1920<ref name="Wayne">{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170421152703/http://variety.com/1998/film/news/gus-wayne-77-1117468285/|archive-date=21 April 2017|url=https://variety.com/1998/film/news/gus-wayne-77-1117468285/|title=Midget actor appeared in 'Wizard of Oz'|work=Variety|date=2 March 1998|access-date=27 February 2016}}</ref> || 1998<ref name="Wayne"/> || Played a soldier<ref name="Wayne"/> |- | Victor Wetter || 1902{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=146}}<ref name="Wetter">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CHXADwAAQBAJ&dq=Victor+Wetter+1902+munchkin&pg=PA54|title=Jamesburg and Monroe Township: Years Gone By|author=John D. Katerba|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|year=2020|page=54|isbn=978-1-4671-0452-4 }}</ref> || 1990{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=146}}<ref name="Wetter"/> || Played the Captain of the Army<ref name="TMC"/>{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=146}}<ref name="Wetter"/> |- | Grace G. Williams<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || {{Unknown}} || {{Unknown}} || Played a villager |- | Harvey B. Williams<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/><ref>{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20231101015500/https://www.digitalhorizonsonline.org/digital/collection/ndsu-strand/id/38/|archivedate=November 1, 2023|url=https://www.digitalhorizonsonline.org/digital/collection/ndsu-strand/id/38/|title=Harvey Williams with William and Dorothy Haverstraw, Rugby, N.D.|author=North Dakota State University|work=Digital Horizons|access-date=February 10, 2020}}</ref> || {{unknown}} || {{unknown}} || Played a soldier |- | Gladys V. Wolff<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || 1911{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=156}} || 1984{{sfn|Cox|2002|p=156}} || Played a villager |- | Murray Wood<ref name="British Film Institute Film Classics 3"/> || 1908<ref name="Wood">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0HjGCwAAQBAJ&q=Murray+Wood+wizard+1999&pg=PA239|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 1999|author=Harris M. Lentz III|publisher=McFarland|page=239|date=24 October 2008|isbn=978-0-7864-5204-0}}</ref> || 1999<ref name="Wood"/> || Played a city father |}

====Child actresses====  About a dozen children of average height were hired so they could be used for background fill. Sources differ on the number of children used for these roles ranging anywhere from 10 to 12.<ref name="Joan Kenmore">{{cite web|url=http://patch.com/california/lagunaniguel-danapoint/life-beyond-the-yellow-brick-road|title=Life Beyond the Yellow Brick Road|publisher=patch.com|author=Debbie L. Sklar|date=11 May 2011|access-date=26 February 2016}}</ref> The names used for the women are maiden names with known aliases present in italics and quotation marks.

Priscilla Ann Montgomery Clark is the earliest born of the Munchkins listed below and the final living Munchkin actress.<ref name="barnes">{{cite web |last1=Barnes |first1=Mike |title=Valerie Lee, One of the Young Munchkins in ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ Dies at 94 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/valerie-lee-dead-munchkins-wizard-of-oz-our-gang-1236562703/ |website=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=15 April 2026 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260415001014/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/valerie-lee-dead-munchkins-wizard-of-oz-our-gang-1236562703/ |archive-date=15 April 2026 |date=13 April 2026}}</ref>

{|class="wikitable sortable" |-valign=bottom !Actor !Born !Died !Part(s) played !Source |- | Betty Ann Cain (''"Bruno"'') || 1931 || 2023 || Munchkin hatchling ||<ref name="Joan Kenmore2"/><ref name="Child actors recall joining Munchkin ranks">{{cite web |url=https://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/02/entertainment/et-munchkins2 |title=Child actors recall joining Munchkin ranks in 'Oz' |date=December 2, 2008|first=Stephen|last=Cox|work=Los Angeles Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304200859/http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/02/entertainment/et-munchkins2 |archive-date=4 March 2009 |access-date=22 January 2014}}</ref><ref name="Meet Joan Kenmore who once danced on the yellow brick road"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sonomanews.com/article/lifestyle/one-of-last-living-munchkins-reflects-from-her-home-in-sonoma/|title=One of last living Munchkins reflects from her home in Sonoma|author=Dianne Reber Hart|work=Sonoma News|date=October 24, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐲 𝐀𝐧𝐧 𝐊𝐚'𝐢𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐢 𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐨 𝟏𝟗𝟑𝟏 – 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 |url=https://twitter.com/ATO_museum/status/1685807491546746880 |website=All Things Oz Museum on Twitter |access-date=31 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Former KTVU reporter Betty Ann Bruno dead at 91 |url=https://www.ktvu.com/news/former-ktvu-reporter-betty-ann-bruno-dead-at-91 |access-date=31 July 2023 |publisher=KTVU |date=30 July 2023}}</ref> |- | Priscilla Ann Montgomery Clark || 1929 || Living || Munchkin Child ||<ref name="Child actors recall joining Munchkin ranks"/><ref name="Meet Joan Kenmore who once danced on the yellow brick road">{{Cite web|url=http://www.allvoices.com/article/100001141|title=Meet Joan Kenmore who once danced on the yellow brick road|work=allvoices.com|access-date=26 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141128140631/http://www.allvoices.com/article/100001141|archive-date=28 November 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/ClSamEADSfl/Wizard+Oz+3D+Screening+LA/cdKObQy9AyH/Priscilla+Montgomery |title='The Wizard of Oz' 3D Screening in LA |access-date=22 January 2014}}</ref> |- | Donna Jean Johnson (''"Stewart Hardaway"'') || 1933 || 2008 || Background fill ||<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706153945/http://www.tributes.com/show/Donna-Stewart-Hardway-84538063|archive-date=6 July 2017|url=http://www.tributes.com/show/Donna-Stewart-Hardway-84538063|title=Memories & Candles|work=tributes.com|access-date=6 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/she-was-a-child-munchkin/article_92ccf4a9-e05d-5870-a0c6-8347c85a26d1.html|title=She was a child munchkin|author=Dee Dunheim|work=NWI Times|date=September 18, 2013|access-date=August 9, 2020}}</ref> |- | Joan Kenmore || 1931 || 2022 || Background fill ||<ref name="Joan Kenmore2">{{cite web|url=http://patch.com/california/lagunaniguel-danapoint/local-wizard-of-oz-child-actress-remembers-munchkin-k86c11bad86|title=Local 'Wizard of Oz' Child Actress Remembers Munchkin, Karl Slover, 93, Who Died Tuesday|publisher=patch.com|author=Debbie L. Sklar|date=17 November 2011|access-date=26 February 2016}}</ref><ref name="Child actors recall joining Munchkin ranks"/><ref name="Meet Joan Kenmore who once danced on the yellow brick road"/><ref name="Joan Kenmore"/><ref>{{cite web |title=So long and R.I.P Joan Kenmore, whose death earlier this year on July 26, 2022, aged 90, was just announced by her daughter to Marcos @marcosinwonderland |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/ClGUJ5boQ4Y/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY%3D |website=Austin & Howard Mutti-Mewse on Instagram |access-date=19 November 2022 |date=18 November 2022}}</ref> |- | Eva Lee Kuney || 1934 || 2015 || Background fill ||<ref name="Munchkin Actors"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://obits.reviewjournal.com/obituaries/lvrj/obituary.aspx?pid=174984751|title=Eva Feldman|work=Las Vegas Review Journal|access-date=2 March 2016}}</ref><ref name=press>{{cite web |url=https://www.pressreader.com/usa/las-vegas-review-journal/20150604/282205124499102|title=Farewell to a friend whose star never faded|first=Paul|last=Atreides|date=June 4, 2015|access-date=February 24, 2020|work=Las Vegas Review-Journal}}</ref> |- | Rae-Nell Laskey (''"Alsbury"'') || 1930 || 1991 || unknown ||<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27127323/great-falls-tribune/|title=Actress, former "munchkin." dead at 61|publisher=Great Falls Tribune|page=8|date=August 20, 1991|access-date=August 9, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1093/?name=_Alsbury&count=50&fh=500&fsk=MDs1MDA7NTA-61-|title=Rae-Nell Laskey during the filming of Wizard of Oz|work=Ancestry.com|access-date=August 9, 2020}}</ref> |- | Elaine Mirk (''"Merk"'') || 1930 || 2025 || Background fill ||<ref name="Joan Kenmore"/><ref name="Meet Joan Kenmore who once danced on the yellow brick road"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lordheath.com/Elaine_Merk.html|title=Elaine Merk|work=Lord Heath|author=Dave Lord Heath|access-date=May 19, 2021}}{{better source needed|date=May 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2025/film/news/elaine-merk-binder-dead-munchkin-wizard-of-oz-1236525749|title=Elaine Merk Binder, One of the Last Surviving Munchkins from 'The Wizard of Oz', Dies at 94|work=Lord Heath|author=Jack Dunn|date=September 21, 2025|access-date=September 21, 2025}}</ref> |- | Valerie Lee Shepard{{efn|name=LVS|Also known as "Lois Valerie Shepard".<ref name="VLSHeath"/>}} || 1931 || 2026 || Background fill ||<ref name="Joan Kenmore"/><ref name="barnes" /><ref name="Meet Joan Kenmore who once danced on the yellow brick road"/><ref name="VLSHeath">{{cite web|url=https://www.lordheath.com/Valerie_Lee.html|title=Valerie Lee|work=Lord Heath|author=Dave Lord Heath|access-date=March 21, 2023}}{{better source needed|date=March 2023}}</ref><ref name="TMC"/> |- | Ardith Dondanville (''"Mae"'') Todd || 1930 || 2022 || Background fill ||<ref name="Joan Kenmore2"/><ref name="Child actors recall joining Munchkin ranks"/><ref name="Meet Joan Kenmore who once danced on the yellow brick road"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Ardith Mae Todd |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/ardith-todd-obituary?id=37072996 |website=Legacy |access-date=24 July 2023}}</ref> |- | Shirley Ann Kennedy (''"Vegors"'') || 1932 || 2005 || Background fill ||<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/azcentral/obituary.aspx?n=shirley-ann-kennedy-vegors&pid=3299434|title=Shirley Ann Kennedy Vegors Obituary|work=legacy.com|access-date=26 November 2014}}</ref>{{sfn|Cox|1989|p=37}} |- | Viola White (''"Banks"'') || 1931 || 2000 || Background fill ||<ref name="TMC"/> |}

===Later works (1940–1989)=== The 1939 film was adapted into a musical that was released in 1942 that includes the Munchkin characters. The events that take place mirror the film including the song "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tams-witmark.com/musicals/wizard.html|title=Wizard of Oz (MUNY 1945)|access-date=14 January 2011|year=2005|publisher=Tams–Witmark Music Library|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130210114148/http://www.tams-witmark.com/musicals/wizard.html|archive-date=10 February 2013}}</ref> Twenty-seven years later an animated film called ''The Wonderful Land of Oz'' was made featuring Jinjur as a main antagonist.

===Other works=== {{Multiple issues|section=yes| {{prose|section|date=April 2026}} {{unsourced section|date=April 2026}}}} {{see also|Adaptations of The Wizard of Oz}} * The Munchkins appeared in ''The Wiz'' and were played by children and teenagers. (1978) * The Munchkins appear at the end of ''Return to Oz''. They are seen celebrating Dorothy's return after defeating the Nome King and are present at Princess Ozma's coronation. Tommy Kwikstep was also seen there. (1985) * In ''The Muppets' Wizard of Oz'', the Munchkins were played by Rizzo the Rat (as the "Mayor of Munchkinland") and his fellow rats, allowing them to also pull double duty as the Field Mice that rescue Dorothy from the poppies. (2005) * The Munchkins appeared in ''Dorothy and the Witches of Oz''. The Munchkins were first seen in the battle against the Wicked Witch of the West's forces in Oz. They were later brought to Earth by Glinda in order to combat the forces of the Wicked Witch of the West. (2012) * The Munchkins appear in ''Oz the Great and Powerful''. They alongside the Quadlings and the Tinkers as inhabitants of Glinda's protectorate. Although the film is not otherwise a musical, the Munchkins sing and dance much as they do in the 1939 film. (2013) * The Munchkins appear in ''Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz'' with the "Mayor of Munchkinland" voiced by Bill Fagerbakke and the background Munchkins voiced by Steven Blum and Jessica DiCicco. Ojo, Dr. Pipt, the Lollipop Guild, and the Lullaby League are also featured. Also, Smith & Tinker are depicted as Munchkins in this show. *The Munchkins appear as a culture of farmers in ''Wicked''. Director Jon M. Chu decided to cast people closer to the book's original description being about as tall as Dorothy, rather than the 1939 film's cast of much shorter Munchkins. The main Munchkin character in this story, Boq Woodsman, is played by Ethan Slater who stands at 5'7". Chu also chose to focus more on their culture than their physical appearance.

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===Works cited=== {{refbegin}} *{{cite book|last=Cox|first=Stephen|title=The Munchkins of Oz|year=2002|publisher=Cumberland House Publishing|isbn=1-58182-269-3}} *{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zRYIAQAAMAAJ&q=Shirley+Ann+Kennedy+munchkin|title=The Munchkins Remember: "The Wizard of Oz" and Beyond|last=Cox|first=Stephen|publisher=E.P. Dutton|year=1989|isbn=978-0-525-48486-8}} {{refend}}

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