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Ray Bolger

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Born

1/10/1904, Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA

Died

1/15/1987

Birth Name

Raymond Wallace Bulcao

Gender

Male

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Biography

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Ray Bolger began his career in Vaudeville. He was half of a team called, "Sanford and Bolger" and also did numerous Broadway shows on his own. He like Gene Kelly was a song and dance man as well as a comedian. He was signed to a contract with

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Star (15)

Role
- Carmen & Geoffrey
  Star
  2009
- The Harvey Girls
  Star
  2001
- That's Dancing
  Star
  1985
- Three on a Date
  Andrew
  1978
- Babes In Toyland
  Star
  1961
- Washington Square
  Host
  - S 1: Ep 14 6/13/1957
    6/13/57
  - S 1: Ep 13 6/4/1957
    6/4/57
  - S 1: Ep 12 5/20/1957
    5/20/57
  - — 5/9/1957
    5/9/57
  - S 1: Ep 11 5/9/1957
    5/9/57
  - + 10 More Credits
- The Ray Bolger Show
  Ray Wallace
  - S 2: Ep 7 Novelist
    11/29/54
- The Ray Bolger Show
  Himself
  - S 2: Ep 2 The Masquerade is Over
    9/24/54
  - S 2: Ep 1 A Double Life
    9/17/54
- The Ray Bolger Show
  Raymond Wallace
  - S 2: Ep 10 title unknown
    12/24/53
- The Colgate Comedy Hour
  Guest
  - S 3: Ep 13 12/21/1952
    12/21/52
- April in Paris
  S. 'Sam' Winthrop Putnam
  1952
- Look For the Silver Lining
  Star
  1949
- Stage Door Canteen
  Star
  1943
- The Wizard of Oz
  Hunk / The Scarecrow
  1939
- The Great Ziegfeld
  Star
  1936
Recurring Role (4)

Role
- Password
  Ray Bolger
  - S 6: Ep 162 Amanda Blake & Ray Bolger
    11/18/66
  - S 6: Ep 160 Amanda Blake & Ray
    11/17/66
  - S 6: Ep 158 Amanda Blake & Ray Bolger
    11/16/66
  - S 6: Ep 156 Amanda Blake & Ray Bolger
    11/15/66
  - S 6: Ep 154 Amanda Blake & Ray Bolger
    11/14/66
- The Bell Telephone Hour
  Host
  - S 7: Ep 9 The Masques Of Music
    2/15/65
  - S 6: Ep 18 Show #18
    6/16/64
  - S 6: Ep 3 Show #3
    11/5/63
- Password
  Guest
  - S 3: Ep 18 EPISODE
    8/19/63
- The Bell Telephone Hour
  Himself
  - S 2: Ep 7 The Four of Us
    1/29/60
Guest Star (43)

Role
- Diff'rent Strokes
  Clarence Markwell
  - S 7: Ep 1 A Haunting We Will Go
    9/29/84
- The Academy Awards
  Himself - Presenter
  - S 56: Ep 1 The 56th Annual Academy Awards
    4/9/84
  - S 51: Ep 1 The 51st Annual Academy Awards
    4/9/79
- Fantasy Island
  Nelson
  - S 6: Ep 22 Remember. . .When?
    5/14/83
- Fantasy Island
  Gaylord Nelson
  - S 6: Ep 2 Dancing Lady / The Final Round
    10/23/82
- Dinah!
  Himself
  - S 6: Ep 16 October 1, 1979
    10/1/79
- The Mike Douglas Show
  Himself
  - S 18: Ep 197 August 10, 1979
    8/10/79
  - S 14: Ep 136 Week of March 8, 1976
    3/8/76
- Battlestar Galactica
  Vector
  - S 1: Ep 20 Greetings from Earth (2)
    2/25/79
- Little House on the Prairie
  Toby Noe
  - S 5: Ep 17 Dance With Me
    1/22/79
  - S 5: Ep 5 There's No Place Like Home (1)
    10/9/78
- The Love Boat
  Andy Hopkins
  - S 2: Ep 15 Second Time Around/The 'Now' Marriage/My Sister, Irene
    1/13/79
- Fantasy Island
  Spencer McLaine
  - S 1: Ep 10 The Over the Hill Caper / Poof! You're a Movie Star
    4/15/78
- Over Easy
  Himself
  - S 1: Ep 90 March 17, 1978
    3/17/78
- Baretta
  Guest Star
  - S 4: Ep 15 Just for Laughs
    2/9/78
- The Love Boat
  Horace McDonald
  - S 1: Ep 7 Identical Problem/Julie's Old Flame/The Jinx
    11/5/77
- The Academy Awards
  Himself - Performer
  - S 48: Ep 1 The 48th Annual Academy Awards
    3/29/76
- The Partridge Family
  Grandpa Fred Renfrew
  - S 3: Ep 7 The Mod Father
    10/27/72
  - S 2: Ep 10 The Forty-Year Itch
    11/19/71
  - S 1: Ep 3 Whatever Happened to the Old Songs?
    10/9/70
- Nanny and the Professor
  Uncle Horace Figalilly
  - S 3: Ep 4 South Sea Island Sweetheart
    10/4/71
- The Mike Douglas Show
  Himself/Co-host
  - S 10: Ep 170 May 7, 1971
    5/7/71
  - S 10: Ep 169 May 6, 1971
    5/6/71
  - S 10: Ep 168 May 5, 1971
    5/5/71
  - S 10: Ep 167 May 4, 1971
    5/4/71
  - S 10: Ep 166 Week of May 3, 1971
    5/3/71
- The Bob Hope Show
  Himself
  - S 20: Ep 7 February 16, 1970
    2/16/70
- The Hollywood Palace
  Himself, on film
  - S 7: Ep 17 Host: Bing Crosby (Final episode with highlights from past shows)
    2/7/70
- Disneyland
  Mr. Barnaby
  - S 16: Ep 11 Babes in Toyland (1)
    12/21/69
- The Dick Cavett Show
  Himself
  - S 1: Ep 19 March 28, 1968
    3/28/68
- The Joey Bishop Show
  Himself
  - S 2: Ep 120 March 6, 1968
    3/6/68
- The Merv Griffin Show
  Himself
  - S 5: Ep 132 March 5, 1968
    3/5/68
  - S 13: Ep 214 July 16, 1976
    7/16/76
  - S 13: Ep 203 July 1, 1976
    7/1/76
  - S 13: Ep 122 March 3, 1976
    3/3/76
- The Match Game
  Himself
  - S 5: Ep 26 Marilyn Van Derbur & Ray Bolger
    2/27/67
  - S 4: Ep 32 Florence Henderson & Ray Bolger
    4/4/66
  - S 4: Ep 15 Betty White & Ray Bolger
    12/6/65
- The Hollywood Palace
  Himself, host
  - S 4: Ep 16 Host: Ray Bolger / Paul Revere & the Raiders
    1/7/67
  - S 3: Ep 7 Host: Ray Bolger / Lionel Hampton
    11/6/65
- The Dean Martin Show
  Himself
  - S 2: Ep 8 Louis Armstrong / Ray Bolger / Nanette Fabray / Lainie Kazan
    11/3/66
- The Bell Telephone Hour
  Host
  - S 8: Ep 13 Music of the Movies
    3/13/66
  - S 4: Ep 4 The Music of Richard Rodgers
    11/10/61
- The Perry Como Show
  Himself
  - S 15: Ep 12 January 23, 1963
    1/23/63
  - S 9: Ep 5 October 13, 1956
    10/13/56
- The Red Skelton Show
  'Mayor' Threadbare III
  - S 12: Ep 3 The Mayor of Central Park
    10/9/62
- I've Got a Secret (1952)
  Himself
  - S 10: Ep 21 November 13, 1961
    11/13/61
- What's My Line?
  Guest Panelist
  - S 13: Ep 11 EPISODE #588
    11/12/61
- Password
  Guest
- General Electric Theater
  Stan Maylor
  - S 8: Ep 15 Silhouette
    12/27/59
- Sunday Showcase
  Himself
  - S 1: Ep 10 The Jimmy Durante Show: Give My Regards To Broadway
    12/6/59
- The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
  Himself
  - S 3: Ep 24 March 15, 1959
    3/15/59
  - S 2: Ep 23 April 6, 1958
    4/6/58
- General Electric Theater
  Alfred Boggs
  - S 7: Ep 12 The Girl with the Flaxen Hair
    12/14/58
- The Big Record
  Himself
  - S 1: Ep 32 April 30, 1958
    4/30/58
- The Perry Como Show
  Himself/Guest Host
  - S 10: Ep 27 March 22, 1958
    3/22/58
- The George Gobel Show
  Himself
  - S 3: Ep 14 February 2, 1957
    2/2/57
- What's My Line?
  Mystery Guest
  - S 7: Ep 32 EPISODE #305
    4/8/56
- Art Linkletter's House Party
  Himself
  - S 4: Ep 49 November 10, 1955
    11/10/55
- Texaco Star Theater
  Himself
  - S 6: Ep 26 6/8/1954
    6/8/54
- The Red Skelton Show
  Guest

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- Ray: I was hired as a comedian in my first show. I became a dancer in self-defense. I was doing a comedy monologue and didn't know how else to get off, so I danced off. I've been dancing ever since, but I'm still a comedian.
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- Ray Bolger: (at the funeral of Jack Haley, his co-star who played The Tin Man) How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road.
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