'Wizard of Oz' Munchkin actor, dies

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Raabe, 'Wizard of Oz' Munchkin actor, dies at 94

Meinhardt Raabe, who played the Munchkin coroner in "The Wizard of Oz" and proclaimed in the movie that the Wicked Witch of the East was "really most sincerely dead," has died. He was 94.

His caregiver, Cindy Bosnyak, said Raabe - pronounced RAH'-bee - died Friday morning at a hospital in Orange Park, Fla. He was one of the few surviving Munchkins from the 1939 film.

Bosnyak said he complained of a sore throat at his retirement community before collapsing and going into cardiac arrest. He was taken to Orange Park Medical Center, where he later died, she said.

"He had a headful of hair at 94 and he ... remembered everything everyday," she said. "To me he was a walking history book, very alert."

Raabe was one of the 124 Munchkins in the film classic and one of only nine who had speaking parts. He was 22 years old and a show business veteran, earning money for college as a "midget" performer, as they were called then, when the movie was shot in 1938.

Raabe portrayed the diminutive Munchkin official who solemnly pronounces the witch dead after Dorothy's farmhouse lands on her: "As coroner I must aver, I thoroughly examined her, And she's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead."

His costume included a huge hat with a rolled brim, and dyed yak hair was used for his handlebar mustache and long beard.
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this is the news I've been dreading, I just can't believe it, I knew it was coming, but it's still a shock, I think I'm going to have to take a shit, and have a cup of tea.
 
~~whimsy~~

~~whimsy~~

That is rather remarkable for him to live this long. Well, one down a few more to go, I can finally invade Munchkinland! Bwahahahahahahah!
 
Will E Worm

Will E Worm

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On, that was terrible. :nono:

~~whimsy~~ said:
That is rather remarkable for him to live this long. Well, one down a few more to go, I can finally invade Munchkinland! Bwahahahahahahah!
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He had a full head of hair. He should have died after he was over one-hundred.

You're not allowed back into Munchkinland. :nono:
 
~~whimsy~~

~~whimsy~~

Will E Worm said:
On, that was terrible. :nono:



He had a full head of hair. He should have died after he was over one-hundred.

You're not allowed back into Munchkinland. :nono:
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I'm going to do a hostile takeover of Munchkinland. I don't care if I am allowed or not. I shall take it over and own it!
 
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LukeEl

I am a failure to the Korean side of my family
~~whimsy~~ said:
I'm going to do a hostile takeover of Munchkinland. I don't care if I am allowed or not. I shall take it over and own it!
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I don't Whimsy these guys are pretty much inhabitants there now:
 

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~~whimsy~~

~~whimsy~~

Bah! Lollipop guild? I'll bring a army of children to this candy land, pay them in candy, and then I will be there to mop up the rest!

Munchkinland. Will. Be. MINE!
 
Cpt.Obvious

Cpt.Obvious

You Fools!!! Don't you see its a trick.
We Think they're all dead, we relax, and then they attack.
first they steel our underpants, then they own our homes, next thing you know we're being ass-raped by Umpa Lumpas.
They Can Not Die!!!!!
 
~~whimsy~~

~~whimsy~~

sporty_carr said:
Sorry to break it to you Whimsy, but Munchkinland doesn't really exist.

It's just more lies perpetrated by Fox News.
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Says you! It is people like me that keep people like you safe! My hostile takeover of Munchkinland will allow you to sleep peacefully for another night!

:hatsoff:
 
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