Frank Morgan

Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins. See more awards »

Known For

The Wizard of Oz Professor Marvel / The Wizard of Oz / The Gatekeeper / The Carriage Driver / The Guard

(1939)

The Shop Around the Corner Hugo Matuschek

(1940)

Trouble for Two Colonel Geraldine

(1936)

The Good Fairy Konrad

(1935)

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Filmography

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Actor (100 credits)

1950 Key to the City
Fire Chief Duggan

1949 Any Number Can Play
Jim Kurstyn

1949 The Great Sinner
Aristide Pitard

1949 The Stratton Story
Barney Wile

1948 The Three Musketeers
King Louis XIII

1948 Summer Holiday
Uncle Sid

1947 Green Dolphin Street
Dr. Edmond Ozanne

1946 The Great Morgan
Frank Morgan

1946 Lady Luck
William Audrey

1946 The Cockeyed Miracle
Sam Griggs

1946 Courage of Lassie
Harry MacBain

1945 Yolanda and the Thief
Victor Budlow Trout

1944 Casanova Brown
Mr. Ferris

1944 Kismet
Narrator (voice, uncredited)

1944 The White Cliffs of Dover
Hiram Porter Dunn

1943 Thousands Cheer
Dr. Frank Morgan

1943 A Stranger in Town
John Josephus Grant

1943 The Human Comedy
Willie Grogan

1942 White Cargo
The Doctor

1942 Tortilla Flat
The Pirate

1942 The Vanishing Virginian
Robert Yancey

1941 Honky Tonk
Judge Cotton

1941 Washington Melodrama
Calvin Claymore

1941 The Wild Man of Borneo
J. Daniel Thompson

1940 Keeping Company
Harry C. Thomas

1940 Hullabaloo
Frankie Merriweather

1940 Boom Town
Luther Aldrich

1940 The Mortal Storm
Professor Viktor Roth

1940 The Ghost Comes Home
Vern Adams

1940 Broadway Melody of 1940
Bob Casey

1940 The Shop Around the Corner
Hugo Matuschek

1939 Balalaika
Ivan Danchenoff

1939 Henry Goes Arizona
Henry Conroy

1939 The Wizard of Oz
Professor Marvel / The Wizard of Oz / The Gatekeeper / ...

1939 Broadway Serenade
Cornelius Collier, Jr.

1938 Sweethearts
Felix Lehman

1938 The Crowd Roars
Brian McCoy

1938 Port of Seven Seas
Panisse

1938 Paradise for Three
Rudolph Tobler

1937 Rosalie
King

1937 Beg, Borrow or Steal
Ingraham Steward

1937 Sunday Night at the Trocadero (Short)
Frank Morgan

1937 Saratoga
Jesse Kiffmeyer

1937 The Emperor's Candlesticks
Col. Baron Suroff

1937 The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Lord Kelton

1936 Dimples
Prof. Eustace Appleby

1936 Piccadilly Jim
James Crocker - Sr. / Count Olav Osric

1936 Dancing Pirate
Mayor Don Emilio Perena

1936 Trouble for Two
Colonel Geraldine

1936 The Great Ziegfeld
Jack Billings

1935 The Perfect Gentleman
Major Horatio Chatteris

1935 I Live My Life
G.P. Bentley

1935 Escapade
Karl

1935 Naughty Marietta
Governor d'Annard

1935 Enchanted April
Mellersh Wilkins

1935 The Good Fairy
Konrad

1934 The Mighty Barnum
Joe (uncredited)

1934 By Your Leave
Henry Smith

1934 There's Always Tomorrow
Joseph White

1934 A Lost Lady
Forrester

1934 The Affairs of Cellini
Alessandro - Duke of Florence

1934 Sisters Under the Skin
John Hunter Yates

1934 Success at Any Price
Merritt

1934 The Cat and the Fiddle
Daudet

1933 Bombshell
Pops

1933 Broadway to Hollywood
Ted Hackett

1933 Best of Enemies
William Hartman

1933 When Ladies Meet
Rogers Woodruf

1933 The Nuisance
Dr. Buchanan Prescott

1933 The Kiss Before the Mirror
Paul Held

1933 Reunion in Vienna
Dr. Anton Krug

1933 Hallelujah I'm a Bum
Mayor John Hastings

1933 Luxury Liner
Alex Stevenson

1933 The Billion Dollar Scandal
John Dudley Masterson

1932 The Half-Naked Truth
Merle Farrell

1932 Secrets of the French Police
François St. Cyr

1930 Fast and Loose
Bronson Lenox

1930 Laughter
C. Mortimer Gibson

1930 Queen High
Mr. Nettleton

1930 Dangerous Nan McGrew
Muldoon

1930 Belle of the Night (Short)

1927 Love's Greatest Mistake
William Ogden

1925 Scarlet Saint
Baron Badeau

1925 The Man Who Found Himself
Lon Morris

1925 The Crowded Hour
Bert Caswell

1924 Born Rich
Eugene Magnin

1924 Manhandled
Arno Riccardi

1919 The Golden Shower
Lester

1919 The Gray Towers Mystery
Billy Durland

1918 At the Mercy of Men
Count Nicho

1918 The Knife
Dr. Robert Manning

1917 Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman
Bunny Manders

1917 Who's Your Neighbor?
Dudley Carlton

1917 Baby Mine
Alfred

1917 The Light in Darkness
Ramsey Latham

1917 A Child of the Wild
Frank Trent

1917 A Modern Cinderella
Tom

1916 The Girl Philippa
Halkett (as Francis Morgan)

1916 The Daring of Diana
John Briscoe (as Francis Morgan)

1916 The Suspect
Sir Richard (as Frank Wupperman)

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Soundtrack (19 credits)

2014 Ray Donovan (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)

- Rodef (2014) ... (performer: "You Were Meant For Me" - uncredited)

2005 Prettier Than Ever: The Restoration of Oz (Video documentary short) (performer: "The Merry Old Land of Oz" - uncredited)

2002 40 Days and 40 Nights (performer: "Neil's Blues") / (writer: "Neil's Blues")

1993 All Tied Up (Video) (performer: "HUH!")

1948 Summer Holiday (performer: "Never Again", "Our Home Town" - uncredited)

1943 The Human Comedy (performer: "Rock of Ages" (1830), "The Church in the Wildwood" (1857) - uncredited)

1942 The Vanishing Virginian (performer: "The British Grenadiers", "In the Evening by the Moonlight", "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?" (1902) - uncredited)

1940 Keeping Company ("When You Wore a Tulip and I Wore a Big Red Rose" (1914), uncredited)

1940 Hullabaloo ("We've Come a Long Way Together" (1940), uncredited) / (performer: "You Were Meant For Me" (1929), "My Mammy" (1921) (uncredited), "When My Baby Smiles at Me" (1920) (uncredited))

1940 Boom Town ("Bridal Chorus (Here Comes the Bride)" (1850), uncredited)

1940 The Ghost Comes Home (performer: "Moonlight Bay" (1912) - uncredited)

1939 The Wizard of Oz (performer: "The Merry Old Land of Oz" (1939) - uncredited)

1937 Rosalie (performer: "Why Should I Care?" (1937) - uncredited)

1937 Beg, Borrow or Steal ("Bridal Chorus (Here Comes the Bride)" (1850))

1937 The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (performer: "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" - uncredited)

1935 The Perfect Gentleman (performer: "Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile!" (1915) - uncredited)

1935 I Live My Life (performer: "Sailing, Sailing, Over the Bounding Main" - uncredited)

1933 Broadway to Hollywood (performer: "We Are the Two Hacketts" (1933) - uncredited)

1933 Hallelujah I'm a Bum (performer: "Laying the Corner Stone")

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Self (4 credits)

1948 Screen Snapshots: Hawaii in Hollywood (Short)
Himself

1937 Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 8 (Documentary short)
Himself

1935 Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 9 (Documentary short)
Himself

1927 A Trip Through the Paramount Studio (Documentary short)
Himself

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Archive footage (21 credits)

2011 These Amazing Shadows (Documentary)
The Wizard of Oz (clip from The Wizard of Oz (1939)) (uncredited)

2011 Toys of Anti-Christ (TV Mini-Series documentary)
The Wizard of Oz

- Part 1: The Living Image (2011) ... The Wizard of Oz (uncredited)

2009 To Oz! The Making of a Classic (Video documentary short)
Himself

2006 Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (Documentary)
The Wizard of Oz (uncredited)

2005 Because of the Wonderful Things It Does: The Legacy of Oz (Video documentary short)
The Wizard of Oz

2004 In the Good Old Summertime Intro (Video documentary short)
Himself

2000 The Legend Floyd: The Dark Side of the Rainbow (TV Movie)
Professor Marvel / The Wizard of Oz / The Gatekeeper / ...

2000 Annie Get Your Gun Intro with Susan Lucci (Video documentary short)
Buffalo Bill Cody

1999 Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity (Video documentary)
Himself

1991 Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home to (TV Movie documentary)
Himself

1990 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic (TV Movie documentary)
Himself / Wizard of Oz

1974 That's Entertainment! (Documentary)
Himself - at Banquet (uncredited)

1964 The Judy Garland Show (TV Series)
Himself

- Episode #1.16 (1964) ... Himself

1963 Hollywood Without Make-Up (Documentary)
Himself

1960 Mel-O-Toons (TV Series)
Narrator

- Gosomer Wump (1960) ... Narrator (uncredited)

1956 Ford Star Jubilee (TV Series)
Professor Marvel / The Gatekeeper / The Carriage Driver / ...

- The Wizard of Oz (1956) ... Professor Marvel / The Gatekeeper / The Carriage Driver / ...

1951 Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Memories (Documentary short)
Himself

1949 Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (Documentary short)
Himself (uncredited)

1944 Some of the Best (Documentary)
Governor d'Annard in Naughty Marietta (uncredited)

1944 Twenty Years After (Short)

1940 Hollywood: Style Center of the World (Documentary short)
Himself

Personal Details

Other Works:

Stage: Appeared in "The Triumph of X" on Broadway. Drama. See more »

Publicity Listings:

1 Interview | 6 Articles | See more »

Alternate Names:

Francis Morgan | Frank Wupperman

Height:

5' 8" (1.73 m)

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Did You Know?

Trivia:

Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz (1939) said that whenever she saw the scene in the film where Frank Morgan as the Wizard is giving Dorothy's friends gifts from his "black bag" (a diploma for the Scarecrow, a ticking heart for the Tin Man, and a medal for the Cowardly Lion), she got teary eyed, because "Frank Morgan was just like that in real life - very generous... See more »