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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Frank Morgan (June 1, 1890 – September 18, 1949) was an American actor. He was best known for his portrayal of the title character in the film The Wizard of Oz. Description above from the Wikipedia article Frank Morgan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Complete Filmography

The Dark Side of the Rainbow
2000
as Professor Marvel (archive footage)
The movie The Wizard of Oz (1939) with the soundtrack replaced by Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon (1973); several uncanny moments of sync...

The Dark Side of Oz
1995
as Professor Marvel / The Wizard of Oz (archive footage)
Pink Floyd Meets The Wizard of Oz

Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To
1990
as (archive footage)
This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a handful of personal appearances, and a detailed comm...

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic
1990
as Self (archive footage)
Documentary about the making of the 1939 MGM classic film The Wizard of Oz. Includes interviews of cast and crew members, their families and fans of t...

That's Entertainment!
1974
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.

Key to the City
1950
as Fire Chief Duggan
At a mayors convention in San Francisco, ex-longshoreman Steve Fisk meets Clarissa Standish from New England. Fisk is mayor of "Puget City" and is pro...

Any Number Can Play
1949
as Jim Kurstyn
When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it diff...

The Great Sinner
1949
as Aristide Pitard
A young man succumbs to gambling fever.

The Stratton Story
1949
as Barney Wile
Star major league pitcher Monty Stratton loses a leg in a hunting accident, but becomes determined to leave the game on his own terms.

The Three Musketeers
1948
as King Louis XIII
Athletic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure about the king's musketeers and their mission to protect France.

Summer Holiday
1948
as Uncle Sid
Danville, Connecticut at the turn of the century. Young Richard Miller lives in a middle-class neighborhood with his family. He is in love with the gi...

Green Dolphin Street
1947
as Dr. Edmond Ozanne
Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William. Sophie...

Courage of Lassie
1946
as Harry MacBain
Bill's separated from his litter, making friends with the wild creatures until he's found and adopted by young Kathie. An accident separates him from ...

Lady Luck
1946
as William Audrey
A woman marries a gambler with the hopes of reforming him, but things don't quite work out the way she planned.

The Cockeyed Miracle
1946
as Sam Griggs
A 60-ish Maine shipbuilder (Frank Morgan) and his 30-ish father (Keenan Wynn) provide for their family from the hereafter.

Yolanda and the Thief
1945
as Victor Budlow Trout
Johnny Riggs, a con man on the lam, finds himself in a Latin-American country named Patria. There, he overhears a convent-bred rich girl praying to he...

The Great Morgan
1945
as Himself
Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely unrelate...

Kismet
1944
as Narrator (voice)
Hafiz, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the c...

Casanova Brown
1944
as Mr. Ferris
Cass Brown is about to marry for the second time; his first marriage, to Isabel was annulled. But when he discovers that Isabel just had their baby, C...

The White Cliffs of Dover
1944
as Hiram Porter Dunn
American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whir...

Twenty Years After
1944
as (archive footage)
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.

Thousands Cheer
1943
as Dr. Frank Morgan
Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel's pretty daughter. Their romance hits a fe...

A Stranger in Town
1943
as John Josephus Grant
In the small town of Crownport local attorney Bill Adams is trying to break up the ring of corrupt town officials by running for mayor. The cards seem...

The Human Comedy
1943
as Willie Grogan
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to w...

White Cargo
1942
as The Doctor
In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910. He tells the story of a love...

Tortilla Flat
1942
as The Pirate
Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friend...

The Vanishing Virginian
1942
as Robert Yancey
The perineal District Attorney and conservative southern patriarch cherishes the old ways and does his best to adjust to change.

Honky Tonk
1941
as Judge Cotton
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right...

Washington Melodrama
1941
as Calvin Claymore
An elderly businessman (Frank Morgan) plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself involved...

The Wild Man of Borneo
1941
as J. Daniel 'Dan' Thompson
A medicine show man tries to con people into believing he's a legitimate stage actor.

Keeping Company
1940
as Harry C. Thomas
Wholesome comedy about newlyweds (and the bride's understanding--but sometimes interfering--parents) discovering married life isn't always bliss.

Hullabaloo
1940
as Frankie' Merriweather
A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.

Boom Town
1940
as Luther Aldrich
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil t...

The Mortal Storm
1940
as Professor Victor Roth
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided ...

Hollywood: Style Center of the World
1940
as Self
This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother ...

The Ghost Comes Home
1940
as Vernon 'Vern' Adams
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.

Broadway Melody of 1940
1940
as Bob Casey
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who...

The Shop Around the Corner
1940
as Hugo Matuschek
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous ...

Balalaika
1939
as Ivan Danchenoff
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.

Henry Goes Arizona
1939
as Henry Conroy
A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.

The Wizard of Oz
1939
as Professor Marvel / The Wizard of Oz
Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow ...

Broadway Serenade
1939
as Cornelius Collier, Jr.
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer ...

Sweethearts
1938
as Felix Lehman
The team behind a successful Broadway production tries to stop the married stars from transitioning to Hollywood.

The Crowd Roars
1938
as Brian McCoy
A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy do...

Port of Seven Seas
1938
as Panisse
In the French port of Marseille, a young woman named Madelon is in love with a young sailor, Marius. Discovering she is pregnant after Marius sets out...

Paradise for Three
1938
as Rudolph Tobler
A businessman mingles with German laborers to learn more about their lives.

Rosalie
1937
as King Fredrick Romanikov
West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom.

Beg, Borrow or Steal
1937
as Ingraham Steward
We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of fake paintings and other assorted dodges. He and ...

Sunday Night at the Trocadero
1937
as Frank Morgan
A series of vignettes with a loose plot. Featured are Frank Morgan, Groucho Marx, Frank McHugh, Robert Benchley and The Brian Sisters. Not bad, more i...

Saratoga
1937
as Jesse Kiffmeyer
A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

The Emperor's Candlesticks
1937
as Colonel Baron Suroff
Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
1937
as Lord Francis Kelton
A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord.

Dimples
1936
as Eustace Appleby
Dimples Appleby lives with her pick-pocket grandfather in 19th century New York City. She entertains the crowds while he works his racket. A rich lady...

Piccadilly Jim
1936
as James Crocker, Sr. / Count Olav Osric
Jim's father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with L...

Trouble for Two
1936
as Colonel Geraldine
A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London discovers the existence of a secret society called Th...

Dancing Pirate
1936
as Mayor Don Emilio Perena
Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jonathan is shanghaied by a band of zany pirates and f...

The Great Ziegfeld
1936
as Billings
At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, sideshow barker Florenz Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more-successful neighbor Billings, and also steals his girl...

The Perfect Gentleman
1935
as Major Horatio Chatteris
A strait-laced country vicar is very embarrassed by his father's naughty exploits with a lively actress.

I Live My Life
1935
as G.P. Bentley
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.

Escapade
1935
as Karl
A romantic comedy-drama-musical of mistaken identity, infidelity and farce, set in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century.

Lazybones
1935
as Tom
Lazybones is an idle baronet. He hasn't a care in the world until his father cuts him off without a penny. He then meets an American heiress & marries...

Naughty Marietta
1935
as Gov. Gaspar d'Annard
In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unli...

The Good Fairy
1935
as Konrad
In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing goo...

Enchanted April
1935
as Mellersh Wilkins
Mrs. Lotty Wilkins is an unhappily wife whom's life husband and romance have departed. In order to possibly salvage some of the missing elements in he...

By Your Leave
1934
as Henry Smith
A bored couple facing middle-age succumbs to wandering eyes.

There's Always Tomorrow
1934
as Joseph White
Ignored by his ever-busy wife and children, a middle-aged businessman finds companionship with a former female employee.

A Lost Lady
1934
as Daniel Forrester
A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.

The Affairs of Cellini
1934
as Alessandro, Duke of Florence
The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.

Success at Any Price
1934
as Raymond Merritt
A young man ruthlessly climbs the corporate ladder only to attempt suicide when the stock market crashes.

The Cat and the Fiddle
1934
as Jules Daudet
A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.

Bombshell
1933
as Pops Burns
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

Broadway to Hollywood
1933
as Ted Hackett
In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son.

When Ladies Meet
1933
as Rogers
Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces...

Best of Enemies
1933
as William Hartman
Buddy Rogers and Marian Nixon playing the grown children of feuding German-Americans Frank Morgan and Joseph Cawthorn. Romance blossoms between Rogers...

Reunion in Vienna
1933
as Dr. Anton King
An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now wed to a psychiatrist (Frank Morgan).

The Nuisance
1933
as Dr. Buchanan Prescott
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, un...

The Kiss Before the Mirror
1933
as Paul Held
When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney who suspects that his own wife is having an affair.

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
1933
as Mayor John Hastings
A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt.

Luxury Liner
1933
as Alex Stevenson
This drama offers a few slices from the lives of those who live, work, and travel upon a luxurious trans-atlantic ocean liner.

The Billion Dollar Scandal
1933
as John Dudley Masterson
An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes involved with the boss's daughter.

The Half-Naked Truth
1932
as Merle Farrell
A carnival pitchman (Tracy) finagles his girlfriend, a fiery hoochie dancer (Vélez), into a major Broadway revue under the auspices of an impresario (...

Secrets of the French Police
1932
as François St. Cyr
A burglar is recruited by the French Surete to help find his kidnapped girlfriend, who has been kidnapped by a deranged White Russian to impersonate t...

Fast and Loose
1930
as Bronson Lenox
A wealthy family is thrown into turmoil when the daughter falls for the family chauffeur and the son begins to keep company with a chorus girl.

Laughter
1930
as C. Mortimer Gibson
Zeigfeld Follies beauty Peggy marries an older man, C. Morton Gibson. Although she soon grows tired of their sedate life, she refuses the attentions o...

Queen High
1930
as George Nettleton
The two partners of a ladies' garter business are constantly feuding with each other. When they ask their lawyer to dissolve their partnership, he pro...

Dangerous Nan McGrew
1930
as Doc Foster
Dangerous Nan McGrew is the sharp-shooting expert of a traveling medicine show that is stranded in the Canadian northwest at the snowbound hunting lod...

Belle of the Night
1930
A classic comedy short starring Penny Singleton and Frank Morgan.

Love's Greatest Mistake
1927
as William Ogden
On a train bound for New York, where she hopes to find work, Honey McNeil captures the appreciative eye of William Ogden, a financier, who offers her ...

Scarlet Saint
1925
as Baron Badeau
Heroine Fidele Tridon has grown up with the knowledge that her father has promised her in marriage to Baron Kurt Badeau. When Fidele comes of age, the...
The Man Who Found Himself
1925
as Lon Morris
Alfred E.Green silent family relationship romantic melodrama

The Crowded Hour
1925
as Bert Caswell
Telephone operator Peggy, puts on an act with Matt Wilde at a Bowery amateur night and is seen by Billy Laidlaw, who becomes convinced of her talents....

Born Rich
1924
as Eugene Magnin
When a wealthy young lady leaves the US to visit her aunt in France, her husband falls in love with a "flapper". When the wife returns home, she finds...

Manhandled
1924
as Arno Riccardi
Comedy which concerns the struggles of an ambitious department store sales clerk who is caught up in New York high society.

The Golden Shower
1919
as Lester
A rich libertine leaves all his money to a college girl who had refused his advances. The ensuing scandal makes her retire to a small town, where she ...

At the Mercy of Men
1918
as Count Nicho
Vera Souroff, a young Russian girl, is kidnapped off the street and raped by one of three officers of the Czar's guard. The crime is brought to the at...

The Knife
1918
as Dr. Robert Manning
Kate Tarleton grows up on a Southern plantation and becomes engaged to her guardian, Dr. Robert Manning, a famous surgeon. When Robert, Kate, and her ...

Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman
1917
as Bunny Manders
A.J. Raffles, an educated and handsome cricket champ with entry to the best social circles steals precious trinkets and jewels, purely for the love of...

Baby Mine
1917
as Alfred
Madge Kennedy plays a young bride whose husband walks out after a quarrel. Hoping to make him come crawling back, Kennedy pretends to have given birth...

The Light in Darkness
1917
as Ramsey Latham
Bank cashier Ramsey Latham is sentenced to prison for violation of the banking laws. On his way to the penitentiary, he encounters Hilary Kenyon, a yo...
Who's Your Neighbor?
1917
as Dudley Carlton
Reformers pass a law to force prostitutes out of the Red Light District.
The Girl Philippa
1917
as Halkett
About the year 1900 in a midnight raid on the palace of a Balkan king, emissaries of a great power slay the royal pair, and carry off the infant crown...
A Modern Cinderella
1917
as Tom
Joyce's mother keeps her younger daughter in the background so that Polly, the elder daughter, can monopolize all the eligible young men, especially T...

The Daring of Diana
1916
as John Briscoe
To assuage his grief over the death of his wife during childbirth, newspaper publisher John Briscoe resettles in Paris. Twenty-five years pass, during...

The Suspect
1916
as Sir Richard
The Suspect is a 1916 lost silent film directed by S. Rankin Drew. Set in France and Russia, the plot revolves around the cruelties of Russian Grand D...