Entertainer Mickey Carroll died 7 May 2009, after a period of declining health. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, on 8 July 1919, he worked in vaudeville and did movie voice-overs, but he’ll probably be best remembered as one of the Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz (1939).
In the iconic film, he was the Munchkinland “Town Crier”, a soldier, and one of the candy-striped fiddlers who escort Dorothy to the Yellow Brick Road towards Emerald City (he’s the one with the violin).
After the movie, he stopped appearing on camera. In 1944, he was the warm-up for Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman during their Presidential campaign stops. Carroll also did radio shows with George Burns, Gracie Allen, Jack Benny, and Al Jolson. In the mid-1940s, he settled in St. Louis to run the family business.
More information is available on his web site.