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Francis Phillip Wuppermann, known professionally as Frank Morgan, was an American character actor on radio, stage and film. He was best known for his appearances in films starting in the silent era in 1916, and then numerous sound films throughout the 1930s and 1940s, mostly as a contract player at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, with his most celebrated performance playing the title role in The Wizard of Oz (1939). He was also briefly billed early in his career as Frank Wupperman and Francis Morgan.
Birth Name
Francis Philip Wuppermann
Born
Sunday, 01 June 1890
Died
Sunday, 18 September 1949
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| These Amazing Shadows | Professor Marvel | 2011 |
| Toys of Anti-Christ | Professor Marvel | 2011 |
| Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters | Professor Marvel | 2006 |
| Because of the Wonderful Things It Does: The Legacy of Oz | Professor Marvel | 2005 |
| The Legend Floyd: The Dark Side of the Rainbow | Professor Marvel | 2000 |
| Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity | Self | 1999 |
| Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home to | Self / (archive footage) | 1990 |
| That's Entertainment! | Self | 1974 |
| The Judy Garland Show | Self | 1963 |
| Hollywood Without Make-Up | Self / Himself | 1963 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| These Amazing Shadows | Professor Marvel | 2011 |
| Toys of Anti-Christ | Professor Marvel | 2011 |
| Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters | Professor Marvel | 2006 |
| Because of the Wonderful Things It Does: The Legacy of Oz | Professor Marvel | 2005 |
| The Legend Floyd: The Dark Side of the Rainbow | Professor Marvel | 2000 |
| Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity | Self | 1999 |
| Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home to | Self / (archive footage) | 1990 |
| That's Entertainment! | Self | 1974 |
| The Judy Garland Show | Self | 1963 |
| Hollywood Without Make-Up | Self / Himself | 1963 |
| Ford Star Jubilee | Professor Marvel | 1955 |
| Key to the City | Fire Chief Duggan | 1950 |
| Any Number Can Play | Jim Kurstyn | 1949 |
| The Great Sinner | Aristide Pitard | 1949 |
| The Stratton Story | Barney Wile | 1949 |
| The Three Musketeers | King Louis XIII | 1948 |
| Summer Holiday | Uncle Sid | 1948 |
| Green Dolphin Street | Dr. Edmond Ozanne | 1947 |
| Lady Luck | William Audrey | 1946 |
| The Cockeyed Miracle | Sam Griggs | 1946 |
| Courage of Lassie | Harry MacBain | 1946 |
| Yolanda and the Thief | Victor Budlow Trout | 1945 |
| The Great Morgan | Frank Morgan / Himself | 1945 |
| Casanova Brown | Mr. Ferris / J.J. Ferris | 1944 |
| Kismet | Narrator (voice) / Narrator | 1944 |
| The White Cliffs of Dover | Hiram Porter Dunn | 1944 |
| The Human Comedy | Willie Grogan | 1944 |
| Twenty Years After | (archive footage) | 1944 |
| Some of the Best | Governor d'Annard | 1944 |
| A Stranger in Town | John Josephus Grant | 1943 |
| Thousands Cheer | Dr. Frank Morgan | 1943 |
| White Cargo | The Doctor | 1942 |
| Tortilla Flat | The Pirate | 1942 |
| The Vanishing Virginian | Robert Yancey | 1942 |
| Honky Tonk | Judge Cotton | 1941 |
| Washington Melodrama | Calvin Claymore | 1941 |
| The Wild Man of Borneo | J. Daniel Thompson / J. Daniel 'Dan' Thompson | 1941 |
| Keeping Company | Harry C. Thomas | 1940 |
| Hullabaloo | Frankie Merriweather / Frankie' Merriweather | 1940 |
| Boom Town | Luther Aldrich | 1940 |
| The Mortal Storm | Professor Viktor Roth / Professor Victor Roth | 1940 |
| Hollywood: Style Center of the World | Self | 1940 |
| The Ghost Comes Home | Vern Adams / Vernon 'Vern' Adams | 1940 |
| Broadway Melody of 1940 | Bob Casey | 1940 |
| The Shop Around the Corner | Hugo Matuschek | 1940 |
| Balalaika | Ivan Danchenoff | 1939 |
| Henry Goes Arizona | Henry Conroy | 1939 |
| The Wizard of Oz | The Guard / Professor Marvel / The Gatekeeper / The Carriage Driver / The Wizard of Oz | 1939 |
| Broadway Serenade | Cornelius Collier, Jr. | 1939 |
| Sweethearts | Felix Lehman | 1938 |
| The Crowd Roars | Brian McCoy | 1938 |
| Port of Seven Seas | Panisse | 1938 |
| Paradise for Three | Rudolph Tobler | 1938 |
| Rosalie | King / King Fredrick Romanikov | 1937 |
| Beg, Borrow or Steal | Ingraham Steward | 1937 |
| Sunday Night at the Trocadero | Frank Morgan | 1937 |
| Saratoga | Jesse Kiffmeyer | 1937 |
| The Emperor's Candlesticks | Col. Baron Suroff / Colonel Baron Suroff | 1937 |
| The Last of Mrs. Cheyney | Lord Francis Kelton | 1937 |
| Dimples | Prof. Eustace Appleby / Eustace Appleby | 1936 |
| Piccadilly Jim | Count Olav Osric / James Crocker - Sr. / James Crocker, Sr. | 1936 |
| Trouble for Two | Colonel Geraldine | 1936 |
| Dancing Pirate | Mayor Don Emilio Perena | 1936 |
| The Great Ziegfeld | Billings | 1936 |
| The Perfect Gentleman | Major Horatio Chatteris | 1935 |
| I Live My Life | G.P. Bentley / Bentley | 1935 |
| Escapade | Karl | 1935 |
| Naughty Marietta | Governor d'Annard / Gov. Gaspar d'Annard | 1935 |
| Enchanted April | Mellersh Wilkins | 1935 |
| The Good Fairy | Konrad | 1935 |
| The Mighty Barnum | Joe | 1934 |
| By Your Leave | Henry Smith | 1934 |
| There's Always Tomorrow | Joseph White | 1934 |
| A Lost Lady | Forrester / Daniel Forrester | 1934 |
| The Affairs of Cellini | Alessandro - Duke of Florence / 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 / Jules Daudet | 1934 |
| Bombshell | Pops Burns | 1933 |
| Broadway to Hollywood | Ted Hackett | 1933 |
| When Ladies Meet | Rogers Woodruf / Rogers | 1933 |
| Best of Enemies | William Hartman | 1933 |
| Reunion in Vienna | Dr. Anton King / Dr. Anton Krug | 1933 |
| The Nuisance | Dr. Buchanan Prescott | 1933 |
| The Kiss Before the Mirror | Paul Held | 1933 |
| Luxury Liner | Alex Stevenson | 1933 |
| Hallelujah I'm a Bum | Mayor John Hastings | 1933 |
| The Billion Dollar Scandal | John Dudley Masterson | 1933 |
| The Half-Naked Truth | Merle Farrell / Farrell | 1932 |
| Secrets of the French Police | François St. Cyr | 1932 |
| Fast and Loose | Bronson Lenox | 1930 |
| Laughter | C. Mortimer Gibson | 1930 |
| Queen High | Mr. Nettleton | 1930 |
| Dangerous Nan McGrew | Muldoon / Doc Foster | 1930 |
| Belle of the Night | 1930 | |
| Love's Greatest Mistake | William Ogden | 1927 |
| Scarlet Saint | Baron Badeau | 1925 |
| Born Rich | Eugene Magnin | 1924 |
| Manhandled | Arno Riccardi | 1924 |
| The Gray Towers Mystery | Billy Durland | 1919 |
| At the Mercy of Men | Count Nicho | 1918 |
| Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman | Bunny Manders | 1917 |
| The Light in Darkness | Ramsey Latham | 1917 |
| Who's Your Neighbor? | Dudley Carlton | 1917 |
| A Child of the Wild | Frank Trent | 1917 |
| The Girl Philippa | Halkett | 1917 |
| A Modern Cinderella | Tom | 1917 |
| The Daring of Diana | John Briscoe | 1916 |
| Year | Type | Category | Won |
|---|
| 1943 | Oscar | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Nominated |
| 1935 | Oscar | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Nominated |
