Given his small stature (4' 7" at the height of his career, but only 3' 11" during his acting years) Meinhardt Raabe stood out. Best known as the Munchkin coroner in The Wizard of Oz, he was one of nine Munchkins with a speaking role: "As coroner I must aver, I thoroughly examined her. And she's not only merely dead. She's really most sincerely dead."
What many don't know, Meiny also served as a pilot and instructor for the Civil Air Patrol during World War II; he was a spokesman for Oscar Meyer hot dogs--known as "Little Oscar, The World's Smallest Chef," he got to ride in the first WeinerMobile! He was an accomplished horticulturist, had an MBA in accounting and also taught for many years.
TnT gets their first hit and 6 points.
Meinhardt Raabe
September 2, 1915 - May 10, 2010
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