Curiosidades

He was always closely identified with the Scarecrow. He once guest starred on the game show Password (1961). When the word "Ray" came up, he said to his partner "Me!". His partner readily answered "Scarecrow!".

Was the last surviving cast member of El mago de Oz (1939).

He was a member of the Good Shepherd Parish and the Catholic Motion Picture Guild in Beverly Hills, California.

He was awarded 2 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Pictures at 6788 Hollywood Boulevard; and for Television at 6834 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

Inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame (1980) and the International Tap Dance Hall of Fame (2015).

Bolger was among those entertainers who opened Manhattan's famed Radio City Music Hall on December 27, 1932. After the management realized that the public's taste for vaudeville had waned, it cut back on the live entertainment and supplemented it with movies.

Won Broadway's 1949 Tony Award as Best Actor (Musical) for "Where's Charley?", a role he recreated in the film version, Where's Charley? (1952). He was also nominated in the same Tony Award category in 1962 for "All American".

He was posthumously awarded a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars in Palm Springs, California on January 10, 1998.

After guest starring on The Partridge Family (1970), his seven year old co-star, Suzanne Crough (Tracy Partridge), told him that she had no more living grandfathers. After hearing this, he told Suzanne that he would be her grandfather. The two kept in touch up until Bolger's death in 1987.

Made his first Broadway stage appearance in 1926.

Following his death, his funeral service was held at Holy Cross Mortuary in Culver City, California. His interment was in its cemetery afterwards.

Despite persistent web rumors, Ray was born Raymond Wallace Bolger, and the family's surname was never "Bulcao". His father, James Edward Bolger, was the son of Raymond Bolger and Maria Mahoney. His mother, Anne C. Wallace, was the daughter of William Wallace and Joanna Hassett. All of his grandparents were of Irish origin.

Great-uncle of actor John Bolger.

Ray starred in a USO show in the South Pacific during World War II.

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 115-116. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.