Jerry Maren

About Jerry Maren

Jerry Maren (born January 24, 1920) is an American actor and one of the last surviving munchkins from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.

Jerry Maren was born Gerard Marenghi in Boston, Massachusetts. He acted in The Wizard of Oz playing a member of the Lollipop Guild, handing the lollipop to Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland). When Jerry acted in The Wizard of Oz he stood three foot four inches. As a young man he appeared in a local act known as "Three Steps and One Half."

After The Wizard of Oz Jerry continued acting and appeared in many movies and television shows (including a walk-on role in an episode of Seinfeld). Some of these were several of the Our Gang comedy shorts, the Marx Brothers At The Circus and as an ape in Battle For The Planet of The Apes.