Known for:	The Wizard of Oz, The Shop Around the Corner, The Great Ziegfeld
Birth name:	Francis Philip Wuppermann
Birthday:	1 June 1890, New York, New York, USA
Height:	5' 10" (1.78 m)

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Free Image Hosting - Upload your favorite celebrity pictures. Born, with his elder brother, the actor Ralph Morgan, into a well-to-do family that formerly distributed in the US the universally-known condiment "Angostura Aromatic Bitters." Interred at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, USA, in section #168, plot #14447. Uncle of actress Claudia Morgan. Hobby -- boat enthusiast who participated in yacht races. Son, George Morgan (1916 - 2003). Was a member of the famous "Irish mafia"--even though he wasn't Irish--which also included fellow Hollywood actors James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Frank McHugh and Pat O'Brien. Honorary pallbearers at his funeral included Clark Gable and Pat O'Brien. Irish tenor Dennis Day sang. He owned a 550-acre ranch in Hemet Valley, California, and raised cattle. He also owned yachts and one of his won a race from Los Angeles and Honolulu in 1947. Was a strict and very conservative Republican. Wife Alma Muller (1895-1970) was the daughter of a New York real estate magnate and a woman suffragette. They eloped in 1914. Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz (1939) said that whenever she saw the scene in the film where Frank Morgan as the Wizard is giving Dorothy's friends gifts from his "black bag" (a diploma for the Scarecrow, a ticking heart for the Tin Man, and a medal for the Cowardly Lion), she got teary eyed, because "Frank Morgan was just like that in real life - very generous". Morgan was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor,in 1942 for "Tortilla Flat".

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