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Meinhardt Raabe (born September 9, 1915, in Jefferson County, Wisconsin) is one of the oldest surviving Munchkin-actors from The Wizard of Oz
. He also appeared in an October 2005 episode of Entertainment Tonight with eight more surviving Munchkins. In addition to his role in the film—wherein he played the coroner who pronounced the death of the Wicked Witch of the East—Raabe worked for many decades as a spokesperson for Oscar Meyer.

Raabe graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1937, and appeared in The Wizard of Oz in 1939. His only lines in the film were: : As coroner, I must aver : I thoroughly examined her : And she's not only merely dead : She's really, most sincerely dead!

These lines, like most of those delivered by the Munchkins, were dubbed over with the speeded-up voices of other performers.

He recently published an autobiography titled Memories of a Munchkin: An Illustrated Walk Down the Yellow Brick Road. (ISBN 0823091937)

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