Meinhardt Raabe , born the September 2nd 1915 with Jeffersen County in the Wisconsi (the United States), is one of the oldest survivors of the Munchkin actors in the magician of OZ , the film carried out by Victor Flemming in 1939 according to the novel éponyme of L. Frank Baum. Raabe worked several years like Porte-parole for Oscar Mayer.

It was graduate Université of Wisconsin in 1937. In 1939, it played the part of Munchkin as a Actor-dwarf in film of Flemming. It is the single survivor of the members of the turning of film having had a significant speaking time. In film, he announces the death of the malicious witch of the East:

Ace coroner, I must aver

I thoroughly examined her

And she' S not only merely dead

She' S really, most sincerely dead!

(In france: As coroner, I declare that I examined it completely. She not only simply died, she in fact really died!)

Raabe appeared in an episode of Entertainment Tonight in October 2005 with eight another former Munchkin actors; it was invited in the emission The Jimmy Kimmel Show on April 11th, 2005. It ironically published an autobiography in entitled Memories off has Munchkin: Year It Walk Down the Yellow Brig Road .

Raabe is member of the International Wizard off OZ Club.