Lewis Croft [SEP] place of death
Lewis Croft
Lewis Croft (May 2, 1919 – April 29, 2008) was an American actor with dwarfism, best known for his role as a Munchkin soldier in the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz".
Biography.
Lewis Croft was born in Shelley, Idaho in 1919 to Samuel and Roseland Crofts. Growing up in a large family, he was the fourth of 14 children. He left home when he turned 16 to work in circuses and sideshows under the stage name "Idaho Lewis" in
for several episodes of "Sears Radio Theater" in 1979.
She died of natural causes in Century City, California.
Personal life.
Croft married actor Jack Zoller, but the marriage did not last long, and the couple divorced. She remarried, to Elliott Lewis in 1959. She and Lewis remained wed until Lewis' death in 1990. Croft had a son, Eric, by her first marriage, who was killed in action during the Vietnam War.
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