Silent Film
The Wizard has appeared in nearly every silent Oz film, portrayed by different actors each time.
- The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays (1908): Sam 'Smiling' Jones
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910): Hobart Bosworth
- The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914): Todd Wright
- His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz (1914): J. Charles Haydon
- Wizard of Oz (1925): Charles Murray
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Famous quotes containing the words silent and/or film:
“Pull down the blinds, bring fiddle and clarionet
That there be no foot silent in the room
Nor mouth from kissing, nor from wine unwet;
Our Father Rosicross is in his tomb.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Television does not dominate or insist, as movies do. It is not sensational, but taken for granted. Insistence would destroy it, for its message is so dire that it relies on being the background drone that counters silence. For most of us, it is something turned on and off as we would the light. It is a service, not a luxury or a thing of choice.”
—David Thomson, U.S. film historian. America in the Dark: The Impact of Hollywood Films on American Culture, ch. 8, William Morrow (1977)