Karl Slover, one of the last surviving munchkins from the film The Wizard of Oz, is now a friend of Dorothy’s undertaker.
Slover reportedly succumbed to a heart attack after he tripped on a bottle cap and fell into a cat bowl. The medical examiner listed the elderly Slover “dead at 93 -centimeters.”
When very young, he was diagnosed with pituitary dwarfism, meaning people were always going to ask him to explain Mickey Rooney.
In 1939, Slover was paid about $50 a week to act in The Wizard of Oz, or about “one quarter scale.”
Looking back, Slover always said it was important to live life to its half-fullest.
Never one to look down on an acting role, Slover once said, “There are no small parts, except on my body.”
Slover leaves behind a cigar box containing his bed.