Claim: Saratoga includes actors.

Frank Morgan -LRB- born Francis Phillip Wuppermann ; June 1 , 1890 -- September 18 , 1949 -RRB- was an American character actor . He is best known as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player and as the title character in The Wizard of Oz -LRB- 1939 -RRB- .