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Must redeem within 90 days. See full terms and conditions and this month's choices. In this version, he hails from Kansas like Ellie Dorothy , not Omaha. He is seen briefly in Kansas at the end of the first book.

In the second book, the heroes attempt to recruit him to help the Magic Land, but he states he had enough of magic. He never appears later. In The Great Wishy Woz he is the title character. Frank Baum may have based the character of the Wizard on Harry Keller. Bald and clean-shaven, Keller was "America's leading magician when Baum's book was written" and, in the judgement of one writer, "almost certainly the inspiration" for Baum's character.

In The Annotated Wizard of Oz , Michael Patrick Hearn suggests that Baum may have derived elements of the character and backstory of the Wizard from Washington Harrison Donaldson, a balloonist, ventriloquist and stage magician who worked for P. On July 15, , Donaldson made an ascent near Chicago and disappeared in a storm; neither he nor his balloon was ever seen again. In the movie The Wizard of Oz , the Wizard's character is similar to that the one found in the earlier books: a bumbling "humbug".

He was played by actor Frank Morgan. The same actor also played several other roles in the movie; including Professor Marvel, the mysterious traveling fortune teller that Dorothy meets in Kansas, the Guard at the Emerald City, the Guard at the Gates to Oz's Castle and the Coachman whose carriage is pulled by a "Horse of a Different Color". His face was also presumably used as the projected image of the Wizard.

It is unclarified if the Gatekeeper of Oz, the Guard and the Coachman are the same character as the Wizard of Oz himself, dressed differently because he finds more safe to do everything in his house without trusting in anybody to do "his" work, but not wanting the people of Oz and Dorothy to know how he really looks like.

He uses mechanical flying monkeys to gather footage and information. Having noticed 'The First True Sign', that is Dorothy's arrival in a tornado, he dispatches Eammon to find whatever tore through the sky and get rid of it. According to Glinda's words, he saved Oz when magic could not. In this version Oz was a unsuccessful salesman who sold rarely anything. One day while traveling in his hot air balloon a storm came up and blew him away to Oz where he landed in the middle of a ladies social.

In this version his name was "Herman Smith" who was a politician with a bad reputation. To advertise himself he got into a hot air balloon so people could see him in the sky and want to vote for him, but a storm came and blew him into the clouds. The Ozians had never seen a hot air balloon like his before so they made him the wizard where he lived in isolation for many decades. In The Wiz Live! The Wizard is portrayed by Actress Queen Latifah. Before she was the Wizard she was an assistant to a.

So she decided to pull a prank to get back at him but she was caught in a terrible storm and landed in Oz. Realizing this was her big chance she put on the magicians clothing and was proclaimed the Wiz. This was the first time a female portrayed the Wizard in a offical Oz production.

In Gregory Maguire 's best selling mature Oz novel titled Wicked , published in , the Wizard is undeniably a very cold blooded man, with a selfish spirit and a superficial personality. He has no regard for human feelings and comes off as very sociopathic if simply not just a flat out sociopath.

He finds that the Ozians are a very gullible folk compared to people from Kansas. See Oscar "Oz" Diggs film character. Photos Top cast Edit. James Franco Oz as Oz. Michelle Williams Annie as Annie …. Rachel Weisz Evanora as Evanora. Mila Kunis Theodora as Theodora …. Zach Braff Frank as Frank …. Tony Cox Knuck as Knuck. Stephen R. Hart Winkie General as Winkie General.

Tim Holmes Strongman as Strongman. Rob Crites Firebreather as Firebreather. Sam Raimi. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Oscar Diggs James Franco , a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled away from dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz. At first he thinks he's hit the jackpot-fame and fortune are his for the taking. That all changes, however, when he meets three witches, Theodora Mila Kunis , Evanora Rachel Weisz , and Glinda Michelle Williams , who are not convinced he is the great wizard everyone's been expecting.

Reluctantly drawn into the epic problems facing the Land of Oz and its inhabitants, Oscar must find out who is good and who is evil before it is too late. Putting his magical arts to use through illusion, ingenuity-and even a bit of wizardry-Oscar transforms himself not only into the great and powerful Wizard of Oz but into a better man as well.

Find yourself in Oz. Rated PG for sequences of action and scary images, and brief mild language. Did you know Edit. Frank Baum was the original author of the Oz series. Goofs When Oz and Theodora flee from the crash site, Theodora's boots are flat; moments later, when he boosts her into the cave, the boots have high heels.

Quotes Oz : You can have a nice pile of bananas! Crazy credits The closing credits are seen behind a stage curtain at first in different colors, then for the remainder it stays green.