Bert Lahr

b. Irving Lahrheim, 13 August 1895, d. 4 December 1967, New York, USA. An actor, comedian and singer, with his rubber-faced expression and noisy antics - which included his trademark expression ‘gnong-gnong' - Lahr was one of the all-time great clowns of the American musical theatre. After working for a good many years in vaudeville and burlesque - some of the time with his first wife in an act called Lahr And Mercedes - he appeared on Broadway in the revue Harry Delmar's Revels (1927), before making an immediate impact as an erratic prize fighter in the musical comedy Hold E...