‘The Wizard of Oz’ Munchkin Karl Slover — Dead at 93
The guy who played the lead trumpeter in the Munchkin band in ” The Wizard of Oz ” died yesterday at the age of 93 … reducing the number of living “munchkins” down to 3. Karl Slover — who played multiple munchkin roles in the 1939 classic — passed away in a Georgia hospital after going into cardiopulmonary arrest. Standing just 4-foot-5, Slover was actually one of the shortest Munchkins … and even appeared at a “Wizard of Oz” event in Chicago just last week.