Jerry Maren

Jerry Maren was an American actor whose long screen and stage career began with a song-and-dance act in New England. After being spotted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer scouts while touring with his dance instructor, he went to California and took the role of the green-clad Lollipop Guild member in The Wizard of Oz (1939), handing a lollipop to Judy Garland's Dorothy. That same year he was an extra in The Terror of Tiny Town (1938) and had a circus role in the Marx Brothers comedy At the Circus (1939). Maren later appeared in movies and television for decades, including an ape role in a Planet of the Apes sequel and stunt work on The Apple Dumpling Gang. On television he was the Little General on The Andy Williams Show from 1969 to 1971, played Harry Tallman on The Odd Couple, and was a regular on No Soap, Radio. He also spent years as Little Oscar and Buster Brown in commercials.