Really most sincerely dead

 

Meinhardt Raabe, dead at 94.  Raabe was one of the Munchkins in 1939's The Wizard of Oz.  He played the coroner who pronounced the Wicked of the West dead with the sing-song line, "As coroner I must aver, I thoroughly examined her, and she's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead."

Raabe was one of 124 Munchkins and one of nine who had a speaking role.