Uncle Henry is a fictional character from The Oz Books by L Frank Baum.
14 Facts About Uncle Henry
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Uncle Henry is the uncle of Dorothy Gale and husband of Aunt Em, and lived with them on a farm in Kansas.
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Uncle Henry took Dorothy with him on an ocean voyage to Australia, where he had relatives, but during this trip Dorothy was lost again during a storm, and for several weeks a despondent Henry believed she had drowned, until she suddenly returned again, courtesy of the Nome King's Magic Belt.
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Uncle Henry was given the job of being Keeper of the Jewels in Ozma's treasure hoard for the purpose of keeping him occupied.
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Unlike Em, who is questioning everything about the Land of Oz, Uncle Henry accepts his new life and home with surprising ease, having traveled and seen the world a lot more than his wife had.
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Uncle Henry has been featured slightly more than Em in the Oz books, despite being less featured than she in the film, The Wizard of Oz.
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Uncle Henry had somewhat larger roles in John R Neill's The Wonder City of Oz and The Scalawagons of Oz, Jack Snow's The Magical Mimics in Oz, and Eric Shanower's The Giant Garden of Oz.
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Uncle Henry is played by Matt Clark opposite Piper Laurie.
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Uncle Henry has a broken leg throughout the film that Aunt Em insists is mended.
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Uncle Henry was buried in St Ann's Cemetery in Kansas.
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Uncle Henry appears in Dorothy and the Witches of Oz played by Lance Henriksen.
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Uncle Henry posthumously reveals that his great-grandparents Frank and Maud Baum were the true parents of Dorothy Gale in a letter.
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Uncle Henry was voiced by Stephen Root in the direct-to-video animated film Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz.
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Uncle Henry appears in Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz, voiced again by Stephen Root.