Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkel Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs, The Wizard of Oz is the titular character and one of the two overarching protagonists (alongside Glinda) of the children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the 1939 movie adaptation of the same name, the 2013 Disney film “Oz the Great and Powerful” and the 1985 Disney film “Return to Oz”.
He is not a real wizard but an ordinary man from Omaha, Nebraska who was accidentally sent to Oz in a hot air balloon in a terrible storm while performing at the carnival. When he landed in Oz, the people thought he was a great wizard and gave him a job as their local sorcerer. His Kansas counterpart is a touring fortune teller named Professor Chester Marvel who had a horse named Sylvester.
In the original 1939 MGM film, he was played by the late Frank Morgan who also played Professor Marvel, the Gatekeeper, a Cabbie, and the Wizard's bodyguard.