Mr. Raabe, who was also a wartime aviator and the first Little Oscar, the mascot of the Oscar Mayer meat company, died Friday in Orange Park, Fla., at 94. Bob Rigel, president of the Penney Retirement Community in Penney Farms, Fla., where Mr. Raabe had lived since 1986, said that the cause had not been officially determined but that it was presumed to be a heart attack.

Image Meinhardt Raabe holding the death certificate for the Wicked Witch of the East in “The Wizard of Oz.” Credit... MGM

At his death, Mr. Raabe was one of a handful of surviving Munchkins from the film.

With his high-collared indigo cloak and curly brimmed hat, Mr. Raabe’s character was known to generations of moviegoers for his official proclamation, sung in warbling tones as he unfurled an outsize death certificate: The Wicked Witch of the East was dead, the victim of blunt force trauma from an errant Kansas farmhouse.

At four feet, Mr. Raabe (pronounced Robby) was among the taller little people, or midgets as they were then known, hired for the film’s Munchkinland scenes. Though more than 100 Munchkins appeared on screen, his role was one of just a few with dialogue  lines he obligingly repeated, month in and month out, for the next 70 years as a motivational speaker before school groups, Rotary Clubs and Oz conventions.

Meinhardt Raabe was born on Sept. 2, 1915, in Watertown, Wis. Though he never surpassed 4 feet 7 inches at his tallest (he continued to grow till he was in his 30s), he did not hear the word “dwarf,” or even “midget,” until he was a young adult. No one in his community had seen a person with dwarfism before. Growing up, he later said, he assumed there was no one else in the world like him.

That changed in 1933, when the young Mr. Raabe visited the Midget Village at the Chicago World’s Fair. There before his eyes was a world of men and women just like him. Thrilled, he took a job as a barker there the next summer.