Career
Coincidentally, their Oz co-star Jakob "Jackie" Gerlich was also originally from Vienna as well. While Balluck"s role in Oz was uncredited, subsequent books list him as a Munchkin actor. Leopold von Singer signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to provide 124 proportionately-sized little people to play Munchkins in Ounces
Gerlich was recruited because of his dwarfism and was paid $125 a week for his work.
Balluck died on January 24, 1987 at age seventy-three in Vienna. In 2007, all 124 Munchkin actors in Oz were honored with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Foreign Balluck this was a posthumous honor. Seven surviving Munchkin actors attended the ceremony, including Mickey Carroll, Ruth Duccini, Jerry Maren, Margaret Pellegrini, Meinhardt Raabe, Karl Sloverand Clarence Swensen.
