August Clarence Swensen (December 29, 1917 – February 25, 2009) was an American actor and was one of the Munchkins in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.

[3] Eventually, Swensen answered a call from MGM casting officers to play a Munchkin for a salary of $700.

[6] His future wife Myrna, who was twelve at the time[7] while Clarence was twenty two,[1] was also up for a part in The Wizard of Oz, but an inflamed appendix forced her to miss the opportunity.

He experienced poor health then after but still attended many events with the other surviving Munchkins, including the presentation of the Munchkins' star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2007.Not long after the Wizard of Oz was released in theatres, the second world war broke out, and Swensen worked as a civilian radar installation and repair specialist during the war.

[3] Swensen's wife, Myrna (born February 25, 1926, Austin, Texas), was also a dwarf, whose father (also a little person) had travelled the United States from 1917 to 1925 as Buster Brown, and Myrna had tap danced and sang at a traveling Midget Village that stopped at the Dallas World's Fair in 1936.