Tommy Wonder; Actor and ‘Ziegfeld Follies’ Dancer

Tommy Wonder, 78, a lead dancer in the “Ziegfeld Follies of 1943,” one of the most successful of the later Broadway extravaganzas. Wonder started dancing as a toddler in California and with his sister was in vaudeville before working in films. He appeared with Jackie Cooper in “Gangster’s Boy” and “Thrill of a Lifetime” with Betty Grable and Dorothy Lamour. After the Follies, which starred Milton Berle and Ilona Massey, Wonder moved away from acting and dancing and became an artist’s representative. In New York City on Dec. 11 of heart failure.