Rags Ragland
Acting
1905-08-23 · Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Rags Ragland was a boxer, then a burlesque comedian and then a Broadway performer before ending up in Hollywood to repeat his stage role as the boisterous sailor in Panama Hattie (1942), in which Ann Sothern played on film the part that had been played on Broadway by Ethel Merman. Ragland, typecast as a good-natured oaf with a knack for fracturing the English language, had as his sole movie employer Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, in some two dozen of whose lighter vehicles he appeared, in the company of such MGM luminaries as Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Judy Garland and Gene Kelly. Date of Birth 23 August 1905, Louisville, Kentucky Date of Death 20 August 1946, Los Angeles, California (uremic poisoning)
movieThe Hoodlum Saint
as Fishface · 1946 · 5.5
movieHer Highness and the Bellboy
as Albert Weever · 1945 · 6.5
movieBud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
as Self · 1945 · 5.8
movieAnchors Aweigh
as Police Sergeant · 1945 · 6.8
movieThe Canterville Ghost
as Big Harry Waters · 1944 · 6.9
movieMeet the People
as Mr. Smith · 1944 · 5.8
movie3 Men in White
as Hobart Genet · 1944 · 6.4
movieWhistling in Brooklyn
as Chester Conway · 1943 · 7.0
movieGirl Crazy
as 'Rags' · 1943 · 5.6
movieDu Barry Was a Lady
as Charlie / Dauphin · 1943 · 6.5
movieWhistling in Dixie
as Chester Conway / Sylvester 'Lester' Conway · 1942 · 6.2
moviePanama Hattie
as Rags (as 'Rags' Ragland) · 1942 · 5.7
movieSomewhere I'll Find You
as Charlie · 1942 · 5.7
movieThe War Against Mrs. Hadley
as Louie · 1942 · 5.3
movieMaisie Gets Her Man
as Ears Cofflin · 1942 · 6.7
movieSunday Punch
as 'Killer' Connolly · 1942 · 6.0
movieBorn to Sing
as 'Grunt' · 1942 · 5.4
movieWhistling in the Dark
as Sylvester · 1941 · 5.9
movieRingside Maisie
as Vic · 1941 · 5.6
movieHats and Dogs
as · 1938 · 0.0