Rags Ragland
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 23, 1905
- Died
- August 20, 1946 (aged 40)
- Birthplace
- Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Biography
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)
Known For
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Filmography
The Hoodlum Saint
Movie · as Fishface
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Movie · as Self
Her Highness and the Bellboy
Movie · as Albert Weever
Anchors Aweigh
Movie · as Police Sergeant
The Canterville Ghost
Movie · as Big Harry Waters
Meet the People
Movie · as Mr. Smith
3 Men in White
Movie · as Hobart Genet
Girl Crazy
Movie · as 'Rags'
Du Barry Was a Lady
Movie · as Charlie / Dauphin
Whistling in Brooklyn
Movie · as Chester Conway
Whistling in Dixie
Movie · as Chester Conway / Sylvester 'Lester' Conway
Born to Sing
Movie · as 'Grunt'
Maisie Gets Her Man
Movie · as Ears Cofflin
Panama Hattie
Movie · as Rags (as 'Rags' Ragland)
Somewhere I'll Find You
Movie · as Charlie
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Movie · as Louie
Sunday Punch
Movie · as 'Killer' Connolly
Whistling in the Dark
Movie · as Sylvester
Ringside Maisie
Movie · as Vic
Hats and Dogs
Movie · as Rags