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Rags Ragland

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1905-08-23

Day of Death

1946-08-20

Place of Birth

Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Rags Ragland

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)

Filmography (20)

⭐ 5.5 Role: Fishface

The Hoodlum Saint

1946
⭐ 6.5 Role: Albert Weever

Her Highness and the Bellboy

1945
⭐ 5.8 Role: Self

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood

1945
⭐ 6.8 Role: Police Sergeant

Anchors Aweigh

1945
⭐ 6.9 Role: Big Harry Waters

The Canterville Ghost

1944
⭐ 5.8 Role: Mr. Smith

Meet the People

1944
⭐ 6.4 Role: Hobart Genet

3 Men in White

1944
⭐ 7.0 Role: Chester Conway

Whistling in Brooklyn

1943
⭐ 5.6 Role: 'Rags'

Girl Crazy

1943
⭐ 6.5 Role: Charlie / Dauphin

Du Barry Was a Lady

1943
⭐ 6.2 Role: Chester Conway / Sylvester 'Lester' Conway

Whistling in Dixie

1942
⭐ 5.7 Role: Rags (as 'Rags' Ragland)

Panama Hattie

1942
⭐ 5.7 Role: Charlie

Somewhere I'll Find You

1942
⭐ 5.2 Role: Louie

The War Against Mrs. Hadley

1942
⭐ 6.7 Role: Ears Cofflin

Maisie Gets Her Man

1942