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)
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The Hoodlum Saint | Fishface | 1946-04-04 |
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Her Highness and the Bellboy | Albert Weever | 1945-11-11 |
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood | Himself | 1945-10-05 |
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Anchors Aweigh | Police Sergeant | 1945-08-13 |
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3 Men in White | Hobart Genet | 1944-05-25 |
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Meet the People | Mr. Smith | 1944-06-01 |
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The Canterville Ghost | Big Harry Waters | 1944-07-20 |
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Du Barry was a Lady | Charlie / Dauphin | 1943-08-13 |
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Girl Crazy | 'Rags' | 1943-11-26 |
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Whistling in Brooklyn | Chester Conway | 1943-12-01 |
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Born to Sing | 'Grunt' | 1942-02-18 |
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Sunday Punch | 'Killer' Connolly | 1942-05-08 |
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Somewhere I'll Find You | Charlie | 1942-08-27 |
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The War Against Mrs. Hadley | Louie | 1942-08-07 |
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Whistling in Dixie | Chester Conway / Sylvester 'Lester' Conway | 1942-12-31 |
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Maisie Gets Her Man | Ears Cofflin | 1942-06-01 |
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Panama Hattie | Rags (as 'Rags' Ragland) | 1942-09-30 |
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Ringside Maisie | Vic | 1941-08-01 |
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Whistling in the Dark | Sylvester | 1941-08-08 |
