About
Rags Ragland
Overview
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
Acting |
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| 1946 | The Hoodlum Saint | Actor | Fishface | 58 Average |
| 1945 | Her Highness and the Bellboy | Actor | Albert Weever | 59 Average |
| 1945 | Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 1945 | Anchors Aweigh | Actor | Police Sergeant | 61 Fair |
| 1944 | The Canterville Ghost | Actor | Big Harry Waters | 59 Average |
| 1944 | Meet the People | Actor | Mr. Smith | 58 Average |
| 1944 | 3 Men in White | Actor | Hobart Genet | 59 Average |
| 1943 | Whistling in Brooklyn | Actor | Chester Conway | 58 Average |
| 1943 | Girl Crazy | Actor | 'Rags' | 58 Average |
| 1943 | Du Barry was a Lady | Actor | Charlie / Dauphin | 58 Average |
| 1942 | Whistling in Dixie | Actor | Chester Conway / Sylvester 'Lester' Conway | 58 Average |
| 1942 | Panama Hattie | Actor | Rags (as 'Rags' Ragland) | 58 Average |
| 1942 | Somewhere I'll Find You | Actor | Charlie | 58 Average |
| 1942 | The War Against Mrs. Hadley | Actor | Louie | 58 Average |
| 1942 | Maisie Gets Her Man | Actor | Ears Cofflin | 59 Average |
| 1942 | Sunday Punch | Actor | 'Killer' Connolly | 58 Average |
| 1942 | Born to Sing | Actor | 'Grunt' | 58 Average |
| 1941 | Whistling in the Dark | Actor | Sylvester | 58 Average |
| 1941 | Ringside Maisie | Actor | Vic | 58 Average |