Rags Ragland
Born: 1905-08-23 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Died: 1946-08-20
Known For: Acting
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
1946
- The Hoodlum Saint as Fishface
1945
- Anchors Aweigh as Police Sergeant
- Her Highness and the Bellboy as Albert Weever
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood as Self
1944
- The Canterville Ghost as Big Harry Waters
- 3 Men in White as Hobart Genet
- Meet the People as Mr. Smith
1943
- Du Barry Was a Lady as Charlie / Dauphin
- Girl Crazy as 'Rags'
- Whistling in Brooklyn as Chester Conway
1942
- Born to Sing as 'Grunt'
- Panama Hattie as Rags (as 'Rags' Ragland)
- Somewhere I'll Find You as Charlie
- Sunday Punch as 'Killer' Connolly
- The War Against Mrs. Hadley as Louie
- Whistling in Dixie as Chester Conway / Sylvester 'Lester' Conway
- Maisie Gets Her Man as Ears Cofflin
1941
- Ringside Maisie as Vic
- Whistling in the Dark as Sylvester