Charles Ruggles
Born: 1886-02-08 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Died: 1970-12-23
Known For: Acting
Biography
Charles Ruggles had one of the longest careers in Hollywood, lasting more than 60 years and encompassing more than 100 films. He made his film debut in 1914 in The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) and worked steadily after that. He was memorably paired with Mary Boland in a series of comedies in the early 1930s, and was one of the standouts in the all-star comedy If I Had a Million (1932), as a harried, much-put-upon man who finally goes berserk in a china shop. Ruggles' slight stature and distinctive mannerisms - his fluttery, jumpy manner of speaking, his often befuddled look whenever events seemed about to overwhelm him, which was often - endeared him to generations of moviegoers. Memorable as Maj. Applegate the big-game hunter in the classic screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby (1938). Many will remember him as the narrator of the "Aesop's Fables" segment of the animated cartoon The Bullwinkle Show (1961). He was the brother of director Wesley Ruggles.
Filmography
1976
- Bob Hope's World of Comedy as Self - Tribute Montage (archive footage)
1967
- Carousel as The Starkeeper / Dr. Selden
1966
- The Ugly Dachshund as Dr. J. L. Pruitt
- Follow Me, Boys! as John Everett Hughes
1964
- Bewitched as Mr. Caldwell
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Governor Callahan
- I'd Rather Be Rich as Dr. Charles Crandall
1963
- Burke's Law as Mr. Gregory
- Vacation Playhouse as Eli Harcourt
- Son of Flubber as Judge Murdock
- Papa's Delicate Condition as Anthony Ghio
1961
- The Parent Trap as Charles McKendrick
- All in a Night's Work as Warren Kingsley Sr.
- The Pleasure of His Company as Mackenzie Savage
1960
- The Andy Griffith Show as John Canfield
- Aesop and Son as Aesop (voice)
1959
- The Bullwinkle Show as Aesop (voice)
- The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends as Aesop (voice)
1956
- Eloise as Murphy
1954
- The World of Mr. Sweeney as Cicero P. Sweeney
1953
- Ben and Me as Ben Franklin (voice)
1949
- The Ruggles as Charles Ruggles
- Look for the Silver Lining as Caro "Pop" Miller
- The Lovable Cheat as Claude Mercadet
1948
- Give My Regards to Broadway as Toby Helper
1947
- Ramrod as Ben Dickason
- It Happened on Fifth Avenue as Michael J. 'Mike' O'Connor
- My Brother Talks to Horses as Richard Pennington Roeder
- The Perfect Marriage as Dale Williams, Sr.
1946
- A Stolen Life as Freddie Linley
- Gallant Journey as Jim Montgomery
1945
- Incendiary Blonde as Cherokee Jim
- Bedside Manner as Dr. J.H. 'Doc' Fredericks
1944
- The Doughgirls as Stanley Slade
- The Road to Victory as Mr. Ames (uncredited)
- 3 Is a Family as Sam Whitaker
- Our Hearts Were Young and Gay as Mr. Otis Skinner
- The Shining Future as Mr. Ames
1943
- Dixie Dugan as Pa Dugan
1942
- Friendly Enemies as Heinrich Block
1941
- Model Wife as Milo Everett
- Honeymoon for Three as Harvey Wilson
- The Parson of Panamint as Chuckawalla Bill Redfield
- Go West, Young Lady as Jim Pendergast
- The Perfect Snob as Dr. Edgar Mason (as Charlie Ruggles)
1940
- The Invisible Woman as George
- Maryland as Dick Piper
- No Time for Comedy as Philo Swift
- Public Deb No. 1 as Milburn
- The Farmer's Daughter as Nicksie North
- Opened by Mistake as Buzz Nelson
1939
- Sudden Money as Sweeney J. Patterson
- Balalaika as Nicki Popoff
- Invitation to Happiness as Henry 'Pop' Hardy
- Night Work as Homer C. Fitch
- Boy Trouble as Homer C. Fitch
1938
- Bringing Up Baby as Major Applegate
- Breaking the Ice as Sam Terwilliger
- Hollywood Handicap as Himself
- Service de Luxe as Robinson
- His Exciting Night as Adam Tripp
- Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12 as Charles Ruggles
1937
- Turn Off the Moon as J. Elliott Dinwiddy
- Exclusive as Tod Swain
1936
- Anything Goes as Reverend Dr. Moon
- Early to Bed as Chester Beatty
- Hollywood Boulevard as Charles Ruggles - Actor - Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
- The Preview Murder Mystery as Himself (Uncredited)
- Yours for the Asking as Sunbather (uncredited)
- Wives Never Know as Homer Bigelow
- Mind Your Own Business as Orville Shanks
- Hearts Divided as Henry
1935
- Ruggles of Red Gap as Egbert Floud
- No More Ladies as Edgar Holden
- People Will Talk as Henry Wilton
- The Big Broadcast of 1936 as Wilbur Sealingsworth
1934
- Six of a Kind as J. Pinkham Whinney (as Charlie Ruggles)
- Murder in the Private Car as Godfrey D. Scott
- Friends of Mr. Sweeney as Asaph 'Ace' Holliday
- Melody in Spring as Warren Blodgett
- The Pursuit of Happiness as Aaron Kirkland
1933
- Alice in Wonderland as March Hare
- Good-bye Love as Oswald Groggs
- Murders in the Zoo as Peter Yates
- Girl Without a Room as Vergil Crock
- Terror Aboard as Blackie Witherspoon
- Melody Cruise as Pete Wells
- Mama Loves Papa as Wilbur Todd
1932
- Trouble in Paradise as Major
- Love Me Tonight as Viscount Gilbert de Varèze
- One Hour with You as Adolph
- If I Had a Million as Henry Peabody
- Madame Butterfly as Lieutenant Barton
- This Is the Night as Bunny West
- Evenings for Sale as Bimpfl
- The Night of June 13 as Philo Strawn (as Charlie Ruggles)
- Make Me a Star as Charles Ruggles (uncredited)
- 70,000 Witnesses as Johnny Moran
- This Reckless Age as Goliath Whitney (as Charlie Ruggles)
1931
- The Girl Habit as Charlie Floyd
- Honor Among Lovers as Monty Dunn
- The House That Shadows Built as (archive footage)
- The Smiling Lieutenant as Max
- Husband's Holiday as Clyde Saunders
- The Beloved Bachelor as Jerry Wells
1930
- Her Wedding Night as Bertie Bird
- Charley's Aunt as Fancourt Babberley
- Roadhouse Nights as Willie Bindbugel
- Queen High as T. Boggs Johns
- Young Man of Manhattan as Shorty Ross
1929
- Gentlemen of the Press as Charlie Haven
- The Lady Lies as Charlie Tayler
- The Battle of Paris as Zizi
1923
- The Heart Raider as Gaspard McMahon (an insurance clerk)
1915
- Peer Gynt as The Button Molder
- The Reform Candidate
- The Majesty of the Law as Lawrence Evans