Rags Ragland
August 23, 1905 (119 years old) in 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)
Known For
Credits
- 1946 · The Hoodlum Saint as Fishface
- 1945 · Her Highness and the Bellboy as Albert Weever
- 1945 · Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood as Himself
- 1945 · Anchors Aweigh as Police Sergeant
- 1944 · The Canterville Ghost as Big Harry Waters
- 1944 · Meet the People as Mr. Smith
- 1944 · 3 Men in White as Hobart Genet
- 1943 · Whistling in Brooklyn as Chester Conway
- 1943 · Girl Crazy as 'Rags'
- 1943 · Du Barry was a Lady as Charlie / Dauphin
- 1942 · Whistling in Dixie as Chester Conway / Sylvester 'Lester' Conway
- 1942 · Panama Hattie as Rags (as 'Rags' Ragland)
- 1942 · Somewhere I'll Find You as Charlie
- 1942 · The War Against Mrs. Hadley as Louie
- 1942 · Maisie Gets Her Man as Ears Cofflin
- 1942 · Sunday Punch as 'Killer' Connolly
- 1942 · Born to Sing as 'Grunt'
- 1941 · Whistling in the Dark as Sylvester
- 1941 · Ringside Maisie as Vic