Rags Ragland
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 (20 titles)
5.5MovieThe Hoodlum Saint
Fishface · 1946
6.5MovieHer Highness and the Bellboy
Albert Weever · 1945
5.8MovieBud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Self · 1945
6.8MovieAnchors Aweigh
Police Sergeant · 1945
6.9MovieThe Canterville Ghost
Big Harry Waters · 1944
5.8MovieMeet the People
Mr. Smith · 1944
6.4Movie3 Men in White
Hobart Genet · 1944
7.0MovieWhistling in Brooklyn
Chester Conway · 1943
5.6MovieGirl Crazy
'Rags' · 1943
6.5MovieDu Barry Was a Lady
Charlie / Dauphin · 1943
6.2MovieWhistling in Dixie
Chester Conway / Sylvester 'Lester' Conway · 1942
5.7MoviePanama Hattie
Rags (as 'Rags' Ragland) · 1942
5.7MovieSomewhere I'll Find You
Charlie · 1942
5.3MovieThe War Against Mrs. Hadley
Louie · 1942
6.7MovieMaisie Gets Her Man
Ears Cofflin · 1942
6.0MovieSunday Punch
'Killer' Connolly · 1942
5.4MovieBorn to Sing
'Grunt' · 1942
5.9MovieWhistling in the Dark
Sylvester · 1941
5.6MovieRingside Maisie
Vic · 1941
MovieHats and Dogs
1938