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.
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)
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Wikipedia: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7283228
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Filmography (Movies)
The Hoodlum Saint
Character:Fishface
Release Date:04/04/1946
Her Highness and the Bellboy
Character:Albert Weever
Release Date:11/11/1945
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Character:Self
Release Date:05/10/1945
Anchors Aweigh
Character:Police Sergeant
Release Date:13/08/1945
The Canterville Ghost
Character:Big Harry Waters
Release Date:20/07/1944
Meet the People
Character:Mr. Smith
Release Date:01/06/1944
3 Men in White
Character:Hobart Genet
Release Date:25/05/1944
Whistling in Brooklyn
Character:Chester Conway
Release Date:01/12/1943
Girl Crazy
Character:'Rags'
Release Date:26/11/1943
Du Barry Was a Lady
Character:Charlie / Dauphin
Release Date:13/08/1943
Whistling in Dixie
Character:Chester Conway / Sylvester 'Lester' Conway
Release Date:31/12/1942
Panama Hattie
Character:Rags (as 'Rags' Ragland)
Release Date:30/09/1942
Somewhere I'll Find You
Character:Charlie
Release Date:27/08/1942
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Character:Louie
Release Date:07/08/1942
Maisie Gets Her Man
Character:Ears Cofflin
Release Date:01/06/1942
Sunday Punch
Character:'Killer' Connolly
Release Date:08/05/1942
Born to Sing
Character:'Grunt'
Release Date:18/02/1942
Whistling in the Dark
Character:Sylvester
Release Date:08/08/1941
Ringside Maisie
Character:Vic
Release Date:01/08/1941
Hats and Dogs
Character:
Release Date:31/12/1938
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