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