Rags Ragland
Known for Acting · 20 credits
- Born
- 1905-08-23
- Died
- 1946-08-20
- Place of birth
- Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- Also known as
- John Lee Morgan Beauregard Ragland
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)
Known For
Movies (20)
Anchors Aweigh
1945
as Police Sergeant
Girl Crazy
1943
as 'Rags'
The Hoodlum Saint
1946
as Fishface
Whistling in the Dark
1941
as Sylvester
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
1945
as Self
Du Barry Was a Lady
1943
as Charlie / Dauphin
Panama Hattie
1942
as Rags (as 'Rags' Ragland)
Her Highness and the Bellboy
1945
as Albert Weever
3 Men in White
1944
as Hobart Genet
The Canterville Ghost
1944
as Big Harry Waters
Sunday Punch
1942
as 'Killer' Connolly
Whistling in Brooklyn
1943
as Chester Conway
Somewhere I'll Find You
1942
as Charlie
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
1942
as Louie
Whistling in Dixie
1942
as Chester Conway / Sylvester 'Lester' Conway
Meet the People
1944
as Mr. Smith
Maisie Gets Her Man
1942
as Ears Cofflin
Born to Sing
1942
as 'Grunt'
Ringside Maisie
1941
as Vic
Hats and Dogs
1938
About 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,… With 20 credits spanning from 1938 to 1946, Rags Ragland has appeared in 20 films and 0 TV shows.
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Most Popular Rags Ragland Movies
- Anchors Aweigh (1945) — as Police Sergeant
- Girl Crazy (1943) — as 'Rags'
- The Hoodlum Saint (1946) — as Fishface
- Whistling in the Dark (1941) — as Sylvester
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945) — as Self
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