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)
Filmography
all 19
Movies 19
self 1
Fishface
The Hoodlum Saint (1946)
Movie
Albert Weever
Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945)
Movie
Himself
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945)
Movie
Police Sergeant
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Movie
Big Harry Waters
The Canterville Ghost (1944)
Movie
Mr. Smith
Meet the People (1944)
Movie
Hobart Genet
3 Men in White (1944)
Movie
Chester Conway
Whistling in Brooklyn (1943)
Movie
'Rags'
Girl Crazy (1943)
Movie
Charlie / Dauphin
Du Barry was a Lady (1943)
Movie
Chester Conway / Sylvester 'Lester' Conway
Whistling in Dixie (1942)
Movie
Rags
Panama Hattie (1942)
Movie
Charlie
Somewhere I'll Find You (1942)
Movie
Louie
The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942)
Movie
Ears Cofflin
Maisie Gets Her Man (1942)
Movie
'Killer' Connolly
Sunday Punch (1942)
Movie
'Grunt'
Born to Sing (1942)
Movie
Sylvester
Whistling in the Dark (1941)
Movie
Vic
Ringside Maisie (1941)
Movie
Ratings
Average 6.05
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1941
1942
1943
1943
1946
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1905-08-23
Deathday1946-08-20 (40 years old)
Birth PlaceLouisville, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsJohn Lee Morgan Beauregard Ragland
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