Rags Ragland
Known for ActingBorn 1905-08-23 — died 1946-08-20Louisville, Kentucky, USA
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
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Date of Death 20 August 1946, Los Angeles, California (uremic poisoning)
Known for
Du Barry Was a Lady
1943 · as Charlie / Dauphin
Anchors Aweigh
1945 · as Police Sergeant
Ringside Maisie
1941 · as Vic
Her Highness and the Bellboy
1945 · as Albert Weever
Born to Sing
1942 · as 'Grunt'
Panama Hattie
1942 · as Rags (as 'Rags' Ragland)
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
1945 · as Self
The Hoodlum Saint
1946 · as Fishface
The Canterville Ghost
1944 · as Big Harry Waters
Girl Crazy
1943 · as 'Rags'
Whistling in the Dark
1941 · as Sylvester
Somewhere I'll Find You
1942 · as Charlie
Meet the People
1944 · as Mr. Smith
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
1942 · as Louie
Sunday Punch
1942 · as 'Killer' Connolly
3 Men in White
1944 · as Hobart Genet
Maisie Gets Her Man
1942 · as Ears Cofflin
Whistling in Brooklyn
1943 · as Chester Conway