
Charles Ruggles had one of the longest careers in Hollywood, lasting more than 60 years and encompassing more than 100 films. He made his film debut in 1914 in The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) and worked steadily after that. He was memorably paired with Mary Boland in a series of comedies in the early 1930s, and was one of the standouts in the all-star comedy If I Had a Million (1932), as a harried, much-put-upon man who finally goes berserk in a china shop. Ruggles' slight stature and distinctive mannerisms - his fluttery, jumpy manner of speaking, his often befuddled look whenever events seemed about to overwhelm him, which was often - endeared him to generations of moviegoers. Memorable as Maj. Applegate the big-game hunter in the classic screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby (1938). Many will remember him as the narrator of the "Aesop's Fables" segment of the animated cartoon The Bullwinkle Show (1961). He was the brother of director Wesley Ruggles.

The Parent Trap
1961 · as Charles McKendrick

Bringing Up Baby
1938 · as Major Applegate

Incendiary Blonde
1945 · as Cherokee Jim

Alice in Wonderland
1933 · as March Hare

Follow Me, Boys!
1966 · as John Everett Hughes

Trouble in Paradise
1932 · as The Major

Eloise
1956 · as Murphy

Son of Flubber
1963 · as Judge Murdock

Love Me Tonight
1932 · as Viscount Gilbert de Varèze

Bob Hope's World of Comedy
1976 · as Self - Tribute Montage (archive footage)

The Ugly Dachshund
1966 · as Dr. J. L. Pruitt

A Stolen Life
1946 · as Freddie Linley

Model Wife
1941 · as Milo Everett

The Invisible Woman
1940 · as George

Murders in the Zoo
1933 · as Peter Yates

Peer Gynt
1915 · as The Button Molder

Papa's Delicate Condition
1963 · as Anthony Ghio

All in a Night's Work
1961 · as Dr. Warren Kingsley, Sr