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Rags Ragland

Rags Ragland

Birthday: 1905-08-23 | Place of Birth: Louisville, 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 Date of Death 20 August 1946, Los Angeles, California (uremic poisoning)

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1946
The Hoodlum Saint

as    Fishface

1945
Her Highness and the Bellboy

as    Albert Weever

1945
Anchors Aweigh

as    Police Sergeant

1944
The Canterville Ghost

as    Big Harry Waters

1944
3 Men in White

as    Hobart Genet

1944
Meet the People

as    Mr. Smith

1943
Girl Crazy

as    'Rags'

1943
Du Barry was a Lady

as    Charlie / Dauphin

1943
Whistling in Brooklyn

as    Chester Conway

1942
Born to Sing

as    'Grunt'

1942
Sunday Punch

as    'Killer' Connolly

1942
Whistling in Dixie

as    Chester Conway / Sylvester 'Lester' Conway

1941
Whistling in the Dark

as    Sylvester

1941
Ringside Maisie

as    Vic