Actor
Rags Ragland
August 23, 1905 · 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
Often works with
Henry O'Neill
6 titles together
Anchors Aweigh, Girl Crazy, Whistling in the Dark
Red Skelton
6 titles together
Du Barry Was a Lady, Whistling in the Dark, Whistling in Brooklyn
Virginia O'Brien
4 titles together
Du Barry Was a Lady, Meet the People, Ringside Maisie
Barbara Bedford
4 titles together
Du Barry Was a Lady, Whistling in the Dark, Meet the People
Frank Faylen
3 titles together
The Canterville Ghost, Somewhere I'll Find You, Maisie Gets Her Man
June Allyson
3 titles together
Girl Crazy, Her Highness and the Bellboy, Meet the People
Full filmography · 19
The Hoodlum Saint
as Fishface
1946
Her Highness and the Bellboy
as Albert Weever
1945
Anchors Aweigh
as Police Sergeant
19456.8
The Canterville Ghost
as Big Harry Waters
19446.9
Meet the People
as Mr. Smith
1944
3 Men in White
as Hobart Genet
1944
Whistling in Brooklyn
as Chester Conway
1943
Girl Crazy
as 'Rags'
19435.6
Du Barry Was a Lady
as Charlie / Dauphin
1943
Whistling in Dixie
as Chester Conway / Sylvester 'Lester' Conway
1942
Panama Hattie
as Rags (as 'Rags' Ragland)
1942
Somewhere I'll Find You
as Charlie
1942