Rags Ragland
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 23, 1905
- Died
- August 20, 1946
- Birthplace
- 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)
Filmography
The Hoodlum Saint 1946
as Fishface
Her Highness and the Bellboy 1945
as Albert Weever
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood 1945
as Self
Anchors Aweigh 1945
as Police Sergeant
The Canterville Ghost 1944
as Big Harry Waters
Meet the People 1944
as Mr. Smith
3 Men in White 1944
as Hobart Genet
Whistling in Brooklyn 1943
as Chester Conway
Girl Crazy 1943
as 'Rags'
Du Barry Was a Lady 1943
as Charlie / Dauphin
Whistling in Dixie 1942
as Chester Conway / Sylvester 'Lester' Conway
Panama Hattie 1942
as Rags (as 'Rags' Ragland)
Somewhere I'll Find You 1942
as Charlie
The War Against Mrs. Hadley 1942
as Louie
Maisie Gets Her Man 1942
as Ears Cofflin
Sunday Punch 1942
as 'Killer' Connolly
Born to Sing 1942
as 'Grunt'
Whistling in the Dark 1941
as Sylvester
Ringside Maisie 1941
as Vic
Hats and Dogs 1938
as Rags
Credits from TMDB.