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