Charles Ruggles
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.
Acting
Movie
Bringing Up Baby
as Major Applegate
1938
TV
Bewitched
as Mr. Caldwell
1964
Movie
The Parent Trap
as Charles McKendrick
1961
Movie
Trouble in Paradise
as The Major
1932
Movie
The Ugly Dachshund
as Dr. J. L. Pruitt
1966
TV
The Andy Griffith Show
as John Canfield
1960
Movie
Love Me Tonight
as Viscount Gilbert de Varèze
1932
Movie
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
as Michael J. 'Mike' O'Connor
1947
Movie
The Invisible Woman
as George
1940
Movie
One Hour with You
as Adolph
1932
Movie
Ruggles of Red Gap
as Egbert Floud
1935
TV
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Governor Callahan
1964
Movie
The Smiling Lieutenant
as Max
1931
Movie
Son of Flubber
as Judge Murdock
1963
Movie
Alice in Wonderland
as March Hare
1933
Movie
A Stolen Life
as Freddie Linley
1946
TV
The Bullwinkle Show
as Aesop (voice)
1959
Movie
Ramrod
as Ben Dickason
1947
Movie
Ben and Me
as Ben Franklin (voice)
1953
Movie
Murders in the Zoo
as Peter Yates
1933
Movie
If I Had a Million
as Henry Peabody
1932
Movie
Follow Me, Boys!
as John Everett Hughes
1966
Movie
All in a Night's Work
as Dr. Warren Kingsley, Sr
1961
Movie
Madame Butterfly
as Lieutenant Barton
1932