Rags Ragland
Acting
Biography
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)
Born: August 23, 1905
Place of Birth: Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Known For
Filmography
as Fishface
as Albert Weever
as Police Sergeant
as Big Harry Waters
as Mr. Smith
as Hobart Genet
as Chester Conway
as 'Rags'
as Charlie / Dauphin
as Chester Conway / Sylvester 'Lester' Conway
as Rags (as 'Rags' Ragland)
as Charlie
as Louie
as Ears Cofflin
as 'Killer' Connolly
as 'Grunt'
as Sylvester
as Vic