Charles Ruggles
Age: N/A | From: Los Angeles, California, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Charlie Ruggles , Charles Sherman Ruggles
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
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Movie Involvements: 40
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
Alice in Wonderland
(1933) March Hare
Murders in the Zoo
(1933) Peter Yates
Ramrod
(1947) Ben Dickason
A Stolen Life
(1946) Freddie Linley
Peer Gynt
(1915) The Button Molder
Invitation to Happiness
(1939) Henry 'Pop' Hardy
Follow Me, Boys!
(1966) John Everett Hughes
Exclusive
(1937) Tod SwainActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1967 | The Starkeeper / Dr. Selden | |
| 1966 | John Everett Hughes | |
| Dr. J. L. Pruitt | ||
| 1964 | Dr. Charles Crandall | |
| 1963 | Eli Harcourt | |
| Anthony Ghio | ||
| Judge Murdock | ||
| 1961 | Mackenzie Savage | |
| Charles McKendrick | ||
| Dr. Warren Kingsley, Sr | ||
| 1960 | John Canfield | |
| 1959 | Aesop (voice) | |
| 1956 | Murphy | |
| 1954 | Cicero P. Sweeney | |
| 1953 | Ben Franklin (voice) | |
| 1949 | Caro "Pop" Miller | |
| Claude Mercadet | ||
| 1948 | Toby Helper | |
| 1947 | Ben Dickason | |
| Michael J. 'Mike' O'Connor | ||
| Richard Pennington Roeder | ||
| Dale Williams, Sr. | ||
| 1946 | Jim Montgomery | |
| Freddie Linley | ||
| 1945 | Cherokee Jim | |
| Dr. J.H. 'Doc' Fredericks | ||
| 1944 | Stanley Slade | |
| Sam Whitaker | ||
| Otis Skinner | ||
| Mr. Ames (uncredited) | ||
| Mr. Ames | ||
| 1943 | Pa Dugan | |
| 1942 | Heinrich Block | |
| 1941 | Dr. Edgar Mason (as Charlie Ruggles) | |
| Jim Pendergast | ||
| Chuckawalla Bill Redfield | ||
| Milo Everett | ||
| Harvey Wilson | ||
| 1940 | George | |
| Philo Swift | ||
| Milburn | ||
| Dick Piper | ||
| Buzz Nelson | ||
| Nickie North | ||
| 1939 | Nicki Popoff | |
| Homer C. Fitch | ||
| Henry 'Pop' Hardy | ||
| Sweeney J. Patterson | ||
| Homer C. Fitch | ||
| 1938 | Adam Tripp | |
| Robinson | ||
| Sam Terwilliger | ||
| Charles Ruggles | ||
| Himself | ||
| Horace Applegate | ||
| 1937 | Tod Swain | |
| J. Elliott Dinwiddy | ||
| 1936 | Orville Shanks | |
| Homer Bigelow | ||
| Charles Ruggles - Actor - Cameo Appearance (uncredited) | ||
| Sunbather | ||
| Henry | ||
| Chester R. Beatty | ||
| Cameo Appearance as Himself at Preview (Uncredited) | ||
| Rev. Dr. Moon | ||
| 1935 | Wilbur Sealingsworth | |
| Edgar Holden | ||
| Henry Wilton | ||
| Egbert Floud | ||
| 1934 | Aaron Kirkland | |
| Asaph 'Ace' Holliday | ||
| Godfrey D. Scott | ||
| Warren Blodgett | ||
| J. Pinkham Whinney (as Charlie Ruggles) | ||
| 1933 | March Hare | |
| Vergil Crock | ||
| Oswald Groggs | ||
| Wilbur Todd | ||
| Pete Wells | ||
| Blackie Witherspoon | ||
| Peter Yates | ||
| 1932 | Lieutenant Barton | |
| Henry Peabody | ||
| Bimpfl | ||
| Major | ||
| Philo Strawn (as Charlie Ruggles) | ||
| Johnny Moran | ||
| Viscount Gilbert de Varèze | ||
| Charles Ruggles (uncredited) | ||
| Bunny West | ||
| Adolph | ||
| Goliath Whitney (as Charlie Ruggles) | ||
| 1931 | Clyde Saunders | |
| Jerry Wells | ||
| Max | ||
| (archive footage) | ||
| Charlie Floyd | ||
| Monty Dunn | ||
| 1930 | Fancourt Babberley | |
| Bertie Bird | ||
| T. Boggs Johns | ||
| Shorty Ross | ||
| Willie Bindbugel | ||
| 1929 | Zizi | |
| Charlie Tayler | ||
| Charlie Haven | ||
| 1923 | Gaspard McMahon (an insurance clerk) | |
| 1915 | N/A | |
| The Button Molder | ||
| Lawrence Evans | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
