Person Details

Birthday: 1905-08-23 09:04:39

Death: 1946-08-20 09:04:39

Aliases: John Lee Morgan Beauregard Ragland

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Louisville, Kentucky, USA

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Movie Involvements: 5

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

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)

Most Famous Work

Somewhere I'll Find You
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6

Somewhere I'll Find You

(1942) Charlie
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
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5
The Hoodlum Saint
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5

The Hoodlum Saint

(1946) Fishface
Born to Sing
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5

Born to Sing

(1942) 'Grunt'
Maisie Gets Her Man
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7

Maisie Gets Her Man

(1942) Ears Cofflin

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