Rags Ragland
Age: N/A | From: Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Person Details
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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
(1942) Charlie
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
(1942) Louie
The Hoodlum Saint
(1946) Fishface
Born to Sing
(1942) 'Grunt'
Maisie Gets Her Man
(1942) Ears CofflinActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1946 | Fishface | |
| 1945 | Albert Weever | |
| Himself | ||
| Police Sergeant | ||
| 1944 | Big Harry Waters | |
| Mr. Smith | ||
| Hobart Genet | ||
| 1943 | Chester Conway | |
| 'Rags' | ||
| Charlie / Dauphin | ||
| 1942 | Chester Conway / Sylvester 'Lester' Conway | |
| Rags (as 'Rags' Ragland) | ||
| Charlie | ||
| Louie | ||
| Ears Cofflin | ||
| 'Killer' Connolly | ||
| 'Grunt' | ||
| 1941 | Sylvester | |
| Vic | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
