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)

Фільмографія

• 1946The Hoodlum Saint — Fishface
• 1945Her Highness and the Bellboy — Albert Weever
• 1945Підняти якорі — Police Sergeant
• 19443 Men in White — Hobart Genet
• 1944Meet the People — Mr. Smith
• 1944The Canterville Ghost — Big Harry Waters
• 1943Du Barry Was a Lady — Charlie / Dauphin
• 1943Girl Crazy — 'Rags'
• 1943Whistling in Brooklyn — Chester Conway
• 1942Born to Sing — 'Grunt'
• 1942Maisie Gets Her Man — Ears Cofflin
• 1942Panama Hattie — Rags (as 'Rags' Ragland)
• 1942Somewhere I'll Find You — Charlie
• 1942Sunday Punch — 'Killer' Connolly
• 1942The War Against Mrs. Hadley — Louie
• 1942Whistling in Dixie — Chester Conway / Sylvester 'Lester' Conway
• 1941Ringside Maisie — Vic
• 1941Whistling in the Dark — Sylvester
• 1938Hats and Dogs — Rags

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (1)

• 1945Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood — Self