Rags Ragland

Known for ActingBorn 1905-08-23Died 1946-08-20Louisville, Kentucky, USA

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)Read more

Movies & web series

Whistling in Brooklyn

The Canterville Ghost

Anchors Aweigh

Maisie Gets Her Man

Her Highness and the Bellboy

Du Barry Was a Lady

3 Men in White

Whistling in Dixie

Sunday Punch

Whistling in the Dark

Meet the People

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood

Panama Hattie

Somewhere I'll Find You

Girl Crazy

Ringside Maisie

The Hoodlum Saint

Born to Sing

The War Against Mrs. Hadley

Hats and Dogs