Rags Ragland
Birthday
1905/08/23
Day of death
1946/08/20 (41 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Also know as
John Lee Morgan Beauregard Ragland
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 s...Read more
Acting
(1943) Girl Crazy
as 'Rags'
(1943) Du Barry was a Lady
as Charlie / Dauphin
(1945) Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
as Self
(1945) Her Highness and the Bellboy
as Albert Weever
(1944) The Canterville Ghost
as Big Harry Waters
(1946) The Hoodlum Saint
as Fishface
(1941) Whistling in the Dark
as Sylvester
(1943) Whistling in Brooklyn
as Chester Conway
(1942) Whistling in Dixie
as Chester Conway / Sylvester 'Lester' Conway
(1944) Meet the People
as Mr. Smith
(1942) Born to Sing
as 'Grunt'
(1942) Maisie Gets Her Man
as Ears Cofflin
(1942) Panama Hattie
as Rags (as 'Rags' Ragland)
(1944) 3 Men in White
as Hobart Genet
(1945) Anchors Aweigh
as Police Sergeant
(1942) Somewhere I'll Find You
as Charlie
(1942) The War Against Mrs. Hadley
as Louie
(1942) Sunday Punch
as 'Killer' Connolly
(1941) Ringside Maisie
as Vic