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The Hoodlum Saint

as Fishface

1946
Anchors Aweigh

as Police Sergeant

1945
Her Highness and the Bellboy

as Albert Weever

1945
The Canterville Ghost

as Big Harry Waters

1944
Meet the People

as Mr. Smith

1944
3 Men in White

as Hobart Genet

1944
Girl Crazy

as 'Rags'

1943
Du Barry was a Lady

as Charlie / Dauphin

1943
Whistling in Brooklyn

as Chester Conway

1943
Whistling in Dixie

as Chester Conway / Sylvester 'Lester' Conway

1942
Born to Sing

as 'Grunt'

1942
Sunday Punch

as 'Killer' Connolly

1942
Whistling in the Dark

as Sylvester

1941
Ringside Maisie

as Vic

1941
Rags Ragland Rags Ragland

Birthday

1905-08-23

Place of Birth

Louisville, Kentucky, USA

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)
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