Rags Ragland
Acting
Born: 1905-08-23 · Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Died: 1946-08-20
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
🎬 Movies (20)
The Hoodlum Saint
1946
Fishface
Her Highness and the Bellboy
1945
Albert Weever
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
1945
Self
Anchors Aweigh
1945
Police Sergeant
The Canterville Ghost
1944
Big Harry Waters
Meet the People
1944
Mr. Smith
3 Men in White
1944
Hobart Genet
Whistling in Brooklyn
1943
Chester Conway
Girl Crazy
1943
'Rags'
Du Barry Was a Lady
1943
Charlie / Dauphin
Whistling in Dixie
1942
Chester Conway / Sylvester 'Lester' Conway
Panama Hattie
1942
Rags (as 'Rags' Ragland)
Somewhere I'll Find You
1942
Charlie
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
1942
Louie
Maisie Gets Her Man
1942
Ears Cofflin
Sunday Punch
1942
'Killer' Connolly
Born to Sing
1942
'Grunt'
Whistling in the Dark
1941
Sylvester
Ringside Maisie
1941
Vic
Hats and Dogs
1938