Rags Ragland

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.

Casted

Anchors Aweigh

Played Police Sergeant

Average Rating

6.8

163 votes

Release Date

Aug 13, 1945

81 years ago
The Canterville Ghost

Played Big Harry Waters

Average Rating

6.7

42 votes

Release Date

Jul 20, 1944

82 years ago
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood

Played Self

Average Rating

5.7

26 votes

Release Date

Oct 05, 1945

81 years ago
Girl Crazy

Played 'Rags'

Average Rating

5.4

22 votes

Release Date

Nov 26, 1943

83 years ago
Du Barry Was a Lady

Played Charlie / Dauphin

Average Rating

6.2

15 votes

Release Date

Aug 13, 1943

83 years ago
Whistling in the Dark

Played Sylvester

Average Rating

5.8

14 votes

Release Date

Aug 08, 1941

85 years ago
Somewhere I'll Find You

Played Charlie

Average Rating

5.6

13 votes

Release Date

Aug 27, 1942

84 years ago
3 Men in White

Played Hobart Genet

Average Rating

6.0

11 votes

Release Date

May 25, 1944

83 years ago
Her Highness and the Bellboy

Played Albert Weever

Average Rating

6.3

9 votes

Release Date

Nov 11, 1945

81 years ago
The War Against Mrs. Hadley

Played Louie

Average Rating

5.0

7 votes

Release Date

Aug 07, 1942

84 years ago
The Hoodlum Saint

Played Fishface

Average Rating

5.2

6 votes

Release Date

Apr 04, 1946

81 years ago
Meet the People

Played Mr. Smith

Average Rating

5.0

4 votes

Release Date

Jun 01, 1944

83 years ago
Born to Sing

Played 'Grunt'

Average Rating

5.0

4 votes

Release Date

Feb 18, 1942

85 years ago
Ringside Maisie

Played Vic

Average Rating

4.5

4 votes

Release Date

Aug 01, 1941

85 years ago
Whistling in Dixie

Played Chester Conway / Sylvester 'Lester' Conway

Average Rating

5.0

3 votes

Release Date

Dec 31, 1942

84 years ago
Whistling in Brooklyn

Played Chester Conway

Average Rating

6.3

3 votes

Release Date

Dec 01, 1943

83 years ago
Sunday Punch

Played 'Killer' Connolly

Average Rating

5.0

3 votes

Release Date

May 08, 1942

85 years ago
Maisie Gets Her Man

Played Ears Cofflin

Average Rating

6.5

2 votes

Release Date

Jun 01, 1942

85 years ago
Panama Hattie

Played Rags (as 'Rags' Ragland)

Average Rating

4.0

2 votes

Release Date

Sep 30, 1942

84 years ago
Hats and Dogs

Average Rating

0.0

0 votes

Release Date

Dec 31, 1938

88 years ago

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