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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 23, 1905
Died
August 20, 1946
Place of Birth
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Also Known As
- John Lee Morgan Beauregard Ragland
Rags Ragland
0.4 Popularity
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)
Known For
5.2
Fishface
The Hoodlum Saint
1946
6.3
Albert Weever
Her Highness and the Bellboy
1945
5.6
Self
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
1945
6.8
Police Sergeant
Anchors Aweigh
1945
6.7
Big Harry Waters
The Canterville Ghost
1944
5.4
Mr. Smith
Meet the People
1944
6.0
Hobart Genet
3 Men in White
1944
6.3
Chester Conway
Whistling in Brooklyn
1943
5.4
'Rags'
Girl Crazy
1943
6.2
Charlie / Dauphin
Du Barry Was a Lady
1943
Credits
The Hoodlum Saint
as Fishface
1946
5.2
Her Highness and the Bellboy
as Albert Weever
1945
6.3
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
as Self
1945
5.6
Anchors Aweigh
as Police Sergeant
1945
6.8
The Canterville Ghost
as Big Harry Waters
1944
6.7
Meet the People
as Mr. Smith
1944
5.4
3 Men in White
as Hobart Genet
1944
6.0
Whistling in Brooklyn
as Chester Conway
1943
6.3
Girl Crazy
as 'Rags'
1943
5.4
Du Barry Was a Lady
as Charlie / Dauphin
1943
6.2
Whistling in Dixie
as Chester Conway / Sylvester 'Lester' Conway
1942
5.0
Panama Hattie
as Rags (as 'Rags' Ragland)
1942
4.0
Somewhere I'll Find You
as Charlie
1942
5.6
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
as Louie
1942
5.0
Maisie Gets Her Man
as Ears Cofflin
1942
6.5
Sunday Punch
as 'Killer' Connolly
1942
5.0
Born to Sing
as 'Grunt'
1942
5.0
Whistling in the Dark
as Sylvester
1941
5.8
Ringside Maisie
as Vic
1941
4.5
Hats and Dogs
1938
0.0