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Charles Ruggles

Charles Ruggles

Actor · 1886 – 1970 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Charles Ruggles had one of the longest careers in Hollywood, lasting more than 60 years and encompassing more than 100 films. He made his film debut in 1914 in The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) and worked steadily after that. He was memorably paired with Mary Boland in a series of comedies in the early 1930s, and was one of the standouts in the all-star comedy If I Had a Million (1932), as a harried, much-put-upon man who finally goes berserk in a china shop. Ruggles' slight stature and distinctive mannerisms - his fluttery, jumpy manner of speaking, his often befuddled look whenever events seemed about to overwhelm him, which was often - endeared him to generations of moviegoers. Memorable as Maj. Applegate the big-game hunter in the classic screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby (1938). Many will remember him as the narrator of the "Aesop's Fables" segment of the animated cartoon The Bullwinkle Show (1961). He was the brother of director Wesley Ruggles.

Movies24

  • Movie7.0

    The Parent Trap

    1961 · 442 votes

  • Movie7.5

    Bringing Up Baby

    1938 · 1.1K votes

  • Movie6.7

    The Ugly Dachshund

    1966 · 190 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Son of Flubber

    1963 · 71 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Love Me Tonight

    1932 · 93 votes

  • Movie6.4

    A Stolen Life

    1946 · 58 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Follow Me, Boys!

    1966 · 34 votes

  • Movie6.0

    All in a Night's Work

    1961 · 22 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Ramrod

    1947 · 54 votes

  • Movie7.4

    Trouble in Paradise

    1932 · 322 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Alice in Wonderland

    1933 · 66 votes

  • Movie7.1
  • Movie
  • Movie6.5

    If I Had a Million

    1932 · 51 votes

  • Movie5.7

    The Invisible Woman

    1940 · 89 votes

  • Movie6.6

    I'd Rather Be Rich

    1964 · 5 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Murders in the Zoo

    1933 · 48 votes

  • Movie5.3

    The Farmer's Daughter

    1940 · 6 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Good-bye Love

    1933 · 3 votes

  • Movie5.3

    No Time for Comedy

    1940 · 12 votes

  • Movie8.0

    Turn Off the Moon

    1937 · 2 votes

  • Movie5.8
  • Movie6.5

    Girl Without a Room

    1933 · 4 votes

  • Movie7.5

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  • TV7.1

    The Bullwinkle Show

    1959 · 61 votes

  • TV7.6

    The Andy Griffith Show

    1960 · 175 votes

  • TV7.8

    Bewitched

    1964 · 764 votes

  • TV6.3

    Burke's Law

    1963 · 12 votes

  • TV7.2

    The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

    1964 · 75 votes

  • TV8.0

    Vacation Playhouse

    1963 · 2 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Ruggles

    1949 · 1 votes

  • TV8.0

    Aesop and Son

    1960 · 1 votes

  • TV9.0