Charles Ruggles
AKA: Charlie Ruggles
Birthday: 1886-02-08
Died: 1970-12-23
Birthplace: 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.
Filmography
Character: Horace Applegate
Character: Dr. J. L. Pruitt
Character: Viscount Gilbert de Varèze
Character: John Everett Hughes
Character: Dr. J.H. 'Doc' Fredericks
Character: Freddie Linley
Character: Dale Williams, Sr.
Character: Charlie Tayler
Character: Charles McKendrick
Character: Willie Bindbugel
Character: Lieutenant Barton
Character: Henry 'Pop' Hardy
Character: Michael J. 'Mike' O'Connor
Character: Claude Mercadet
Character: Sam Terwilliger
Character: Caro "Pop" Miller
Character: Dr. Warren Kingsley, Sr
Character: Blackie Witherspoon
Character: Mackenzie Savage
Character: J. Pinkham Whinney (as Charlie Ruggles)
Character: Dr. Edgar Mason (as Charlie Ruggles)
Character: Asaph 'Ace' Holliday
Character: Aaron Kirkland
Character: Dr. Charles Crandall
Character: Richard Pennington Roeder
Character: Mr. Ames (uncredited)
Character: Wilbur Sealingsworth
Character: T. Boggs Johns
Character: Chester R. Beatty
Character: Jim Pendergast
Character: Homer C. Fitch
Character: Orville Shanks
Character: J. Elliott Dinwiddy
Character: Sweeney J. Patterson
Character: Godfrey D. Scott
Character: Philo Strawn (as Charlie Ruggles)
Character: Jim Montgomery
Character: Fancourt Babberley
Character: Goliath Whitney (as Charlie Ruggles)
Character: Cameo Appearance as Himself at Preview (Uncredited)
Character: Charles Ruggles - Actor - Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
Character: Chuckawalla Bill Redfield
Character: Heinrich Block
Character: The Starkeeper / Dr. Selden
Character: Warren Blodgett
Character: Ben Franklin (voice)
Character: Charles Ruggles (uncredited)
Character: Homer C. Fitch
Character: Gaspard McMahon (an insurance clerk)
Character: (archive footage)
Character: Clyde Saunders
Character: Charles Ruggles
Character: The Button Molder
Character: Lawrence Evans