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Charles Ruggles
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…
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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.
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1976
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
Movie Self - Tribute Montage (archive footage)
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1967
Carousel
Movie The Starkeeper / Dr. Selden
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1966
Follow Me, Boys!
Movie John Everett Hughes
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1966
The Ugly Dachshund
Movie Dr. J. L. Pruitt
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1964
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV show Governor Callahan
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1964
Bewitched
TV show Mr. Caldwell
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1964
I'd Rather Be Rich
Movie Dr. Charles Crandall
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1963
Burke's Law
TV show Mr. Gregory
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1963
Vacation Playhouse
TV show Eli Harcourt
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1963
Papa's Delicate Condition
Movie Anthony Ghio
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1963
Son of Flubber
Movie Judge Murdock
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1961
The Pleasure of His Company
Movie Mackenzie Savage
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1961
The Parent Trap
Movie Charles McKendrick
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1961
All in a Night's Work
Movie Warren Kingsley Sr.
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1960
The Andy Griffith Show
TV show John Canfield
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1960
Aesop and Son
TV show Aesop (voice)
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1959
The Bullwinkle Show
TV show Aesop (voice)
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1959
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
TV show Aesop (voice)
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1956
Eloise
Movie Murphy
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1954
The World of Mr. Sweeney
TV show Cicero P. Sweeney
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1953
Ben and Me
Movie Ben Franklin (voice)
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1949
The Ruggles
TV show Charles Ruggles
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1949
Look for the Silver Lining
Movie Caro "Pop" Miller
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1949
The Lovable Cheat
Movie Claude Mercadet
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1948
Give My Regards to Broadway
Movie Toby Helper
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1947
Ramrod
Movie Ben Dickason
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1947
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Movie Michael J. 'Mike' O'Connor
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1947
My Brother Talks to Horses
Movie Richard Pennington Roeder
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1947
The Perfect Marriage
Movie Dale Williams, Sr.
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1946
Gallant Journey
Movie Jim Montgomery
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1946
A Stolen Life
Movie Freddie Linley
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1945
Incendiary Blonde
Movie Cherokee Jim
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1945
Bedside Manner
Movie Dr. J.H. 'Doc' Fredericks
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1944
The Doughgirls
Movie Stanley Slade
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1944
3 Is a Family
Movie Sam Whitaker
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1944
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
Movie Mr. Otis Skinner
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1944
The Road to Victory
Movie Mr. Ames (uncredited)
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1944
The Shining Future
Movie Mr. Ames
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1943
Dixie Dugan
Movie Pa Dugan
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1942
Friendly Enemies
Movie Heinrich Block
