Wenn du gerade bei Film/Serie in Komödie, Romantik unterwegs bist, taucht Rags Ragland ziemlich oft in den Credits auf. Hier bekommst du einen schnellen Überblick — plus ein paar gute Einstiege.
Wenn die offizielle Bio dünn ist: kein Stress — die Highlights und die Filmografie-Auswahl weiter unten helfen meistens mehr beim Einstieg.
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)
