Birth Day: 1886-02-08
Place of birth: 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.
Credits
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As Self - Tribute Montage (archive footage)
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As The Starkeeper / Dr. Selden -
As John Everett Hughes -
As Dr. J. L. Pruitt -
As Dr. Charles Crandall -
As Anthony Ghio -
As Judge Murdock -
As Mackenzie Savage -
As Charles McKendrick -
As Dr. Warren Kingsley, Sr -
As Murphy -
As Ben Franklin (voice) -
As Claude Mercadet -
As Caro "Pop" Miller -
As Toby Helper -
As Ben Dickason -
As Michael J. 'Mike' O'Connor -
As Dale Williams, Sr. -
As Richard Pennington Roeder -
As Jim Montgomery -
As Freddie Linley -
As Dr. J.H. 'Doc' Fredericks -
As Cherokee Jim -
As Mr. Ames (uncredited)
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As Sam Whitaker -
As Mr. Ames -
As Stanley Slade -
As Mr. Otis Skinner -
As Pa Dugan -
As Heinrich Block -
As Dr. Edgar Mason (as Charlie Ruggles) -
As Milo Everett -
As Harvey Wilson -
As Jim Pendergast -
As Chuckawalla Bill Redfield -
As George -
As Milburn -
As Nicksie North -
As Buzz Nelson -
As Dick Piper -
As Philo Swift -
As Sweeney J. Patterson -
As Homer C. Fitch -
As Henry 'Pop' Hardy -
As Nicki Popoff -
As Homer C. Fitch -
As Charles Ruggles -
As Himself -
As Adam Tripp
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As Robinson -
As Sam Terwilliger -
As Horace Applegate -
As J. Elliott Dinwiddy
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As Tod Swain -
As Chester R. Beatty -
As Orville Shanks -
As Himself (Uncredited) -
As Henry -
As Rev. Dr. Moon -
As Homer Bigelow -
As Sunbather (uncredited) -
As Charles Ruggles - Actor - Cameo Appearance (uncredited) -
As Henry Wilton -
As Wilbur Sealingsworth -
As Edgar Holden -
As Egbert Floud -
As Warren Blodgett -
As Aaron Kirkland -
As Godfrey D. Scott -
As J. Pinkham Whinney (as Charlie Ruggles) -
As Asaph 'Ace' Holliday -
As Pete Wells -
As Peter Yates -
As Blackie Witherspoon -
As Oswald Groggs -
As Wilbur Todd -
As March Hare -
As Vergil Crock -
As Lieutenant Barton -
As Charles Ruggles (uncredited) -
As Adolph -
As Johnny Moran -
As Viscount Gilbert de Varèze -
As Bimpfl -
As The Major -
As Philo Strawn (as Charlie Ruggles) -
As Henry Peabody -
As Goliath Whitney (as Charlie Ruggles) -
As Bunny West -
As Charlie Floyd -
As Max -
As (archive footage) -
As Jerry Wells -
As Monty Dunn -
As Clyde Saunders -
As Fancourt Babberley -
As T. Boggs Johns -
As Shorty Ross -
As Willie Bindbugel -
As Bertie Bird -
As Zizi -
As Charlie Tayler -
As Charlie Haven -
As Gaspard McMahon (an insurance clerk) -
As The Button Molder -
As Lawrence Evans -
