Actor

Rags Ragland

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Movies: 20Series: 0

TMDB ID: 129549

IMDb ID: nm0706533

Known for: Acting

Born: August 23, 1905

Died: August 20, 1946

Age: 40

Place of birth: Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1938 - 1946

Years active: 9

Average TMDB rating: 6.15

Wikidata: Q7283228

Also known as

John Lee Morgan Beauregard Ragland

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Biography

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)