Charles Ruggles
Birthday: 1886-02-08
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Biography: 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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Trouble in Paradise
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company...
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Bringing Up Baby
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strang...
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The Ugly Dachshund
The Garrisons are the "proud parents" of three adorable dachshund pups - and one overgrown Great Dan...
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The Smiling Lieutenant
An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his vi...
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Love Me Tonight
A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess livi...
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Husband's Holiday
A stuffy family man cheats on his wife but she refuses him a divorce at first. Meanwhile his mistres...
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Alice in Wonderland
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderla...
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Peer Gynt
A fantasy from Ibsen's verse drama. Ne'er-do-well and braggart Peer Gynt has many adventures in vari...
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Follow Me, Boys!
Lem Siddons is part of a traveling band who has a dream of becoming a lawyer. Deciding to settle dow...
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The Invisible Woman
Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that wil...
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Ruggles of Red Gap
In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles - a gentl...
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Bedside Manner
A beautiful female doctor visits her small hometown on her way back to Chicago. Her overworked uncle...
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Ramrod
A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she dete...
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One Hour with You
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatiou...
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The Perfect Marriage
A couple celebrate their tenth anniversary by quarreling their way to divorce court....
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A Stolen Life
A twin takes her deceased sister's place as wife of the man they both love....
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The Lady Lies
Much to the disapproval of his snooty children, a wealthy widowed attorney takes up with a beautiful...
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Murders in the Zoo
Dr. Gorman is a millionaire adventurer, traveling the world in search of dangerous game. His bored, ...
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Madame Butterfly
Pinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she keeps his Japanes...
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Roadhouse Nights
Based on the Hammett novel, this ultra-rare film—is nominally taken from the author's classic gang-w...
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The Parent Trap
Two identical twin sisters, separated at birth by their parents' divorce, are reunited years later a...
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Hollywood Handicap
A group of stable hands is given a race horse when its owner retires from the business. They raise m...
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This Is the Night
When Stephen, the husband of Gerald’s mistress, Claire, discovers a pair of tickets for their planne...
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It Happened on Fifth Avenue
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house wit...
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The Lovable Cheat
Posing as a wealthy Parisian, Mercadet fleeces friends and casual acquaintances alike. He is forced ...
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Papa's Delicate Condition
A jolly, family-oriented railroad superintendent tries to get his act together when his love for the...
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Breaking the Ice
The story begins while Tommy Martin and his mother, Martha Martin say goodbye to Henry and Reuben Jo...
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Look for the Silver Lining
After getting her start in her parents' vaudeville act, Marilyn Miller is taken under the wing of da...
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The Doughgirls
Newlyweds Arthur and Vivian arrive to their honeymoon suite in Washington D.C., only to find it occu...
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All in a Night's Work
After the sudden death of magazine publisher Colonel Ryder, his nephew, Tony inherits the magazine a...
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If I Had a Million
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight st...
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Melody Cruise
A bachelor millionaire on a cruise is protected by a friend from the avid attentions of a crowd of h...
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Terror Aboard
An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out wh...
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Honeymoon for Three
Noted writer Kenneth Bixby, in love with his witty secretary Anne Rogers, is on a book tour when he ...
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The Pleasure of His Company
Biddeford "Pogo" Poole, an urbane charmer, has been absent for most of the life of his daughter, Jes...
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Balalaika
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activiti...
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No More Ladies
A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous....
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Six of a Kind
The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and their great Dane....
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The Perfect Snob
When a small town veterinarian discovers that his just-graduated daughter is a gold-digging elitist,...
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Incendiary Blonde
Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York n...
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No Time for Comedy
An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success....
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Friends of Mr. Sweeney
Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to hi...
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Honor Among Lovers
Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who...
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Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12
A visit to Buck Jones's new ranch and his horse, Silver, to James Gleason and his dog, to Charles Ru...
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Good-bye Love
A sexy golddigger lands who she thinks is a wealthy big-game hunter from a royal family. What she do...
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I'd Rather Be Rich
An updated remake of It Started With Eve (1941). A young heiress is summoned to the bedside of her d...
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The Pursuit of Happiness
Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in l...
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My Brother Talks to Horses
Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with horse...
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The Road to Victory
Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy...
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Anything Goes
A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner...
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Hearts Divided
Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, visiting the United States, falls madly in love with a young w...
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Charley's Aunt
A student is pressured into pretending to be a classmate's Aunt so he can act as a false chaperone....
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The Big Broadcast of 1936
Two-bit radio station owner Spud Miller doubles as the station's sole announcer. On the verge of ban...
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Queen High
The two partners of a ladies' garter business are constantly feuding with each other. When they ask ...
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Young Man of Manhattan
Two flappers try to get their newspaper reporter boyfriends to pay attention to them....
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Evenings for Sale
Impoverished Count von Dopenthal plans to commit suicide and spends his last night at a costume ball...
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3 Is a Family
Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, "3 Is a Family" is a 1940s farce. Charlie Ruggles plays ...
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Service de Luxe
Glamorous and efficient Helen Murphy runs a service that will provide any type of assistance to weal...
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Early to Bed
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before...
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Mind Your Own Business
Nature reporter Orville Shanks retreats to the woods for material for his "Our Wild Friends" column ...
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Give My Regards to Broadway
A family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play baseball. Mu...
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Go West, Young Lady
A young woman arrives in the western town of Headstone and helps the locals outsmart a gang of outla...
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Exclusive
Two rival newspaper editors try to scoop each other through their different methods of integrity on ...
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Turn Off the Moon
Department store owner J. Elliott Dinwiddy has waited ten years for the perfect astrological moment ...
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Boy Trouble
A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys....
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Sudden Money
Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney a...
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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
In 1923, two young ladies depart, unescorted, for a tour of Europe. Their great naïvité and efforts ...
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Girl Without a Room
A Tennessee art school student wins a scholarship to paint in Paris. He is thrilled until he arrives...
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The Shining Future
Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy...
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Murder in the Private Car
Ruth Raymond works on the telephone switchboard of a large NYC office building. One day, a private d...
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Her Wedding Night
Norma Martin is an American movie star in France trying to avoid the attention of men. Going to visi...
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The Night of June 13
Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna ...
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Mama Loves Papa
A woman's ceaseless badgering sends her husband on a drinking bender. Along the way, he makes a new ...
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Public Deb No. 1
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoo...
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Gallant Journey
Director William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation films in this bio o...
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Dixie Dugan
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dol...
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The Majesty of the Law
The story of a Virginia judge who sternly hands down severe sentences while in court only to later h...
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This Reckless Age
Donald Ingals and his wife Eunice are conventional and loving parents who are shocked when their son...
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The Farmer's Daughter
Broadway producer Nicksie North and press agent Scoop Trimble find an investor for their next show w...
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The Preview Murder Mystery
Someone is murdering the cast and crew of a new Hollywood movie, and the leading lady may be next. A...
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Eloise
It's not so much that Eloise is a mischievous child, but the darnedest things do happen when she's a...
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Hollywood Boulevard
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of ...
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Yours for the Asking
Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, i...
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The Parson of Panamint
As he looks over the dusty, deserted remains of the western "boom town" of Panamint, grizzled old pr...
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Maryland
A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with ho...
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His Exciting Night
A milquetoast clerk is betrothed to the socialite whose aunt holds a big account with his company....
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Gentlemen of the Press
A newspaperman is drawn away from family life by the needs of his paper until a new woman enters his...
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Son of Flubber
Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery of ...
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The Battle of Paris
Gertrude Lawrence plays a singer in Paris during World War I. After stealing from Tony (Walter Petri...
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The Beloved Bachelor
Michael Morda, a young sculptor living in San Francisco, is madly in love with Elinor Hunter, and th...
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Friendly Enemies
During World War I, two German men friends who emigrated to the US and become millionaires agree on ...
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Carousel
In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century, the swaggering, carefree carnival bar...
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Melody in Spring
It's love at first sight for singer John Craddock and Jane Blodgett who meet while John is seeking a...
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Ben and Me
A revisionist version of American history as a small mouse comes to live with Benjamin Franklin and ...
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Make Me a Star
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. ...
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Wives Never Know
The blissful marriage of Homer and Marcia Bigelow is disrupted when Marcia hosts a party for one J. ...
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70,000 Witnesses
College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses,...
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Night Work
The Fitch family is managing an apartment building when the grandfather of their adopted son Butch d...
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Opened by Mistake
A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside....
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The House That Shadows Built
The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount Pict...
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People Will Talk
Henry and Clarice Wilkins have been married twenty-three years and are a model suburban couple who h...
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The Girl Habit
A Lothario tries to get arrested as protection from the gangster husband who has threatened him....
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The Reform Candidate
Realizing that his mayoral campaign is in serious trouble, reform candidate Frank Grandell sends his...
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