Charles Ruggles
Acting
🎂 1886-02-08
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.
Cast credits(112)
John Canfield
1960
Aesop (voice)
1959
Mr. Caldwell
1964
Eli Harcourt
1963
Aesop (voice)
1959
Cicero P. Sweeney
1954
Charles McKendrick
1961
Horace Applegate
1938
Dr. Warren Kingsley, Sr
1961
George
1940
Adolph
1932
March Hare
1933
Freddie Linley
1946
John Everett Hughes
1966
Judge Murdock
1963
The Major
1932
Egbert Floud
1935
Michael J. 'Mike' O'Connor
1947
Max
1931
Homer Bigelow
1936
Henry Peabody
1932
Tod Swain
1937
Dr. J. L. Pruitt
1966
Jim Montgomery
1946
Peter Yates
1933
Viscount Gilbert de Varèze
1932
Philo Strawn (as Charlie Ruggles)
1932
Lieutenant Barton
1932
Milo Everett
1941
Godfrey D. Scott
1934
Bunny West
1932
Nicki Popoff
1939
Homer C. Fitch
1939
Philo Swift
1940
Stanley Slade
1944
Anthony Ghio
1963
Ben Dickason
1947
Warren Blodgett
1934
Wilbur Sealingsworth
1935
Milburn
1940
Chuckawalla Bill Redfield
1941
Mackenzie Savage
1961
Fancourt Babberley
1930
Charles Ruggles - Actor - Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
1936
Dr. Charles Crandall
1964
Pa Dugan
1943
Sam Terwilliger
1938
Jim Pendergast
1941
Harvey Wilson
1941
Orville Shanks
1936
Mr. Ames
1944
Dr. J.H. 'Doc' Fredericks
1945
Mr. Ames (uncredited)
1944
Rev. Dr. Moon
1936
Himself (Uncredited)
1936
Asaph 'Ace' Holliday
1934
Charlie Haven
1929
Henry Wilton
1935
Dick Piper
1940
J. Elliott Dinwiddy
1937
Sweeney J. Patterson
1939
Heinrich Block
1942
Homer C. Fitch
1939
Dale Williams, Sr.
1947
Nickie North
1940
Murphy
1956
Aaron Kirkland
1934
T. Boggs Johns
1930
(archive footage)
1931
The Starkeeper / Dr. Selden
1967
Cherokee Jim
1945
Willie Bindbugel
1930
Mr. Otis Skinner
1944
Henry 'Pop' Hardy
1939
Shorty Ross
1930
Goliath Whitney (as Charlie Ruggles)
1932
Himself
1938
Monty Dunn
1931
Bimpfl
1932
The Button Molder
1915
Ben Franklin (voice)
1953
Clyde Saunders
1931
Bertie Bird
1930
Caro "Pop" Miller
1949
Richard Pennington Roeder
1947
1915
Sam Whitaker
1944
J. Pinkham Whinney (as Charlie Ruggles)
1934
Pete Wells
1933
Charles Ruggles (uncredited)
1932
Blackie Witherspoon
1933
Sunbather (uncredited)
1936
Charlie Tayler
1929
Vergil Crock
1933
Charlie Floyd
1931
Chester R. Beatty
1936
Claude Mercadet
1949
Zizi
1929
Robinson
1938
Toby Helper
1948
Edgar Holden
1935
Buzz Nelson
1940
Oswald Groggs
1933
Adam Tripp
1938
Wilbur Todd
1933
Johnny Moran
1932
Henry
1936
Charles Ruggles
1938
Jerry Wells
1931
Lawrence Evans
1915
Gaspard McMahon (an insurance clerk)
1923
Dr. Edgar Mason (as Charlie Ruggles)
1941