Rags Ragland
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...
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...
Known For
Cast Credits
The Hoodlum Saint
as Fishface
Her Highness and the Bellboy
as Albert Weever
Anchors Aweigh
as Police Sergeant
The Canterville Ghost
as Big Harry Waters
Meet the People
as Mr. Smith
3 Men in White
as Hobart Genet
Whistling in Brooklyn
as Chester Conway
Girl Crazy
as 'Rags'
Du Barry Was a Lady
as Charlie / Dauphin
Whistling in Dixie
as Chester Conway / Sylvester 'Lester' Conway
Panama Hattie
as Rags (as 'Rags' Ragland)
Somewhere I'll Find You
as Charlie
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
as Louie
Maisie Gets Her Man
as Ears Cofflin
Sunday Punch
as 'Killer' Connolly
Born to Sing
as 'Grunt'
Whistling in the Dark
as Sylvester
Ringside Maisie
as Vic