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Charles Ruggles

1886 - 1970 (age 84) • Acting

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.

Known For

Bringing Up Baby

75%

Major Applegate

1938

Bewitched

78%

Mr. Caldwell

1964

The Parent Trap

70%

Charles McKendrick

1961

Trouble in Paradise

74%

Major

1932

The Ugly Dachshund

67%

Dr. J. L. Pruitt

1966

The Andy Griffith Show

76%

John Canfield

1960

Love Me Tonight

66%

Viscount Gilbert de Varèze

1932

The Invisible Woman

57%

George

1940

Bob Hope's World of Comedy

Self - Tribute Montage (archive footage)

1976

Carousel

80%

The Starkeeper / Dr. Selden

1967

Follow Me, Boys!

67%

John Everett Hughes

1966

The Ugly Dachshund

67%

Dr. J. L. Pruitt

1966

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

72%

Governor Callahan

1964

Bewitched

78%

Mr. Caldwell

1964

I'd Rather Be Rich

66%

Dr. Charles Crandall

1964

Burke's Law

63%

Mr. Gregory

1963

Vacation Playhouse

80%

Eli Harcourt

1963

Papa's Delicate Condition

55%

Anthony Ghio

1963

Son of Flubber

61%

Judge Murdock

1963

The Pleasure of His Company

64%

Mackenzie Savage

1961

The Parent Trap

70%

Charles McKendrick

1961

All in a Night's Work

60%

Warren Kingsley Sr.

1961

The Andy Griffith Show

76%

John Canfield

1960

The Bullwinkle Show

71%

Aesop (voice)

1959

The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends

80%

Aesop (voice)

1959

Eloise

Murphy

1956

The World of Mr. Sweeney

90%

Cicero P. Sweeney

1954

Ben and Me

69%

Ben Franklin (voice)

1953

Look for the Silver Lining

61%

Caro "Pop" Miller

1949

The Lovable Cheat

60%

Claude Mercadet

1949

Give My Regards to Broadway

75%

Toby Helper

1948

Ramrod

65%

Ben Dickason

1947

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

71%

Michael J. 'Mike' O'Connor

1947

My Brother Talks to Horses

75%

Richard Pennington Roeder

1947

The Perfect Marriage

55%

Dale Williams, Sr.

1947

Gallant Journey

65%

Jim Montgomery

1946

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