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(113)
Mr. Caldwell
1964
John Canfield
1960
Aesop (voice)
1959
Governor Callahan
1964
Charles McKendrick
1961
Eli Harcourt
1963
Horace Applegate
1938
Dr. J. L. Pruitt
1966
Henry Peabody
1932
Dr. Warren Kingsley, Sr
1961
Toby Helper
1948
Adolph
1932
Michael J. 'Mike' O'Connor
1947
Dr. Charles Crandall
1964
Ben Dickason
1947
Sam Terwilliger
1938
Murphy
1956
Henry 'Pop' Hardy
1939
Sunbather (uncredited)
1936
Anthony Ghio
1963
Dick Piper
1940
Mr. Otis Skinner
1944
Judge Murdock
1963
The Major
1932
Orville Shanks
1936
George
1940
J. Elliott Dinwiddy
1937
John Everett Hughes
1966
March Hare
1933
Charlie Haven
1929
Jim Pendergast
1941
Pa Dugan
1943
Shorty Ross
1930
Charles Ruggles (uncredited)
1932
Milburn
1940
Nickie North
1940
Wilbur Sealingsworth
1935
Homer C. Fitch
1939
Charlie Tayler
1929
(archive footage)
1931
Dr. J.H. 'Doc' Fredericks
1945
Robinson
1938
Bunny West
1932
Lieutenant Barton
1932
Edgar Holden
1935
Philo Swift
1940
Max
1931
Tod Swain
1937
Sweeney J. Patterson
1939
Stanley Slade
1944
Richard Pennington Roeder
1947
Aaron Kirkland
1934
Homer C. Fitch
1939
Dale Williams, Sr.
1947
The Starkeeper / Dr. Selden
1967
Chuckawalla Bill Redfield
1941
Freddie Linley
1946
Monty Dunn
1931
Blackie Witherspoon
1933
Pete Wells
1933
Ben Franklin (voice)
1953
Rev. Dr. Moon
1936
Mr. Ames
1944
Philo Strawn (as Charlie Ruggles)
1932
Aesop (voice)
1959
Charles Ruggles - Actor - Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
1936
Sam Whitaker
1944
Adam Tripp
1938
Nicki Popoff
1939
Charlie Floyd
1931
Mackenzie Savage
1961
Mr. Ames (uncredited)
1944
Dr. Edgar Mason (as Charlie Ruggles)
1941
Viscount Gilbert de Varèze
1932
Cicero P. Sweeney
1954
Johnny Moran
1932
Himself
1938
Himself (Uncredited)
1936
Jerry Wells
1931
Warren Blodgett
1934
Buzz Nelson
1940
Vergil Crock
1933
Asaph 'Ace' Holliday
1934
Harvey Wilson
1941
Oswald Groggs
1933
Peter Yates
1933
Cherokee Jim
1945
J. Pinkham Whinney (as Charlie Ruggles)
1934
Egbert Floud
1935
Godfrey D. Scott
1934
Milo Everett
1941
Zizi
1929
Homer Bigelow
1936
Charles Ruggles
1938
Caro "Pop" Miller
1949
Claude Mercadet
1949
Henry Wilton
1935
T. Boggs Johns
1930
Bimpfl
1932
Heinrich Block
1942
Willie Bindbugel
1930
Bertie Bird
1930
Jim Montgomery
1946
Clyde Saunders
1931
The Button Molder
1915
Chester R. Beatty
1936
Fancourt Babberley
1930
Lawrence Evans
1915
1915
Henry
1936
Wilbur Todd
1933
Goliath Whitney (as Charlie Ruggles)
1932
Gaspard McMahon (an insurance clerk)
1923