Charles Ruggles(1886-1970)
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Charles Ruggles had one of the longest careers in Hollywood, lasting
more than 50 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
Si j'avais un 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
L'impossible Monsieur Bébé (1938). Many
will remember him as the narrator of the "Aesop's Fables" segment of
the animated cartoon
Rocky and His Friends (1959).
He was the brother of director
Wesley Ruggles.
