Personal Info
John Lee Morgan Beauregard Ragland
Rags Ragland
Acting
Biography
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 employer Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, in some two dozen of whose lighter vehicles he appeared, in the company of such MGM luminaries as Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Judy Garland and Gene Kelly.
Date of Birth 23 Aug…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
The Hoodlum Saint
as Fishface
Anchors Aweigh
as Police Sergeant
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
as Self
Her Highness and the Bellboy
as Albert Weever
The Canterville Ghost
as Big Harry Waters
Meet the People
as Mr. Smith
3 Men in White
as Hobart Genet
Du Barry Was a Lady
as Charlie / Dauphin
Girl Crazy
as 'Rags'
Whistling in Brooklyn
as Chester Conway