Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 08, 1886
Died
Dec 23, 1970
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Credits
117 titles
Charles Ruggles
Biography
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
Filmography
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
Self - Tribute Montage (archive footage)
Carousel
The Starkeeper / Dr. Selden
Follow Me, Boys!
John Everett Hughes
The Ugly Dachshund
Dr. J. L. Pruitt
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Governor Callahan
Bewitched
Mr. Caldwell
I'd Rather Be Rich
Dr. Charles Crandall
Burke's Law
Mr. Gregory
Vacation Playhouse
Eli Harcourt
Papa's Delicate Condition
Anthony Ghio
Son of Flubber
Judge Murdock
The Pleasure of His Company
Mackenzie Savage
The Parent Trap
Charles McKendrick
All in a Night's Work
Warren Kingsley Sr.
The Andy Griffith Show
John Canfield
Aesop and Son
Aesop (voice)
The Bullwinkle Show
Aesop (voice)
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
Aesop (voice)
Eloise
Murphy
The World of Mr. Sweeney
Cicero P. Sweeney
Ben and Me
Ben Franklin (voice)
The Ruggles
Charles Ruggles
Look for the Silver Lining
Caro "Pop" Miller
The Lovable Cheat
Claude Mercadet
Give My Regards to Broadway
Toby Helper
Ramrod
Ben Dickason
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Michael J. 'Mike' O'Connor
My Brother Talks to Horses
Richard Pennington Roeder
The Perfect Marriage
Dale Williams, Sr.
Gallant Journey
Jim Montgomery
A Stolen Life
Freddie Linley
Incendiary Blonde
Cherokee Jim
Bedside Manner
Dr. J.H. 'Doc' Fredericks
The Doughgirls
Stanley Slade
3 Is a Family
Sam Whitaker
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
Mr. Otis Skinner
The Road to Victory
Mr. Ames (uncredited)
The Shining Future
Mr. Ames
Dixie Dugan
Pa Dugan
Friendly Enemies
Heinrich Block
The Perfect Snob
Dr. Edgar Mason (as Charlie Ruggles)
Go West, Young Lady
Jim Pendergast
The Parson of Panamint
Chuckawalla Bill Redfield
Model Wife
Milo Everett
Honeymoon for Three
Harvey Wilson
The Invisible Woman
George
No Time for Comedy
Philo Swift
Public Deb No. 1
Milburn
Maryland
Dick Piper
Opened by Mistake
Buzz Nelson