Rags Ragland
- Birthday
- Aug 23, 1905
- Birthplace
- Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Bio: Before plunging into show business, comedian Rags Ragland was a truck driver, a boxer (which explains his cauliflower ears), and a movie projectionist. He entered burlesque in his twenties, working his way up to "top banana" at Minsky's. Among his fellow burlesque performers, Ragland was famous (or notorious) for his wild ad-libs, his unpredictable intrusions into… More Bio: Before plunging into show business, comedian Rags Ragland was a truck driver, a boxer (which explains his cauliflower ears), and a movie projectionist. He entered burlesque in his twenties, working his way up to "top banana" at Minsky's. Among his fellow burlesque performers, Ragland was famous (or notorious) for his wild ad-libs, his unpredictable intrusions into other comics' acts, and his healthy off-stage libido. In 1940, he graduated to the big time in Ethel Merman's Broadway musical Panama Hattie. Shortly afterward, he became a contract player at MGM, where he gained popularity as Red Skelton's cohort in the Whistling movies (Whistling in the Dark, Whistling in Dixie, and Whistling in Brooklyn). Rags Ragland died suddenly of uremia at the age of 40. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Filmography
-
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
- Police Sergeant
- 67%
-
Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (1945)
- Himself
-
The Canterville Ghost (1944)
- Big Harry
- 83%
-
Meet The People (1944)
- Mr. Smith
-
Whistling in Brooklyn (1943)
- Chester
- See all 12 films
Rags Ragland Videos
Anchors Aweigh
1 minutes 54 seconds
Whistling In The Dark
2 minutes 21 seconds
Meet The People
30 seconds
Somewhere I'll Find You
30 seconds
Whistling In Brooklyn
2 minutes 57 seconds
Born Today
- Naomi Campbell (43 years old)
- Anna Belknap (41 years old)
- Richard Benjamin (75 years old)
- Barbara Parkins (71 years old)
- Guillermo Toledo (43 years old)
- Rena Tanaka (33 years old)
- Michael Constantine (86 years old)
- Tom Chambers (36 years old)
- Mark Christopher Lawrence (49 years old)
- Lucy Gordon (33 years old)
- Brooke Smith (46 years old)
- Maggie Q (34 years old)
- Nikolaj Lie Kaas (40 years old)
- Susan Strasberg (75 years old)
- Gary Sweet (56 years old)
- Annabel Chong (41 years old)
- Ginnifer Goodwin (35 years old)
- Hideaki Anno (53 years old)
- Alison Eastwood (41 years old)
- Karoline Herfurth (29 years old)
- Michael Kelly (44 years old)
- Sean Gunn (39 years old)
- Charles Aznavour (89 years old)
- Jadakiss (38 years old)
- See more (24)
