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