Charles Ruggles
Actor
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.
Filmography
The Parent Trap
as Charles McKendrick 1961
Trouble in Paradise
as The Major 1932
The Ugly Dachshund
as Dr. J. L. Pruitt 1966
Love Me Tonight
as Viscount Gilbert de Varèze 1932
The Invisible Woman
as George 1940
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
as Michael J. 'Mike' O'Connor 1947
One Hour with You
as Adolph 1932
Ruggles of Red Gap
as Egbert Floud 1935
Son of Flubber
as Judge Murdock 1963
The Smiling Lieutenant
as Max 1931
Alice in Wonderland
as March Hare 1933
A Stolen Life
as Freddie Linley 1946
Ramrod
as Ben Dickason 1947
Ben and Me
as Ben Franklin (voice) 1953
Murders in the Zoo
as Peter Yates 1933
If I Had a Million
as Henry Peabody 1932