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Charles Ruggles

Acting Born Feb 8, 1886 Los Angeles, California, USA 24 credits

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.

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Known for

Film

Predator

as John Canfield

Bewitched

as Mr. Caldwell

Burke's Law

as Mr. Gregory
Film

Bringing Up Baby

as Major Applegate

Full filmography

  • The Andy Griffith Show (1960) as John Canfield
  • Bewitched (1964) as Mr. Caldwell
  • Burke's Law (1963) as Mr. Gregory
  • The Bullwinkle Show (1959) as Aesop (voice)
  • The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964) as Governor Callahan
  • Vacation Playhouse (1963) as Eli Harcourt
  • The Parent Trap (1961) as Charles McKendrick
  • The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends (1959) as Aesop (voice)
  • Bringing Up Baby (1938) as Major Applegate
  • The Ruggles (1949) as Charles Ruggles
  • Trouble in Paradise (1932) as The Major
  • Alice in Wonderland (1933) as March Hare
  • The Ugly Dachshund (1966) as Dr. J. L. Pruitt
  • Son of Flubber (1963) as Judge Murdock
  • One Hour with You (1932) as Adolph
  • If I Had a Million (1932) as Henry Peabody
  • Follow Me, Boys! (1966) as John Everett Hughes
  • Love Me Tonight (1932) as Viscount Gilbert de Varèze
  • Gallant Journey (1946) as Jim Montgomery
  • All in a Night's Work (1961) as Dr. Warren Kingsley, Sr
  • Ramrod (1947) as Ben Dickason
  • A Stolen Life (1946) as Freddie Linley
  • Incendiary Blonde (1945) as Cherokee Jim
  • It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947) as Michael J. 'Mike' O'Connor