Rags Ragland

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Personal Info

Known for

Acting

From

Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Born

8/23/1905

Age

119

Credit(s)

20

Biography

Rags Ragland was a boxer, then a burlesque comedian and then a Broadway performer before ending up in Hollywood to repeat his stage role as the boisterous sailor in Panama Hattie (1942), in which Ann Sothern played on film the part that had been played on Broadway by Ethel Merman. Ragland, typecast as a good-natured oaf with a knack for fracturing ...Show More