Charles Ruggles has built a long career as an American actor with a filmography that reaches back further than most viewers remember. 29 was the age at the first credit. Comedy is where the largest part of the work sits. There are 104 entries on the filmography, most of them supporting work in other people's stories. For much of the audience, Charles Ruggles is Major Applegate from 'Bringing Up Baby', whatever else the credits say. 'The Parent Trap' is the other credit most often cited.
Charles Ruggles
84 years (Feb 8, 1886 – Dec 23, 1970)Los Angeles, California, USA
96 Movies8 Series
Charles Ruggles has built a long career as an American actor with a filmography that reaches back further than most viewers remember. 29 was the age at the first credit. Comedy is where the largest part of the work sits. There are 104 entries on the filmography, most of them supporting work in other people's stories. For much of the audience, Charles Ruggles is Major Applegate from 'Bringing Up Baby', whatever else the credits say. 'The Parent Trap' is the other credit most often cited.
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.