Charles Ruggles

Charles " Charlie" Ruggles Sherman ( born February 8, 1886 in Los Angeles, California; † 23 December 1970, Hollywood ) was an American actor and brother of the director Wesley Ruggles.

Life

Ruggles originally wanted to be a doctor, but played in 1905 first roles in the theater. He decided to become an actor and worked among other things in the 1913 premiere of the musical of The Tik Tok Man of Oz by Frank L. Baum with lyrics and compositions by Louis F. Gottschalk. A year later, Ruggles went to Broadway, where he celebrated partly great success in the coming years as in The Passing Show of 1918. Charles Ruggles made ​​his feature film debut in 1915, to the many silent films in which he appeared, was a film adaptation of peer Gynt at the side of Alma Rubens. But it was only with the introduction of sound film and began his film career. From 1929 to 1935 contract with Paramount Pictures, Ruggles turned including several films directed by Ernst Lubitsch, including Trouble in Paradise. Ruggles made ​​at the time with Mary Boland a popular screen couple in a number of cost- produced comedies. While Boland, as a rule the type of domineering wife took over, Ruggles played the long- suffering, oppressed husband. He was in 1933 one of the numerous Paramount stars who gathered the studio into an All Star Cast to bring Alice in Wonderland to the big screen. Ruggles was played by the March Hare. Among his better-known roles of appearance alongside Charles Laughton was in Butler in America, in which his brother Wesley led 1935 Director.

After 1936, Ruggles played without a firm commitment Studio in a variety of comedies, including 1938 alongside Katharine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby and 1939 Invitation to Happiness, again directed by Wesley Ruggles. From 1949 he had mostly television and theater performances. From 1949 to 1952 he was seen in The Ruggles, one of the first sitcoms on television. Until the late 1960s numerous guest appearances and roles in TV shows follow. In the early 1960s Ruggles returned back to the canvas. 1961 years he repeated in the film adaptation of the comedy in good company on the side of Fred Astaire and Lilli Palmer his stage role for which he was awarded the Tony Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1959. In 1963, Charles Ruggles in Papa's Delicate Condition, the film adaptation of the same name Corinne Griffith autobiography about her childhood and youth in Texas to see as their grandfather. After a few appearances in productions of Walt Disney Pictures, including The Parent Trap announce a grandfather of Hayley Mills and The Pathfinder 's can not leave and Forty daredevil, each next to Fred MacMurray, the actor center withdrew from the 1960s from the screen.

Throughout his career, which included more than 100 films and numerous stage and television appearances, Charles Ruggles was dedicated to the presentation rather scary, a little more self-confident men who faced the hostility of the environment mostly helpless.

Charlie Ruggles died at the age of 84 years and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park. He was married twice. From 1914 to 1921, Adele Rowland and his second wife since 1942 with Marion LaBarba. A total of three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame recall the activities in the fields of film, television and radio actor.

Filmography (selection)