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.
as The Starkeeper / Dr. Selden
as John Everett Hughes
as Dr. J. L. Pruitt
as Governor Callahan(1 ep)
as Mr. Caldwell(1 ep)
as Dr. Charles Crandall
as Mr. Gregory(1 ep)
as Eli Harcourt(1 ep)
as Anthony Ghio
as Judge Murdock
as Mackenzie Savage
as Charles McKendrick
as Warren Kingsley Sr.
as John Canfield(1 ep)
as Aesop (voice)(39 eps)
as Aesop (voice)(815 eps)
as Aesop (voice)(163 eps)
as Murphy
as Cicero P. Sweeney(1 ep)
as Ben Franklin (voice)
as Charles Ruggles(137 eps)
as Caro "Pop" Miller
as Claude Mercadet
as Toby Helper
as Ben Dickason
as Michael J. 'Mike' O'Connor
as Richard Pennington Roeder
as Dale Williams, Sr.
as Jim Montgomery
as Freddie Linley
as Cherokee Jim
as Dr. J.H. 'Doc' Fredericks
as Stanley Slade
as Sam Whitaker
as Mr. Otis Skinner
as Mr. Ames (uncredited)
as Mr. Ames
as Pa Dugan
as Heinrich Block
as Dr. Edgar Mason (as Charlie Ruggles)
as Jim Pendergast
as Chuckawalla Bill Redfield
as Milo Everett
as Harvey Wilson
as George
as Philo Swift
as Milburn
as Dick Piper
as Buzz Nelson
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as Homer C. Fitch
as Henry 'Pop' Hardy
as Sweeney J. Patterson
as Homer C. Fitch
as Adam Tripp
as Robinson
as Sam Terwilliger
as Charles Ruggles
as Himself
as Major Applegate
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as J. Elliott Dinwiddy
as Orville Shanks
as Homer Bigelow
as Charles Ruggles - Actor - Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
as Sunbather (uncredited)
as Henry
as Chester Beatty
as Himself (Uncredited)
as Reverend Dr. Moon
as Wilbur Sealingsworth
as Edgar Holden
as Henry Wilton
as Egbert Floud
as Aaron Kirkland
as Asaph 'Ace' Holliday
as Godfrey D. Scott
as Warren Blodgett
as J. Pinkham Whinney (as Charlie Ruggles)
as March Hare
as Vergil Crock
as Oswald Groggs
as Wilbur Todd
as Pete Wells
as Blackie Witherspoon
as Peter Yates
as Lieutenant Barton
as Henry Peabody
as Bimpfl
as Major
as Philo Strawn (as Charlie Ruggles)
as Johnny Moran
as Viscount Gilbert de Varèze
as Charles Ruggles (uncredited)
as Bunny West
as Adolph
as Goliath Whitney (as Charlie Ruggles)
as Clyde Saunders
as Jerry Wells
as Max
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as Charlie Floyd
as Monty Dunn
as Fancourt Babberley
as Bertie Bird
as T. Boggs Johns
as Shorty Ross
as Willie Bindbugel
as Zizi
as Charlie Tayler
as Charlie Haven
as Gaspard McMahon (an insurance clerk)
as The Button Molder
as Lawrence Evans