Cast: Charles Ruggles

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Charles Ruggles. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Bringing Up Baby

1938 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Cary Grant · Charles Ruggles · May Robson

Plot David Huxley (Grant) is an absent-minded paleontologist who needs to finish the reconstruction of a dinosaur for an exhibit that can provide good money for the museum. At a meeting...

8.0

31K votes

8.0

31K votes

Trouble in Paradise

1932 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Herbert Marshall · Miriam Hopkins · Kay Francis · Edward Everett Horton

Plot In Venice, Lily (Miriam Hopkins), a pickpocket pretending to be a countess, meets the famous thief Gaston Monescu (Herbert Marshall), who is posing as a Baron, and they fall in...

7.7

3K votes

7.7

3K votes

Love Me Tonight

1932 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Maurice Chevalier · Jeanette MacDonald · Myrna Loy · Charles Ruggles

Plot Maurice Courtelin, a Parisian tailor (Maurice Chevalier), is owed a great sum of money by a viscount (Charles Ruggles). Stalling for time, the titled but penniless nobleman moves Maurice into...

7.1

542 votes

7.1

542 votes

Ruggles of Red Gap

1935 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Charles Laughton · Mary Boland · Charles Ruggles · ZaSu Pitts

Plot While visiting Paris in 1908, upper class Lord Burnstead loses his butler playing poker. Egbert and Effie Floud bring Ruggles back to Red Gap, Washington. Effie wants to take advantage...

6.9

294 votes

6.9

294 votes

A Stolen Life

1946 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Bette Davis · Glenn Ford · Dane Clark · Walter Brennan

Plot Kate Bosworth and her twin sister Patricia fall in love with Martha's Vineyard lighthouse inspector Bill Emerson. Patricia and Bill are married. To forget, Kate returns to painting. Bill goes...

6.9

379 votes

6.9

379 votes

The Smiling Lieutenant

1931 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Maurice Chevalier · Claudette Colbert · Miriam Hopkins · Charles Ruggles

Plot Lieutenant Nikolaus 'Niki' von Preyn falls for a violinist called Franzi in Vienna and they become lovers. When the King of Flausenthurm arrives to the city with his plain daughter,...

6.8

314 votes

6.8

314 votes

One Hour with You

1932 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch · George Cukor

Cast Maurice Chevalier · Jeanette MacDonald · Genevieve Tobin · Roland Young

Plot Dr. André Bertier and his wife Colette live happily until her flirtatious school friend, Mitzi Olivier, comes to visit them. Mitzi schemes to get André alone by pretending to be...

6.8

792 votes

6.8

792 votes

If I Had a Million

1932 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch · Norman Taurog · Norman Z. McLeod · William A. Seiter

Cast Gary Cooper · Charles Laughton · George Raft · Jack Oakie

Plot Buoyant, star-studded comedy about a dying steel tycoon (Richard Bennett) who randomly selects eight people from a phone book and gives them each a million dollars. Among the lucky recipients...

6.6

856 votes

6.6

856 votes

It Happened on 5th Avenue

1947 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Don DeFore · Ann Harding · Charles Ruggles · Victor Moore

Plot A hobo and friends take up residence in a mansion whilst the family is away on Christmas holiday.

6.6

32 votes

6.6

32 votes

Ramrod

1947 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction André De Toth

Cast Joel McCrea · Veronica Lake · Don DeFore · Donald Crisp

Plot A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to Frank Ivey, "boss" of the valley, whom her...

6.6

324 votes

6.6

324 votes

Six of a Kind

1934 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Charles Ruggles · Mary Boland · W.C. Fields · George Burns

Plot The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and thier great Dane. A clerk in Whinney's bank has put fifty thousand dollars in a suitcase,...

6.4

22 votes

6.4

22 votes

Alice in Wonderland

1933 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Charlotte Henry · Leon Errol · Louise Fazenda · Ford Sterling

Plot On a boring winter afternoon, Alice dreams, that she's visiting the land behind the mirror. This turns out to be a surrealistic nightmare, with all sorts of strange things happening...

6.4

330 votes

6.4

330 votes

This Is the Night

1932 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast Lili Damita · Charles Ruggles · Roland Young · Cary Grant

Plot Stephen (Cary Grant) plays the Olympic-athlete husband of Claire (Thelma Todd), who in turn is the object of desire for Parisian millionaire Gerald Grey (Roland Young). To keep Stephen from...

6.1

36 votes

6.1

36 votes

The Ugly Dachshund

1966 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Norman Tokar

Cast Dean Jones · Suzanne Pleshette · Charles Ruggles · Kelly Thordsen

Plot Fran Garrison's all in a tizzy because her prize Dachshund, Danke, is having pups, and she has hopes of one of the pups becoming a champion. But at the vet's,...

6.0

202 votes

6.0

202 votes

Madame Butterfly

1932 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Marion Gering

Cast Sylvia Sidney · Cary Grant · Charles Ruggles · Irving Pichel

Plot Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton is on shore-leave in Japan. He and his buddy Lieutenant Barton, out for a night on the town, stop in at a local establishment to check out...

6.0

45 votes

6.0

45 votes

The Perfect Marriage

1947 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Allen

Cast David Niven · Loretta Young · Eddie Albert · Virginia Field

Plot Jenny (Loretta Young) and Dale Williams (David Niven) have been married ten years and parents of a nine-year-old daughter, "Cookie" Williams (Nona Griffith) They live well, have separate careers, are...

5.9

30 votes

5.9

30 votes

The Parent Trap

1961 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction David Swift

Cast Hayley Mills · Maureen O'Hara · Brian Keith · Charles Ruggles

Plot Hayley Mills plays twins who, unknown to their divorced parents, meet at a summer camp. Products of single parent households, they switch places (surprise!) so as to meet the parent...

5.5

7K votes

5.5

7K votes

Murders in the Zoo

1933 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

5.4

69 votes

5.4

69 votes

Son of Flubber

1963 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Fred MacMurray · Nancy Olson · Keenan Wynn · Tommy Kirk

Plot Professor Ned Brainard's discovery of flubber hasn't quite brought him - or his college - the riches he thought. The Pentagon has declared his discovery to be top secret and...

5.2

83 votes

5.2

83 votes

Anything Goes

1936 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

5.2

40 votes

5.2

40 votes