Cast: Charles Ruggles

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


The Invisible Woman

1940 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction A. Edward Sutherland

Cast Virginia Bruce · John Barrymore · John Howard · Charles Ruggles

Plot The eccentric Professor Gibbs puts an ad in the newspaper: "WANTED: A human being willing to become invisible. No remuneration. Box P19." But Gibbs is no crackpot. He really did...

4.9

84 votes

4.9

84 votes

Hollywood Handicap (S)

1938 · Movie · 10 min. · United States

Direction Buster Keaton

Cast The Original Sing Band · Charles Ruggles · Mickey Rooney · Stuart Erwin

Plot A musical short in which a group of musician stable hands race a horse in the Hollywood Handicap at Santa Anita Park racetrack with many celebrities of the day in...

4.6

21 votes

4.6

21 votes

The Night of June 13

1932 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Stephen Roberts

Cast Clive Brook · Frances Dee · Charles Ruggles · Gene Raymond

Plot Elna Curry, once a concert pianist, develops an unfounded jealousy of neighbor, Trudie Morrow. Elna who suffers from neurasthenia, believes that Trudie is having an affair with her husband, John,...

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Incendiary Blonde

1945 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Betty Hutton · Arturo de Córdova · Charles Ruggles · Albert Dekker

Plot The life of boisterous entertainer Texas Guinan is recalled from her poor childhood with a down-on-his-luck father to her reign as the Queen of the Night Clubs. Along the way,...

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Invitation to Happiness

1939 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Wesley Ruggles

Cast Irene Dunne · Fred MacMurray · Charles Ruggles · Billy Cook

Plot Trainer Pop Hardy thinks his heavyweight boxer 'King' Cole could be champ...some day; he wants to sell a half interest in Cole to his rich friend Wayne. Wayne's daughter Eleanor...

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Sudden Money

1939 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Nick Grinde

Cast Charles Ruggles · Marjorie Rambeau · Charley Grapewin · Broderick Crawford

Plot Winning a $150,000 prize in a sweepstakes gives the Patterson family grand plans. Particularly head of the family Sweeney, a frustrated drummer who decides to start up his own band....

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The Big Broadcast of 1936

1935 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

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Early to Bed

1936 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Mary Boland · Charles Ruggles · George Barbier · Gail Patrick

Plot Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his...

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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay

1944 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Allen

Cast Gail Russell · Diana Lynn · Charles Ruggles · Dorothy Gish

Plot In 1923, two young ladies depart unescorted for a tour of Europe, meeting two eligible men aboard ship. Their great naivity and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many...

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Give My Regards to Broadway

1948 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Dan Dailey · Charles Winninger · Nancy Guild · Charles Ruggles

Plot The Norwick family has had a successful run on the vaudeville circuit, but now some of the family wants out. Mom is ready to retire on the family's farm, and...

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Evenings for Sale

1932 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Walker

Cast Herbert Marshall · Sari Maritza · Charles Ruggles · Mary Boland

Plot Impoverished Count von Dopenthal plans to commit suicide and spends his last night at a costume ball. There he meets lovely Lela Fischer and falls in love with her. A...

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Melody Cruise

1933 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Mark Sandrich

Cast Charles Ruggles · Phil Harris · Helen Mack · Greta Nissen

Plot A popular playboy goes on a cruise from New York in winter to California. He brings a friend to keep him from getting too serious with any of the many...

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Hollywood Boulevard

1936 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Robert Florey

Cast John Halliday · Marsha Hunt · Robert Cummings · C. Henry Gordon

Plot With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston....

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Three Is a Family

1944 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Edward Ludwig

Cast Marjorie Reynolds · Charles Ruggles · Fay Bainter · Helen Broderick

Plot Based on a play by Phoebe and Henry Ephron, Three Is a Family is a 1940s farce that frequently substitutes noise for humor. Charlie Ruggles plays a hubby whose bungled...

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Breaking the Ice

1938 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Edward F. Cline

Cast Bobby Breen · Charles Ruggles · Dolores Costello · Irene Dare

Plot Tommy Martin lives with mother Martha in a conservative religious community but dreams of a singing career. He leaves to join a traveling show where he befriends skating sensation Irene...

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Friendly Enemies

1942 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Charles Winninger · Charles Ruggles · James Craig · Nancy Kelly

Plot During World War I, two German men friends who emigrated to the US and become millionaires agree on most things, with one major difference: one has taken the US side...

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Gallant Journey

1946 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Glenn Ford · Janet Blair · Charles Ruggles · Henry Travers

Plot Producer/director William A. Wellman also co-scripted this biopic devoted to John J. Montgomery (Glenn Ford), the unsung 19th-century innovator of glider design. Montgomery's invention of a gold separator proves lucrative,...

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Public Deb No. 1

1940 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Gregory Ratoff

Cast George Murphy · Brenda Joyce · Ralph Bellamy · Elsa Maxwell

Plot When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.

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Young Man of Manhattan

1930 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Monta Bell

Cast Claudette Colbert · Norman Foster · Ginger Rogers · Leslie Austin

Plot Toby McLean, a reckless sports writer on a New York City newspaper, covers the Gene Tunney-Jack Dempsey heavyweight-championship fight in Philadelphia. There he meets Ann Vaughn, a feature writer for...

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Bedside Manner

1945 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Andrew L. Stone

Cast John Carroll · Ruth Hussey · Charles Ruggles · Ann Rutherford

Plot A beautiful female doctor visits her small hometown on her way back to Chicago. Her overworked uncle, who is the town's doctor, wants her to stay and help him, and...

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