Cast: Charles Ruggles

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


The Shining Future (S)

1944 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction LeRoy Prinz

Cast Olive Blakeney · Jack Carson · Benny Goodman · Bing Crosby

Plot Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy family in the future of 1960 enjoying the prosperity and advantages made...

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Good-bye Love

1933 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast Charles Ruggles · Verree Teasdale · Sidney Blackmer · Phyllis Barry

Plot A sexy golddigger lands who she thinks is a wealthy big-game hunter from a royal family. What she doesn't know is that not only is he not wealthy, nor a...

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Mind Your Own Business

1936 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Charles Ruggles · Alice Brady · Lyle Talbot · Benny Baker

Plot A newspaper nature columnist is inspired by his wife to use wildlife critters to report city gossip. He soon becomes the toast of the town. But when she passes on...

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Girl Without a Room

1933 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Ralph Murphy

Cast Charles Farrell · Charles Ruggles · Marguerite Churchill · Gregory Ratoff

Plot Tom Duncan, a young Tennessee painter, is thrilled to receive an art scholarship to Paris. When he arrives, he finds himself surrounded by a group of eclectic characters, as well...

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The Lady Lies

1929 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Hobart Henley

Cast Walter Huston · Claudette Colbert · Charles Ruggles · Patricia Deering

Plot Much to the disapproval of his snooty children, a wealthy widowed attorney takes up with a beautiful but "lower-class" woman.

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People Will Talk

1935 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Santell

Cast Charles Ruggles · Mary Boland · Leila Hyams · Dean Jagger

Plot Henry and Clarice Wilkins have been married twenty-three years and are a model suburban couple who have never had a quarrel. But when their daughter,Peggy, and her husband, Bill Trask,...

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No Time for Comedy

1940 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction William Keighley

Cast James Stewart · Rosalind Russell · Charles Ruggles · Genevieve Tobin

Plot Playwright Gaylord Esterbrook scores a hit with his first Broadway play, both with the critics and with leading lady Linda Paige. He and Linda are happily married until a patroness...

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Destry (TV Series)

1964 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Gene Nelson · Frank Baur · John Florea · Earl Bellamy

Cast John Gavin · Ken Mayer · Bill Coontz · John Astin

Plot Young Harrison Destry, son of legendary lawman Tom Destry, had been a sheriff himself until he was framed and sent to prison. Now he roams about looking for the hombres...

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The Perfect Snob

1941 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Ray McCarey

Cast Charles Ruggles · Charlotte Greenwood · Lynn Bari · Cornel Wilde

Plot Dr. Mason, a veterinarian, gets word of the engagement of his daughter, Chris Mason, and takes off for Honolulu to take a look at his future son-in-law. Finding that the...

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Go West, Young Lady

1941 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Frank R. Strayer

Cast Penny Singleton · Glenn Ford · Ann Miller · Charles Ruggles

Plot The western town of Headstone is being besieged by the outlaw Killer Pete and his gang. Arriving on the same stagecoach are the new Sheriff and easterner Belinda Pendergast, known...

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Papa's Delicate Condition

1963 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast Jackie Gleason · Glynis Johns · Charles Ruggles · Laurel Goodwin

Plot If Jack Griffith's wife doesn't like the color of a neighbor's house, he'll arrange for it to be a house of a different color. If the owner of the ice...

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Exclusive

1937 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

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Melody in Spring

1934 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Lanny Ross · Charles Ruggles · Mary Boland · Ann Sothern

Plot It's love at first sight for singer John Craddock and Jane Blodgett who meet while John is seeking a radio job with the "Blodgett Dog Busqiit Hour," and John learns...

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Model Wife

1941 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

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The Farmer's Daughter

1940 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

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The Lovable Cheat

1949 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Richard Oswald

Cast Charles Ruggles · Peggy Ann Garner · Richard Ney · Alan Mowbray

Plot A businessman and his partner are about to go bankrupt when the partner gets an idea to sail away and somehow find the money they need. Meanwhile, the one left...

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Yours for the Asking

1936 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Alexander Hall

Cast George Raft · Dolores Costello · Ida Lupino · Reginald Owen

Plot Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income. But Lamb's pals fear he may follow...

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Queen High

1930 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Fred C. Newmeyer

Cast Charles Ruggles · Frank Morgan · Ginger Rogers · Stanley Smith

Plot The two partners of a ladies' garter business are constantly feuding with each other. When they ask their lawyer to dissolve...

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Hearts Divided

1936 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Marion Davies · Dick Powell · Charles Ruggles · Claude Rains

Plot Napoleon needs money to fight his wars in Europe so he wants 20 million dollars for the Louisiana Territory in the United States. To help the negotiations, he sends his...

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Balalaika

1939 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Reinhold Schünzel

Cast Nelson Eddy · Ilona Massey · Charles Ruggles · Frank Morgan

Plot Prince Peter Karagin, an officer in the Cossack army, sees and hears lovely Lydia Marakova in the cafe Balalaika in St. Petersburg and wants to meet her. When he hears...

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