映画やドラマでKomedi, Romantisを漁ってるなら、Rags Raglandって名前はわりと何度も目に入るはず。ここではざっくり経歴と代表作、つまみ食いできるフィルモグラフィをまとめたよ。
公式のプロフィールが薄めでも大丈夫。下の「おすすめフィルモグラフィ」を見れば、どこから入るか決めやすい。
Rags Ragland was a boxer, then a burlesque comedian and then a Broadway performer before ending up in Hollywood to repeat his stage role as the boisterous sailor in Panama Hattie (1942), in which Ann Sothern played on film the part that had been played on Broadway by Ethel Merman. Ragland, typecast as a good-natured oaf with a knack for fracturing the English language, had as his sole movie employer Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, in some two dozen of whose lighter vehicles he appeared, in the company of such MGM luminaries…
as Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Judy Garland and Gene Kelly.
Date of Birth 23 August 1905, Louisville, Kentucky
Date of Death 20 August 1946, Los Angeles, California (uremic poisoning)
