Acting
Charles Ruggles
Born February 8, 1886 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Died December 23, 1970 · aged 84
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…
Known For
The Parent Trap · 1961The Parent Trap
★ 7.01961
MovieComedyFamily
Two identical twin sisters, separated at birth by their parents' divorce, are reunited years later at a summer camp, where they scheme to bring their parents back together. The girls, one of whom has been living with their mother and the other with their father, switch places after camp and go to work on their plan, the first objective being to scare off a gold-digger pursuing their father.
Love Me Tonight · 1932Love Me Tonight
★ 6.61932
MovieComedyRomance
A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.
Mama Loves Papa · 1933Mama Loves Papa
★ 10.01933
MovieComedy
A woman's ceaseless badgering sends her husband on a drinking bender. Along the way, he makes a new female acquaintance.
Eloise · 1956Eloise
1956
MovieTV MovieComedy
It's not so much that Eloise is a mischievous child, but the darnedest things do happen when she's around.
Bringing Up Baby · 1938Bringing Up Baby
★ 7.51938
MovieComedyRomance
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.
Charley's Aunt · 1930Charley's Aunt
★ 6.71930
MovieComedy
A student is pressured into pretending to be a classmate's Aunt so he can act as a false chaperone.
Model Wife · 1941Model Wife
★ 6.51941
MovieComedy
Complications in a dressmaking firm when a model has to hide her marriage.
Murders in the Zoo · 1933Murders in the Zoo
★ 5.81933
MovieCrimeHorror
Dr. Gorman is a millionaire adventurer, traveling the world in search of dangerous game. His bored, beautiful, much younger wife entertains herself in the arms of other men. In turn, Gorman uses his animals to kill these men. When a New York City zoo suggests a fundraising gala, Gorman sees a prime opportunity to dispatch the dashing Roger and anyone else who might cross him.
Movies
The Parent Trap · 1961The Parent Trap
★ 7.01961
MovieComedyFamily
Two identical twin sisters, separated at birth by their parents' divorce, are reunited years later at a summer camp, where they scheme to bring their parents back together. The girls, one of whom has been living with their mother and the other with their father, switch places after camp and go to work on their plan, the first objective being to scare off a gold-digger pursuing their father.
Love Me Tonight · 1932Love Me Tonight
★ 6.61932
MovieComedyRomance
A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.
Mama Loves Papa · 1933Mama Loves Papa
★ 10.01933
MovieComedy
A woman's ceaseless badgering sends her husband on a drinking bender. Along the way, he makes a new female acquaintance.
Eloise · 1956Eloise
1956
MovieTV MovieComedy
It's not so much that Eloise is a mischievous child, but the darnedest things do happen when she's around.
Bringing Up Baby · 1938Bringing Up Baby
★ 7.51938
MovieComedyRomance
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.
Charley's Aunt · 1930Charley's Aunt
★ 6.71930
MovieComedy
A student is pressured into pretending to be a classmate's Aunt so he can act as a false chaperone.
Model Wife · 1941Model Wife
★ 6.51941
MovieComedy
Complications in a dressmaking firm when a model has to hide her marriage.
Murders in the Zoo · 1933Murders in the Zoo
★ 5.81933
MovieCrimeHorror
Dr. Gorman is a millionaire adventurer, traveling the world in search of dangerous game. His bored, beautiful, much younger wife entertains herself in the arms of other men. In turn, Gorman uses his animals to kill these men. When a New York City zoo suggests a fundraising gala, Gorman sees a prime opportunity to dispatch the dashing Roger and anyone else who might cross him.
Good-bye Love · 1933Good-bye Love
★ 6.31933
MovieComedy
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 big-game hunter nor from a royal family, but he's only a butler. Complications ensue as he tries to keep up the pretense.
Follow Me, Boys! · 1966Follow Me, Boys!
★ 6.71966
MovieDramaFamily
Lem Siddons is part of a traveling band who has a dream of becoming a lawyer. Deciding to settle down, he finds a job as a stockboy in the general store of a small town. Trying to fit in, he volunteers to become scoutmaster of the newly formed Troop 1. Becoming more and more involved with the scout troop, he finds his plans to become a lawyer being put on the back burner, until he realizes that his life has been fulfilled helping the youth of the small town.
Trouble in Paradise · 1932Trouble in Paradise
★ 7.41932
MovieComedyCrime
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.
Papa's Delicate Condition · 1963Papa's Delicate Condition
★ 5.61963
MovieComedy
A jolly, family-oriented railroad superintendent tries to get his act together when his love for the bottle starts to alienate him from his wife and oldest daughter. His younger daughter, however, still remains unflinchingly loyal to him, and they share many fun misadventures over the course of the movie.
I'd Rather Be Rich · 1964I'd Rather Be Rich
★ 6.61964
MovieComedy
An updated remake of It Started With Eve (1941). A young heiress is summoned to the bedside of her dying grandfather. The man's last wish is to meet her fiance, but problems arise when the fiance is delayed and a young chemical engineer is persuaded to take his place. When the grandfather suddenly (and secretly) recovers, he uses the situation to his advantage - playing matchmaker in an attempt to ensure his granddaughter's happiness.
Girl Without a Room · 1933Girl Without a Room
★ 6.51933
MovieComedy
A Tennessee art school student wins a scholarship to paint in Paris. He is thrilled until he arrives and discovers that his style is hopelessly passe and is considered trashy. The enterprising artist immediately changes style and begins painting highly-abstract moderns.
Alice in Wonderland · 1933Alice in Wonderland
★ 6.11933
MovieFamilyFantasy
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.
Incendiary Blonde · 1945Incendiary Blonde
★ 5.11945
MovieMusicRomance
Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"
The Invisible Woman · 1940The Invisible Woman
★ 5.71940
MovieComedyHorror
Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss.
The Ugly Dachshund · 1966The Ugly Dachshund
★ 6.71966
MovieComedyDrama
The Garrisons are the "proud parents" of three adorable dachshund pups - and one overgrown Great Dane named Brutus, who nevertheless thinks of himself as a dainty dachsie. His identity crisis results in an uproarious series of household crises that reduce the Garrisons' house to shambles - and viewers to howls of laughter!
Opened by Mistake · 1940Opened by Mistake
★ 7.01940
MovieComedyMystery
A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.
Son of Flubber · 1963Son of Flubber
★ 6.11963
MovieComedyFamily
Beleaguered professor Ned Brainard has already run into a pile of misfortunes with his discovery of the super-elastic substance "Flubber." Now he hopes to have better luck with a gravity-busting derivative he's dubbed "Flubbergas." Ned's experiments, constantly hampered by government obstruction, earn the consternation of his wife, Betsy. But a game-winning modification to a football uniform may help Ned make the case for his fantastic new invention.
Six of a Kind · 1934Six of a Kind
★ 5.91934
MovieComedy
The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and their great Dane. A clerk in Whinney's bank has put fifty thousand dollars in a suitcase, hoping to rob Whinney on the road, but instead Whinney takes another road and is himself arrested in Nevada.
No Time for Comedy · 1940No Time for Comedy
★ 5.31940
MovieRomanceComedy
An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.
Ben and Me · 1953Ben and Me
★ 6.91953
MovieAnimationComedy
A revisionist version of American history as a small mouse comes to live with Benjamin Franklin and turns out to be responsible for many of his ideas; including the beginning of the Declaration of Independance!
The Girl Habit · 1931The Girl Habit
★ 8.01931
MovieComedy
A Lothario tries to get arrested as protection from the gangster husband who has threatened him.
TV Shows
The Andy Griffith Show · 1960The Andy Griffith Show
★ 7.61960
SeriesComedyFamily
The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life. Andy Griffith stated in a Today Show interview, with respect to the time period of the show: "Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the '60s, it had a feeling of the '30s. It was when we were doing it, of a time gone by."
The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ended its final season at number one. It has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its eight-season run, series co-stars Knotts and Bavier accumulated a combined total of six Emmy Awards. The show, a semi-spin-off from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show titled "Danny Meets Andy Griffith", spawned its own spin-off series, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., a sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D., and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry. The show's enduring popularity has generated a good deal of show-related merchandise. Reruns currently air on TV Land, and the complete series is available on DVD. All eight seasons are also now available by streaming video services such as Netflix.
The Bullwinkle Show · 1959The Bullwinkle Show
★ 7.11959
SeriesAnimation
A variety show, with the main feature being the serialized adventures of the two title characters, the anthropomorphic moose Bullwinkle and flying squirrel Rocky. The main adversaries in most of their adventures are the Russian-like spies Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale. Supporting segments include Dudley Do-Right, Peabody's Improbable History, and Fractured Fairy Tales, among others.
Bewitched · 1964Bewitched
★ 7.91964
SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyComedy
Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine witch, with all the requisite magical powers. Her husband Darrin insists that Samantha keep her witchcraft under wraps, but situations invariably require her to indulge her powers while keeping her bothersome mother Endora at bay.
Burke's Law · 1963Burke's Law
★ 6.31963
SeriesDrama
Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. · 1964The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
★ 7.11964
SeriesComedy
Agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin work for a secret intelligence service working under the auspices of the U.N.
Their immediate superior is Mr. Waverly.
Together they operate out of a secret base beneath the streets of New York City, and accesses through several cover business such as Del Floria's Tailor Shop and the Masque Club.
This secret intelligence service is called U.N.C.L.E.
United Network Command for Law and Enforcement.
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends · 1959The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
★ 8.01959
SeriesAnimationComedy
Rocky, a plucky flying squirrel and Bullwinkle, a bumbling but lovable moose, have a series of ongoing adventures.
The Ruggles · 1949The Ruggles
★ 7.01949
Series
Aesop and Son · 1960Aesop and Son
★ 8.01960
SeriesAnimationComedy
Aesop and Son was a segment on "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle". It is similar to "Fractured Fairy Tales," except it deals with fables instead of fairy tales.