Movie Database

Movies by Actor - Charles Ruggles (102 [Missing: 19])
TitleYearDirectorGenreRatingRuntimeAdded
The Majesty of the LawNA1915 Drama Not Available
Peer GyntNA1915 Fantasy Not Available
The Reform CandidateNA1915 Drama Not Available
The Heart RaiderNA1923 Comedy,Drama,Romance Not Available
Battle of ParisNA1929 Drama,Musical,Romance Not Available
Gentlemen of the PressA driven newspaperman misses out on the joys and sorrows of ordinary life.1929Millard WebbDrama6.7 (89 votes)7520211228
Lady Lies, TheMuch to the disapproval of his snooty children, a wealthy widowed attorney takes up with a beautiful but "lower-class" woman.1929Hobart HenleyDrama,Romance6.7 (95 votes)7520211228
Charley's AuntCharley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty St1930Al ChristieComedy6.0 (130 votes)8820211228
Her Wedding NightNA1930 Comedy,Romance Not Available
Queen HighThe two partners of a ladies' garter business are constantly feuding with each other. When they ask their lawyer to dissolve their partnership, he proposes that instead the two of them play a single poker hand: the loser to become th1930Fred C. NewmeyerComedy,Musical6.1 (119 votes)8520211228
Roadhouse NightsA boozing newsman (Charles Ruggles) woos a singer (Helen Morgan) while spying on her bootlegger boyfriend (Fred Kohler).1930Hobart HenleyCrime,Drama,Musical6.2 (105 votes)6820211228
Young Man of ManhattanTwo flappers (Claudette Colbert and Ginger Rogers) try to get their newspaper reporter boyfriends to pay attention to them.1930Monta BellComedy,Musical,Romance6.0 (185 votes)7920211228
Beloved Bachelor, The [Beloved Bachelor]The daughter of his deceased girlfriend grows up to love the sculptor who has adopted her, causing a complication for his future with another woman.1931Lloyd CorriganDrama,Romance8.2 (13 votes)7220240622
Girl Habit, TheA mild Lothario tries to get arrested as protection from the gangster husband who has threatened him.1931Edward F. ClineComedy5.8 (29 votes)7720240622
Honor Among LoversJerry Stafford, a businessman, is in love with his secretary but she deserts him for another man. When she realizes her mistake, she goes back to him. Doris Brown is her girlfriend who is in love with a man named Monty Dunn.1931Dorothy ArznerDrama,Romance6.9 (282 votes)7520211228
Smiling Lieutenant, TheAn amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.1931Ernst LubitschComedy,Musical,Romance7.2 (3.7K votes)9320211228
70,000 WitnessesCollege football player (Phillips Holmes)is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother(Lew Cody).He refuses, but they player is doped anyway,and collapses and dies. A Detective (David Landau) has the whole game re-e1932Ralph MurphyMystery,Sport5.9 (56 votes)6920211228
Evenings For SaleImpoverished 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 chance meeting with his former butler, brings a job offer as a gig1932Stuart WalkerComedy,Mystery,Romance6.7 (116 votes)6120211228
Husband's HolidayNA1931 Drama Not Available
If I Had a MillionA dying tycoon gives million-dollar windfalls to eight people picked from the city directory.1932James Cruze, H. Bruce Humberstone, Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Z. McLeod, Lothar MendesComedy,Drama7.0 (1.8K votes)8820211228
Love Me TonightA Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess.1932Rouben MamoulianComedy,Musical,Romance7.6 (4K votes)10420211228
Madame ButterflyLieutenant Pinkerton marries geisha-in-training but soon after abandons her and goes back to the US.1932Marion GeringDrama,Romance6.2 (365 votes)8620211228
Night of June 13, TheElna 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, and vows revenge on Trudie. John e...1932Stephen RobertsMystery7.0 (81 votes)7620220912
One Hour With YouAn unhappily married couple try to come between a happy one.1932George Cukor, Ernst LubitschComedy,Musical,Romance7.2 (2.5K votes)7820211228
This Reckless AgeConventional parents Donald and Eunice are outraged when their son Bradley returns from college with ideas that define a new generation gap.1932Frank TuttleComedy6.6 (57 votes)8020240427
This Is the NightAn affair is almost exposed when Claire's husband unexpectedly returns early from Summer Olympics.1932Frank TuttleComedy6.6 (614 votes)8020211228
La An' a LampA gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme.1932Ernst LubitschComedy,Crime,Romance8.0 (14.3K votes)8320211228
Girl Without a RoomTom 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 as his beautiful new roommate, Kay. What relationship 1933Ralph MurphyComedy6.6 (68 votes)7820211228
Mama Loves PapaNA1933 Comedy,Romance Not Available
Melody CruiseA 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 eligible women on the cruise. The plot complicates when he does fall in love with 1933Mark SandrichComedy,Musical,Romance6.0 (277 votes)7620211228
Murder in the Private CarA sleuth has to figure out who is threatening an heiress while she's aboard a train.1934Harry BeaumontComedy,Crime,Mystery6.2 (679 votes)6320240605
Murders in the ZooA monomaniacal zoologist is pathologically jealous of his beautiful but unfaithful wife Evelyn and will not stop short of murder to keep her.1933A. Edward SutherlandCrime,Horror6.5 (1.1K votes)6220211228
Terror AboardAn ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.1933Paul SloaneCrime,Horror,Mystery6.7 (97 votes)6920211228
Friends of Mr. SweeneyAfter 20 years of writing for The Balance, Asaph has become a conservative shadow of his former self. When his ex-college chum visits Asaph, he cannot believe the change. So Ace decides to go out and has Beulah get a girl for Rixey. 1934Edward LudwigComedy,Drama,Romance6.1 (108 votes)6820211228
Goodbye LoveA 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 e1933H. Bruce HumberstoneComedy,Mystery,Romance5.4 (125 votes)6720211228
Melody in SpringCharlie Ruggles plays a souvenir-buff in quest of a real Swiss cowbell.1934Norman Z. McLeodComedy,Music,Romance7.0 (35 votes)7520211228
Pursuit of Happiness, TheLederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local militiaman jealously makes things hard for him while he's a prisoner of war.1934Alexander HallComedy,Romance7.0 (62 votes)7520211228
Six Of A KindWhen a respectable middle-class couple take a cross-country trip by auto, they share expenses with a decidedly oddball couple, none of whom know the car carries embezzled funds.1934Leo McCareyComedy6.7 (653 votes)6220211228
No More LadiesA society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.1935Edward H. Griffith, George CukorComedy,Romance5.8 (867 votes)8020211228
People Will TalkHenry 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, have a squabble, Clarice has a plan to show ...1935Alfred SantellComedy,Romance6.7 (64 votes)6720240622
Ruggles of Red GapAn English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life.1935Leo McCareyComedy,Mystery,Romance7.6 (3.9K votes)9020211228
Anything GoesA young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner, he decides to follow and rescue her. However, he discovers that she is an English heiress who ran away from home and is now being r1936Lewis MilestoneComedy,Musical,Mystery6.4 (361 votes)9220211228
Early To BedChester 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 secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally do1936Norman Z. McLeodComedy,Mystery,Romance6.7 (41 votes)7520211228
Hearts DividedNapoleon 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 brother, Jerome, to the U.S. on a goodwill tour. At a Maryland H1936Frank BorzageDrama,Romance6.1 (837 votes)8720211228
Wives Never KnowJ. Hugh Ramsey, author of ""Marriage, the Living Death"" decides that the marriage of his friends The Bigelows cannot possibly be as perfect as it appears.1936Elliott NugentComedy6.5 (61 votes)7520240622
ExclusiveTwo newspapers are pitted against each other. One owned by gangster Charles Gillette (Lloyd Nolan), the other by Ralph Houston (Fred MacMurray).1937Alexander HallAction,Crime,Drama6.8 (95 votes)8520240622
Mind Your Own BusinessA newspaper columnist uses wildlife critters to report city gossip. He becomes a celebrity until he alludes to a murder that takes place the same day. All mayhem breaks out after that.1936Norman Z. McLeodComedy,Crime,Mystery6.4 (24 votes)7520240622
Turn Off the MoonNA1937 Comedy,Music,Romance Not Available
Breaking the IceTommy 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 and performs lively tunes to make a living.1938Edward F. ClineDrama5.2 (127 votes)8120211228
Bringing Up BabyWhile trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.1938Howard HawksComedy7.9 (60K votes)10220211228
His Exciting NightNA1938 Adventure,Comedy,Romance Not Available
Hollywood HandicapA 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 attendance.1938Buster KeatonComedy,Music,Short5.2 (301 votes)1020240622
Hollywood HandicapNA1938 Not Available
Service De LuxeThe manager of a service agency for the wealthy clashes with - and falls for - an inventor who is seeking funding for a new kind of tractor.1938Rowland V. LeeComedy,Romance6.2 (185 votes)8520220414
BalalaikaA Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.1939Reinhold SchünzelMusical,Romance6.3 (327 votes)10220211228
Boy TroubleShopkeeper Homer Fitch (Ruggles) hates the changes in his household when his wife adopts two orphan boys but realizes how much he loves the boys when they are struck with scarlet fever.1939George ArchainbaudComedy,Drama,Family7.1 (55 votes)7520211228
Invitation to HappinessAn egotistical boxer romances a rich backer's daughter.1939Wesley RugglesDrama,Romance6.3 (149 votes)9720211228
Night WorkMild-mannered Homer Fitch (Ruggles) must prove he is tough enough in the eyes of a young orphan's (O'Conner) grandfather (Bevins) to retain custody of the boy. Will Homer come through in the end?1939George ArchainbaudComedy,Drama6.8 (37 votes)6020240105
Sudden MoneyPromises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstakes contest. With their windfall, each member of t1939Nick GrindeComedy,Drama,Romance5.8 (58 votes)6620211228
Farmers Daughter, TheBroadway producer Nickie North, and his press agent Scoop Trimble, land a backer for a new show, but their "angel" requires that they rehearse the show out-of-town and star Clarice Sheldon, an ex-flame whose flickerings have become u1940James P. HoganComedy,Music,Romance6.9 (64 votes)6020211228
Invisible Woman, TheAn attractive model with an ulterior motive volunteers as guinea pig for an invisibility machine.1940A. Edward SutherlandComedy,Horror,Romance6.0 (2.8K votes)7220211228
MarylandA woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.1940Henry KingDrama,Mystery,Romance6.0 (143 votes)9220211228
No Time for ComedyPlaywright 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 of the arts convinces Esterbrook to forget about com1940William KeighleyComedy,Drama,Romance6.3 (1.1K votes)9320211228
Opened by MistakeA wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.1940George ArchainbaudComedy,Crime,Mystery5.9 (16 votes)6720211228
Public Deb No. 1When 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.1940Gregory RatoffComedy6.2 (42 votes)7920220205
Go West, Young LadyFederal Marshall Tex Miller, and his girl-friend Belinda Pendergast are having problems with the masked bandid 'Pecos Pete'.1941Frank R. StrayerAction,Comedy,Music6.4 (354 votes)7020211228
Honeymoon for ThreeNoted writer Kenneth Bixby, in love with his witty secretary Anne Rogers, nevertheless agrees to a tete-a-tete with a former college fling, loopy Danish girl Julie who is married to penny-pinching Harvey Wilson. Bixby realizes he ...1941Lloyd BaconComedy,Romance6.0 (586 votes)7520240329
Model WifeFred and Joan are a married couple working at the Benson's business. Mrs JJ Benson has a strict policy against married employees, so they keep it a secret while they save every penny as they wish to have a baby. Everything goes well 1941Leigh JasonComedy6.0 (89 votes)7820220414
Parson of Panamint, TheThe mayor of wild and woolly mining town Panamint, in San Francisco to fetch a preacher for the new church, happens upon young Philip Pharo, as handy with his fists as with a sermon. Arrived, it appears to Philip that some of the tow1941William C. McGannAdventure,Romance,Western7.1 (33 votes)8420211228
Perfect Snob, TheHer mother (Greenwood) wants her to find wealth; her father (Ruggles) tells her to seek love. She (Bari) finds both in Hawaiian hunk (Wilde).1941Ray McCareyComedy,Romance6.5 (60 votes)6320211228
Friendly EnemiesDuring 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 against Germany regarding the war, while the other stays stubbornly1942Allan DwanComedy,Romance5.7 (96 votes)9520211228
Dixie DuganNA1943 Comedy Not Available
Doughgirls, TheWhile sharing a hotel suite during the World War II housing shortage in Washington, D.C., three friends discover that their respective marriages are not legally valid.1944James V. KernComedy6.2 (642 votes)10220211228
Our Hearts Were Young and GayIn 1923, two young ladies depart unescorted for a tour of Europe, meeting two eligible men aboard ship. Their great naivety and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many comic misadventures.1944Lewis AllenComedy6.8 (167 votes)8120211228
Three is a FamilyRuggles isn't providing enough money to have his family live well. His wife takes over and goes to work.1944Edward LudwigComedy5.3 (38 votes)8120211228
Her Favorite PatientMacho pilot is treated by a woman doctor. Complications ensue.1945Andrew L. StoneComedy,Romance6.0 (209 votes)7220220414
Incendiary Blonde.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, she also finds romance and heartbreak.1945George MarshallBiography,Crime,Drama6.7 (380 votes)11320211228
My Brother Talks to HorsesA classic film featuring a boy who is able to hear what the racehorses at the track are thinking. Using his knowledge of their moods, he figures out how well they will run, and tells his older brother who is going to win that day. Th1947Fred ZinnemannComedy,Romance6.1 (260 votes)9220211228
Perfect Marriage, TheJenny and Dale Williams have been married ten years have a 9-year-old daughter, "Cookie." They live well, have separate careers, are surrounded by sophisticated friends, and are afflicted with overattentive in-laws on each side. Upon1946Lewis AllenComedy6.0 (128 votes)8820211228
Stolen Life, AWhen a woman's twin sister is drowned, she assumes her identity in order to be close to the man she feels her sister took from her years before.1946Curtis BernhardtDrama7.3 (3.6K votes)10920211228
Gallant JourneyThis historical drama is a biopic of the U.S. aviation pioneer John J. Montgomery who was the first American to fly a glider in 1883.1946William A. WellmanBiography,Drama,History6.4 (253 votes)8520211228
It Happened on Fifth AvenueTwo homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.1947Roy Del RuthComedy,Music,Romance7.7 (4.9K votes)11620211228
RamrodViolent feud between Connie Dickason, the owner of the Circle 66 ranch and rancher Frank Ivey, the self-proclaimed boss of an otherwise public grazing land.1947André De TothAction,Romance,Western6.7 (1.6K votes)9420211228
Give My Regards to BroadwayThe Norwick family has had a successful run on the vaudeville circuit, but now some of the family want out. Mom is ready to retire on the family's farm, and daughter June wants to quit now that she's engaged. That only leaves Dad ...1948Lloyd BaconMusical5.9 (141 votes)9220240622
Look for the Silver LiningMarilyn Miller grows up in a showbiz family and hits Broadway before she is sixteen. She falls in love with her dancer-mentor Jack, but he is married. When she marries her stage partner Frank he soon is called to arms in World War I.1949David ButlerBiography,Drama,Musical6.3 (399 votes)10620211228
Lovable Cheat, TheA 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 behind has to figure out how to put off all the creditors, friends, famil1949Richard OswaldComedy6.3 (60 votes)7520211228
Ben and MeA mouse tells the story of how he guided Benjamin Franklin to success and prominence.1953Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred JacksonAnimation,Comedy,Family7.4 (1K votes)2120240622
Ben and MeA mouse tells the story of how he guided Benjamin Franklin to success and prominence.1953Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred JacksonAnimation,Comedy,Family7.4 (1K votes)2120240622
The Bells of St. Mary'sNA1959 Drama Not Available
All in a Night’s WorkTony Ryder takes over his dead uncle's media empire while trying to keep quiet the mysterious circumstances of his death in a Palm Beach hotel room.1961Joseph AnthonyComedy,Romance6.2 (821 votes)9420211228
Parent Trap, TheTeenage twin sisters swap places and scheme to reunite their divorced parents.1961David SwiftComedy,Family,Romance7.2 (20.9K votes)12920211228
Pleasure Of His Company, TheSan Francisco debutante, Jessica Poole, is marrying Napa Valley cattle rancher, Roger Henderson, and hopes her peripatetic father, "Pogo" Poole, whom she hasn't seen for years, comes to the wedding. He arrives, disrupting the househo1961George SeatonComedy6.8 (729 votes)11520211228
Papa's Delicate ConditionIf 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 cream parlor doesn't believe in selling triple banana splits for a penny, Jack wil1963George MarshallComedy6.5 (683 votes)9820211228
Son of FlubberWhen Professor Brainard experiments further on Flubber derivatives, he gets in trouble and only his students can help.1962Robert StevensonComedy,Family,Sci-Fi6.1 (2.9K votes)10020211228
I'd Rather Be RichA 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 gran1964Jack SmightComedy,Musical,Romance6.9 (416 votes)9620211228
Follow Me, Boys!A man settles down in a small town and becomes the scoutmaster.1966Norman TokarDrama,Family7.2 (2.3K votes)13120211228
Ugly Dachshund, TheThe Garrisons live with a Great Dane who thinks he's a dainty dachshund. His identity crisis results in an uproarious series of household crises that reduce the Garrisons' house to shambles.1966Norman TokarComedy,Family6.7 (4K votes)9320211228
CarouselNA1967 Musical Not Available
CarouselNA1967 Musical Not Available
Once Upon a Christmas TimeNA1959 Family,Musical Not Available
ErnestineNA1962 Comedy Not Available
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12NA1938 Documentary,Short Not Available
The Ginger Rogers ShowNA1961 Drama Not Available