
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, much-put-upon man who finally goes berserk in a china shop. Ruggles' slight stature and distinctive mannerisms - his fluttery, jumpy manner of speaking, his often befuddled look whenever events seemed about to overwhelm him, which was often - endeared him to generations of moviegoers. Memorable as Maj. Applegate the big-game hunter in the classic screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby (1938). Many will remember him as the narrator of the "Aesop's Fables" segment of the animated cartoon The Bullwinkle Show (1961). He was the brother of director Wesley Ruggles.
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as The Starkeeper / Dr. Selden
as John Everett Hughes
as Dr. J. L. Pruitt
as Governor Callahan · 1 episode
as Mr. Caldwell · 1 episode

as Dr. Charles Crandall
as Mr. Gregory · 1 episode
as Eli Harcourt · 1 episode
as Aesop (voice) · 815 episodes

as Aesop (voice) · 163 episodes

as Murphy
as Cicero P. Sweeney · 1 episode
as Ben Franklin (voice)

as Charles Ruggles · 137 episodes

as Caro "Pop" Miller

as Claude Mercadet

as Toby Helper
as Ben Dickason
as Michael J. 'Mike' O'Connor

as Richard Pennington Roeder

as Dale Williams, Sr.

as Nicki Popoff

as Homer C. Fitch

as Henry 'Pop' Hardy

as Sweeney J. Patterson

as Homer C. Fitch
as Adam Tripp
as Robinson

as Sam Terwilliger

as Zizi

as Charlie Tayler

as Charlie Haven

as Gaspard McMahon (an insurance clerk)


as The Button Molder

as Lawrence Evans
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