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Charles (Charlie) Sherman Ruggles (February 8,
1886 - December 23, 1970) was a comic United
States|American actor. In a career spanning six
decades, Ruggles appeared in close to 100 feature
films.

Ruggles was born in Los Angeles, California|Los
Angeles, California. Despite training to be a
doctor, Ruggles soon found himself on the stage,
appearing in a stock production of Nathan Hale in
1905. He moved to Broadway to appear in Help
Wanted in 1914. His first screen role came in the
silent Peer Gynt the following year. Throughout
the 1910s and 1920s Ruggles continued to appear in
silent movies, though his passion remained the
stage, appearing in long-running productions such
as The Passing Show of 1918, The Demi-Virgin and
Battling Butler. His most famous stage hit was one
of his last before a twenty year hiatus, Queen
High, produced in 1930.

From 1929, Ruggles appeared in talking pictures.
His first was Gentleman of the Press in which he
played a comic, alcoholic, newspaper reporter; a
role he was to repeat several times over the
years. He struck up a comic partnership with Mary
Boland with whom he appeared with in half-a-dozen
farces in the 1930s. In other films he played the
"comic relief" character in otherwise straight
films.  In all, he appeared in about 100 movies. 

In 1949 Ruggles halted in his film career to
return to the stage and to move into television.
He was the headline character in the TV series The
Ruggles, where he played a character also called
Charlie Ruggles, and The World of Mr. Sweeney. He
also repeatedly appeared as a guest star playing
Lowell Redlings Farquhar in The Beverly
Hillbillies.

He returned to the big screen in 1961, playing
Charles McKendrick in The Parent Trap and
Mackenzie Savage in The Pleasure of His Company. 

Ruggles died of cancer at his Hollywood home in
December 1970. He has a star on the Hall of Fame
on Hollywood Boulevard.

==References==
*http://imdb.com/name/nm0749476/ Ruggles's entry
in the IMDb