Cimarron
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Wesley Ruggles (June 11, 1889 – January 8, 1972) was an American film director . Life and work. He was born in Los Angeles, California, younger brother of actor Charlie Ruggles. He began his career in 1915 as an actor, appearing in a dozen or so silent films, on occasion with Charlie Chaplin. [2]
Actor. Producer. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. The younger brother of Hollywood character player Charles Ruggles, Wesley Ruggles spent most of his early years in San Francisco.
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Wesley Ruggles. Director: London Town. The younger brother of Hollywood character player Charles Ruggles, Wesley Ruggles spent most of his early years in San Francisco. He attended university there, began a lengthy apprenticeship in stock and musical comedy and then joined Keystone in Hollywood as an actor in 1914 working alongside Syd Chaplin.
Wesley Ruggles (June 11, 1889 – January 8, 1972) was an American film director. He was born in Los Angeles, a younger brother of actor Charles Ruggles. He began his career in 1915 as an actor, appearing in a dozen or so silent films, on occasion with Charles Chaplin.
Wesley Ruggles began his acting career in 1915, playing a Keystone Kop in the comedy short ‘Caught in a Park.’ Over the next couple of years he appeared in a series of short films with comedian Charlie Chaplin which included ‘The Bank’ (1915) and ‘Police’ (1916).
May 8, 2024 · Wesley Ruggles was an American film director who was especially adept at comedies, though his best-known movie was arguably the classic western Cimarron (1931). (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) Ruggles, who was the younger brother of actor Charles Ruggles, grew up.
The brother of comic actor Charles Ruggles, Wesley Ruggles briefly followed in his brother's onscreen footsteps before forging a lengthy career as a director for such features as the Oscar-winning "Cimarron" (1931), "I'm No Angel" (1932) and "Arizona" (1940).
