Wesley Ruggles Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography

Wesley Ruggles

Wesley Ruggles

Directing

Biography

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. In 1917, he turned his attention to directing, making more than 50 mostly forgettable films — including a silent film version of Edith Wharton's novel The Age of Innocence (1924) — before he won acclaim with Cimarron in 1931. The adaptation of Edna Ferber's novel Cimarron, about homesteaders settling in the prairies of Oklahoma, was the first Western to win an Academy Award as Best Picture. Although Ruggles followed this success with the light comedy No Man of Her Own (1932) with Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, the comedy I'm No Angel (1933) with Mae West and Cary Grant , College Humor (1933) with Bing Crosby, and Bolero (1934) with George Raft and Carole Lombard, few of his later films were in any way memorable (an exception is Arizona). His career was on the downslide when he teamed with the Rank Organisation in 1946 to produce and direct London Town with Sid Field and Petula Clark, based on a story he wrote. The film — British cinema's first attempt at a Technicolor musical extravaganza — is notable as being one of the biggest critical and commercial failures in that country's film history. Ironically, Ruggles had been hired to helm it because as an American, it was thought, he was better equipped to handle a musical — despite the fact that nothing in his past had prepared him to work in the genre. It was his last film. An abridged version was released in the U.S. under the title My Heart Goes Crazy by United Artists in 1953. Ruggles died in 1972 in Santa Monica and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wesley Ruggles, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Filmography Movies

Acting

The Pawnshop movie poster
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The Pawnshop

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The Pawnshop
Ring Client (uncredited)
A Night in the Show movie poster
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A Night in the Show

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A Night in the Show
Second Man in Balcony Front Row
Police movie poster
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Police

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Police
Jailbird and Thief
Shanghaied movie poster
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Shanghaied

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Shanghaied
Shipowner
Triple Trouble movie poster
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Triple Trouble

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Triple Trouble
Crook
Her Painted Hero movie poster
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Her Painted Hero

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Her Painted Hero
Effeminate Party Guest (uncredited)
A Submarine Pirate movie poster
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A Submarine Pirate

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A Submarine Pirate
His accomplice / Sub Officer
A Lover's Lost Control movie poster
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A Lover's Lost Control

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A Lover's Lost Control
Shoe Clerk
Her Torpedoed Love movie poster
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Her Torpedoed Love

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Her Torpedoed Love
Messenger Inside the House
Behind the Screen movie poster
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Behind the Screen

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Behind the Screen
Actor (uncredited)

Production

Sooner or Later movie poster
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Sooner or Later

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Sooner or Later
Director
Finders Keepers movie poster
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Finders Keepers

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Finders Keepers
Director
I'm No Angel movie poster
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I'm No Angel

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I'm No Angel
Director
Arizona movie poster
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Arizona

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Arizona
Director
No Man of Her Own movie poster
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No Man of Her Own

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No Man of Her Own
Director
Cimarron movie poster
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Cimarron

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Cimarron
Director
Somewhere I'll Find You movie poster
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Somewhere I'll Find You

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Somewhere I'll Find You
Director
Invitation to Happiness movie poster
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Invitation to Happiness

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Invitation to Happiness
Director
Invitation to Happiness movie poster
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Invitation to Happiness

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Invitation to Happiness
Producer
The Gilded Lily movie poster
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The Gilded Lily

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The Gilded Lily
Director

Gallery

Wesley Ruggles portrait
Wesley Ruggles portrait