Wesley Ruggles
Wesley Ruggles is known for Cimarron (1931), The Pawnshop (1916), The Floorwalker (1916).
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.
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Questions about Wesley Ruggles
How many Wesley Ruggles films are in the catalogue?
The CineQuiz catalogue has 37 films with Wesley Ruggles, from 1915 to 1944.
What is the best rated Wesley Ruggles film?
The best rated Wesley Ruggles film in the catalogue is The Pawnshop (1916), rated 6.7.
What was the first Wesley Ruggles film?
The first Wesley Ruggles film in the catalogue is Shanghaied, from 1915.
Who has Wesley Ruggles worked with the most?
In the catalogue, Wesley Ruggles shares the most credits with Charlie Chaplin (6 films), Edna Purviance (6 films) and John Rand (6 films).
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- Awards
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Nominations
- Academy Award for Best Director (1931)
Known for
Trivia
- Also works as
- film director · film producer · screenwriter · director · manufacturer
- Spouse
- Arline Judge
Trivia from Wikidata, licensed CC0.
Full filmography
44 films — 37 in the catalogue
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10.0 A Burlesque on the Opera "Carmen"
1951
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6.0 A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios
1920 · Himself
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5.0 Triple Trouble
1918 · Crook
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5.0 Her Torpedoed Love
1917 · Messenger Inside the House
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6.5 Behind the Screen
1916 · Actor (uncredited)
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6.7 The Pawnshop
1916 · Ring Client (uncredited)
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5.0 Beatrice Fairfax
1916 · #15 Wristwatches
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6.3 Police
1916 · Jailbird and Thief
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6.4 The Floorwalker
1916 · Policeman (uncredited)
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4.9 A Submarine Pirate
1915 · His accomplice / Sub Officer
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6.2 A Night in the Show
1915 · Second Man in Balcony Front Row
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5.8 Her Painted Hero
1915 · Effeminate Party Guest (uncredited)
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6.0 Shanghaied
1915 · Shipowner
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5.7 A Lover's Lost Control
1915 · Shoe Clerk
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Gussle Rivals Jonah
1915 · Ship Steward / Ship Passenger
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5.0 Gussle's Wayward Path
1915 · Clergyman
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5.0 Caught in a Park
1915 · The Cop
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6.5 See Here, Private Hargrove
1944
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6.0 Slightly Dangerous
1943
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5.7 Somewhere I'll Find You
1942
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6.5 Arizona
1940
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6.5 Too Many Husbands
1940
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6.1 True Confession
1937
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6.7 Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
1936
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5.1 The Bride Comes Home
1935
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6.7 The Gilded Lily
1935
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6.4 Bolero
1934
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6.3 I'm No Angel
1933
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6.5 No Man of Her Own
1932
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6.5 Roar of the Dragon
1932
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5.5 Cimarron
1931
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8.0 Finders Keepers
1928
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7.0
Breaking Records
1927
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6.8 The Relay
1927
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9.0
Around the Bases
1927
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7.0 Hooked at the Altar
1926
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6.2 The Plastic Age
1925
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6.1 I Met Him in Paris
1937
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5.6 College Humor
1933
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6.8 Are These Our Children?
1931
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7.0 The Leopard Woman
1920
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6.7 Shoot the Works
1934
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6.1 You Belong to Me
1941
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6.6 Condemned!
1929
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