Charles Ruggles
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| Known for: |
Bringing Up Baby, The Parent Trap, Trouble in Paradise |
| Birth name: |
Charles Sherman Ruggles |
| Birthday: |
8 February 1886,
Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Height: |
5' 6" (1.68 m) |
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Brother of Director Wesley Ruggles

His step-father was run down and killed by a streetcar in 1925.

His parents were Charles Herman (a traveling pharmaceutical salesman) and Maria Theresa (Heinsch) Ruggles, and he was the elder of two sons. Charles began working for the same pharmaceutical company that his father worked in 1904 directly after his high school graduation but did not enjoy it and left not long after.

Appeared with a number of stock companies during his early years. He made his stage debut with the Alcazar Theatre Stock Company, where he initially found employment as a super. He also performed with the Oliver Morosco Stock Company and the El Paso Stock Company.

President of the Academy of television Arts and Sciences in 1953.

The Los Angeles native donated his personal memorabilia and awards to the Department of Special Collections at the UCLA Library.

He was awarded 3 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Radio at 6359 Hollywood Boulevard; for Motion Pictures at 6264 Hollywood Boulevard; and for Television at 1630 Vine Street in Hollywood, California.
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