Wesley Ruggles

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…

Directed

1. Cimarron (1931) — Director
2. I'm No Angel (1933) — Director
3. Arizona (1940) — Director
4. No Man of Her Own (1932) — Director
5. True Confession (1937) — Director
6. Too Many Husbands (1940) — Director
7. Condemned! (1929) — Director
8. You Belong to Me (1941) — Director
9. The Gilded Lily (1935) — Director
10. Somewhere I'll Find You (1942) — Director
11. The Plastic Age (1925) — Director
12. The Sea Bat (1930) — Director
13. Bolero (1934) — Director
14. Street Girl (1929) — Director
15. College Humor (1933) — Director
16. Sing, You Sinners (1938) — Director
17. Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936) — Director
18. I Met Him in Paris (1937) — Director
19. Slightly Dangerous (1943) — Director
20. The Bride Comes Home (1935) — Director
21. Are These Our Children? (1931) — Director
22. Roar of the Dragon (1932) — Director
23. Flashing Oars (1927) — Director
24. Love (1920) — Director
25. Sooner or Later (1920) — Director
26. The Last Lap (1926) — Director
27. Shoot the Works (1934) — Director
28. Accent on Youth (1935) — Director
29. The Leopard Woman (1920) — Director
30. Honey (1930) — Director
31. Invitation to Happiness (1939) — Director
32. See Here, Private Hargrove (1944) — Director
33. The Relay (1927) — Director
34. The Monkey's Paw (1933) — Director
35. Uncharted Seas (1921) — Director
36. Silk Stockings (1927) — Director
37. Finders Keepers (1928) — Director
38. The Desperate Hero (1920) — Director
39. Piccadilly Jim (1919) — Director
40. Hooked at the Altar (1926) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Pawnshop (1916) — Ring Client (uncredited)
2. The Floorwalker (1916) — Policeman (uncredited)
3. Behind the Screen (1916) — Actor (uncredited)
4. A Night in the Show (1915) — Second Man in Balcony Front Row
5. Police (1916) — Jailbird and Thief
6. Shanghaied (1915) — Shipowner
7. Triple Trouble (1918) — Crook
8. A Submarine Pirate (1915) — His accomplice / Sub Officer
9. Her Painted Hero (1915) — Effeminate Party Guest (uncredited)
10. A Lover's Lost Control (1915) — Shoe Clerk
11. Her Torpedoed Love (1917) — Messenger Inside the House
12. Caught in a Park (1915) — The Cop
13. Gussle's Wayward Path (1915) — Clergyman
14. Beatrice Fairfax (1916) — #15 Wristwatches
15. A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios (1920) — Himself
16. A Burlesque on the Opera "Carmen" (1951)
17. Gussle Rivals Jonah (1915) — Ship Steward / Ship Passenger