Wesley Ruggles

Wesley Ruggles was born on Jun 11, 1889 in USA. Wesley Ruggles's big-screen debut came with Her Painted Hero directed by F. Richard Jones in 1915, strarring Effeminate Party Guest (uncredited). Wesley Ruggles is known for The Incredible World of James Bond directed by Jack Haley Jr., Alexander Scourby stars as Self - Narrator and Sean Connery as Self. Wesley Ruggles has got 1 awards and 1 nominations so far. The most recent award Wesley Ruggles achieved is Walk of Fame. The upcoming new movie Wesley Ruggles plays is The Incredible World of James Bond which will be released on Nov 26, 1965.

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. Moving on to Essanay a year later, he worked briefly alongside Charles Chaplin. In 1917, he graduated to directing after being signed by Vitagraph. During the closing stages of the First World War, he served as a camera operator with the Army Signal Corps. After that it was back to the studios. Unfortunately, he found himself encumbered by routine scripts and such inane assignments as The Leopard Woman (1920). For the next few years his workload included several forgettable Ethel Clayton melodramas and a series of short comedies made at FBO, starring Alberta Vaughn. Following a spell at Universal (1927-29), Wesley had his most productive period at RKO (1931-32) and Paramount (1932-39). At RKO he directed the western blockbuster La ruée vers l'ouest (1931), the most expensive picture made by this studio to date, at $1.4 million. While the costs were not recouped at the box office (its loss of $565,000 was attributed to the effects of the Great Depression), it won the Best Picture Oscar at the Academy Awards. Wesley narrowly lost out to Norman Taurog (for Skippy (1931)) in the directing stakes.At Paramount, Wesley showed his flair for comedy with Mae West's best-loved film, Je ne suis pas un ange (1933), and with three excellent vehicles for Carole Lombard: the romantic drama Un mauvais garçon (1932) (co-starring Clark Gable), the entertaining, elegantly-mounted Bolero (1934) (featuring Sally Rand's famous fan dance) and the delightful comedy La folle confession (1937). Moreover, he also handled the quintessential '30s tearjerker Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936).By the early 1940s his career was on the decline, however. After short-term tenures at Columbia and MGM, he was signed by J. Arthur Rank as producer/director for the lavish British Technicolor musical London folies (1946). This picture turned out to be a fiasco of major proportions and brought about his premature retirement.