Wesley Ruggles

Birth Name:

Wesley Heinsch Ruggles

Birth Place:

Los Angeles, California, United States

Profession

Director, Actor, Producer, Writer, Production manager, Script department

His adaptation of Edna Ferber's novel "Cimarron" was the first Western to win an Academy Award for Best Picture
Had a long apprenticeship in stock and musical comedy in San Francisco
Played a Keystone Cop in Mack Sennett's comedies in 1914 before turning to filmmaking
One of the leading Hollywood movie directors in the 1930s and 1940s

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