Biographies: ‏Mike Ragan - Actor

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Mike Ragan was born in Los Angeles, California, USA on February 18, 1918, and died in Los Angeles, California, on August 25, 1995 from emphysema. Among his most important works are The Range Rider (1951-1952), Montana Belle (1952), and General Electric Theater (1957-1959). Mike Ragan is an American film and television actor, in addition to his work as a makeup artist. He got a job at MGM Studios at the age of 15, and from there he made his way to the makeup department, and soon made his way in front of the camera in small parts in action films, but his enlistment in the US Marine Corps during WWII put a halt to his career. After the war, he returned to his job as a make-up artist, but decided to replace it with work as an actor. He appeared as the villain in Western B-movies during the fifties. In the sixties, when Western films began to fade, he turned to television, and presented several programs, the most prominent of which was the series Bonanza. In the early seventies, he returned to work as a make-up artist on television shows. Mike Ragan made his acting debut in Go West, Young Lady (1941) and his last movie was Three Guns for Texas (1968).

• 2 September 2021
• Dalia Saad