1885 - 1955
Billy Ruge American Actor
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| First Name |
Billy
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| Last Name |
Ruge
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| Full Name at Birth |
Billy Ruge
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| Alternative Name |
Billy Ruge
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1884
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| Birthplace |
New York City, New York, USA
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| Died |
1955
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| Place of Death |
Florida, USA
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation Text |
Film actor
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| Occupation |
Actor
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| Year(s) Active |
1915–1922, c. 1899–1930
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Billy Ruge (c.1866/1870–1955) was an American film actor. His early career was spent as an aerial trapeze acrobat in an act with partner Bill Frobel: Ruge and Frobel played Montreal in 1899,
and shared a bill at London's Hippodrome with W. C. Fields, Houdini, and Sandow over the Easter holiday of 1904.
According to Ruge, prior to playing his first silent film part- for Edison- he had "just returned from a seven years' engagement in the variety houses of Germany, England, France, Russia, South America, Belgium, and Spain." Ruge eventually appeared in 64 films between 1915 and 1922, mostly one-reeler Comedy Shorts.
He frequently worked for Actor/Director Willard Louis, filming in Jacksonville, Florida for the minor studios Lubin Studios, the Vim Comedy Company, and the Jaxon Film Corporation.
