death_date death_place years_active birth_place birth_date article_title name occupation bgcolour
1955 florida 1915 & ndash ; 1922 new york city , new york c. 1885 billy ruge
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billy ruge

billy ruge was an american film actor .
he began his career on stage as an acrobat in vaudeville before moving in to silent movies .
eventually appearing in 64 films between 1915 and 1922 , mostly one-reeler comedy shorts .
he was teamed up with babe hardy -lrb- aka oliver hardy -rrb- playing the part of ` runt ' to hardy 's ` plump ' in what can be seen as a precursor to the more famous stan and ollie partnership .
afterwards , he teamed briefly with walter stull as ` haddie ' in the finn and haddie comedies .
after 40 plus shorts hardy moved on , eventually to hollywood working with billy west .
for ruge a new partnership with frequent co-star kate price was formed for a series of `` sparkle comedies '' .
finally after a few solo projects he disappeared from the movie world .
ruge 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 .
