The best Sig Ruman’s comedy movies

Sig Ruman

Sig Ruman

11/10/1884- 14/02/1967
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A Night in Casablanca

A Night in Casablanca
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/05/1946
  • Character: Count Pfefferman / Heinrich Stubel
The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.

Stalag 17

Stalag 17
8/10
  • Genre: ComedyThrillerWar
  • Release: 29/05/1953
  • Character: Sgt. Johann Sebastian Schulz
It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all sergeants, have to deal with a grave problem—there seems to be a security leak.

White Christmas

White Christmas
7.6/10
Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act.

To Be or Not to Be

To Be or Not to Be
8.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 05/03/1942
  • Character: Col. Ehrhardt
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

A Day at the Races

A Day at the Races
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 11/06/1937
  • Character: Dr. Leopold X. Steinberg
Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's farm by winning a big race with her horse. There are a few problems. Hackenbush runs a high priced clinic for the wealthy who don't know he has his degree in Veterinary Medicine.

A Night at the Opera

A Night at the Opera
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 15/11/1935
  • Character: Gottlieb
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.

Ninotchka

Ninotchka
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 23/11/1939
  • Character: Comrade Iranoff
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

Nothing Sacred

Nothing Sacred
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 25/11/1937
  • Character: Dr. Emil Eggelhoffer (as Sig Rumann)
When a small-town girl is diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an ambitious newspaper man turns her into a national heroine.

The Fortune Cookie

The Fortune Cookie
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 19/10/1966
  • Character: Professor Winterhalter
A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother in law as the king of the ambulance chasing lawyers starts a suit while he's still knocked out. The cameraman is against it until he hears that his ex-wife will be coming to see him. He pretends to be injured to get her back, but also sees what the strain is doing to the football player who injured him.

One, Two, Three

One, Two, Three
7.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 15/12/1961
  • Character: Count von Droste Schattenburg (voice) (uncredited)
C.R. MacNamara will do anything to get a promotion within the Coca-Cola company, including looking after boss W.P. Hazeltine's rebellious teenage daughter, Scarlett. When Scarlett visits Berlin, where C.R. is stationed, she reveals that she is married to a communist named Otto Piffl -- and C.R. recognizes that Otto's anti-establishment stance will clash with his boss's own political views, possibly jeopardizing his promotion.

Robin and the 7 Hoods

Robin and the 7 Hoods
6.4/10
In prohibition-era Chicago, the corrupt sheriff and Guy Gisborne, a south-side racketeer, knock off the boss Big Jim. Everyone falls in line behind Guy except Robbo, who controls the north side. Although he's out-gunned, Robbo wants to keep his own territory. A pool-playing dude from Indiana and the director of a boys' orphanage join forces with Robbo; and, when he gives some money to the orphanage, he becomes the toast of the town as a hood like Robin Hood. Meanwhile, Guy schemes to get rid of Robbo, and Big Jim's heretofore unknown daughter Marian appears and goes from man to man trying to find an ally in her quest to run the whole show. Can Robbo hold things together?

The Bold Caballero

The Bold Caballero
5.7/10
The Commandant is making life rough for the colonials in Spanish California. While trying to help, Zorro is charged with the murder of the new Governor, but in the end he triumphs over the evil Commandant.

It Happened Tomorrow

It Happened Tomorrow
7/10
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.

That Uncertain Feeling

That Uncertain Feeling
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 20/04/1941
  • Character: Monsieur Kafka
A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband.

Living It Up

Living It Up
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 15/07/1954
  • Character: Dr. Emile Egelhofer
Homer Flagg (Lewis) is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. One day he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic proving ground. His doctor and best friend, Steve Harris (Martin), diagnoses him with radiation poisoning and gives Homer three weeks to live. A reporter for a New York newspaper, hears of Homer's plight and convinces her editor, to provide an all-expenses paid trip to New York.

A Royal Scandal

A Royal Scandal
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 26/03/1945
  • Character: General Ronsky
Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.

Love Crazy

Love Crazy
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 23/05/1941
  • Character: Dr. Wuthering
Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.

The Emperor Waltz

The Emperor Waltz
6/10
At the turn of the 20th century, travelling salesman Virgil Smith journeys to Vienna in the hope he can sell a gramophone to Emperor Franz Joseph, whose purchase of the recent American invention could spur its popularity in Austria.

The Errand Boy

The Errand Boy
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 28/11/1961
  • Character: Baron Elston Carteblanche
Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. Morty works for Mr. Sneak and gets a job in the mail room so that he can have access to the lot. But all that Morty ever finds is that he can cause havoc no matter what he does.

The Princess Comes Across

The Princess Comes Across
6.7/10
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America, and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.

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