John Ridgely
Actor
- Born
- September 6, 1909 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Died
- January 18, 1968 (age 58)
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John Ridgely (born John Huntington Rea, September 6, 1909 – January 18, 1968) was an American film character actor with over 175 film credits.
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He appeared in the 1946 Humphrey Bogart film The Big Sleep as blackmailing gangster Eddie Mars and had a memorable role as a suffering heart patient in the film noir Nora Prentiss (1947). He appeared in a large number of other Warner Bros. films in the 1930s and 1940s.
Freelancing after 1948, John Ridgely continued to essay general-purpose parts until he left films in 1953. Thereafter, he worked in summer-theater productions and television until his death from a heart attack at the age of 58 in 1968.
Known for
The Big Sleep
August 22, 1946
Arsenic and Old Lace
September 1, 1944
A Place in the Sun
June 12, 1951
The Greatest Show on Earth
February 16, 1952
The Roaring Twenties
October 28, 1939
The Letter
November 21, 1940
Dark Victory
April 20, 1939
They Drive by Night
July 26, 1940
They Died with Their Boots On
November 20, 1941
The Man Who Came to Dinner
December 24, 1941
Possessed
May 29, 1947
Destination Tokyo
December 31, 1943
Acting146
- 1952Off Limits as Lt. Cmdr. Parnell
- 1952The Greatest Show on Earth as Assistant Manager
- 1952Fort Osage as Henry Travers
- 1952Room for One More as Harry Foreman
- 1952The Congregation
- 1951The Blue Veil as Doctor (Uncredited)
- 1951As You Were as Captain
- 1951A Place in the Sun as Coroner
- 1951When the Redskins Rode as Christopher Gist
- 1951Half Angel as Tim McCarey