John Ridgely
Acting Born Sep 6, 1909 Chicago, Illinois, USA 24 credits
Biography
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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.
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.
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Full filmography
- The Big Sleep (1946) as Eddie Mars
- The Roaring Twenties (1939) as Cabbie at Grand Central (uncredited)
- A Place in the Sun (1951) as Coroner
- They Died with Their Boots On (1941) as 2nd Lt. Davis (uncredited)
- Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) as Officer Saunders
- The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) as Assistant Manager
- Teddy the Rough Rider (1940) as Reporter
- The Man I Love (1946) as Roy Otis
- The Letter (1940) as Driver (uncredited)
- The Iron Curtain (1948)
- Possessed (1947) as Harker
- They Drive by Night (1940) as Hank Dawson (uncredited)
- Air Force (1943) as Pilot
- Cry Wolf (1947) as Jackson Laidell
- My Reputation (1946) as Cary Abbott
- Invisible Stripes (1939) as Employment Clerk (uncredited)
- Each Dawn I Die (1939) as Reporter (uncredited)
- The Return of Doctor X (1939) as Rodgers
- Nora Prentiss (1947) as Walter Bailey
- The Blue Veil (1951) as Doctor (Uncredited)
- God Is My Co-Pilot (1945) as David 'Tex' Hill
- The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941) as Radio Man
- Task Force (1949) as Dixie Rankin
- Bullet Scars (1942) as Hank O'Connor