John Ridgely
Acting · Born September 6, 1909 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
John Ridgely movies and shows
The Big Sleep1946
Arsenic and Old Lace1944
The Greatest Show on Earth1952
A Place in the Sun1951
Dark Victory1939
They Drive by Night1940
Each Dawn I Die1939
The Roaring Twenties1939
They Died with Their Boots On1941
The Man Who Came to Dinner1941
The Letter1940
Destination Tokyo1943
Possessed1947
Room for One More1952
The Man I Love1946
They Made Me a Criminal1939
Confessions of a Nazi Spy1939
The Return of Doctor X1939
Hollywood Canteen1944
King of the Underworld1939
'Til We Meet Again1940
Air Force1943
Invisible Stripes1939
Al Jennings of Oklahoma1951