John Ridgely
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.
Known for
- The Big Sleep (1946)
- A Place in the Sun (1951)
- Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
- The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
- At the Stroke of Twelve (1941)
- They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
- They Drive by Night (1940)
- Dark Victory (1939)
- The Roaring Twenties (1939)
- Room for One More (1952)
- The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)
- Service with the Colors (1940)
- Destination Tokyo (1943)
- Secret Service of the Air (1939)
- Steel Against the Sky (1941)
- Smashing the Money Ring (1939)
- They Made Me a Criminal (1939)
- A Child is Born (1939)
- The Return of Doctor X (1939)
- Each Dawn I Die (1939)