Acting
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.
Titles
The Big Sleep
1946
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
A Place in the Sun
1951
The Greatest Show on Earth
1952
The Roaring Twenties
1939
They Drive by Night
1940
The Letter
1940
Destination Tokyo
1943
The Return of Doctor X
1939
The Last Outpost
1951
Dark Victory
1939
No Time for Comedy
1940
They Died with Their Boots On
1941
Command Decision
1948
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941
Backfire
1950
On Dress Parade
1939
Air Force
1943
Naughty but Nice
1939
Each Dawn I Die
1939
My Reputation
1946
Invisible Stripes
1939
Hollywood Canteen
1944
Room for One More
1952
The Fighting 69th
1940
God Is My Co-Pilot
1945
Possessed
1947
They Made Me a Criminal
1939
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939
Nora Prentiss
1947
Border Incident
1949
Half Angel
1951
Nancy Drew... Reporter
1939
Going Places
1938
The Blue Veil
1951
Brother Orchid
1940