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
A Place in the Sun
1951
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
The Greatest Show on Earth
1952
They Died with Their Boots On
1941
Command Decision
1948
Dark Victory
1939
Air Force
1943
The Roaring Twenties
1939
Destination Tokyo
1943
They Drive by Night
1940
Nora Prentiss
1947
The Letter
1940
Pride of the Marines
1945
The Return of Doctor X
1939
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941
Invisible Stripes
1939
Off Limits
1952
A Child is Born
1939
Each Dawn I Die
1939
No Time for Comedy
1940
The Man I Love
1946
Edge of Doom
1950
Women in the Wind
1939
Border Incident
1949
Lady with Red Hair
1940
'Til We Meet Again
1940
At the Stroke of Twelve
1941
You Can't Get Away with Murder
1939
Tucson
1949
My Reputation
1946
Hollywood Canteen
1944
The Fighting 69th
1940
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939
Brother Orchid
1940
Backfire
1950