Stanley Ridges

Known for ActingBorn 1890-07-17Died 1951-04-22Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Stanley Ridges (17 July 1890 – 22 April 1951) was a British-born actor who made his mark in films by playing a wide assortment of character parts. Born 17 July 1890 in Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK, Stanley Ridges became a protégé of Beatrice Lillie, a star of musical stage comedies, and spent many years learning and honing his craft on the stage. Eventually making his way to America, Ridges began as a song-and-dance man on Broadway, but later turned to dramatic roles onstage, appearing in such plays as Maxwell Anderson's Mary of Scotland (as Lord Morton) and Valley Forge (as Lieutenant Colonel Lucifer Tench), becoming a romantic leading man. Ridges' silent film debut was in Success (1923). With his excellent diction and rich speaking voice, he easily made the transition into sound films, with his career taking off at age 43, in Crime Without Passion (1934), with Claude Rains. Ridges found himself cast in character roles, as his greying hair put his romantic leading man days at an end. His most best known roles were probably two different characters in one film, one of them the kindly Professor Kingsley and the other the murderous Red Cannon in the thriller Black Friday (1940). The Jekyll and Hyde transformations gave Ridges a chance to display his acting ability. Ridges was often cast in supporting roles in many classic films, and played the lead only once, in the B-picture False Faces (1943). Among Ridges's other film roles were as the Scotland Yard inspector who is shadowing Charles Laughton in the film The Suspect (1944), as Major Buxton (Gary Cooper's commanding officer) in Sergeant York (1942), as Professor Siletsky in To Be or Not to Be (also 1942), and as Cary Travers Grayson, the official White House physician in Wilson (1944). By 1950, he had just begun appearing in television anthologies such as Studio One and Philco Television Playhouse. His last feature film, the Ginger Rogers comedy The Groom Wore Spurs, in which he played a mobster, was released a month before he died. Stanley Ridges died 22 April 1951, in Westbrook, Connecticut, aged 60.Read more

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Success

False Faces

I Stole a Million

To Be or Not to Be

Captain Eddie

God Is My Co-Pilot

Sergeant York

The Sea Wolf

If I Were King

Task Force

Eagle Squadron

No Way Out

Paid in Full

Possessed

An Act of Murder

The Suspect

Each Dawn I Die

Let Us Live

Canyon Passage

Union Pacific

They Died with Their Boots On

The File on Thelma Jordon

Air Force

The Master Race

The Lady Is Willing

Silver on the Sage

Internes Can't Take Money

Dust Be My Destiny

The Story of Dr. Wassell

The Big Shot

The Mad Miss Manton

Because of Him

They're Always Caught

Espionage Agent

The Scoundrel

Tarzan Triumphs

There's That Woman Again

Eyes in the Night

The Man Who Had Influence

Streets of Laredo

Black Friday

Nick Carter, Master Detective

Winterset

Mr. Ace

Yellow Jack

Crime Without Passion

Mr. District Attorney

The Voice That Thrilled the World