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person_profile-Stanley Ridges

Stanley Ridges Died at age: 60

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Stanley Ridges

Date of Birth:

Jul 17, 1890

Country of birth:

UK

Died:

Apr 22, 1951

Biography of

Stanley Ridges

    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.

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Stanley Ridges

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Filmography of

Stanley Ridges

Found 52 Movies in total

The Groom Wore Spurs

Harry Kallen ( Actor )

... 1951

No Way Out

Dr. Sam Moreland ( Actor )

... 1950

The Man Who Had Influence

J. C. Grant ( Actor )

... 1950

Paid in Full

Dr. P.J. 'Phil' Winston ( Actor )

... 1950

The File on Thelma Jordon

Kingsley Willis ( Actor )

... 1949

Task Force

Sen. Bentley ( Actor )

... 1949

You're My Everything

Mr. Henry Mercer ( Actor )

... 1949

Streets of Laredo

Major Bailey ( Actor )

... 1949

An Act of Murder

Doctor Walter Morrison ( Actor )

... 1948

Possessed

Dr. Willard ( Actor )

... 1947

Mr. Ace

Toomey ( Actor )

... 1946

Canyon Passage

Jonas Overmire ( Actor )

... 1946

Because of Him

Charles Gilbert ( Actor )

... 1946

Captain Eddie

Col. Hans Adamson ( Actor )

... 1945

The Phantom Speaks

Dr. Paul Renwick ( Actor )

... 1945

God Is My Co-Pilot

Col. Merian 'Steve' Cooper ( Actor )

... 1945

The Suspect

Inspector Huxley ( Actor )

... 1945

The Master Race

Phil Carson ( Actor )

... 1944

Wilson

Dr. Cary Grayson ( Actor )

... 1944

The Story of Dr. Wassell

Cmdr. William B. 'Bill' Goggins ( Actor )

... 1944

This Is the Army

John Davidson ( Actor )

... 1943

False Faces

District Attorney Stanley S. Harding ( Actor )

... 1943

Air Force

Maj. Mallory - Clark Field ( Actor )

... 1943

Tarzan Triumphs

Colonel Von Reichart ( Actor )

... 1943

Eyes in the Night

Hansen ( Actor )

... 1942

Eagle Squadron

Air Minister ( Actor )

... 1942

The Big Shot

Martin T. Fleming, Attorney ( Actor )

... 1942

To Be or Not to Be

Professor Alexander Siletsky ( Actor )

... 1942

The Lady Is Willing

Kenneth Hanline ( Actor )

... 1942

They Died with Their Boots On

Maj. Romulus Taipe ( Actor )

... 1941

Sergeant York

Major Buxton ( Actor )

... 1941

Mr. District Attorney

District Attorney Tom F. Winton ( Actor )

... 1941

The Sea Wolf

Johnson ( Actor )

... 1941

Black Friday

Prof. George Kingsley / Red Cannon ( Actor )

... 1940

Nick Carter, Master Detective

Doctor Frankton (as Stanley C. Ridges) ( Actor )

... 1939

Espionage Agent

Hamilton Peyton ( Actor )

... 1939

Dust Be My Destiny

Charles 'Charlie' Garreth ( Actor )

... 1939

Each Dawn I Die

Mueller ( Actor )

... 1939

I Stole a Million

Downs (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1939

Union Pacific

Gen. Casement ( Actor )

... 1939

Silver on the Sage

Earl Brennan / Dave Talbot ( Actor )

... 1939

Let Us Live

District Attorney ( Actor )

... 1939

There's That Woman Again

Tony Croy ( Actor )

... 1938

The Mad Miss Manton

Edward Norris ( Actor )

... 1938

If I Were King

Rene de Montigny ( Actor )

... 1938

Yellow Jack

Dr. James Carroll ( Actor )

... 1938

Internes Can't Take Money

Dan Innes ( Actor )

... 1937

Sinner Take All

MacKelvey ( Actor )

... 1936

Winterset

Shadow ( Actor )

... 1936

The Scoundrel

Paul Decker ( Actor )

... 1935

Crime Without Passion

Eddie White ( Actor )

... 1934

Success

Gilbert Gordon ( Actor )

... 1923