John Ridgely

Actor

1909-09-06 – 1968-01-18 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

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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.

• El sueño eterno (1946) — Eddie Mars
• Arsénico por compasión (1944) — Officer Saunders
• Un lugar en el sol (1951) — Coroner
• El mayor espectáculo del mundo (1952) — Assistant Manager
• Los violentos años veinte (1939) — Cabbie at Grand Central (uncredited)
• La Carta (1940) — Driver (uncredited)
• Amarga victoria (1939) — Man Making Crack About Judith (uncredited)
• La pasión ciega (1940) — Hank Dawson (uncredited)
• Murieron con las botas puestas (1941) — 2nd Lt. Davis (uncredited)
• El hombre que vino a cenar (1941) — Radio Man
• Amor que mata (1947) — Harker
• Destino Tokio (1943) — Reserve Officer Raymond
• Fuerzas aéreas (El bombardero heroico) (1943) — Pilot
• Muero cada amanecer (1939) — Reporter (uncredited)
• El regreso del Doctor X (1939) — Rodgers
• Hogar, dulce hogar (1952) — Harry Foreman
• Incidente en la frontera (1949) — Mr. Neley
• El hermano orquídea (1940) — Texas Pearson
• Han hecho de mí un criminal (1939) — Charles 'Charlie' Magee (Reporter)
• Confesiones de un espía nazi (1939) — Army Hospital Clerk (uncredited)
• Pasión desenfrenada (1950) — Plainclothesman (uncredited)
• Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939) — Beldenburg Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
• El aullido del lobo (1947) — Jackson Laidell
• The Man I Love (1946) — Roy Otis