John Ridgely
Actor
Biography
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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.
Filmography
Arsenic and Old Lace
as Officer Saunders 1944
A Place in the Sun
as Coroner 1951
The Greatest Show on Earth
as Assistant Manager 1952
The Roaring Twenties
as Cabbie at Grand Central (uncredited) 1939
The Letter
as Driver (uncredited) 1940
Dark Victory
as Man Making Crack About Judith (uncredited) 1939
They Drive by Night
as Hank Dawson (uncredited) 1940
They Died with Their Boots On
as 2nd Lt. Davis (uncredited) 1941
The Man Who Came to Dinner
as Radio Man 1941
Possessed
as Harker 1947
Destination Tokyo
as Reserve Officer Raymond 1943
Each Dawn I Die
as Reporter (uncredited) 1939
The Return of Doctor X
as Rodgers 1939
Air Force
as Pilot 1943
Room for One More
as Harry Foreman 1952
Border Incident
as Mr. Neley 1949