Actor info
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Name :
John Ridgely
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Born :
September 6, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois, USA (58 years at death)
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Died :
January 18, 1968
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Known for :
Acting
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Gender :
Male
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Film career :
146 films (1935–1952)
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Also known as :
John Huntington Rea, John Ridgeley, John Ridgley
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Biography
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.
Notable films
- The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) as Assistant Manager
- A Place in the Sun (1951) as Coroner
- The Big Sleep (1946) as Eddie Mars
- Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) as Officer Saunders
- They Died with Their Boots On (1941) as 2nd Lt. Davis (uncredited)
