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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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Filmography (Movies)
The Groom Wore Spurs
Character:Harry Kallen
Release Date:13/03/1951
No Way Out
Character:Sam Moreland
Release Date:16/08/1950
The Man Who Had Influence
Character:J. C. Grant
Release Date:29/05/1950
Paid in Full
Character:Dr. P.J. 'Phil' Winston
Release Date:15/02/1950
The File on Thelma Jordon
Character:Kingsley Willis
Release Date:04/11/1949
Task Force
Character:Sen. Bentley
Release Date:30/08/1949
You're My Everything
Character:Mr. Henry Mercer
Release Date:22/07/1949
Streets of Laredo
Character:Major Bailey
Release Date:27/05/1949
An Act of Murder
Character:Doctor Walter Morrison
Release Date:05/12/1948
Possessed
Character:Dr. Harvey Willard
Release Date:29/05/1947
Mr. Ace
Character:Toomey
Release Date:02/08/1946
Canyon Passage
Character:Jonas Overmire
Release Date:17/07/1946
Because of Him
Character:Charles Gilbert
Release Date:18/01/1946
Captain Eddie
Character:Col. Hans Adamson
Release Date:18/06/1945
The Phantom Speaks
Character:Dr. Paul Renwick
Release Date:13/04/1945
God Is My Co-Pilot
Character:Col. Merian 'Steve' Cooper
Release Date:07/04/1945
The Suspect
Character:Inspector Huxley
Release Date:31/01/1945
The Master Race
Character:Phil Carson
Release Date:22/09/1944
Wilson
Character:Dr. Cary Grayson
Release Date:01/08/1944
The Story of Dr. Wassell
Character:Cmdr. William B. 'Bill' Goggins
Release Date:04/07/1944
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Character:Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage)
Release Date:16/10/1943
This Is the Army
Character:John Davidson
Release Date:14/08/1943
False Faces
Character:District Attorney Stanley S. Harding
Release Date:28/05/1943
Air Force
Character:Maj. Mallory - Clark Field
Release Date:20/03/1943
Tarzan Triumphs
Character:Colonel Von Reichart
Release Date:20/01/1943
Eyes in the Night
Character:Hansen
Release Date:16/10/1942
Eagle Squadron
Character:Air Minister
Release Date:16/06/1942
The Big Shot
Character:Martin T. Fleming, Attorney
Release Date:13/06/1942
To Be or Not to Be
Character:Professor Alexander Siletsky
Release Date:06/03/1942
The Lady Is Willing
Character:Kenneth Hanline
Release Date:12/02/1942
They Died with Their Boots On
Character:Maj. Romulus Taipe
Release Date:20/11/1941
Sergeant York
Character:Major Buxton
Release Date:27/09/1941
Mr. District Attorney
Character:District Attorney Tom F. Winton
Release Date:27/03/1941
The Sea Wolf
Character:Johnson
Release Date:21/03/1941
Black Friday
Character:Prof. George Kingsley / Red Cannon
Release Date:12/04/1940
Nick Carter, Master Detective
Character:Doctor Frankton (as Stanley C. Ridges)
Release Date:13/12/1939
Espionage Agent
Character:Hamilton Peyton
Release Date:30/09/1939
Dust Be My Destiny
Character:Charles 'Charlie' Garreth
Release Date:16/09/1939
Each Dawn I Die
Character:Mueller
Release Date:19/08/1939
I Stole a Million
Character:Downs (uncredited)
Release Date:01/08/1939
Union Pacific
Character:Gen. Casement
Release Date:05/05/1939
Silver on the Sage
Character:Earl Brennan / Dave Talbot
Release Date:31/03/1939
Let Us Live
Character:District Attorney
Release Date:29/03/1939
There's That Woman Again
Character:Tony Croy
Release Date:24/12/1938
The Mad Miss Manton
Character:Edward Norris
Release Date:21/10/1938
If I Were King
Character:Rene de Montigny
Release Date:28/09/1938
They're Always Caught
Character:Dr. John Pritchard
Release Date:03/07/1938
Yellow Jack
Character:Dr. James Carroll
Release Date:19/05/1938
Internes Can't Take Money
Character:Dan Innes
Release Date:16/04/1937
Sinner Take All
Character:MacKelvey
Release Date:18/12/1936
Winterset
Character:Shadow
Release Date:03/12/1936
The Scoundrel
Character:Paul Decker
Release Date:30/04/1935
Crime Without Passion
Character:Eddie White
Release Date:30/08/1934
For Two Cents
Character:
Release Date:24/10/1930
The Poor Fish
Character:George
Release Date:07/06/1930
Success
Character:Gilbert Gordon
Release Date:25/02/1923
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