person

Stanley Ridges

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1890-07-17

Place of Birth

Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK

Stanley Ridges

Biography

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.

Also Known For

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To Be or Not to Be

Mar 06, 1942

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For Two Cents

Oct 24, 1930

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68

Possessed

May 29, 1947

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62

Dust Be My Destiny

Sep 16, 1939

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71

The Sea Wolf

Mar 21, 1941

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58

Crime Without Passion

Aug 30, 1934

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66

The File on Thelma Jordon

Nov 04, 1949

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69

No Way Out

Aug 16, 1950

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59

Black Friday

Feb 29, 1940

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68

Each Dawn I Die

Aug 19, 1939

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66

Canyon Passage

Jul 17, 1946

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62

The Scoundrel

Apr 30, 1935

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68

An Act of Murder

Dec 05, 1948

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57

This Is the Army

Aug 14, 1943

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64

Air Force

Mar 20, 1943

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72

Sergeant York

Sep 27, 1941

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66

Paid in Full

Feb 15, 1950

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66

They Died with Their Boots On

Nov 20, 1941

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57

Nick Carter, Master Detective

Dec 13, 1939

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68

Let Us Live

Mar 29, 1939

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63

The Big Shot

Jun 13, 1942

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NA

Silver on the Sage

Mar 31, 1939

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63

The Lady Is Willing

Feb 12, 1942

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37

You're My Everything

Jul 22, 1949

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61

Tarzan Triumphs

Jan 20, 1943

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59

Eyes in the Night

Oct 16, 1942

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44

The Groom Wore Spurs

Mar 13, 1951

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67

If I Were King

Sep 28, 1938

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59

Streets of Laredo

May 27, 1949

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48

Sinner Take All

Dec 18, 1936

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58

They're Always Caught

Jul 03, 1938

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54

Mr. District Attorney

Mar 27, 1941

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62

The Master Race

Sep 22, 1944

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65

Union Pacific

May 05, 1939

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64

The Mad Miss Manton

Oct 21, 1938

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67

The Suspect

Jan 31, 1945

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54

The Phantom Speaks

Apr 13, 1945

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55

Wilson

Aug 01, 1944

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65

There's That Woman Again

Dec 24, 1938

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56

Mr. Ace

Aug 02, 1946

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59

Espionage Agent

Sep 30, 1939

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56

Winterset

Dec 03, 1936

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70

Task Force

Aug 30, 1949

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62

Because of Him

Jan 18, 1946

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63

Internes Can't Take Money

Apr 16, 1937

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60

Captain Eddie

Jun 18, 1945

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63

The Story of Dr. Wassell

Jul 04, 1944

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NA

Eagle Squadron

Jun 16, 1942

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NA

The Poor Fish

Jun 07, 1930

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60

I Stole a Million

Aug 01, 1939

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70

False Faces

May 28, 1943

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56

Yellow Jack

May 19, 1938

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NA

Success

Feb 25, 1923

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53

The Voice That Thrilled the World

Oct 16, 1943

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80

The Man Who Had Influence

May 29, 1950

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70

God Is My Co-Pilot

Apr 07, 1945

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50

Studio One

Nov 07, 1948