Stanley Ridges
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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.
Como Actor/Actriz
Studio One
Police Chief Scott Anderson
Let Us Live
District Attorney
El sargento York
Major Buxton
Ser o no ser
Professor Alexander Siletsky
Por el valle de las sombras
Cmdr. William B. 'Bill' Goggins
El lobo de mar
Johnson
Canyon Passage
Jonas Overmire
Air Force
Maj. Mallory - Clark Field
They Died with Their Boots On
Maj. Romulus Taipe
Union Pacific
Gen. Casement
Streets of Laredo
Major Bailey
The File on Thelma Jordon
Kingsley Willis
No Way Out
Sam Moreland
Poseída
Dr. Harvey Willard
The Mad Miss Manton
Edward Norris
Wilson
Dr. Cary Grayson
This Is the Army
John Davidson
Each Dawn I Die
Mueller
The Suspect
Inspector Huxley
The Big Shot
Martin T. Fleming, Attorney
Espionage Agent
Hamilton Peyton
Eyes in the Night
Hansen
Paid in Full
Dr. P.J. 'Phil' Winston
An Act of Murder
Doctor Walter Morrison
If I Were King
Rene de Montigny
El triunfo de Tarzán
Colonel Von Reichart
Task Force
Sen. Bentley
Internes Can't Take Money
Dan Innes
Black Friday
Prof. George Kingsley / Red Cannon
They're Always Caught
Dr. John Pritchard