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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.
Filmography
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Movies 57
TV Shows 1
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The Groom Wore Spurs (1951)
The Du Pont Story (1950)
No Way Out (1950)
The Man Who Had Influence (1950)
Paid in Full (1950)
The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)
Task Force (1949)
You're My Everything (1949)
Streets of Laredo (1949)
An Act of Murder (1948)
Studio One (1948)
Possessed (1947)
Mr. Ace (1946)
Canyon Passage (1946)
Because of Him (1946)
Captain Eddie (1945)
The Phantom Speaks (1945)
God Is My Co-Pilot (1945)
The Suspect (1945)
The Master Race (1944)
Wilson (1944)
The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)
The Voice That Thrilled the World (1943)
This Is the Army (1943)
False Faces (1943)
Air Force (1943)
Tarzan Triumphs (1943)
Eagle Squadron (1942)
The Big Shot (1942)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
The Lady Is Willing (1942)
They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
Sergeant York (1941)
Mr. District Attorney (1941)
The Sea Wolf (1941)
Black Friday (1940)
Nick Carter, Master Detective (1939)
Espionage Agent (1939)
Dust Be My Destiny (1939)
Each Dawn I Die (1939)
I Stole a Million (1939)
Union Pacific (1939)
Silver on the Sage (1939)
Let Us Live (1939)
There's That Woman Again (1938)
The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
If I Were King (1938)
They're Always Caught (1938)
Yellow Jack (1938)
Sinner Take All (1936)
Winterset (1936)
The Scoundrel (1935)
Crime Without Passion (1934)
For Two Cents (1930)
Success (1923)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1890-07-17
Deathday1951-04-22 (60 years old)
Birth PlaceSouthampton, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom
Also Known AsStanley Charles Ridges, Stanley C. Ridges
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