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Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 17, 1890
Died
April 22, 1951
Place of Birth
Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK
Also Known As
- Stanley Charles Ridges
- Stanley C. Ridges
Stanley Ridges
0.3 Popularity
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.
Known For
4.4
Harry Kallen
The Groom Wore Spurs
1951
6.9
Sam Moreland
No Way Out
1950
8.0
J. C. Grant
The Man Who Had Influence
1950
6.6
Dr. P.J. 'Phil' Winston
Paid in Full
1950
6.5
Kingsley Willis
The File on Thelma Jordon
1949
7.0
Sen. Bentley
Task Force
1949
3.8
Mr. Henry Mercer
You're My Everything
1949
5.9
Major Bailey
Streets of Laredo
1949
6.7
Doctor Walter Morrison
An Act of Murder
1948
5.0
Police Chief Scott Anderson
Studio One
1948
Credits
The Groom Wore Spurs
as Harry Kallen
1951
4.4
No Way Out
as Sam Moreland
1950
6.9
The Man Who Had Influence
as J. C. Grant
1950
8.0
Paid in Full
as Dr. P.J. 'Phil' Winston
1950
6.6
The File on Thelma Jordon
as Kingsley Willis
1949
6.5
Task Force
as Sen. Bentley
1949
7.0
You're My Everything
as Mr. Henry Mercer
1949
3.8
Streets of Laredo
as Major Bailey
1949
5.9
An Act of Murder
as Doctor Walter Morrison
1948
6.7
Studio One
as Police Chief Scott Anderson
1948
5.0
Possessed
as Dr. Harvey Willard
1947
6.9
Mr. Ace
as Toomey
1946
5.6
Canyon Passage
as Jonas Overmire
1946
6.6
Because of Him
as Charles Gilbert
1946
6.2
Captain Eddie
as Col. Hans Adamson
1945
6.0
The Phantom Speaks
as Dr. Paul Renwick
1945
5.4
God Is My Co-Pilot
as Col. Merian 'Steve' Cooper
1945
6.9
The Suspect
as Inspector Huxley
1944
6.7
The Master Race
as Phil Carson
1944
6.2
Wilson
as Dr. Cary Grayson
1944
5.5
The Story of Dr. Wassell
as Cmdr. William B. 'Bill' Goggins
1944
6.3
The Voice That Thrilled the World
as Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage)
1943
5.3
This Is the Army
as John Davidson
1943
5.6
False Faces
as District Attorney Stanley S. Harding
1943
7.0
Air Force
as Maj. Mallory - Clark Field
1943
6.5
Tarzan Triumphs
as Colonel Von Reichart
1943
6.1
Eyes in the Night
as Hansen
1942
5.9
Eagle Squadron
as Air Minister
1942
5.5
The Big Shot
as Martin T. Fleming, Attorney
1942
6.3
To Be or Not to Be
as Professor Alexander Siletsky
1942
7.8
The Lady Is Willing
as Kenneth Hanline
1942
6.4
They Died with Their Boots On
as Maj. Romulus Taipe
1941
6.6
Sergeant York
as Major Buxton
1941
7.2
Mr. District Attorney
as District Attorney Tom F. Winton
1941
5.4
The Sea Wolf
as Johnson
1941
7.2
Black Friday
as Prof. George Kingsley / Red Cannon
1940
6.0
Nick Carter, Master Detective
as Doctor Frankton (as Stanley C. Ridges)
1939
5.7
Espionage Agent
as Hamilton Peyton
1939
5.9
Dust Be My Destiny
as Charles 'Charlie' Garreth
1939
6.2
Each Dawn I Die
as Mueller
1939
6.8
I Stole a Million
as Downs (uncredited)
1939
6.0
Union Pacific
as Gen. Casement
1939
6.6
Silver on the Sage
as Earl Brennan / Dave Talbot
1939
3.0
Let Us Live
as District Attorney
1939
6.8
There's That Woman Again
as Tony Croy
1938
5.8
The Mad Miss Manton
as Edward Norris
1938
6.3
If I Were King
as Rene de Montigny
1938
6.8
They're Always Caught
as Dr. John Pritchard
1938
5.9
Yellow Jack
as Dr. James Carroll
1938
5.6
Internes Can't Take Money
as Dan Innes
1937
6.3
Sinner Take All
as MacKelvey
1936
4.3
Winterset
as Shadow
1936
5.7
The Scoundrel
as Paul Decker
1935
6.2
Crime Without Passion
as Eddie White
1934
5.8
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For Two Cents
1930
0.0
The Poor Fish
as George
1930
0.0
Success
as Gilbert Gordon
1923
0.0