
Stanley Ridges
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1890-07-17
Day of Death
1951-04-22 (60 years old)
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.
Known For
Acting
(1951)
The Groom Wore Spurs
as Harry Kallen
(1950)
No Way Out
as Sam Moreland
(1950)
Paid in Full
as Dr. P.J. 'Phil' Winston
(1950)
The Man Who Had Influence
as J. C. Grant
(1949)
Task Force
as Sen. Bentley
(1949)
The File on Thelma Jordon
as Kingsley Willis
(1949)
You're My Everything
as Mr. Henry Mercer
(1949)
Streets of Laredo
as Major Bailey
(1948)
An Act of Murder
as Doctor Walter Morrison
(1947)
Possessed
as Dr. Willard
(1946)
Canyon Passage
as Jonas Overmire
(1946)
Mr. Ace
as Toomey
(1946)
Because of Him
as Charles Gilbert
(1945)
The Suspect
as Inspector Huxley
(1945)
God Is My Co-Pilot
as Col. Merian 'Steve' Cooper
(1945)
The Phantom Speaks
as Dr. Paul Renwick
(1945)
Captain Eddie
as Col. Hans Adamson
(1944)
Wilson
as Dr. Cary Grayson
(1944)
The Story of Dr. Wassell
as Cmdr. William B. 'Bill' Goggins
(1944)
The Master Race
as Phil Carson
(1943)
Air Force
as Maj. Mallory - Clark Field
(1943)
Tarzan Triumphs
as Colonel Von Reichart
(1943)
This Is the Army
as John Davidson
(1943)
The Voice That Thrilled the World
as Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage)
(1943)
False Faces
as District Attorney Stanley S. Harding
(1942)
To Be or Not to Be
as Professor Alexander Siletsky
(1942)
Eyes in the Night
as Hansen
(1942)
The Big Shot
as Martin T. Fleming, Attorney
(1942)
The Lady Is Willing
as Kenneth Hanline
(1942)
Eagle Squadron
as Air Minister
(1941)
The Sea Wolf
as Johnson
(1941)
Sergeant York
as Major Buxton
(1941)
They Died with Their Boots On
as Maj. Romulus Taipe
(1941)
Mr. District Attorney
as District Attorney Tom F. Winton
(1940)
Black Friday
as Prof. George Kingsley / Red Cannon
(1939)
Union Pacific
as Gen. Casement
(1939)
Let Us Live
as District Attorney
(1939)
Silver on the Sage
as Earl Brennan / Dave Talbot
(1939)
Each Dawn I Die
as Mueller
(1939)
Dust Be My Destiny
as Charles 'Charlie' Garreth
(1939)
I Stole a Million
as Downs (uncredited)
(1939)
Espionage Agent
as Hamilton Peyton
(1939)
Nick Carter, Master Detective
as Doctor Frankton (as Stanley C. Ridges)
(1938)
The Mad Miss Manton
as Edward Norris
(1938)
If I Were King
as Rene de Montigny
(1938)
Yellow Jack
as Dr. James Carroll
(1938)
They're Always Caught
as Dr. John Pritchard
(1938)
There's That Woman Again
as Tony Croy
(1937)
Internes Can't Take Money
as Dan Innes
(1936)
Winterset
as Shadow
(1936)
Sinner Take All
as MacKelvey
(1935)
The Scoundrel
as Paul Decker
(1934)
Crime Without Passion
as Eddie White
(1930)
The Poor Fish
as George
(1930)
(1923)
Success
as Gilbert Gordon