Stanley Ridges

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

Born: Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK, 1890-07-17

Died: 1951-04-22

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1923	Success	Gilbert Gordon	0
2	1930	The Poor Fish	George	0
3	1930	For Two Cents		0
4	1934	Crime Without Passion	Eddie White	58
5	1935	The Scoundrel	Paul Decker	63
6	1936	Winterset	Shadow	57
7	1936	Sinner Take All	MacKelvey	48
8	1937	Internes Can't Take Money	Dan Innes	63
9	1938	Yellow Jack	Dr. James Carroll	56
10	1938	They're Always Caught	Dr. John Pritchard	59
11	1938	If I Were King	Rene de Montigny	68
12	1938	The Mad Miss Manton	Edward Norris	64
13	1938	There's That Woman Again	Tony Croy	65
14	1939	Let Us Live	District Attorney	68
15	1939	Silver on the Sage	Earl Brennan / Dave Talbot	0
16	1939	Union Pacific	Gen. Casement	65
17	1939	I Stole a Million	Downs (uncredited)	60
18	1939	Each Dawn I Die	Mueller	68
19	1939	Dust Be My Destiny	Charles 'Charlie' Garreth	62
20	1939	Espionage Agent	Hamilton Peyton	59
21	1939	Nick Carter, Master Detective	Doctor Frankton (as Stanley C. Ridges)	57
22	1940	Black Friday	Prof. George Kingsley / Red Cannon	60
23	1941	The Sea Wolf	Johnson	71
24	1941	Mr. District Attorney	District Attorney Tom F. Winton	54
25	1941	Sergeant York	Major Buxton	72
26	1941	They Died with Their Boots On	Maj. Romulus Taipe	66
27	1942	The Lady Is Willing	Kenneth Hanline	66
28	1942	To Be or Not to Be	Professor Alexander Siletsky	78
29	1942	The Big Shot	Martin T. Fleming, Attorney	63
30	1942	Eagle Squadron	Air Minister	0
31	1942	Eyes in the Night	Hansen	59
32	1943	Tarzan Triumphs	Colonel Von Reichart	61
33	1943	Air Force	Maj. Mallory - Clark Field	64
34	1943	False Faces	District Attorney Stanley S. Harding	70
35	1943	This Is the Army	John Davidson	58
36	1943	The Voice That Thrilled the World	Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage)	53
37	1944	The Story of Dr. Wassell	Cmdr. William B. 'Bill' Goggins	63
38	1944	Wilson	Dr. Cary Grayson	55
39	1944	The Master Race	Phil Carson	62
40	1945	The Suspect	Inspector Huxley	67
41	1945	God Is My Co-Pilot	Col. Merian 'Steve' Cooper	70
42	1945	The Phantom Speaks	Dr. Paul Renwick	54
43	1945	Captain Eddie	Col. Hans Adamson	60
44	1946	Because of Him	Charles Gilbert	62
45	1946	Canyon Passage	Jonas Overmire	66
46	1946	Mr. Ace	Toomey	56
47	1947	Possessed	Dr. Willard	68
48	1948	An Act of Murder	Doctor Walter Morrison	68
49	1949	Streets of Laredo	Major Bailey	59
50	1949	You're My Everything	Mr. Henry Mercer	38
51	1949	Task Force	Sen. Bentley	70
52	1949	The File on Thelma Jordon	Kingsley Willis	66
53	1950	Paid in Full	Dr. P.J. 'Phil' Winston	66
54	1950	The Man Who Had Influence	J. C. Grant	80
55	1950	No Way Out	Sam Moreland	69
56	1951	The Groom Wore Spurs	Harry Kallen	44

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Studio One	Police Chief Scott Anderson	50

No.

Year

Title

Role

Vote Average

1948

Studio One

Police Chief Scott Anderson