Stanley Ridges
Age: N/A | From: Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK
Person Details
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Aliases: Stanley Charles Ridges , Stanley C. Ridges
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK
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Movie Involvements: 48
TV Involvements: 1
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Studio One
(1948) Police Chief Scott Anderson
They Died with Their Boots On
(1941) Maj. Romulus Taipe
Sergeant York
(1941) Major Buxton
Tarzan Triumphs
(1943) Colonel Von Reichart
Possessed
(1947) Dr. Willard
The Suspect
(1945) Inspector Huxley
No Way Out
(1950) Dr. Sam Moreland
The Sea Wolf
(1941) JohnsonActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Harry Kallen | |
| 1950 | Dr. Sam Moreland | |
| J. C. Grant | ||
| Dr. P.J. 'Phil' Winston | ||
| 1949 | Kingsley Willis | |
| Sen. Bentley | ||
| Mr. Henry Mercer | ||
| Major Bailey | ||
| 1948 | Doctor Walter Morrison | |
| Police Chief Scott Anderson | ||
| 1947 | Dr. Willard | |
| 1946 | Toomey | |
| Jonas Overmire | ||
| Charles Gilbert | ||
| 1945 | Col. Hans Adamson | |
| Dr. Paul Renwick | ||
| Col. Merian 'Steve' Cooper | ||
| Inspector Huxley | ||
| 1944 | Phil Carson | |
| Dr. Cary Grayson | ||
| Cmdr. William B. 'Bill' Goggins | ||
| 1943 | John Davidson | |
| District Attorney Stanley S. Harding | ||
| Maj. Mallory - Clark Field | ||
| Colonel Von Reichart | ||
| Self (segment 'Sergeant York') (archive footage) | ||
| 1942 | Hansen | |
| Air Minister | ||
| Martin T. Fleming, Attorney | ||
| Professor Alexander Siletsky | ||
| Kenneth Hanline | ||
| 1941 | Maj. Romulus Taipe | |
| Major Buxton | ||
| District Attorney Tom F. Winton | ||
| Johnson | ||
| 1940 | Prof. George Kingsley / Red Cannon | |
| 1939 | Doctor Frankton (as Stanley C. Ridges) | |
| Hamilton Peyton | ||
| Charles 'Charlie' Garreth | ||
| Downs (uncredited) | ||
| Mueller | ||
| Gen. Casement | ||
| Earl Brennan / Dave Talbot | ||
| District Attorney | ||
| 1938 | Tony Croy | |
| Edward Norris | ||
| Rene de Montigny | ||
| Dr. John Pritchard | ||
| Dr. James Carroll | ||
| 1937 | Dan Innes | |
| 1936 | MacKelvey | |
| Shadow | ||
| 1935 | Paul Decker | |
| 1934 | Eddie White | |
| 1930 | N/A | |
| George | ||
| 1923 | Gilbert Gordon | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
