1890-07-17 ( 134 years old ) in Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK
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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.
Movies
The Groom Wore Spurs
1951-03-13
No Way Out
1950-08-16
The Man Who Had Influence
1950-05-29
Paid in Full
1950-02-15
The File on Thelma Jordon
1949-11-04
Task Force
1949-08-30
You're My Everything
1949-07-22
Streets of Laredo
1949-05-27
An Act of Murder
1948-12-05
Possessed
1947-05-29
Mr. Ace
1946-08-02
Canyon Passage
1946-07-17
Because of Him
1946-01-18
Captain Eddie
1945-06-18
The Phantom Speaks
1945-04-13
God Is My Co-Pilot
1945-04-07
The Suspect
1945-01-31
The Master Race
1944-09-22
Wilson
1944-08-01
The Story of Dr. Wassell
1944-07-04
The Voice That Thrilled the World
1943-10-16
This Is the Army
1943-08-14
False Faces
1943-05-28
Air Force
1943-03-20
Tarzan Triumphs
1943-01-20
Eyes in the Night
1942-10-16
Eagle Squadron
1942-06-16
The Big Shot
1942-06-13
To Be or Not to Be
1942-03-06
The Lady Is Willing
1942-02-12
They Died with Their Boots On
1941-11-20
Sergeant York
1941-09-27
Mr. District Attorney
1941-03-27
The Sea Wolf
1941-03-21
Black Friday
1940-02-29
Nick Carter, Master Detective
1939-12-13
Espionage Agent
1939-09-30
Dust Be My Destiny
1939-09-16
Each Dawn I Die
1939-08-19
I Stole a Million
1939-08-01
Union Pacific
1939-05-05
Silver on the Sage
1939-03-31
Let Us Live
1939-03-29
There's That Woman Again
1938-12-24
The Mad Miss Manton
1938-10-21
If I Were King
1938-09-28
They're Always Caught
1938-07-03
Yellow Jack
1938-05-19
Internes Can't Take Money
1937-04-16
Sinner Take All
1936-12-18
Winterset
1936-12-03
The Scoundrel
1935-04-30
Crime Without Passion
1934-08-30
For Two Cents
1930-10-24
The Poor Fish
1930-06-07
Success
1923-02-25
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