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John Ridgely (born John Huntington Rea, September 6, 1909 – January 18, 1968) was an American film character actor with over 175 film credits.
He appeared in the 1946 Humphrey Bogart film The Big Sleep as blackmailing gangster Eddie Mars and had a memorable role as a suffering heart patient in the film noir Nora Prentiss (1947). He appeared in a large number of other Warner Bros. films in the 1930s and 1940s.
Freelancing after 1948, John Ridgely continued to essay general-purpose parts until he left films in 1953. Thereafter, he worked in summer-theater productions and television until his death from a heart attack at the age of 58 in 1968.
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11 February 1939
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
07 August 1941
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
22 August 1946
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen.
19 August 1939
This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights.
12 June 1951
A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.
16 July 1938
A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.
28 October 1939
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver.
07 March 1942
Dr. Steven Bishop is taken to the hideout of Frank Dillon and his gang to treat the wounded Joe Madison.
11 December 1937
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
15 April 1939
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
19 April 1941
An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identity.
13 February 1938
In this youth-oriented western, a young man's father is wrongfully accused of murder. Unfortunately, his pa can't prove it and so flees into the rugged mountains.
10 February 1952
Rod Cameron stars as frontier scout Tim Clay, assigned to guide a wagon train through Indian territory.
09 July 1938
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
01 September 1944
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
10 September 1949
An actor is recalled to active duty with the Army's C.I.D. to find the thief who stole historical jewels in occupied Germany and the trail leads to the boyfriend of a young debutante from Bel Air.
18 May 1940
Federal Airlines ace pilot Chick Faber is grounded by Flight Superintendent Bill Graves when a doctor says his eyesight is failing.
07 June 1940
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
14 December 1940
Marine Sergeant Bob Lansing has just completed a tour of duty in the Pacific and is off to study at the Officer's Academy in Annapolis if he passes the entrance exam.
01 April 1939
An ambitious attorney (Edward Norris) tries to prove a man (John Litel) who killed to protect his wife's (Margaret Lindsay) honor was justified.
10 December 1948
Slip and Sach are in the sidewalk star-gazing business when they see a murder committed in a room at the El Royale Hotel.
16 February 1952
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot.
26 August 1939
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life.
25 June 1950
Little David Gordon lives in the jungle with his parents Ruth and Fred, along with their servant Nona.
08 January 1938
Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warner Bros.
29 March 1941
Johnny Rocket (Arthur Kennedy) needs to fight one more match to have enough money to get married to Angela (Olympe Bradna) and start on his dream to run and then own a gym.
15 February 1941
A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.
20 March 1943
The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
31 December 1943
During World War II, Captain Cassidy and his crew of submariners are ordered into Tokyo Bay on a secret mission.
21 September 1950
Carefree Chuck Connor is on his way west and stops off to see an old friend and his four lads. When his host is killed in a riding accident Chuck realises he must take care of the family.
20 November 1941
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death.
21 October 1939
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
07 November 1943
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp.
04 May 1940
An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.
15 September 1935
A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he intends to frame, a woman chasing her husband who is running away with the blackmail victim, and the stage director's feisty leading lady.
14 September 1940
An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.
26 December 1946
Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various ways with shady nightclub owner Nicky Toresca.
21 January 1939
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
05 May 1951
Nurse Nora Gilpin plans are to marry building contractor Tim McCarey and settle down. But one night a sleepwalking Nora slips into a provocative dress and goes to the home of startled lawyer John Raymond, for whom she doesn't care much during the day.
04 March 1939
Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.
23 November 1939
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds.
20 April 1939
Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her.
01 July 1939
A temperamental director multiple times completely changes the concept during a movie's production.
13 September 1941
On a layover in Hawaii, two conniving Navy seamen borrow money to wager bets that their ship will win the upcoming gunnery practice trophy, having found out that the current champ has just transferred aboard their ship.
26 October 1951
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.
30 December 1939
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
31 May 1941
A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.
13 May 1939
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
23 June 1939
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset.
28 October 1949
The story concerns two agents, one Mexican (PJF) and one American, who are tasked to stop the smuggling of Mexican migrant workers across the border to California.
23 December 1948
High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties the mission will cost.
22 February 1947
Quiet, organised Dr. Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident.
01 June 1947
A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose sight of what mattered to him before.
24 December 1941
A New York City doctor tries to rescue a young woman from Nazi agents.
04 November 1939
A waiter who sings gets in a fight with rude customers and overpowers them. A boxing promoter sees this and transforms him into "Kid Nightingale," marketing him as a boxer who sings.
24 December 1941
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.
19 August 1939
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
18 July 1942
Aircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle.
05 November 1948
John Hoyt plays a high-ranking Nazi being prosecuted by an army tribunal in the aftermath of World War II.
31 December 1938
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
