John Ridgely(1909-1968)
- Actor
- Soundtrack
John Ridgely was a versatile character actor who made over 100 films at
Warner Brothers during the 1930s and 1940s. Starting out in bit roles
in such films as
Victoire sur la nuit (1939),
La Charge fantastique (1941)
and
L'homme qui vint dîner (1941),
Ridgely eventually graduated to larger roles in such classics as
Howard Hawks'
Air Force (1943),
Le grand sommeil (1946),
Destination Tokyo (1943) and
La possédée (1947). After his Warner
Brothers tenure ended, he freelanced at other studios and made stage
and TV appearances until his untimely passing in 1968 at age 58.
