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John Ridgely
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Born
September 6
,
1909
·
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died
January 18
,
1968
·
New York City, New York, USA
(heart ailment)
Birth name
John Huntington Rea
Height
6′ 2″ (1.88 m)
Mini Bio
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
Dark Victory (1939)
,
They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
and
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)
, Ridgely eventually graduated to larger roles in such classics as
Howard Hawks
'
Air Force (1943)
,
The Big Sleep (1946)
,
Destination Tokyo (1943)
and
Possessed (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.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: floydsmoot@hotmail.com (qv's & corrections by A. Nonymous)
Family
Spouse
Virginia Robinson Swift
(? - January 17, 1968) (his death, 1 child)
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Father: Ridgely Rea; Mother: Margaret Struther Brown.
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