Highest rated movie: Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Lowest rated movie: Knockout (1941)
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Movies starring John Ridgely have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 63%.
Arsenic and Old Lace - released in 1944 - is John Ridgely's highest rated movie, with a score of 82% based on 618 reviews.
The lowest rated film from John Ridgely is Knockout - released in 1941 - with a score of 44% based on 2 reviews.
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.
John Ridgely has acted in films with Jack Mower, Frank Mayo, Paul Panzer and Leo White.
John Ridgely has worked with these film directors: William Keighley, Curtis Bernhardt, William Clemens and Vincent Sherman.
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