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Stanley Ridges (July 17, 1890 – April 22, 1951) was a British-born actor who made his mark in films by playing a wide assortment of character parts. Born July 17, 1890 or 1891 in Southampton, Hampshire, England, Stanley Ridges would become a protégé of Beatrice Lillie, a star of musical stage comedies, and spent a great many years learning and honing his craft on the stage. Eventually making his way over to America, Ridges started out 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... MORE

Stanley Ridges (July 17, 1890 – April 22, 1951) was a British-born actor who made his mark in films by playing a wide assortment of character parts. Born July 17, 1890 or 1891 in Southampton, Hampshire, England, Stanley Ridges would become a protégé of Beatrice Lillie, a star of musical stage comedies, and spent a great many years learning and honing his craft on the stage. Eventually making his way over to America, Ridges started out 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 on Broadway. Ridges' silent film debut was in 1923's Success. But with his excellent diction and rich speaking voice, he easily made the transition into sound film career, with his career taking off at the middle-age of 43, in 1934's Crime Without Passion, opposite actor Claude Rains. Stanley found himself cast in character roles, as his graying hair put his romantic leading man days at an end. Ridges' most famous roles probably were two different professors, one of them the kindly Professor Kingsley in the LESS