John Ridgely (September 6, 1909 - January 18, 1968) was an American film character actor with over 100 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). The Chicago, Illinois-born actor appeared in a large number of other Warner Bros. films in the 1930s and 1940s.
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, They Died with Their Boots On, and The Man Who Came to Dinner, Ridgely eventually graduated to larger roles in such classics as Howard Hawks's Air Force, The Big Sleep, Destination Tokyo, and Possessed. After his Warner Brothers tenure ended, he free-lanced at other studios and made stage and TV appearances until his untimely passing in 1968 at age 59.
