John Ridgely [SEP] cause of death
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-born actor 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.
fifth cousin of his wife, Eliza Eichelberger Ridgely.
When her husband's father died on July 1829, his estate of some was divided, her husband John inherited the main house and . Eliza thus became the third mistress of Hampton. Together, Eliza and John were the parents of five children:
- Eliza Ridgely (1828–1894), who married firstly John Campbell White (1825–1853) in 1849, becoming the mother of the diplomat Henry White. After his death, she married Dr. Thomas Hepburn Buckler (1812–1901)