sentences:  Ridges was often cast in supporting roles in many classic films, and played the lead only once, in the B-picture "False Faces" (1943).Among Ridges's other film roles were as the Scotland Yard inspector who is shadowing Charles Laughton in the film "The Suspect" (1944), as Major Buxton (Gary Cooper's commanding officer) in "Sergeant York" (1942), as Professor Siletsky in "To Be or Not to Be" (also 1942), and as Cary Travers Grayson, the official White House physician in "Wilson" (1944).By 1950, he had just begun an appearing in television anthologies such as "Studio One" and "Philco Television Playhouse".