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- Born in England in 1891, Stanley Ridges would become a protégé of Beatrice Lillie, a star of musical comedies, and spent a great many years learning and honing his craft on the stage. He eventually would make his way over to America, and become a romantic leading man on Broadway. His first film appearance was in Success (1923), but his film career would not begin to take off until he was 43 in Crime Without Passion (1934) opposite Claude Rains. Stanley found himself cast in character roles, as his graying hair put his romantic leading man days at an end. Despite this he was well cast in the horror film Black Friday (1940) opposite Boris Karloff as a beloved professor who becomes the innocent victim of a shooting. To save him Karloff's character transplants part of the brain of the criminal who shot Stanley's character. Stanley goes on to steal the film, doing a Jekyll-and-Hyde act going from the beloved professor to the crass and uncouth criminal.
Ridges would be cast in other memorable films, including The Sea Wolf (1941), Sergeant York (1941), To Be or Not to Be (1942) and The Suspect (1944). His last film would be The Groom Wore Spurs (1951) with Ginger Rogers, before passing away in April of that year. - Eugene Gutierrez was born on 22 June 1955 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. He was an actor, known for Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). He died on 28 January 2005 in Westbrook, Maine, USA.
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George Lessey was born on 8 June 1875 in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Corsican Brothers (1915), The Evil Dead (1922) and His Own Story (1916). He was married to May Abbey. He died on 3 June 1947 in Westbrook, Connecticut, USA.- Writer
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Born in Rockport, Massachusetts, Rick was a 1966 graduate of Rockport High School, and received Bachelor's degree in 1971 and a Master's degree in 1974, both in English Literature from the University of Maine. He was classmates with Stephen King, which led to him often being called "the other horror writer from Maine". In addition to writing, he taught English Literature and Composition at Westbrook High School and at Southern Maine Community College.
Choosing to write in the horror story genre, with sensibilities shaped by William Shakespeare, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Ray Bradbury, he was a prolific writer and well respected and critically acclaimed by reviewers, his readers and his fellow authors. In 2012, he was recognized by his colleagues as recipient of the Bram Stroker Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Horror Writers Association. He mentored many young writers and students.
Politically liberal, he stood up for the poor and disenfranchised almost as passionately as he did for his writing. He was kind and generous to all, giving all that he could and sometimes more.
He died of a heart attack on March 21, 2013. He had three sons, Aaron, Jesse and Matti Hautala.