Arnold Ridley Net Worth is
$1.9 Million

Mini Biography

Arnold Ridley’s operating career started before World Battle We while he was students at Bristol University or college when he was paid a pound weekly for, in his personal words, “taking part in equipment” in the Theater Royal in Bristol (now the Bristol Aged Vic). Having been “rather badly knocked on the subject of” in World Battle I (he fought in the Battle from the Somme and was hurt 3 x, with one serious bayonet wound departing him without strength in his correct equip) he came back to Britain but may find no acting function and proceeded to go instead to function for his father’s shoe company in Shower. Still thinking about pursuing a life in the theatre he considered writing. He published a whole lot of what he known as “serious takes on”, declaring that he didn’t like thrillers quite definitely, but after among these was declined by London suppliers, he visited the theatre to move the night before time for the West Nation the following morning hours. He noticed “an American thriller that i didn’t just like a little bit, and I considered to myself, ‘If that is the type of tosh they’ll placed on, I’ll create one particular only I’ll make an effort to make mine a little much better than that.'” The effect was “The Ghost Teach” that was a Western world End strike and whose reputation endures over 80 years on. He wrote other has in the 1920s and ’30s, directing in the theatre and in film, and jogging both a theatre and film business (which went bust). When moments had been hard in the past due-1920s he marketed the amateur privileges to “The Ghost Teach” for 200 pounds, a choice he afterwards regretted, thinking that he previously “lost a lot of money” by offering the privileges to such a favorite play. He was wounded again in Globe Battle II and returned to performing, appearing in various tv shows through the 1950s and ’60s until he was ensemble seeing that the kindly, retired store helper Mr Godfrey in Dad’s Military (1968). Colleagues through the present commented that he previously been “compelled” to function lengthy into his later years by financial situations, but he stated himself that his great dread was being compelled to retire. He continuing to work before show finished in 1977, where period he was 81. He was made an OBE (Official of the Purchase of the Uk Empire) in the 1982 Queen’s New Years Honours List for his providers to crisis, and died 2 yrs later.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Arnold Ridley
Died	March 12, 1984, Hillingdon, Uxbridge, United Kingdom
Profession	Actor, Teacher, Military Officer, Playwright
Education	University of Bristol
Nationality	British
Spouse	Althea Parker, Hilda Cooke
Children	Nicolas Ridley
Movies	The Ghost Train, Dad's Army, Crooks in Cloisters, Stolen Face, The Amorous Milkman, Easy Money, The Flying Fool, Third Time Lucky, East of Ludgate Hill, Who Killed the Cat?, Royal Eagle
TV Shows	Dad's Army, Starr and Company