Robert Ridgely

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Job Title

Actor, Other

Born

December 24, 1931

Career Milestones

1997

Final film perfomance, as 'The Colonel' in Paul Thomas Anderson's "Boogie Nights"

1994

Worked on "The Ref"

1993

Starred in "Philadelphia" and "Robin Hood: Men In Tights"

1987

Featured in "Beverly Hills Cop II"

1974

Appeared in Mell Brook's "Blazing Saddles"

1957

Performed in "Fire Down Below"

Worked in off broadway production of "The Threepenny Opera"

Began carrer by performinng in Manhattan supper clubs

Awards

1998

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture in Boogie Nights