The Seventh Cross
In 1940 Rudley appeared in the film version of "Abe Lincoln in Illinois". For the next four decades he appeared in dozens of supporting film roles, including "The Seventh Cross" (1944) and "Rhapsody in Blue" (1945), a fictionalized biography of George Gershwin in which he portrayed Ira Gershwin. He appeared in "A Walk in the Sun" (1945) as a World War II U.S. Army sergeant who experiences a psychological breakdown in combat, "Joan of Arc" (1948) and "The Young Lions" (1958) in which he played an unsympathetic U.S. Army captain.