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Lloyd Bridges

Lloyd Bridges
Lloyd Bridges
Born: Jan 15, 1913 in San Leandro, California
Died: Mar 10, 1998 in Los Angeles, California
Occupation: Actor
Active: '40s-'50s, '70s-'90s
Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: High Noon, Home of the Brave, Cousins
First Major Screen Credit: The Royal Mounted Patrol (1941)
24 Videos for Lloyd Bridges
Blown Away (1994) Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) Bear Island (1980)
Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993) The Wild Pair (1987) Silent Night, Lonely Night (1969)
Devlin (1992) Alice Through the Looking Glass (1985) Around the World under the Sea (1965)
Hot Shots! (1991) Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) The Tall Texan (1953)
Help Save Planet Earth: Easy Ways to Make a Difference (1990) The Blue and the Gray (1982) High Noon (1952)
Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) East of Eden (1981) Little Big Horn (1951)
Cousins (1989) Airplane! (1980) A Walk in the Sun (1945)
Winter People (1989) Airplane! (1980) Sahara (1943)
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Biography:

Working from the ground up in stock companies, Lloyd Bridges was a member of the progressive Actors Lab company in the mid 1930s. He made his Broadway debut toward the end of that decade in a production of Othello. Signed by Columbia in 1941, Bridges appeared in everything the studio assigned him, from Three Stooges 2-reel comedies to such A pictures as Here Comes Mr.

Jordan (1941), Talk of the Town (1942), and Sahara (1943). He began freelancing in 1945, accepting the prescient role of a deep-sea diver in 1948's 16 Fathoms Deep, among other films. The most memorable of his '50s assignments was the leading role in the cult science-fiction programmer Rocketship X-M (1950) and the part of the look-out-for-number-one deputy in High Noon (1952). Thanks to his earlier involvement in the Actors Lab and his admission at the HUAC hearings that he'd once flirted with communism, Bridges was graylisted during the mid-'50s, able to find work only in lesser pictures and TV shows.

He was rescued by producer Ivan Tors, who cast Bridges as diver-for-hire Mike Nelson in the TV series Sea Hunt. Filmed between 1957 and 1961, Sea Hunt was the most popular syndicated program of the era, turning Bridges into a millionaire. Alas, neither of his subsequent series of the '60s, The Lloyd Bridges Show (1962) and The Loner (1965), survived their first seasons.

Undaunted, Bridges continued working into the '90s, displaying a hitherto untapped flair for zany comedy in such films as Airplane! (1980), Joe vs. the Volcano (1990), and the two Hot Shots films. Bridges was the father of actors Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges. A committed environmentalist, he was involved in several organizations including the American Oceans Campaign and Heal the Bay, a Los Angeles-based group.

Bridges died of natural causes on March 10, 1998. Shortly before his passing, he had completed work on two films, Jane Austen's Mafia and Meeting Daddy; in the latter film, Bridges co-starred with his eldest son Beau. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.