Lloyd Bridges
Gender: Male
Born: 15th January 1913
Died: 10th March 1998
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Capital News, Sea Hunt, Paper Dolls, San Francisco International Airport, The Loner, The Lloyd Bridges Show, Harts of the West, Benjamin Franklin, Joe Forrester, Roots, North and South, Alice in Wonderland, Joe Forrester, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, Climax!, Police Story, The Blue and the Gray
Movies: A Walk in the Sun, Airplane II: The Sequel, Airplane!, High Noon, Honey, I Blew Up the Kid, Hot Shots!, Hot Shots! Part Deux, Sahara, The Goddess, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Home of the Brave, The Fifth Musketeer, Plymouth Adventure, Thunderbolt!, Jane Austen's Mafia!, The Limping Man, Flight Lieutenant, Around the World Under the Sea, Rocketship X-M, The White Tower, Joe Versus the Volcano, They Stooge To Conga, Trapped, Cousins, Weekend Warriors, The Other Woman, Secret Agent X-9, Meeting Daddy, Cross of Fire, The Happy Ending, Colt .45, George Washington, The Wife Takes a Flyer, Bear Island, Daring Game, Apache Woman, Winter People, The Love War, Attack on the Iron Coast, The Talk of the Town, The Rainmaker, Blown Away, Alice in Wonderland, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, The Tall Texan, Leona Helmsley: The Queen Of Mean, Disaster on the Coastliner, Moonrise, In the Nick of Time, Wichita, Pride of the Bluegrass, The Sound of Fury, Hideout, 16 Fathoms Deep, Hollywood Air Force, Third Party Risk, Lost Flight, Lost TV Shows of the 50's, Little Big Horn, Little Big Horn, Peter and the Wolf
Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Jr. (January 15, 1913 – March 10, 1998) was an American actor who starred in a number of television series and appeared in more than 150 feature films. Bridges is best known for his role of Mike Nelson in Sea Hunt, the most popular syndicated American TV series in 1958. He was the father of actors Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges.
Bridges was born in San Leandro, California, the son of Harriet Evelyn (née Brown) and Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Sr., who was involved in the California hotel business and once owned a movie theater. His parents were both natives of Kansas, and had English ancestry. Bridges graduated from Petaluma High School in 1931. He studied political science at UCLA, where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
Bridges made his Broadway debut in 1939 in a production of Shakespeare's Othello. In 1941, he joined the stock company at Columbia Pictures, where he played small roles in features and short subjects. (In Here Comes Mr. Jordan Bridges is the pilot of the plane in the "heaven" scene.) He left Columbia to enlist in the U.S. Coast Guard. Following World War II, he returned to film acting. He was blacklisted briefly in the 1950s after he
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