Lloyd Bridges

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Lloyd Vernet Bridges Jr. (January 15, 1913 – March 10, 1998) was an American film, stage and television actor who starred in a number of television series and appeared in more than 150 feature films. He was the father of four children, including actors Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges, who also appeared in various productions with him over the years. He was a two-time Emmy Award nominee and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 1, 1994.

He started his career as a contract performer for Columbia Pictures, appearing in films such as Zoltán Korda’s Sahara (1943), with Humphrey Bogart; Lewis Milestone’s A Walk in the Sun (1945), with Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, George Tyne, John Ireland, Sterling Holloway, Norman Lloyd, Herbert Rudley, and Richard Benedict; Edwin L. Marin’s Colt .45 (1950), with Randolph Scott, Ruth Roman, and Zachary Scott; Charles Marquis Warren’s Little Big Horn (1951), with Ireland and Marie Windsor; Fred Zinnermann‘s High Noon (1952), with Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly; Clarence Brown’s Plymouth Adventure (1952), with Spencer Tracy, Gene Tierney, Van Johnson and Leo Genn; The Kid from Left Field (1953), with Dan Dailey, Anne Bancroft, and Billy Chapin; and The Rainmaker (1956), with Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn, Wendell Corey, and Earl Holliman.

On television, he starred in Sea Hunt from 1958 to 1961. Other films in the 1960s include The Happy Ending (1969), with Jean Simmons, John Forsythe, Shirley Jones, and Teresa Wright. By the end of his career, he had re-invented himself and demonstrated a comedic talent in such parody Zucker, Abrams and Zucker films as Airplane! (1980), with Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Lorna Patterson; Airplane II: The Sequel (1982), with Hayes, Hagerty, Chad Everett, William Shatner, Rip Torn, Sonny Bono, and Raymond Burr; Hot Shots! (1991), with Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Jon Cryer, Kevin Dunn, Kristy Swanson, and Bill Irwin; Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993), with Sheen, Golino, Richard Crenna, Brenda Bakke, Miguel Ferrer, Rowan Atkinson; and Jane Austen’s Mafia! (1998), with Jay Mohr, Olympia Dukakis and Christina Applegate.

His other later roles include Ted Kotcheff’s Winter People (1989), with Kurt Russell and Kelly McGillis; Joel Schumacher‘s Cousins (1989), with Ted Danson, Isabella Rossellini, Sean Young, William Petersen, Keith Coogan, and Norma Aleandro; John Patrick Shanley’s Joe Versus the Volcano (1990), with Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Abe Vigoda, Dan Hedaya, Barry McGovern, and Ossie Davis; Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992), with Rick Moranis, Marcia Strassman, Robert Oliveri, Keri Russell, and John Shea; and Blown Away (1994), with Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, and Forest Whitaker.

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

Freshman Love (1936) – directed by William McGann – uncredited
Dancing Feet (1936) – directed by Joseph Santley – uncredited
Lost Horizon (1937) – directed by Frank Capra – uncredited
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance (1941) – directed by Sidney Salkow
They Dare Not Love (1941) – directed by James Whale – uncredited
The Medico of Painted Springs (1941) – directed by Lambert Hillyer – uncredited
The Son of Davy Crockett (1941) – directed by Lambert Hillyer – uncredited
I Was a Prisoner on Devil’s Island (1941) – directed by Lew Landers – uncredited
Our Wife (1941) – directed by John M. Stahl – uncredited
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) – directed by Alexander Hall – uncredited
Harmon of Michigan (1941) – directed by Charles Barton
Two Latins from Manhattan (1941) – directed by Charles Barton
You Belong to Me (1941) – directed by Wesley Ruggles – uncredited
Three Girls About Town (1941) – directed by Leigh Jason – uncredited
The Royal Mounted Patrol (1941) – directed by Lambert Hillyer
Sing for Your Supper (1941) – directed by Charles Barton – uncredited
Honolulu Lu (1941) – directed by Charles Barton – uncredited
Harvard, Here I Come! (1941) – directed by Lew Landers – uncredited
West of Tombstone (1942) – directed by Howard Bretherton – uncredited
Blondie Goes to College (1942) – directed by Frank R. Strayer
Cadets on Parade (1942) – directed by Lew Landers – uncredited
Shut My Big Mouth (1942) – directed by Charles Barton
Canal Zone (1942) – directed by Lew Landers
Alias Boston Blackie (1942) – directed by Lew Landers – uncredited
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1942) – directed by Charles Barton – uncredited
North of the Rockies (1942) – directed by Lambert Hillyer
The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942) – directed by Richard Wallace – uncredited
Sweetheart of the Fleet (1942) – directed by Charles Barton
Submarine Raider (1942) – directed by Lew Landers & Budd Boetticher (uncredited) – uncredited voice
Riders of the Northland (1942) – directed by William Berke
Flight Lieutenant (1942) – directed by Sidney Salkow – uncredited
Atlantic Convoy (1942) – directed by Lew Landers
The Talk of the Town (1942) – directed by George Stevens – uncredited
Counter-Espionage (1942) – directed by Edward Dmytryk – uncredited
A Man’s World (1942) – directed by Charles Barton
Daring Young Man (1942) – directed by Frank R. Strayer
The Spirit of Stanford (1942) – directed by Charles Barton – uncredited
Stand By All Networks (1942) – directed by Lew Landers – uncredited
Pardon My Gun (1942) – directed by William Berke – uncredited
Underground Agent (1942) – directed by Michael Gordon – uncredited
The Great Glover (1942) – directed by Jules White – short
Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942) – directed by John Farrow – uncredited
They Stooge to Conga (1943) – directed by Del Lord – short – uncredited
City Without Men (1943) – directed by Sidney Salkow – uncredited
His Wedding Scare (1943) – directed by Del Lord – short
One Dangerous Night (1943) – directed by Michael Gordon – uncredited
Destroyer (1943) – directed by William A. Seiter – uncredited
Passport to Suez (1943) – directed by Andre DeToth
Sahara (1943) – directed by Zoltán Korda
Hail to the Rangers (1943) – directed by William Berke
A Rookie’s Cookie (1943) – directed by Jules White – short
The Heat’s On (1943) – directed by Gregory Ratoff
There’s Something About a Soldier (1943) – directed by Alfred E. Green – uncredited
Crime Doctor’s Strangest Case (1943) – directed by Eugene Forde
Once Upon a Time (1944) – directed by Alexander Hall – uncredited
Riding West (1944) – directed by William Berke – uncredited
She’s a Soldier Too (1944) – directed by William Castle
Louisiana Hayride (1944) – directed by Charles Barton
The Master Race (1944) – directed by Herbert Biberman
Saddle Leather Law (1944) – directed by Benjamin H. Kline
Secret Agent X-9 (1945) – directed by Lewis D. Collins & Ray Taylor – 13 chapter serial
Strange Confession (1945) – directed by John Hoffman
A Walk in the Sun (1945) – directed by Lewis Milestone
Abilene Town (1946) – directed by Edwin L. Marin
Miss Susie Slagle’s (1946) – directed by John Berry
Canyon Passage (1946) – directed by Jacques Tourneur
Thunderbolt! (1947) – directed by William Wyler & John Sturges
Ramrod (1947) – directed by Andre DeToth
The Trouble with Women (1947) – directed by Sidney Lanfield
Unconquered (1947) – directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Secret Service Investigator (1948) – directed by R. G. Springsteen
16 Fathoms Deep (1948) – directed by Irving Allen
Moonrise (1948) – directed by Frank Borzage
Hideout (1949) – directed by Philip Ford
Red Canyon (1949) – directed by George Sherman
Mr. Whitney Had a Notion (1949) – directed by Gerald Mayer – short
Home of the Brave (1949) – directed by Mark Robson
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (1949) – directed by George Sherman
Trapped (1949) – directed by Richard Fleischer
Rocketship X-M (1950) – directed by Kurt Neumann
Colt .45 (1950) – directed by Edwin L. Marin
The White Tower (1950) – directed by Ted Tetzlaff
The Sound of Fury (1950) – directed by Cy Endfield
Little Big Horn (1951) – directed by Charles Marquis Warren
Three Steps North (1951) – directed by W. Lee Wilder
The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951) – directed by Robert Siodmak
High Noon (1952) – directed by Fred Zinnermann
Plymouth Adventure (1952) – directed by Clarence Brown
Last of the Comanches (1953) – directed by Andre DeToth
The Tall Texan (1953) – directed by Elmo Williams
The Kid from Left Field (1953) – directed by Harmon Jones
City of Bad Men (1953) – directed by Harmon Jones
The Limping Man (1953) – directed by Cy Endfield (as Charles de Lautour)
Pride of the Blue Grass (1954) – directed by William Beaudine
Deadly Game (1954) – directed by Daniel Birt – aka Third Party Risk
Wichita (1955) – directed by Jacques Tourneur
Apache Woman (1955) – directed by Roger Corman
Wetbacks (1956) – directed by Hank McCune
The Rainmaker (1956) – directed by Joseph Anthony
Ride Out for Revenge (1957) – directed by Bernard Girard
The Goddess (1958) – directed by John Cromwell
The Valley of Decision (1960) – directed by Tom Donovan – TV movie
Around the World Under the Sea (1966) – directed by Andrew Marton
A Case of Libel (1968) – directed by Charles Jarrott – TV movie
Daring Game (1968) – directed by László Benedek
Attack on the Iron Coast (1968) – directed by Paul Wendko
The Silent Gun (1969) – directed by Michael Caffey – TV movie
Silent Night, Lonely Night (1969) – directed by Daniel Petrie – TV movie
The Happy Ending (1969) – directed by Richard Brooks
The Love War (1970) – TV movie
Lost Flight (1970) – directed by Leonard J. Horn – TV movie/pilot
Do You Take This Stranger? (1971) – directed by Richard T. Heffron – TV movie
A Tattered Dream (1971) – directed by Paul Wendkos – TV movie
The Deadly Dream (1971) – directed by Alf Kjellin – TV movie
Scuba (1972) – documentary – narrator
To Find a Man (1972) – directed by Buzz Kulik
Haunts of the Very Rich (1972) – directed by Paul Wendkos – TV movie
Trouble Comes to Town (1973) – directed by Daniel Petrie – TV movie
Crime Club (1973) – directed by David Lowell Rich – TV movie
Running Wild (1973) – directed by Robert McCahon
Death Race (1973) – directed by David Lowell Rich – TV movie
Stowaway to the Moon (1975) – directed by Andrew V. McLaglen – TV movie
Cop on the Beat (1975) – directed by Virgil W. Vogel – TV movie
The Force of Evil (1977) – directed by Richard Lang – TV movie
Telethon (1977) – directed by David Lowell Rich – TV movie
The Great Wallendas (1978) – directed by Larry Elikan – TV movie
The Critical List (1978) – directed by Lou Antonio – TV movie
Shimmering Light (1978) – directed by Don Chaffey – TV movie
The Fifth Musketeer (1979) – directed by Ken Annakin
Disaster on the Coastliner (1979) – directed by Richard C. Sarafian – TV movie
Bear Island (1979) – directed by Don Sharp
This Year’s Blonde – (1980) – directed by John Erman – TV movie
Airplane! (1980)** – directed by Jim Abrams, David Zucker, & Jerry Zucker
East of Eden (1982) – directed by Harvey Hart – miniseries – 3 episodes
Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice (1982) – directed by Lamont Johnson – TV movie
The Blue and the Gray (1982) – directed by Andrew V. McLaglen – miniseries – 3 episodes
Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) – directed by Ken Finkleman
Grace Kelly (1983) – directed by Anthony Page – TV movie
George Washington (1984) – directed by Buzz Kulik – miniseries – 3 episodes
Alice in Wonderland (1985) – directed by Harry Harris – Miniseries – 2 episodes
Dress Gray (1986) – directed by Glenn Jordan – miniseries – 2 episodes
North & South: Book 2, Love & War (1986) – directed by Kevin Connor – miniseries – 6 episodes
Weekend Warriors (1986) – directed by Bert Convy
The Thanksgiving Promise (1986) – directed by Beau Bridges – TV movie
The Wild Pair (1987) – directed by Beau Bridges
Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) – directed by Francis Ford Coppola – uncredited
She Was Marked for Murder (1988) – directed by Charles Thomson & Chris Thomson – TV movie
Winter People (1989) – directed by Ted Kotcheff
Cousins (1989) – directed by Joel Schumacher
Cross of Fire (1989) – directed by Paul Wendkos – TV movie
Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) – directed by John Patrick Shanley
Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean (1990) – directed by Richard Michaels – TV movie
Shining Time Station: ‘Tis a Gift (1990) – directed by Gregory Lehane & Frank Vitale (uncredited) – TV movie
Hot Shots! (1991) – directed by Jim Abrams
In the Nick of Time (1991) – directed by George T. Miller – TV movie
Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992)* – directed by Randal Kleiser
Earth and the American Dream (1992) – directed by Bill Couturié – documentary – himself
Devlin (1992) – directed by Rick Rosenthal – TV movie
Mr. Bluesman (1993) – directed by Sönke Wortmsnn
Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993) – directed by Jim Abrams
The Sins of the Father (1994) – directed by Beau Bridges – TV movie
Blown Away (1994) – directed by Stephen Hopkins
The Other Woman (1995) – directed by Gabrielle Beaumont – TV movie
Nothing Lasts Forever (1995) – directed by Jack Bender – TV movie
Peter and the Wolf (1995) – directed by George Daugherty & Jean Flynn – TV movie
The Deliverance of Elaine (1996) – directed by Elodie Keene – TV movie
Jane Austen’s Mafia! (1998) – directed by Jim Abrams – posthumous release
Meeting Daddy (2000) – directed by Peter Gould – filmed in 1997 – posthumous release
From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff (2002) – directed by Frederick Keeve – documentary – himself -scenes filmed in the 1990s

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