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Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Jr. (January 15, 1913 – March 10, 1998) was an Emmy Award
Emmy Award

The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
-nominated American
United States

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 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
. Bridges starred in popular television series, and appeared in more than 150 films.

ges was born in San Leandro, California
San Leandro, California

San Leandro is a city in Alameda County, California, California, United States. The population was estimated to be 81,850 as of January 1, 2009....
, the son of Harriet Evelyn (née
Married and maiden names

A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....
 Brown) and Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Sr., who was involved in the California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
 hotel
Hotel

----A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. The provision of basic accommodation, in times past, consisting only of a room with a bed, a cupboard, a small table and a washstand has largely been replaced by rooms with modern facilities, including Bathroom#Types of bathroomss and air conditioning or clima...
 business and once owned a cinema
Movie theater

A movie theater, movie theatre, picture theatre, film theater or cinema is a venue, usually a building, for viewing film ....
. Bridges graduated from Petaluma High School
Petaluma High School

Petaluma High School is a public high school located in Petaluma, California, California. Petaluma High School's rival is Casa Grande High School....
 in 1931.






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Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Jr. (January 15, 1913 – March 10, 1998) was an Emmy Award
Emmy Award

The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
-nominated American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
. Bridges starred in popular television series, and appeared in more than 150 films.

Biography


Early life

Bridges was born in San Leandro, California
San Leandro, California

San Leandro is a city in Alameda County, California, California, United States. The population was estimated to be 81,850 as of January 1, 2009....
, the son of Harriet Evelyn (née
Married and maiden names

A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....
 Brown) and Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Sr., who was involved in the California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
 hotel
Hotel

----A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. The provision of basic accommodation, in times past, consisting only of a room with a bed, a cupboard, a small table and a washstand has largely been replaced by rooms with modern facilities, including Bathroom#Types of bathroomss and air conditioning or clima...
 business and once owned a cinema
Movie theater

A movie theater, movie theatre, picture theatre, film theater or cinema is a venue, usually a building, for viewing film ....
. Bridges graduated from Petaluma High School
Petaluma High School

Petaluma High School is a public high school located in Petaluma, California, California. Petaluma High School's rival is Casa Grande High School....
 in 1931. He studied political science at UCLA
University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, California, United States....
, where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Sigma Alpha Epsilon

Sigma Alpha Epsilon was founded March 9, 1856 at the University of Alabama. SAE is the largest social college fraternity by total initiates with more than 288,000 initiated members....
 chapter. He also met his future wife there, Dorothy Dean Simpson; they married in 1938 on St. Pete's Beach at sunrise.

Career

Bridges made his Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 debut in 1939 in a production of Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
's Othello
Othello

Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian language short story "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio first published in 1565....
. He made a few film appearances before enlisting in the U.S. Coast Guard. Following World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, he returned to film acting. He was blacklist
Blacklist

A blacklist is a list or register of persons who, for one reason or another, are being denied a particular privilege, service, mobility, access or recognition....
ed briefly in the 1950s
1950s

The 1950s decade was the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive. The Fifties in the developed western world are generally considered social conservative and highly Consumerism in nature....
 after he admitted to the House Un-American Activities Committee
House Un-American Activities Committee

The House Committee on Un-American Activities was an investigative United States Congressional committee of the United States House of Representatives....
 that he had once been a member of the Actors' Lab, a group with links to the Communist Party
Communist party

A political party described as a communist party includes those that advocate the application of the social principles of communism through a communist form of government....
. He resumed working after being cleared by the FBI, finding his greatest success in television.

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Bridges gained wide recognition as Mike Nelson, the main character in the television series Sea Hunt
Sea Hunt

Sea Hunt was an United States television adventure series from syndicator Ziv TV that ran from 1958 to 1961 and was popular in Television syndication for decades afterwards....
, created by Ivan Tors
Ivan Tors

Ivan Tors was a Hungary playwright, screenwriter, and Film producer and television producer.He wrote several plays in his native country before moving to the U.S....
, which ran in syndication
Television syndication

In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows to multiple individual stations, without going through a broadcast network....
 from 1958-1961. Following that success, he starred in the eponymous CBS anthology
Anthology

An anthology, literally a "garland" or "collection of flowers", is a collection of literary works, originally of poems. In genre fiction and especially science fiction, anthology is used to categorize collections of shorter works such as short story and short novels, usually collected into a single volume for publication....
 The Lloyd Bridges Show
The Lloyd Bridges Show

The Lloyd Bridges Show is a 34-episode anthology television series, television producer by Aaron Spelling, which aired on Columbia Broadcasting System from September 11, 1962, to May 28, 1963, starring and hosted by Lloyd Bridges , who had recently concluded a three-year stint as diver Mike Nelson in the Television syndication television seri...
 (1962-1963, produced by Aaron Spelling
Aaron Spelling

Aaron Spelling was an United States film producer and television producer. As of 2009, Spelling's company holds the record as the most prolific television producer, with 218 producer and executive producer credits....
), which included appearances by his sons Beau
Beau Bridges

Lloyd Vernet ?Beau? Bridges III is a U.S. three-time Emmy Award-winning actor....
 and Jeff
Jeff Bridges

Jeffrey Leon Bridges is a four-time Academy Award-nominated American actor and musician. His most notable films include The Last Picture Show, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Tron , Starman , The Fisher King , The Big Lebowski, Seabiscuit , and Iron Man ....
. Producer Gene Roddenberry
Gene Roddenberry

Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry was an United States screenwriter and Television producer. He is arguably best known as the creator of Star Trek, an American sci-fi series known for its immense influence on popular culture....
, who worked with Bridges on "Sea Hunt", reportedly offered Bridges the role of Captain Kirk on Star Trek
Star Trek

Star Trek is an American Science fiction on television entertainment series and media franchise. The Star Trek fictional universe created by Gene Roddenberry is the setting of six television series including the original 1966 Star Trek: The Original Series, in addition to ten feature films with Star Trek to be released on May 8,...
 before the part went to William Shatner
William Shatner

William Alan Shatner is a Canadian double Emmy-, Golden Globe- and Saturn Award-winning actor and novelist. He gained worldwide fame and became a cultural icon for his portrayal of James T....
. Additionally, he was a regular cast member in the Rod Serling
Rod Serling

Rodman Edward "Rod" Serling was an United States screenwriter, best known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his Science fiction on television Anthology series, The Twilight Zone ....
 western
Western (genre)

The Western is a fiction genre seen in film, television, radio, literature, painting and other visual arts. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in what became the Western United States , but also in Western Canada, Mexico , Alaska and even Australia ....
 series The Loner
The Loner

The Loner is an United States Western series that ran for less than one season on CBS from 1965 in television to 1966 in television....
 (which lasted one season from 1965 to 1966), and in the two NBC failures San Francisco International Airport
San Francisco International Airport (TV series)

San Francisco International Airport was a television drama aired in the United States by NBC as a part of its 1970-71 United States network television schedule wheel series Four in One....
 (1970/71) and Joe Forrester (1975-76). Later, he appeared in Paper Dolls
Paper Dolls

Paper Dolls is an American prime time soap opera set in New York City's fashion industry that aired for 14 episodes on American Broadcasting Company from September 23, 1984 to December 25, 1984....
 (1984) and Capital News
Capital News

Capital News is an United States television series in 1990 created by David Milch and Christian Williams. It focuses on the editorial stuff and writers of the Washington, D.C.-based daily news paper "Capital News" ....
 (1990), both for ABC, and again with Harts of the West
Harts of the West

Harts of the West is an hour-long 1993-1994 Columbia Broadcasting System Western /comedy television series starring Beau Bridges and his father, Lloyd Bridges , set on a dude ranch in Nevada....
 (1993-1994), this time for CBS, a comedy/western set on a dude ranch
Dude Ranch

Dude Ranch is the second album by Blink-182, released on June 17 1997 by Cargo Music/MCA. The album contains the songs "Dammit " and "Josie ", which helped the group gain mainstream popularity....
 in Nevada
Nevada

Nevada is a U.S. state located in the Western United States of the United States of America. The capital is Carson City and the largest city is Las Vegas, Nevada....
. Son Beau Bridges co-starred, along with Harley Jane Kozak
Harley Jane Kozak

Harley Jane Kozak is an American actress and author.Kozak was born Susan Jane Karen Kozak in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Dorothy , a university music teacher, and Joseph Aloysius Kozak, an Lawyer....
 as Beau's wife, Alison Hart, and Sean Murray as the oldest Hart son, Zane Grey Hart. Bridges also played the role of Commander Cain in the Battlestar Galactica
Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)

Battlestar Galactica is an American science fiction television program, produced in 1978 by Glen A. Larson and starring Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch and Dirk Benedict....
 two-part episodes "The Living Legend
The Living Legend

"The Living Legend" is a two-part episode of the original Battlestar Galactica television series. The episode is often rated as one of the most popular of the original series....
".

Bridges played significant roles in several popular mini-series, including Roots
Roots (TV miniseries)

Roots is a 1977 in television American television miniseries based on Alex Haley's work Roots: The Saga of an American Family.Roots received 37 Emmy Award nominations....
, How the West Was Won
How the West Was Won (TV series)

How the West Was Won is an United States Western television series starring James Arness, Fionnula Flanagan, and Bruce Boxleitner. A spin-off of the 1962 in film Cinerama How the West Was Won , it aired as a mini-series in 1977, and as a regular series in 1978 and 1979, preceded by a 2,5 hours long Television pilot, The Macahans...
, and The Blue and the Gray
The Blue and the Gray

The Blue and the Gray was a 1982 TV mini-series set during the American Civil War starring John Hammond , Stacy Keach, Lloyd Bridges, and Gregory Peck as President Abraham Lincoln....
. For more than forty-five years, Bridges was a frequent guest star on television series. He earned two Emmy Award
Emmy Award

The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
 nominations four decades apart. The first came in 1957 for an episode of The Alcoa Hour
The Alcoa Hour

The Alcoa Hour is a Live television Anthology series sponsored by Alcoa and telecast in the United States from 1955 to 1957. The series was seen Sundays on NBC at 9pm....
. Then he was nominated again in 1998 for his role as Izzy Mandelbaum on Seinfeld
Seinfeld

Seinfeld is an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning Television in the United States Situation comedy that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in Broadcast syndication....
.

Bridges appeared in more than 150 films. He started as a contract performer for Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an United States film production company and distribution company. It was one of the so-called studio system among the eight major film studios of Hollywood Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood....
, appearing in classics such as High Noon
High Noon

High Noon is an Cinema of the United States 1952 in film western film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. The film tells the story of a town marshal who is forced to face a gang of killers by himself....
, Little Big Horn, and Sahara. By the end of his career, he was a staple of parody film
Parody film

A parody or Parody film is a comedy that satirizes other film genres or classic films. The main conventions for this genre are:* Sarcasm...
s such as Airplane!
Airplane!

Airplane! is a Cinema of the United States comedy film directed and written by Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves , Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Lorna Patterson....
, Hot Shots!
Hot Shots!

Hot Shots! is a 1991 comedy Parody starring Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges, Kevin Dunn and Jon Cryer. It was directed by Jim Abrahams, co-director of Airplane! , and was written by Abrahams and Pat Proft....
, and Jane Austen's Mafia!
Jane Austen's Mafia!

Mafia!, also known as Jane Austen's Mafia! is a 1998 comedy film directed by Jim Abrahams and starring Jay Mohr, Lloyd Bridges, Olympia Dukakis, and Christina Applegate....
. He acted in the role of "The President" in the movie Hot Shots: Part 2.

Personal life

A world federalist
World government

World government is the concept of a political body that would make, interpret and enforce international law. Inherent to the concept of a world government is the idea that nations would be required to pool or surrender sovereignty over some areas....
, Bridges once said, “The devastation caused by war and the pollution of our environment knows no boundaries. Only an effective world government could provide sufficient law and have the power to control these destructive forces". He was also involved in several organizations, including the American Oceans Campaign and Heal the Bay, a Los Angeles-based group.

Bridges died of natural causes at the age of eighty-five. His ashes were given to his family. He was married to Dorothy Dean (née
Married and maiden names

A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....
 Simpson) (1915 - 2009), from 1938 until his death. They had four children: Beau Vernet
Beau Bridges

Lloyd Vernet ?Beau? Bridges III is a U.S. three-time Emmy Award-winning actor....
, Garrett Myles, Jeffrey Leon
Jeff Bridges

Jeffrey Leon Bridges is a four-time Academy Award-nominated American actor and musician. His most notable films include The Last Picture Show, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Tron , Starman , The Fisher King , The Big Lebowski, Seabiscuit , and Iron Man ....
, and Lucinda Louise. His son, Garrett, died of sudden infant death syndrome
Sudden infant death syndrome

Sudden infant death syndrome is a syndrome marked by the symptoms of sudden and unexplained death of an apparently healthy infant aged one month to one year....
 on August 3, 1948. Jordan Bridges
Jordan Bridges

Jordan Bridges is an American actor....
 is a grandson of Lloyd Bridges.

An episode of Seinfeld ("The Burning
The Burning (Seinfeld episode)

"The Burning" is the 172nd episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld starring Cindy Ambuehl as Jerry's girlfriend Sophie. This was the 16th episode for the 9th and final season....
") was dedicated to the memory of Lloyd Bridges. He had played the character of Izzy Mandelbaum in the episodes "The English Patient
The English Patient (Seinfeld episode)

"The English Patient" is the List of Seinfeld episodes of the NBC Situation comedy Seinfeld. It was the 17th episode for the Seinfeld and aired on March 13, 1997....
" and "The Blood
The Blood (Seinfeld episode)

"The Blood" is the 160th episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. This was the 4th episode for the 9th and final season. It aired on October 16, 1997....
". Bridges' last film, Jane Austen's Mafia!
Jane Austen's Mafia!

Mafia!, also known as Jane Austen's Mafia! is a 1998 comedy film directed by Jim Abrahams and starring Jay Mohr, Lloyd Bridges, Olympia Dukakis, and Christina Applegate....
, was also dedicated to him.

Filmography


Features

  • Freshman Love (1936)
  • Dancing Feet (1936)
  • The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance (1941)
  • They Dare Not Love (1941)
  • The Medico of Painted Springs (1941)
  • The Son of Davy Crockett (1941)
  • Here Comes Mr. Jordan
    Here Comes Mr. Jordan

    Here Comes Mr. Jordan is a comedy film in which a boxer, mistakenly taken to Heaven before his time, is given a second chance back on Earth....
     (1941)
  • Our Wife (1941)
  • Harmon of Michigan (1941)
  • Two Latins from Manhattan (1941)
  • You Belong to Me (1941)
  • Three Girls About Town (1941)
  • The Royal Mounted Patrol (1941)
  • Sing for Your Supper (1941)
  • Honolulu Lu (1941)
  • Harvard, Here I Come! (1941)
  • West of Tombstone (1942)
  • Blondie Goes to College
    Blondie (film)

    Blondie is a 1938 in film directed by Frank Strayer, based on the Blondie . The screenplay was written by Chic Young and Richard Flournoy....
     (1942)
  • Cadets on Parade (1942)
  • Shut My Big Mouth (1942)
  • Canal Zone (1942)
  • Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1942)
  • North of the Rockies (1942)
  • Alias Boston Blackie (1942)
  • The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942)
  • Sweetheart of the Fleet (1942)
  • Riders of the Northland (1942)
  • Flight Lieutenant
    Flight Lieutenant (film)

    Flight Lieutenant is a 1942 film starring Pat O'Brien as Sam O'Doyle, a disgraced commercial pilot who works to regain the respect of his son against the backdrop of World War II....
     (1942)
  • Atlantic Convoy (1942)
  • The Talk of the Town (1942)
  • A Man's World (1942)
  • The Spirit of Stanford (1942)
  • The Daring Young Man (1942)
  • Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood (1942)
  • Pardon My Gun (1942)
  • Underground Agent (1942)
  • Counter-Espionage (1942) (uncredited) (waiter)
  • Commandos Strike at Dawn (1943)
  • City Without Men (1943)
  • One Dangerous Night (1943)
  • Destroyer
    Destroyer (1943 film)

    Destroyer is a 1943 in film war film starring Edward G. Robinson and Glenn Ford as U.S. Navy sailors in World War II....
     (1943)
  • Passport to Suez (1943)
  • Hail to the Rangers (1943)
  • Sahara (1943)
  • The Heat's On (1943)
  • There's Something About a Soldier (1943)
  • Crime Doctor's Strangest Case (1943)
  • Once Upon a Time (1944)
  • She's a Soldier Too (1944)
  • Louisiana Hayride (1944)
  • The Master Race (1944)
  • Saddle Leather Law (1944)
  • Secret Agent X-9
    Secret Agent X-9

    File:X9alex.jpgSecret Agent X-9 was a comic strip begun by writer Dashiell Hammett and artist Alex Raymond . Syndicated by King Features, it ran from January 22, 1934 until February 10, 1996....
     (1945)
  • Strange Confession (1945)
  • A Walk in the Sun
    A Walk in the Sun

    A Walk in the Sun is a war film released in 1945 in film , based on the novel by Harry Brown who was a writer for Yank magazine based in England....
     (1945)
  • Abilene Town (1946)
  • Miss Susie Sagle's (1946)
  • Canyon Passage (1946)
  • Ramrod
    Ramrod (film)

    Ramrod is a 1947 in film Western directed by Andr? De Toth.This cowboy drama from Hungary director De Toth was the first of several films based on the stories of Western author Luke Short ....
     (1947)
  • The Trouble with Women (1947)
  • Thunderbolt (1947)
  • Unconquered
    Unconquered

    Unconquered was produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and released by Paramount Pictures. The film depicts the violent struggles between American colonists and Native Americans on the western frontier in the mid-eighteenth century, primarily around Fort Pitt ....
     (1947)
  • Secret Service Investigator (1948)
  • 16 Fathoms Deep (1948)
  • Moonrise (1948)
  • Hideout (1949)
  • Red Canyon (1949)
  • Home of the Brave
    Home of the Brave (1949 film)

    Home of the Brave is a 1949 in film film based on a play by Arthur Laurents. It was directed by Mark Robson and stars Douglas Dick, Jeff Corey, Lloyd Bridges, Frank Lovejoy, James Edwards , and Steve Brodie ....
     (1949)
  • Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (1949)
  • Trapped
    Trapped (1949 film)

    Trapped is a semidocumentary film noir directed by Richard Fleischer, written by George Zuckerman and Earl Felton. The drama features Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt, and others....
     (1949)
  • Colt .45 (1950)
  • Rocketship X-M
    Rocketship X-M

    Rocketship X-M was the second of the American science fiction feature films of the space adventure genre begun in the post-war era, in 1950....
     (1950)
  • The White Tower
    The White Tower (film)

    The White Tower is a 1950 in film mountain film starring Alida Valli as a woman determined to conquer the mountain that killed her father, and Glenn Ford as the mountaineer who loves her....
     (1950)
  • The Sound of Fury (1950)
  • Little Big Horn (1951)
  • Three Steps North (1951)
  • High Noon
    High Noon

    High Noon is an Cinema of the United States 1952 in film western film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. The film tells the story of a town marshal who is forced to face a gang of killers by himself....
     (1952)
  • Plymouth Adventure
    Plymouth Adventure

    Plymouth Adventure is a 1952 in film drama film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Clarence Brown and produced by Dore Schary....
     (1952)
  • Last of the Comanches (1953)
  • The Tall Texan (1953)
  • The Kid from Left Field (1953)
  • City of Bad Men (1953)
  • The Limping Man
    The Limping Man

    The Limping Man is a 1953 in film British film directed by Cy Endfield , starring American actor Lloyd Bridges and Cape Town born actress Moira Lister....
     (1953)
  • Pride of the Blue Grass (1954)
  • The Deadly Game (1954)
  • Wichita (1955)
  • Apache Woman (1955)
  • Wetbacks (1956)
  • The Rainmaker
    The Rainmaker (1956 film)

    The Rainmaker is a 1956 in film film directed by Joseph Anthony and adapted by N. Richard Nash from his The Rainmaker . The film tells the story of a middle-aged woman, suffering from unrequited love for the local town sheriff; however, she falls for a con man who comes to town with the promise that he can make it rain....
     (1956)
  • Ride Out for Revenge (1957)
  • The Goddess
    The Goddess

    The Goddess is a 1958 in film Columbia Pictures drama film film starring Kim Stanley and Lloyd Bridges. Others in the cast include Steven Hill, Betty Lou Holland, Patty Duke, and Elizabeth Wilson....
     (1958)
  • A Pair of Boots (1962)
  • Around the World Under the Sea
    Around the World Under the Sea

    Around the World Under the Sea is a 1966 in film science fiction film directed by Andrew Marton and starring Lloyd Bridges. It follows the adventures of a crew of the deep-diving nuclear-powered civilian research submarine Hydronaut making a submerged circumnavigation of the world to plant monitoring sensors on the ocean floor that wi...
     (1966)
  • Daring Game (1968)
  • Attack on the Iron Coast (1968)
  • The Happy Ending
    The Happy Ending

    The Happy Ending is a 1969 film which tells the story of a repressed housewife who longs for liberation from her marriage....
     (1969)
  • Scuba (1972) (documentary) (narrator)
  • To Find a Man (1972)
  • Running Wild (1973)
  • The Fifth Musketeer
    The Fifth Musketeer

    The Fifth Musketeer is a 1979 in film film adaption of the last section of the novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, p?re, which is itself based on the French legend of the Man in the Iron Mask....
     (1979)
  • Bear Island
    Bear Island (film)

    Bear Island is a 1979 in film United Kingdom-Canadian thriller film based on the novel Bear Island by Alistair MacLean. It was directed by Don Sharp and starred Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee and Lloyd Bridges....
     (1979)
  • Airplane!
    Airplane!

    Airplane! is a Cinema of the United States comedy film directed and written by Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves , Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Lorna Patterson....
     (1980)
  • Airplane II: The Sequel
    Airplane II: The Sequel

    Airplane II: The Sequel is an United States comedy film sequel to the 1980 in film film Airplane! First released on December 10, 1982, the film was written and directed by Ken Finkleman and stars Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Chad Everett, William Shatner, Rip Torn, and Sonny Bono....
     (1982)
  • The Thanksgiving Promise (1986)
  • Weekend Warriors (1987)
  • The Wild Pair (1987) with son Beau Bridges
  • Tucker: The Man and His Dream
    Tucker: The Man and His Dream

    Tucker: The Man and His Dream is a 1988 in film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Jeff Bridges which tells the story of Preston Tucker and his attempt to produce and market the Tucker automobile....
     (1988)
  • Winter People (1989)
  • Cousins
    Cousins (film)

    Cousins is a 1989 remake of the French film Cousin, cousine, with Ted Danson, Isabella Rossellini, Sean Young, William Petersen, Lloyd Bridges, and Keith Coogan....
     (1989)
  • Joe Versus the Volcano
    Joe Versus the Volcano

    Joe Versus the Volcano is a 1990 in film comedy film starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.The first film directed by screenwriter John Patrick Shanley, it was also the first of three films pairing Hanks and Ryan....
     (1990)
  • Hot Shots!
    Hot Shots!

    Hot Shots! is a 1991 comedy Parody starring Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges, Kevin Dunn and Jon Cryer. It was directed by Jim Abrahams, co-director of Airplane! , and was written by Abrahams and Pat Proft....
     (1991)
  • Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
    Honey, I Blew Up the Kid

    Honey, I Blew Up the Kid is the 1992 sequel to the 1989 film Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Directed by Randal Kleiser and released by Walt Disney Pictures, the film stars Rick Moranis who reprises his role as Honey, I Shrunk the Kids Characters#Wayne Szalinski....
     (1992)
  • Earth and the American Dream (1992) (documentary) (narrator)
  • Mr. Bluesman (1993)
  • Hot Shots! Part Deux
    Hot Shots! Part Deux

    Hot Shots! Part Deux is a 1993 comedy Parody film, and a sequel to the 1991 comedy Hot Shots!Directed again by Jim Abrahams, the film again stars Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Valeria Golino, Richard Crenna, Brenda Bakke, Miguel Ferrer, Rowan Atkinson, and Jerry Haleva....
     (1993)
  • Blown Away
    Blown Away (1994 film)

    Blown Away is a 1994 in film thriller starring Jeff Bridges and Tommy Lee Jones. It was directed by Stephen Hopkins ....
     (1994)
  • Jane Austen's Mafia!
    Jane Austen's Mafia!

    Mafia!, also known as Jane Austen's Mafia! is a 1998 comedy film directed by Jim Abrahams and starring Jay Mohr, Lloyd Bridges, Olympia Dukakis, and Christina Applegate....
     (1998)
  • Meeting Daddy (2000)
  • From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff (2002)


Short subjects

  • The Great Glover (1942)
  • They Stooge to Conga (1943)
  • A Rookie's Cookie (1943)
  • His Wedding Scare (1943)
  • Mr. Whitney Had a Notion (1949)
  • My Daddy Can Lick Your Daddy (1962)
  • The World of Inner Space (1966)
  • I Am Joe's Heart (1987) (voice)


Television work

  • Sea Hunt
    Sea Hunt

    Sea Hunt was an United States television adventure series from syndicator Ziv TV that ran from 1958 to 1961 and was popular in Television syndication for decades afterwards....
     (1957-1961)
  • The Lloyd Bridges Show (1962-1963)
  • The Eleventh Hour
    The Eleventh Hour (1962 TV series)

    The Eleventh Hour is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer medical drama about psychiatry starring Wendell Corey , Jack Ging , and Ralph Bellamy , which aired sixty-two new episodes plus selected rebroadcasts on National Broadcasting Company from October 3, 1962, to September 9, 1964....
     with son Beau, "Cannibal Plants, They Eat You Alive" as Leonard McCarty (1964)
  • The Loner
    The Loner

    The Loner is an United States Western series that ran for less than one season on CBS from 1965 in television to 1966 in television....
     (1965-1966)
  • Mission: Impossible
    Mission: Impossible

    Mission: Impossible began as an American television series that chronicles the missions of a team of secret United States government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force ....
     (1966) (Fakeout:Anastas Poltroni)
  • A Case of Libel (1968)
  • Lost Flight (1969)
  • Silent Night, Lonely Night (1969)
  • The Silent Gun (1969)
  • The Love War (1970)
  • San Francisco International Airport
    San Francisco International Airport (TV series)

    San Francisco International Airport was a television drama aired in the United States by NBC as a part of its 1970-71 United States network television schedule wheel series Four in One....
     (1970-1971)
  • Do You Take This Stranger? (1971)
  • A Tattered Web (1971)
  • Deadly Dream (1971)
  • Water World (1972-1975) (narrator)
  • Haunts of the Very Rich (1972)
  • Trouble Comes to Town (1973)
  • Crime Club (1973)
  • Death Race (1973)
  • Benjamin Franklin
    Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and Printer , Satire, list of political philosophers, politician, scientist, inventor, activism, statesman, and diplomacy....
     (1974) (miniseries)
  • The Whirlwind (1974)
  • Stowaway to the Moon
    Stowaway to the Moon

    Stowaway to the Moon is a 1975 in film made-for-TV movie, starring Lloyd Bridges among others. The basic plot centers around a pre-teen boy who sneaks onto an Apollo-like mission to the moon....
     (1975)
  • Cop on the Beat (1975)
  • Joe Forrester (1975-1976)
  • Force of Evil (1977)
  • Roots
    Roots (TV miniseries)

    Roots is a 1977 in television American television miniseries based on Alex Haley's work Roots: The Saga of an American Family.Roots received 37 Emmy Award nominations....
     (1977) (miniseries)
  • Telethon (1977)
  • Shimmering Light (1978)
  • Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)
    Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)

    Battlestar Galactica is an American science fiction television program, produced in 1978 by Glen A. Larson and starring Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch and Dirk Benedict....
     (Commander Cain)
  • Alice in Wonderland (1985 miniseries) (White Knight)
  • Shining Time Station: 'Tis a Gift
    Shining Time Station: 'Tis A Gift

    Shining Time Station: 'Tis A Gift is the Christmas special of the television series Shining Time Station. It takes place during the Christmas season at Shining Time Station....
     (PBS TV Special) (Mr. Nicholas)
  • Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean (1990) (Harry Helmsley)
  • In The Nick Of Time
    In The Nick Of Time

    In The Nick Of Time is a 1991 Disney Christmas movie, starring Lloyd Bridges and Michael Tucker....
     (1991 Christmas Movie) (Santa Claus)
  • The Outer Limits
    The Outer Limits

    The Outer Limits is an United States television series. Similar in style to the earlier The Twilight Zone , with more science fiction than fantasy stories, The Outer Limits is an anthology of discrete story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end....
     – "The Sandkings" (March 26, 1995)
  • Dress Gray (1986) (miniseries)
  • Seinfeld
    Seinfeld

    Seinfeld is an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning Television in the United States Situation comedy that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in Broadcast syndication....
     (1997) (Izzy Mandelbaum)


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