Lloyd Bridges
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San Leandro, CA, USA
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.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | From Russia To Hollywood |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Meeting Daddy |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Bear Island |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff |
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— | 1999 |
14% | Mafia! |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Peter and the Wolf |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Sidney Sheldon's 'Nothing Lasts Forever' |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | The Other Woman |
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— | 1995 |
38% | Blown Away |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | Secret Sins of the Father |
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— | 1994 |
57% | Hot Shots! Part Deux |
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— | 1993 |
40% | Honey, I Blew Up the Kid |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Devlin |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | In the Nick of Time |
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— | 1991 |
83% | Hot Shots! |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean |
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— | 1990 |
63% | Joe Versus the Volcano |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Cross of Fire |
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— | 1989 |
11% | Winter People |
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— | 1989 |
50% | Cousins |
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— | 1989 |
83% | Tucker: The Man and His Dream |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | The Wild Pair |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | Alice Through the Looking Glass |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | The Thanksgiving Promise |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | Weekend Warriors |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | Dress Gray |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | The Blue And The Gray |
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— | 1985 |
No Score Yet | Alice in Wonderland |
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— | 1985 |
No Score Yet | Loving |
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— | 1984 |
No Score Yet | George Washington |
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— | 1984 |
No Score Yet | Grace Kelly |
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— | 1983 |
No Score Yet | A Case of Libel |
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— | 1983 |
42% | Airplane 2 - The Sequel |
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— | 1982 |
No Score Yet | Blue and the Gray |
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— | 1981 |
97% | Airplane! |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | The Fifth Musketeer (Behind the Iron Mask) (The 5th Musketeer) |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Disaster on the Coastliner |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | The Great Wallendas |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | Mutual Respect |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | The Force of Evil |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Stowaway to the Moon |
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— | 1974 |
No Score Yet | Running Wild |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | To Find a Man |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | Haunts of the Very Rich |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | Scuba |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | A Tattered Web |
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— | 1971 |
33% | The Happy Ending |
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— | 1969 |
No Score Yet | Silent Night, Lonely Night |
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— | 1969 |
No Score Yet | Attack on the Iron Coast |
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— | 1968 |
No Score Yet | Daring Game |
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— | 1968 |
No Score Yet | Around the World Under the Sea |
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— | 1966 |
No Score Yet | A Pair of Boots |
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— | 1962 |
No Score Yet | The Goddess |
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— | 1958 |
No Score Yet | Ride out for Revenge |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | The Rainmaker |
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— | 1956 |
No Score Yet | Wetbacks |
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— | 1956 |
100% | Wichita |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | Apache Woman |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | The Limping Man |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | The Tall Texan |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | Last Of The Comanches |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | The Kid from Left Field |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | Plymouth Adventure |
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— | 1952 |
97% | High Noon |
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— | 1952 |
No Score Yet | Little Big Horn |
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— | 1951 |
No Score Yet | The Whistle At Eaton Falls |
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— | 1951 |
No Score Yet | The Sound of Fury (Try and Get Me!) |
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— | 1950 |
No Score Yet | The White Tower |
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— | 1950 |
No Score Yet | Rocketship X-M |
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— | 1950 |
No Score Yet | Colt .45 |
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— | 1950 |
No Score Yet | Trapped |
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— | 1949 |
No Score Yet | Calamity Jane and Sam Bass |
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— | 1949 |
97% | Home of the Brave |
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— | 1949 |
No Score Yet | 16 Fathoms Deep |
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— | 1948 |
100% | Moonrise |
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— | 1948 |
83% | Unconquered |
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— | 1947 |
100% | Canyon Passage |
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— | 1946 |
100% | A Walk in the Sun |
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— | 1945 |
No Score Yet | Strange Confession (The Missing Head) |
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— | 1945 |
No Score Yet | Secret Agent X-9 |
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— | 1945 |
No Score Yet | Thunderbolt |
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— | 1945 |
No Score Yet | The Master Race |
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— | 1944 |
No Score Yet | Once upon a Time |
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— | 1944 |
No Score Yet | Crime Doctor's Strangest Case |
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— | 1943 |
100% | Sahara |
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— | 1943 |
No Score Yet | Destroyer |
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— | 1943 |
No Score Yet | Passport to Suez |
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— | 1943 |
No Score Yet | The Heat's On |
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— | 1943 |
No Score Yet | Commandos Strike at Dawn |
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— | 1942 |
No Score Yet | Atlantic Convoy |
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— | 1942 |
No Score Yet | Alias Boston Blackie |
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— | 1942 |
No Score Yet | Blondie Goes to College |
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— | 1942 |
88% | The Talk of the Town |
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— | 1942 |
No Score Yet | Three Girls About Town |
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— | 1941 |
No Score Yet | You Belong to Me |
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— | 1941 |
No Score Yet | The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance |
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— | 1941 |
100% | Here Comes Mr. Jordan |
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— | 1941 |
No Score Yet | Harmon of Michigan |
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— | 1941 |
No Score Yet | Ramrod |
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— | 1930 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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89% |
Seinfeld
1989-1998
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No Score Yet |
The Outer Limits
1995-2002
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50% |
Harts of the West
1993-1994
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20% |
Capital News
1990
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No Score Yet |
East of Eden
1981
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33% |
Battlestar Galactica
1978-1980
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78% |
Roots
1977
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No Score Yet |
Mission: Impossible
1966-1973
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Quotes from Lloyd Bridges' Characters
Adm. `Tug' Benson: | Really 12 o Clock that give about 25 minutes thing i'l step out for a burger |
Vincenzo Cortino: | No. I'll use my brain, it's as big as any bullet. |
McCroskey: | Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking. |
McCroskey: | Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking. |
McCroskey: | Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines. |
McCroskey: | Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue. |
McCroskey: | Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue. |
McCroskey: | Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking. |