LLOYD BRIDGES

'Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Jr.' (January 15, 1913 – March 10, 1998) was an American actor. Bridges had success as a star in television series, and appeared in more than 150 films.

Contents

Biography

Early life

Career

Personal life

Filmography

Features

Short Subjects

Television work

References

External links

Biography

Early life

Bridges was born in San Leandro, California to Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Sr., who was involved in the California hotel business and once owned a cinema, and Harriet Evelyn (Brown). He graduated from Eureka Senior High school in 1931. Bridges studied political science at UCLA, where he met his future wife, Dorothy Dean Simpson; the two married in 1939. They were married on St. Pete's Beach at sunrise.

Career

Bridges made his Broadway debut in 1939 in a production of Shakespeare's ''Othello''. He was blacklisted briefly in the 1950s after he admitted to the House Un-American Activities Committee that he had once been a member of the Communist party. He resumed working after being cleared by the FBI, finding his greatest success in television.

Bridges gained wide recognition as Mike Nelson, the star of the television series ''Sea Hunt'', which ran from 1958-1961. Following that success, he starred in the eponymous anthology show ''The Lloyd Bridges Show'', which included appearances by his sons Beau and Jeff. Bridges was offered the role of Captain Kirk before the role went to William Shatner. Additionally he was a regular cast member in the Rod Serling western series ''The Loner'' (which lasted one season from 1965 to 1966), in the two NBC failures ''San Francisco International Airport'' (1970/71) and ''Joe Forrester'' (1975/76). Later he tried it again with ''Paper Dolls'' (1984) and ''Capital News'' (1990), both for the ABC, and again with ''Harts of the West'' (1993), this time for the CBS. He played the role of Commander Cain in the ''Battlestar Galactica'' two-part episode "The Living Legend".
He played significant roles in several popular mini-series, including ''Roots'', ''How the West Was Won'', and ''The Blue and the Grey''. For more than forty-five years, Bridges was a frequent guest star on television series. He earned two Emmy Award nominations four decades apart. The first came in 1957 for an episode of ''The Alcoa Hour''. Then he was nominated again in 1998 for his role as Izzy Mandelbaum on ''Seinfeld''.
Bridges appeared in more than 150 films. He started as a contract performer for Columbia Pictures, appearing in classics such as ''High Noon'', ''Little Big Horn'', and ''Sahara''. By the end of his career, he was a staple of parody films such as ''Airplane!'', ''Hot Shots!'', and ''Jane Austen's Mafia!''.

Personal life

A world federalist, 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".^[1] He was also involved in several organizations including the American Oceans Campaign and Heal the Bay, a Los Angeles-based group. He died of natural causes on March 10, 1998. He was the father of actors Jeff Bridges and Beau Bridges and the grandfather of Jordan Bridges.
An episode of ''Seinfeld'' ("The Burning") is dedicated in memory of Lloyd Bridges. He played the character of Izzy Mandelbaum in the episodes "The English Patient" and "The Blood".

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'' (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'' (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'' (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) ★ ''Commandos Strike at Dawn'' (1943) ★ ''City Without Men'' (1943) ★ ''One Dangerous Night'' (1943) ★ ''Destroyer'' (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'' (1945) ★ ''Strange Confession'' (1945) ★ ''A Walk in the Sun'' (1945) ★ ''Abilene Town'' (1946) ★ ''Miss Susie Sagle's'' (1946) ★ ''Canyon Passage'' (1946) ★ ''Ramrod'' (1947) ★ ''The Trouble with Women'' (1947)

★ ''Thunderbolt'' (1947) ★ ''Unconquered'' (1947) ★ ''Secret Service Investigator'' (1948) ★ ''16 Fathoms Deep'' (1948) ★ ''Moonrise'' (1948) ★ ''Hideout'' (1949) ★ ''Red Canyon'' (1949) ★ ''Home of the Brave'' (1949) ★ ''Calamity Jane and Sam Bass'' (1949) ★ ''Trapped'' (1949) ★ ''Colt .45'' (1950) ★ ''Rocketship X-M'' (1950) ★ ''The White Tower'' (1950) ★ ''The Sound of Fury'' (1950) ★ ''Little Big Horn'' (1951) ★ ''Three Steps North'' (1951) ★ ''High Noon'' (1952) ★ ''Plymouth Adventure'' (1952) ★ ''Last of the Comanches'' (1953) ★ ''The Tall Texan'' (1953) ★ ''The Kid from Left Field'' (1953) ★ ''City of Bad Men'' (1953) ★ ''The Limping Man'' (1953) ★ ''Pride of the Blue Grass'' (1954) ★ ''The Deadly Game'' (1954) ★ ''Wichita'' (1955) ★ ''Apache Woman'' (1955) ★ ''Wetbacks'' (1956) ★ ''The Rainmaker'' (1956) ★ ''Ride Out for Revenge'' (1957) ★ ''The Goddess'' (1958) ★ ''A Pair of Boots'' (1962) ★ ''Around the World Under the Sea'' (1966) ★ ''Daring Game'' (1968) ★ ''Attack on the Iron Coast'' (1968) ★ ''The Happy Ending'' (1969) ★ ''Scuba'' (1972) (documentary) (narrator) ★ ''To Find a Man'' (1972) ★ ''Running Wild'' (1973) ★ ''The Fifth Musketeer'' (1979) ★ ''Bear Island'' (1979) ★ ''Airplane!'' (1980) ★ '' (1982) ★ ''Weekend Warriors'' (1987) ★ ''The Wild Pair'' (1987) ★ '' (1988) ★ ''Winter People'' (1989) ★ ''Cousins'' (1989) ★ ''Joe Versus the Volcano'' (1990) ★ ''Hot Shots!'' (1991) ★ ''Honey, I Blew Up the Kid'' (1992) ★ ''Earth and the American Dream'' (1992) (documentary) (narrator) ★ ''Mr. Bluesman'' (1993) ★ ''Hot Shots! Part Deux'' (1993) ★ ''Blown Away'' (1994) ★ ''Jane Austen's Mafia!'' (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'' (1957-1961)

★ ''The Lloyd Bridges Show'' (1962-1963)

★ ''The Loner'' (1965-1966)

★ ''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'' (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'' (1974) (miniseries)

★ ''The Whirlwind'' (1974)

★ Stowaway to the Moon (1975)

★ ''Cop on the Beat'' (1975)

★ ''Joe Forrester'' (1975-1976)

★ ''Force of Evil'' (1977)

★ ''Roots'' (1977) (miniseries)

★ ''Telethon'' (1977)

★ ''Shimmering Light'' (1978)

★ ''Battlestar Galactica'' (1978 TV series) (Commander Cain)

★ ''Dress Gray'' (1986) (miniseries)

★ Seinfeld (1997) (Izzy Mandelbaum)

References

1. http://www.worldpeacenews.org/AUTH/ARCHIVE/077..htm

External links

★ March-April 2004 – UNITED WORLD, "publication of the Coalition for a Democratic World Government, News and Views."

★

★ Lloyd Bridges from The Scuba Guy