Lloyd Bridges

**Lloyd Vernet Bridges jr.** (1913–1998) var en amerikansk skuespiller. Bridges hadde suksess i TV-serier, og han var med i over 150 filmer.

Han gjorde sin debut på Broadway i Shakespeares skuespill *[[Othello]]* i 1937. Han debuterte på film i *The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance* (1941).

Bridges studerte ved UCLA. Han var far til Jeff Bridges og Beau Bridges, og gift med skuespilleren Dorothy Bridges.

## Filmografi
### Film

**[[Freshman Love]]* (1936) … College Boy (ukreditert)
**[[Dancing Feet]]* (1936) … Young Man (ukreditert)
**[[Lost Horizon]]* (1937) … Uniformed Soldier / Officer (ukreditert)
**[[The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance]]* (1941) … Johnny Baker
**[[They Dare Not Love]]* (1941) … Blonde Officer (ukreditert)
**[[The Medico of Painted Springs]]* (1941) … Cowhand (ukreditert)
**[[The Son of Davy Crockett]]* (1941) … Sammy (ukreditert)
**I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island* (1941) … Rene (ukreditert)
**[[Our Wife]]* (1941) … Taxi Driver (ukreditert)
**[[Here Comes Mr. Jordan]]* (1941) … Sloan - Co-pilot of Plane #22 (ukreditert)
**[[Harmon of Michigan]]* (1941) … Ozzie
**[[Two Latins from Manhattan]]* (1941) … Tommy Curtis
**[[You Belong to Me]]* (1941) … Ski Patrol (ukreditert)
**[[Three Girls About Town]]* (1941) … Reporter (ukreditert)
**[[The Royal Mounted Patrol]]* (1941) … Hap Andrews
**[[Sing for Your Supper]]* (1941) … Doc (ukreditert)
**[[Honolulu Lu]]* (1941) … Desk Clerk (ukreditert)
**[[Harvard, Here I Come!]]* (1941) … Larry (ukreditert)
**[[West of Tombstone]]* (1942) … Martin (ukreditert)
**[[Blondie Goes to College]]* (1942) … Ben Dixon
**[[Cadets on Parade]]* (1942) … Reporter (ukreditert) 
**[[Shut My Big Mouth]]* (1942) … Skinny
**[[Canal Zone]]* (1942) … Recruit Baldwin (insurance man)
**[[Alias Boston Blackie]]* (1942) … Bus Driver (ukreditert)
**[[Tramp, Tramp, Tramp]]* (1942) … Guard (ukreditert)
**[[North of the Rockies]]* (1942) … Constable McDowell
**[[The Wife Takes a Flyer]]* (1942) … German Sergeant (ukreditert)
**[[Sweetheart of the Fleet]]* (1942) … Sailor
**Submarine Raider* (1942) … Submarine Engine Seaman (voice, ukreditert)
**[[Riders of the Northland]]* (1942) … Alex
**[[Flight Lieutenant]]* (1942) … Cadet William 'Bill' Robinson (ukreditert)
**[[Atlantic Convoy]]* (1942) … Bert
**[[The Talk of the Town]]* (1942) … Donald Forrester (ukreditert)
**[[Counter-Espionage]]* (1942) … Waiter (ukreditert)
**[[A Man's World]]* (1942) … Brown
**[[Daring Young Man]]* (1942) … Hans Muller
**[[The Spirit of Stanford]]* (1942) … Don Farrell (ukreditert)
**Stand By All Networks* (1942) … Slim Terry (ukreditert)
**[[Pardon My Gun]]* (1942) … Henchman (ukreditert)
**[[Underground Agent]]* (1942) … Chemist (ukreditert)
**[[Commandos Strike at Dawn]]* (1943) … Young German Soldier (ukreditert)
**[[City Without Men]]* (1943) … Coast Guard Helmsman (ukreditert)
**[[One Dangerous Night]]* (1943) … Airline Gate Attendant (ukreditert)
**[[Destroyer (1943 film)|Destroyer]]* (1943) … 2nd Fireman (ukreditert)
**[[Passport to Suez]]* (1943) … Fritz
**[[Sahara (1943 American film)|Sahara]]* (1943) … Fred Clarkson
**[[Hail to the Rangers]]* (1943) … Dave Kerlin
**[[The Heat's On]]* (1943) … Andy Walker
**[[There's Something About a Soldier]]* (1943) (ukreditert)
**[[Crime Doctor's Strangest Case]]* (1943) … Jimmy Trotter
**[[Once Upon a Time]]* (1944) … Aviator Captain (ukreditert)
**Riding West* (1944) … Larry (ukreditert)
**[[She's a Soldier Too]]* (1944) … Charles Jones
**[[Louisiana Hayride]]* (1944) … Montague Price
**[[The Master Race]]* (1944) … Frank
**[[Saddle Leather Law]]* (1944) … Paul Edwards
**[[Secret Agent X-9]]* (1945) … Phil Corrigan (Secret Agent X-9)
**[[Strange Confession]]* (1945) … Dave
**[[A Walk in the Sun]]* (1945) … Sgt. Ward
**[[Abilene Town]]* (1946) … Henry Dreiser
**[[Miss Susie Slagle's]]* (1946) … Silas Holmes
**[[Canyon Passage]]* (1946) … Johnny Steele
**[[Thunderbolt!]]* (1947) … Pilot (voice)
**[[Ramrod]]* (1947) … Red Cates
**[[The Trouble with Women]]* (1947) … Avery Wilson
**[[Unconquered]]* (1947) … Lt. Hutchins
**[[Secret Service Investigator]]* (1948) … Steve Mallory / Dan Redfern
**[[16 Fathoms Deep]]* (1948) … Ray Douglas
**[[Moonrise]]* (1948) … Jerry Sykes
**[[Hideout]]* (1949) … George Browning
**[[Red Canyon]]* (1949) … Virgil Cordt
**[[Home of the Brave]]* (1949) … Finch
**[[Calamity Jane and Sam Bass]]* (1949) … Joel Collins
**[[Trapped]]* (1949) … Tris Stewart
**[[Rocketship X-M]]* (1950) … Col. Floyd Graham
**[[Colt .45]]* (1950) … Paul Donovan
**[[The White Tower]]* (1950) … Mr. Hein
**[[The Sound of Fury]]* (1950) … Jerry Slocum
**[[Little Big Horn]]* (1951) … Capt. Phillip Donlin
**[[Three Steps North]]* (1951) … Frank Keeler
**[[The Whistle at Eaton Falls]]* (1951) … Brad Adams
**[[High Noon]]* (1952) … Deputy Marshal Harvey Pell
**[[Plymouth Adventure]]* (1952) … Coppin
**[[Last of the Comanches]]* (1953) … Jim Starbuck
**[[The Tall Texan]]* (1953) … Ben Trask
**[[The Kid from Left Field]]* (1953) … Pete Haines
**[[City of Bad Men]]* (1953) … Gar Stanton
**[[The Limping Man]]* (1953) … Frank Prior
**[[Pride of the Blue Grass]]* (1954) … Jim
**[[Third Party Risk]]* (1954) … Philip Graham
**[[Wichita]]* (1955) … Gyp Clements
**[[Apache Woman]]* (1955) … Rex Moffett
**[[Wetbacks]]* (1956) … Jim Benson
**[[The Rainmaker]]* (1956) … Noah Curry
**[[Ride Out for Revenge]]* (1957) … Capt. George
**[[The Goddess]]* (1958) … Dutch Seymour
**[[A Pair of Boots]]* (1962) … Otis / Adam Shepherd / Sen. Guthrie / Jonathan Tatum / Various characters
**[[Around the World Under the Sea]]* (1966) … Dr. Doug Standish
**[[Daring Game]]* (1968) … Vic Powers
**[[Attack on the Iron Coast]]* (1968) … Major Jamie Wilson
**[[The Happy Ending]]* (1969) … Sam
**[[Lost Flight]]* (1969) … Captain Steve Bannerman
**[[The Love War]]* (1970) (TV) … Kyle
**[[The Deadly Dream]]* (1971) (TV) … Dr Jim Hanley
**[[Scuba (film)|Scuba]]* (1972) (documentary) (narrator)
**[[To Find a Man]]* (1972) … Frank McCarthy
**[[Haunts of the Very Rich]]* (1972) … Dave Woodrough
**[[Running Wild]]* (1973) … Jeff Methune
**[[Death Race (film, 1973)|Death Race]]* (1973) … Hans Pimler
**[[The Fifth Musketeer]]* (1979) … Aramis
**[[Operasjon Bjørnøya|Bear Island]]* (1979) … Smithy
**[[Airplane!]]* (1980) … Steve McCroskey
**[[Airplane II: The Sequel]]* (1982) … Steve McCroskey
**[[Weekend Warriors]]* (1986) … Col. Archer
**[[The Thanksgiving Promise]]* (1986) … Stewart Larson
**[[The Wild Pair]]* (1987) (with son Beau Bridges) … Col. Heser 
***' (1988) … Sen. Homer Ferguson (ukreditert)
*''[[Winter People]]'' (1989) … William Wright
*''[[Cousins]]'' (1989) … Vince
*''[[Joe Versus the Volcano]]'' (1990) … Graynamore
*''[[Hot Shots!]]'' (1991) … Adm. Thomas 'Tug' Benson
*''[[Honey, I Blew Up the Kid]]'' (1992) … Clifford Sterling
*''[[Earth and the American Dream]]'' (1992) (documentary) (narrator)
*''[[Mr. Bluesman]]'' (1993) … Bronski
*''[[Hot Shots! Part Deux]]'' (1993) … Tug Benson
*''[[Blown Away]]'' (1994) … Max O'Bannon with son Jeff Bridges
*''[[Peter and the Wolf]]'' (1995) … Grandfather
*''[[Jane Austen's Mafia!]]'' (1998) … Vincenzo Cortino
*''[[Meeting Daddy]]'' (2000) … Mr. Branson (filmed in 1997; released posthumously)
*''[[From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff]]'' (2002) … Himself (scenes filmed in the 1990s)

=== Fjernsyn ===

*''[[Suspense]]'' co-star with Arlene Francis in "Her Last Adventure" (August 19, 1952) … James
*''[[Jukebox Jury]]'' (1953)
*''Crossroads'' in "Broadway Trust" with [[James Dean]] (November 11, 1955) … Fred
*''[[Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre]]'' in Image of a Drawn Sword (1961) … Lt. Sam Kenyon
*''[[Sea Hunt]]'' (1958–1961) … Mike Nelson / Whitey Fender
*''[[Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre]]'' (1960) … Dundee, Season 5, Episode 6 - Ransom
*''[[The Ford Show]]'' (January 8, 1959) … Captain Anderson
*''[[The DuPont Show with June Allyson]]'' … Captain Anderson in "Death on the Temple Bay", BSD series finale (1961) … Captain Anderson
*''[[The Lloyd Bridges Show]]'' (1962–1963) … Adam Shepherd / Sen. Guthrie / Jonathan Tatum / Various characters
*''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'' with son Beau, "Cannibal Plants, They Eat You Alive" (1964) … Leonard McCarty
*''[[Kraft Suspense Theatre]]'' (1963) … Mason Etheridge
*''[[The Loner]]'' (1965–1966) … William Colton
***' (1966) … Anastas Poltroni
**[[A Case of Libel]]* (1968) … Dennis Corcoran
**[[Lost Flight]]* (1969) 
**[[The Silent Gun]]* (1969) … Brad Clinton
**[[Silent Night, Lonely Night]]* (1969) … John Sparrow
**[[The Love War]]* (1970) … Kyle
**[[San Francisco International Airport]]* (1970–1971) … Jim Conrad
**[[Do You Take This Stranger?]]* (1971) … Steven Breck
**[[A Tattered Web]]* (1971) … Sgt. Ed Stagg
**Deadly Dream* (1971) … Dr. Jim Hanley
**[[Water World]]* (1972–1975) … Narrator
**[[Haunts of the Very Rich]]* (1972) … Dave Woodrough
**[[Trouble Comes to Town]]* (1973) … Sheriff Porter Murdock
**Crime Club* (1973) … Paul Cord
**[[Death Race (film, 1973)|Death Race]]* (1973) … Hans Pimler
**[[Benjamin Franklin]]* (1974) (miniseries)
**[[The Whirlwind (film)|The Whirlwind]]* (1974) 
**[[Police Story (TV-serie)|Police Story]]* (1974–75) … Joe Forrester / Sgt. Wolf Bozeman
**[[Stowaway to the Moon]]* (1975) … Charlie Englehardt
**[[Cop on the Beat]]* (1975) 
**[[Joe Forrester]]* (1975–76) … Joe Forrester
**[[Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected]]* (1977 TV series) episode "The Force of Evil" (Dr. Carrington)
**[[Røtter (TV-serie)|Røtter]]* (1977) (miniseries) 
**[[Telethon]]* (1977) … Matt Tallman
**[[Familien Macahan|How the West Was Won]]* (1978) (miniseries) … Orville Gant
**[[The Great Wallendas]]* (1978) … Karl Wallenda
**[[Shimmering Light]]* (1978) … Sean Pearse
**[[GI Diary]]* (1978) … Narrator (voice)
**[[Battlestar Galactica (TV-serie)|Battlestar Galactica]]* (1978 TV series) … Commander Cain
**[[Disaster on the Coastliner]]* (1979) … Al Mitchell
**[[East of Eden]]* (1981 miniseries) … Samuel Hamilton
**[[The Blue and the Gray]]* (1982 miniseries) … Ben Geyser
**[[Grace Kelly]]* (1983) … Jack Kelly
**[[Paper Dolls]]* (1984) … Grant Harper
**[[George Washington (miniserie)|George Washington]]* (1984) (miniseries) … Caleb Quinn
**[[Alice in Wonderland (miniserie)|Alice in Wonderland]]* (1985 miniseries) … White Knight
**[[North and South]]* (1986) (miniseries) … Confederate President Jefferson Davis
**[[Dress Gray]]* (1986) (miniseries) … Gen. Axel Rylander
**[[Shining Time Station: 'Tis a Gift]]* (PBS TV Special) … Mr. Nicholas
**[[Capital News]]*  (1990) … Jo Jo Turner
**[[Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean]]* (1990) … Harry Helmsley
**[[In The Nick Of Time]]* (1991 Christmas Movie) … Santa Claus
**[[Harts of the West]]* (1993-1994)
**The Other Woman* … Jacob
**[[The Outer Limits (TV-serie, 1995)|The Outer Limits]]* – "The Sandkings" (March 26, 1995) … Col. Kress
**[[Seinfeld]]* … Izzy Mandelbaum

## Privat
Bridges giftet seg med Dorothy Louise Simpson i New York 1938. Sammen fikk de fire barn, deriblant skuespillerne Jeff og Beau Bridges. Sønnen Garrett Myles Bridges døde av krybbedød i 1948. Han var farfar til skuespilleren Jordan Bridges.

Bridges fremmet en verdensregjering. «*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.*» Han støttet også flere organisasjoner, blant andre Oceana og Heal the Bay.

Bridges døde 10. mars 1998, 85 år gammel.

## Utmerkelser
Han mottok en stjerne på Hollywood Walk of Fame i 1994.

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