Lloyd Bridges was the father of four children, including the actors Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges.
65 Facts About Lloyd Bridges
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Lloyd Bridges started his career as a contract performer for Columbia Pictures, appearing in films such as Sahara, A Walk in the Sun, Little Big Horn and High Noon.
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Lloyd Bridges received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 1,1994.
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Lloyd Bridges then studied political science at UCLA, where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
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Lloyd Bridges had small uncredited roles in the films Freshman Love and Dancing Feet.
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Lloyd Bridges made his Broadway debut in 1937 in a short-lived production of Shakespeare's Othello, starring Walter Huston and Brian Aherne; Lloyd Bridges was in the Ensemble.
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Lloyd Bridges appeared on stage in Suzanna and the Elders.
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In 1940, Lloyd Bridges joined the stock company at Columbia Pictures at $75 a week, where he played small roles in features and short subjects.
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Lloyd Bridges could be seen in The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance, They Dare Not Love, Doctor's Alibi, Blue Clay, Our Wife, and I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island.
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Lloyd Bridges left Columbia Pictures during World War II to enlist in the United States Coast Guard.
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Lloyd Bridges had some support roles in independent films, A Walk in the Sun, and Abilene Town.
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Lloyd Bridges returned to lead roles with Secret Service Investigator at Republic Pictures, and 16 Fathoms Deep for Monogram Pictures.
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Lloyd Bridges had a support role in Frank Borzage's Moonrise then was the lead in Hideout for Republic.
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Lloyd Bridges was in a Western at Universal directed by George Sherman, Red Canyon, and a short at MGM, Mr Whitney Had a Notion.
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Lloyd Bridges had a good role in Home of the Brave.
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Lloyd Bridges had the star role in Trapped directed by Richard Fleischer for Eagle Lion and Rocketship X-M for Lippert Pictures.
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Lloyd Bridges 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 Actors' Laboratory Theatre, a group found to have had links to the Communist Party USA.
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Lloyd Bridges returned to acting after recanting his membership and serving as a cooperative witness, achieving his greatest success in television.
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Lloyd Bridges made his TV debut in 1951 with "Man's First Debt" in The Bigelow Theatre.
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Lloyd Bridges had starring roles in the films The Fighting Seventh, Three Steps North, and Richer Than the Earth.
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Lloyd Bridges guest starred on Suspense and Schlitz Playhouse, and had support roles in Plymouth Adventure and The Sabre and the Arrow.
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Lloyd Bridges returned to leads in The Tall Texan for Lippert Pictures.
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Lloyd Bridges was in "The Long Way Home" for Goodyear Playhouse, and appeared in The Kid from Left Field and City of Bad Men for Fox.
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Lloyd Bridges travelled to the UK to star in The Limping Man for Cy Endfield.
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Lloyd Bridges returned to Broadway in Dead Pigeon, which had a short run.
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Lloyd Bridges had the lead in a horse movie, Prince of the Blue Grass and returned to England to make Third Party Risk for Hammer Films.
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In Hollywood Lloyd Bridges supported Joel McCrea in Wichita and had the lead in Roger Corman's low-budget Apache Woman.
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Lloyd Bridges had the lead in the low budget Wetbacks and a support role in The Rainmaker.
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Lloyd Bridges gained attention in 1956 for his emotional performance on the live anthology program The Alcoa Hour, in an episode titled "Tragedy in a Temporary Town" written by Reginald Rose and directed by Sidney Lumet.
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Lloyd Bridges made several episodes of Zane Grey Theatre including "Time of Decision" and "Wire".
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Lloyd Bridges supported Rory Calhoun in Ride Out for Revenge and did "A Time to Cry" on The Frank Sinatra Show and had one of his best ever cinema roles in The Goddess based on a script by Paddy Chayefsky based on the life of Marilyn Monroe; Bridges played a sportsman based on Joe di Maggio opposite Kim Stanley.
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Lloyd Bridges directed "Piano to Thunder Springs" for Target.
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Lloyd Bridges gained wide recognition as Mike Nelson, the main character in the television series Sea Hunt, created by Ivan Tors, which ran in syndication from 1958 to 1961.
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Lloyd Bridges wrote a book with a co-author about skin-diving entitled Mask and Flippers.
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Bridges starred in the eponymous CBS anthology series The Lloyd Bridges Show which included appearances by his sons Beau and Jeff.
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Lloyd Bridges returned to features with Around the World Under the Sea.
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Lloyd Bridges guest starred in "Fakeout" for Mission Impossible, and did a TV movie A Case of Libel.
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Lloyd Bridges starred in some action films, Daring Game and Attack on the Iron Coast, the latter for Ivan Tors.
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Lloyd Bridges did "The People Next Door" for CBS Playhouse.
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Lloyd Bridges starred in some TV movies, The Silent Gun, and Silent Night, Lonely Night.
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Lloyd Bridges had a support role in The Happy Ending directed by Richard Brooks.
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Lloyd Bridges returned to Broadway as a replacement for the lead in Cactus Flower.
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Lloyd Bridges starred in a short lived series San Francisco International Airport and had a support role in a feature, To Find a Man.
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Lloyd Bridges had a rare comedy role on Here's Lucy with "Lucy's Big Break".
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Lloyd Bridges continued in TV movies: Haunts of the Very Rich, Trouble Comes to Town, Crime Club, Running Wild, Death Race, The Whirlwind, and Stowaway to the Moon.
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Lloyd Bridges starred in a short-lived Police Story spin-off Joe Forrester.
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Lloyd Bridges played significant roles in several mini-series, including Roots, and How the West Was Won.
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Lloyd Bridges returned to TV movies: The Force of Evil, Telethon, The Great Wallendas and The Critical List.
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Lloyd Bridges had a notable guest part in "The Living Legend" for Battlestar Galactica and went to Australia to make Shimmering Light with Beau.
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Lloyd Bridges had a support part in The Fifth Musketeer starring Beau and was in Disaster on the Coastliner, Bear Island and This Year's Blonde.
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Lloyd Bridges appeared in a number of mini series such as East of Eden, The Blue and the Gray and George Washington.
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Lloyd Bridges was in Weekend Warriors, The Thanksgiving Promise for Disney, and The Wild Pair starring and directed by Beau.
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Lloyd Bridges appeared with Jeff in Tucker: The Man and His Dream and was in She Was Marked for Murder, for TV.
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Lloyd Bridges had notable supporting roles in the features Winter People and Cousins.
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Lloyd Bridges starred in a short-lived series, Capital News, for ABC.
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Lloyd Bridges did Secret Sins of the Father with son Beau, and Cinderella.
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Lloyd Bridges supported son Jeff in a big budget action film Blown Away.
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Lloyd Bridges did "Sandkings" for The Outer Limits with Beau, The Other Woman, Nothing Lasts Forever, and The Deliverance of Elaine and did voice work on Peter and the Wolf.
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Lloyd Bridges had a semi-regular part on Second Noah.
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Lloyd Bridges received a second Emmy Award nomination four decades after the first when he was nominated in 1998 for his role as Izzy Mandelbaum on Seinfeld.
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Lloyd Bridges served on the advisory board of the Los Angeles Student Film Institute.
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Lloyd Bridges met his wife, Dorothy Lloyd Bridges, in his fraternity; they married in 1938 in New York City.
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Dorothy and Lloyd Bridges exchanged vows again for their 50th wedding anniversary.
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On March 10,1998, Lloyd Bridges died of natural causes at the age of 85.
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Lloyd Bridges had played the character of Izzy Mandelbaum in the episodes "The English Patient" in 1997 and "The Blood" later the same year.