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Al Bridge

Al Bridge

Biography

Al Bridge was an American character actor, a fixture both in Westerns and in the comedies of Preston Sturges.

Although frequently billed as Alan Bridge, he was born Alfred Morton Bridge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1891 (not as Alford Bridge in 1890, as his tombstone erroneously states).

Following service as a corporal in the U.S. Army infantry in the first World War, Bridge joined a theatrical troupe. He dabbled in writing and in 1930 sold a script to a short film, Her Hired Husband (1930). He followed this with a B-Western script, God's Country and the Man (1931), in which he made his film debut as an actor.

For the next quarter century, he managed the atypical achievement of maintaining a career in both B-Westerns and in bigger dramatic and comedy features. Ten films for director Preston Sturges represent probably his most familiar contribution to Hollywood history. Bridge also appeared frequently on television until his death in 1957 at 66.

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

198

Gender

Male

Birthday

1891-02-25

Place of Birth

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Also Known As

Alan Bridge, Alfred Morton Bridge

Known For

Salty O'Rourke The Sin of Harold Diddlebock The Talk of the Town The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine Nobody's Darling The Palm Beach Story The Devil's Henchmen The Bridge of Sighs Blonde Venus Dead End Christmas in July Framed Hail the Conquering Hero A Man's Land The Forty-Niners The Ridin' Fool Two Gun Justice The Miracle of Morgan's Creek Western Gold Below the Deadline The Stranger from Texas Born to Be Wild The Jade Mask Shadows Over Chinatown The Hurricane Express Jubilee Trail The Falcon's Alibi Springtime in the Rockies Thunderhead: Son of Flicka Squadron of Doom Fighting With Kit Carson Saratoga Trunk The Mighty McGurk Pardon My Stripes They Won't Forget A Night at the Opera Crime School The Murder Man Rendezvous Alias Mary Dow The Lawless Nineties She Wouldn't Say Yes In Old Amarillo Fast Bullets The Kid's Last Ride The Cowboy Counsellor The Lone Avenger Barbed Wire Valley of Wanted Men The Adventures of Rex and Rinty Gallant Defender Ace Drummond Public Enemy's Wife Melody Trail Black Gold The New Frontier Jungle Jim North of Arizona Alias Mr. Twilight Sons of Liberty Honor of the Range Hell's Outpost Son of the Border Slightly Married The Gay Deception We're Not Married! The Wyoming Whirlwind Drum Taps Mystery Mountain Down to Earth Partners of the Plains Wild West Days Rawhide Rangers Gunsmoke Trail They Met in a Taxi The Spirit of the West Woman Chases Man The Curtain Falls The Phantom Creeps Cross My Heart Transient Lady A Rider of the Plains Trail Dust Buck Rogers Devil's Island The Man Who Returned to Life Borderland The Oklahoma Kid Thunder Afloat Mr. Smith Goes to Washington The Roaring Twenties Confidential Call of the Prairie Adventure in Sahara Quick on the Trigger It's a Wonderful Life Deadline at Dawn The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend Dick Tracy's Dilemma The Adventures of Frank Merriwell Meet the Stewarts T-Men A Volta do Besouro Verde The Lady Eve The Awful Truth Oh! Susanna The Cheyenne Kid The Devil Horse Saboteur Highway Patrol Unfaithfully Yours Oklahoma Frontier Romance of the Redwoods The Lady from Cheyenne When the Daltons Rode Santa Fe Trail Dark Command My Little Chickadee Winners of the West Dodge City Trail Two Gun Law The Man from Sundown The Little Foxes Flowing Gold Jezebel The Courageous Dr. Christian California Passage Robin Hood Of Texas Tim Tyler's Luck Diamond Jim Honolulu Lu Messenger of Peace Sucker Money Utah Wagon Train Blazing Six Shooters I Married a Witch The Last Musketeer Bad Men of the Hills Sullivan's Travels Pioneers of the Frontier Fighting Bill Fargo Law of the Range The Lone Rider Rides On Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground Silver River Badlands of Dakota Lady from Louisiana Wild Bill Hickok Rides Silent Valley Idaho Honky Tonk Million Dollar Legs All That I Have Colorado Trail Outlaw Rule These Three Crash Donovan Singin' in the Corn Road to Utopia Hunt the Man Down The Three Mesquiteers Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake A Tree Grows in Brooklyn You Only Live Once A Man's World Marie Antoinette In This Our Life Alibi Racket They Were Expendable South of Santa Fe Little Miss Roughneck God's Country and the Man Blue Montana Skies Iron Mountain Trail When a Man Rides Alone The Fabulous Joe Police Court The Missing Juror The Thirteenth Guest Galloping Thru Broadway to Cheyenne Black Beauty Fighting Texans The Doolins of Oklahoma California Lady in a Jam Nora Prentiss The Face Behind the Mask Circumstantial Evidence Strangers on a Train A Woman of Distinction Twin Husbands We're Not Dressing The She Wolf Westbound Mail One Man Justice Miss Susie Slagle's
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