Editing Lloyd Bridges (section)

===Blacklisting===
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Bridges was [[Hollywood blacklist|blacklist]]ed briefly in the 1950s<ref>{{cite news| last=Musibay| first=Oscar| title=TV and Film Actor Lloyd Bridges Dies| url-access=subscription| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1998/03/11/tv-and-film-actor-lloyd-bridges-dies/f574ec42-ebfd-4552-9369-a83f4706910d/| newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]| date=March 11, 1998| access-date=September 30, 2021}}</ref> 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]]. He returned to acting after recanting his membership and serving as a cooperative witness, achieving his greatest success in television.<ref>{{cite book| last=Rosenfeld| first=Seth| author-link=Seth Rosenfeld| title=Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power| publisher=[[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]]| year=2012| page=130| isbn=978-0-3742-5700-2}}</ref>

Bridges made his TV debut in 1951 with "Man's First Debt" in ''[[The Bigelow Theatre]]''. He had starring roles in the films ''[[The Fighting Seventh]]'' (1951), ''[[Three Steps North]]'' (1951), and ''[[Richer Than the Earth]]'' (1951).

On TV he did "Rise Up and Walk" for ''[[Robert Montgomery Presents]]'' (1952) and "International Incident" for ''[[Studio One in Hollywood]]'' (1952) (the latter directed by [[Franklin J. Schaffner]]). Bridges had a supporting role in ''[[High Noon]]'' (1952).

Bridges guest starred on ''Suspense'' ("Her Last Adventure") and ''[[Schlitz Playhouse]]'' ("This Plane for Hire"), and had support roles in ''[[Plymouth Adventure]]'' (1952) and ''[[The Sabre and the Arrow]]'' (1953). Bridges returned to leads in ''[[The Tall Texan]]'' (1953) for [[Lippert Pictures]].

Bridges was in "The Long Way Home" for ''[[Goodyear Playhouse]]'' (1953), and appeared in ''[[The Kid from Left Field (1953 film)|The Kid from Left Field]]'' (1953) and ''[[City of Bad Men]]'' (1953) for Fox. He travelled to the UK to star in ''[[The Limping Man (1953 film)|The Limping Man]]'' (1953) for [[Cy Endfield]]. He returned to Broadway in ''Dead Pigeon'' (1953–54), which had a short run.

He had the lead in a horse movie, ''[[Prince of the Blue Grass]]'' (1954) and returned to England to make ''[[Third Party Risk]]'' (1954) for [[Hammer Films]].

In Hollywood Bridges supported [[Joel McCrea]] in ''[[Wichita (1955 film)|Wichita]]'' (1955) and had the lead in [[Roger Corman]]'s low-budget ''[[Apache Woman (1955 film)|Apache Woman]]'' (1955).