Editing Lloyd Bridges

{{short description|American actor (1913–1998)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Lloyd Bridges
| image              = Lloyd_Bridges_1966.jpg
| caption            = Bridges in 1966
| birth_name         = Lloyd Vernet Bridges Jr.
| birth_date         = {{birth date|1913|01|15}}
| birth_place        = [[San Leandro, California]], U.S.
| death_date         = {{death date and age|1998|03|10|1913|01|15}}
| death_place        = [[Los Angeles]], California, U.S.
| education          = [[University of California, Los Angeles]]
| occupation         = Actor
| yearsactive        = 1936–1998
| spouse             = [[Dorothy Bridges]] (m. 1938)
| children           = 4, including [[Beau Bridges|Beau]] and [[Jeff Bridges|Jeff]]
| relatives          = [[Jordan Bridges]] (grandson)
| awards             = [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]]
}}
'''Lloyd Vernet Bridges Jr.''' (January 15, 1913 – March 10, 1998) was an American film, stage and television actor who starred in a number of television series and appeared in more than 150 [[feature film]]s. He was the father of four children, including the actors [[Beau Bridges]] and [[Jeff Bridges]]. He started his career as a contract performer for [[Columbia Pictures]], appearing in films such as ''[[Sahara (1943 American film)|Sahara]]'' (1943), ''[[A Walk in the Sun (1945 film)|A Walk in the Sun]]'' (1945), ''[[Little Big Horn (film)|Little Big Horn]]'' (1951) and ''[[High Noon]]'' (1952). On television, he starred in ''[[Sea Hunt]]'' (1958-1961). By the end of his career, he had re-invented himself and demonstrated a comedic talent in such [[parody film]]s as ''[[Airplane!]]'' (1980), ''[[Hot Shots!]]'' (1991), and ''[[Jane Austen's Mafia!]]'' (1998). Among other honors, Bridges was a two-time [[Emmy Award]] nominee. He received a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] on February 1, 1994.

==Early life==
Bridges was born in [[San Leandro, California]], to Harriet Evelyn (née Brown) Bridges (1893–1950) and Lloyd Vernet Bridges Sr. (1887–1962), who was involved in the California hotel business and once owned a movie theater.<ref name=.oco>{{cite book| title=Current biography yearbook| volume=51| publisher=H. W. Wilson Co.| year=1990| page=90}}</ref> His parents were both from [[Kansas]]; both were of almost entirely [[English American|English ancestry]]. Bridges was a direct descendant of William Bridges, who arrived in New England in 1623 aboard the ship "[[Little James]]."<ref>Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)</ref> Bridges graduated from [[Petaluma High School (California)|Petaluma High School]] in 1930.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.classmates.com/yearbooks/Petaluma-High-School/5456?page=24| title=1930 Petaluma High School Yearbook| website=Classmates.com| url-access=subscription}}</ref> He then studied political science at [[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]], where he was a member of [[Sigma Alpha Epsilon]] fraternity.

==Career==
Bridges had small uncredited roles in the films ''[[Freshman Love]]'' (1936) and ''[[Dancing Feet (film)|Dancing Feet]]'' (1936).

===Theatre===
Bridges made his Broadway debut in 1937 in a short-lived production of [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Othello]]'', starring [[Walter Huston]] and [[Brian Aherne]]; Bridges was in the Ensemble.

He appeared on stage in ''Suzanna and the Elders'' (1940). In Hollywood he had an uncredited role in ''[[Northwest Passage (film)|Northwest Passage]]'' (1940).

===Columbia Pictures and U.S. Coast Guard===
In 1940, Bridges joined the stock company at [[Columbia Pictures]] at $75 a week, where he played small roles in features and short subjects.<ref>{{cite news| title=Lloyd Bridges| newspaper=[[The Times]]| location=[[London]]| date=March 12, 1998|page=25}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title=Jane Withers, Jackie Cooper Columbia Team|author=Schallert, Edwin| date=December 18, 1940| newspaper=Los Angeles Times| page=21}}</ref>

He could be seen in ''[[The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance]]'' (1941), ''[[They Dare Not Love]]'' (1941), ''[[Doctor's Alibi]]'' (1941), ''[[Blue Clay]]'' (1941), ''[[Our Wife (1941 film)|Our Wife]]'' (1941), and ''[[I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island]]'' (1941). In ''[[Here Comes Mr. Jordan]]'' (1941) Bridges is the pilot of the plane in the "heaven" scene.

Bridges later reflected,

{{blockquote|I didn't have enough maturity for a leading man. I looked too broad in the shoulders ... too much like a kid. I never could get into (Columbia studio boss) [[Harry Cohn]]'s office. All the best roles went to [[Glenn Ford]] and [[William Holden]]. They just put me in these awful B-pictures, like ''Two Latins from Manhattan.'' I even did a [[Three Stooges]] short. Sometimes I'd be in two or three movies a week. It was tough sledding.<ref>Lovell, Glenn (April 26, 1989). "Lloyd Bridges Catches His Second Wind". ''St. Louis Post''.</ref>}}
 
He left Columbia Pictures during World War II to enlist in the [[United States Coast Guard]]. Following his discharge, he returned to acting. In later years, he was a member of the [[U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary]], did several public service announcements for the organization, and was made an honorary commodore. Bridges' ''[[Sea Hunt]]'' character Mike Nelson was also portrayed as a member of the Coast Guard Auxiliary and sometimes appeared in uniform. Bridges' sons, actors Beau and Jeff, also served in the Coast Guard and [[United States Coast Guard Reserve|Coast Guard Reserve]].<ref>[http://www.uscg.mil/history/faqs/lloydbridges.asp "Lloyd Bridges"]. ''U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office''. Retrieved 5 February 2014. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020224037/http://www.uscg.mil/history/faqs/lloydbridges.asp |date=October 20, 2013 }}</ref> 
[[File:Commodore Lloyd Bridges, U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary public service poster.jpg|thumb|Commodore Lloyd Bridges, U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary public service poster]]

===Post-war career===
Bridges' first lead role was in the serial ''[[Secret Agent X-9 (1945 serial)|Secret Agent X-9]]'' (1945) made for Universal. That studio kept him on for ''[[Strange Confession]]'' (1945), an [[Inner Sanctum Mystery|Inner Sanctum mystery]].

Bridges had some support roles in independent films, ''[[A Walk in the Sun (1945 film)|A Walk in the Sun]]'' (1945), and ''[[Abilene Town]]'' (1946). He was in Paramount's ''[[Miss Susie Slagle's]]'' (1946) and [[Walter Wanger]]'s ''[[Canyon Passage]]'' (1947).
In 1947 he appeared in a small role in [[Cecil B. DeMille]]'s film ''[[Unconquered (1947 film)|Unconquered]]''.

===Leading man===
He returned to lead roles with ''[[Secret Service Investigator]]'' (1948) at [[Republic Pictures]], and ''[[16 Fathoms Deep]]'' (1948) for [[Monogram Pictures]]. Bridges had a support role in [[Frank Borzage]]'s ''[[Moonrise (film)|Moonrise]]'' (1948) then was the lead in ''[[Hideout (film)|Hideout]]'' (1949) for Republic.

Bridges was in a Western at Universal directed by [[George Sherman]], ''[[Red Canyon (1949 film)|Red Canyon]]'' (1949), and a short at MGM, ''Mr. Whitney Had a Notion'' (1949). He had a good role in ''[[Home of the Brave (1949 film)|Home of the Brave]]'' (1949). At Universal he was [[Howard Duff]]'s friend in ''[[Calamity Jane and Sam Bass]]'' (1949), again for Sherman.

[[File:Lloyd Bridges 01 Rocketship X-M.jpg|thumb|left|In ''[[Rocketship X-M]]'' (1950)]]
Bridges had the star role in ''[[Trapped (1949 film)|Trapped]]'' (1949) directed by [[Richard Fleischer]] for [[Eagle Lion]] and ''[[Rocketship X-M]]'' (1950) for [[Lippert Pictures]]. He had supporting roles in ''[[Colt .45 (1950 film)|Colt .45]]'' (1951), ''[[The White Tower (film)|The White Tower]]'' (1951), and ''[[The Sound of Fury (film)|The Sound of Fury]]'' (1950) (directed by [[Cy Endfield]]).

===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).

===Television===
[[File:Lloyd Bridges - Silver Springs.jpg|thumb|Bridges in ''Sea Hunt'']]
On TV Bridges performed in "Broadway Trust" for ''Crossroads'' (1955), "The Dark Fleece" and "Edge of Terror" for ''[[Climax!]]'' (1955) (the latter directed by [[John Frankenheimer]]), "The Ainsley Case" for ''[[Front Row Center]]'' (1956), "Across the Dust" and "Prairie Dog Court" for ''[[Chevron Hall of Stars]]'' (1956), and "The Silent Gun" and "American Primitive" for ''Studio One in Hollywood'' (1956). He had the lead in the low budget ''[[Wetbacks (film)|Wetbacks]]'' (1956) and a support role in ''[[The Rainmaker (1956 film)|The Rainmaker]]'' (1956).

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 (The Alcoa Hour)|Tragedy in a Temporary Town]]" written by [[Reginald Rose]] and directed by [[Sidney Lumet]].<ref>{{cite news| title=Actor's Slip Of Tongue Keeps TV Viewers Arguing| newspaper=[[The Hartford Courant]]| date=March 9, 1956| page=9| url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/893284932.html?dids=893284932:893284932&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Mar+09%2C+1956&author=&pub=Hartford+Courant&desc=Actor%27s+Slip+Of+Tongue+Keeps+TV+Viewers+Arguing&pqatl=google| access-date=May 7, 2011| archive-date=July 25, 2012| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120725042537/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/893284932.html?dids=893284932%3A893284932&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS%3AAI&type=historic&date=Mar%2009%2C%201956&author=&pub=Hartford%20Courant&desc=Actor%27s%20Slip%20Of%20Tongue%20Keeps%20TV%20Viewers%20Arguing&pqatl=google| url-status=dead}}</ref> During the performance, Bridges inadvertently used profanity while [[Ad libitum|ad-libbing]].<ref name=LP>{{cite news| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FCdUAAAAIBAJ&pg=7194,3300013&dq=alcoa+hour+bridges&hl=en| title=Profanity Ad-libbed by Emotional Actor| agency=Associated Press| newspaper=[[Regina Leader Post|The Leader-Post]]| location=Regina| date=February 20, 1956| access-date=May 7, 2011}}</ref> Although the slip of the tongue generated hundreds of complaints, the episode won a [[Robert E. Sherwood]] Television Award, with Bridges' slip being defended even by some members of the clergy.<ref name=LP/><ref>{{cite book| last=Newcomb| first=Horace| title=Encyclopedia of Television| url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofte0000unse_02ed/page/50/mode/2up?q=alcoa+hour| year=2004| publisher=CRC Press| isbn=978-1-57958-411-5| page=50}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| last=Hyatt| first=Wesley| title=A Critical History of Television's The Red Skelton Show, 1951–1971| date=March 10, 2004| url=https://archive.org/details/criticalhistoryo0000hyat/page/48/mode/2up?q=bridges| publisher=McFarland| isbn=978-0-7864-1732-2| page=48}}</ref> Bridges received an [[Emmy Award]] nomination for the role.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=X7YgAAAAIBAJ&pg=4916,1706712&dq=alcoa-hour+bridges&hl=en| title=Bridges Stars at Ogunquit| date=July 18, 1964| access-date=May 7, 2011 | newspaper=Lewiston Evening Journal| page=4A}}</ref>

Bridges did "The Regulators" for ''[[Studio 57]]'' (1956), "They Never Forget" for ''[[The United States Steel Hour]]'' (1957), "Ride the Wild Mare" for ''[[The Alcoa Hour]]'' (1957), "Man on the Outside" for ''Studio 57'' (1957), "The Sound of Silence", "Figures in Clay" and "The Disappearance of Amanda Hale" for ''Climax!'', "Heritage of Anger" (1956) and "[[Clash by Night (play)|Clash by Night]]" (1957) for ''[[Playhouse 90]]'', the latter with [[Kim Stanley]]. Bridges also made several episodes of ''[[Zane Grey Theatre]]'' including "Time of Decision" (1957) and "Wire" (1958).

He supported [[Rory Calhoun]] in ''[[Ride Out for Revenge]]'' (1957) and did "A Time to Cry" on ''[[The Frank Sinatra Show (1957 TV series)|The Frank Sinatra Show]]'' (1958) and had one of his best ever cinema roles in ''[[The Goddess (1958 film)|The Goddess]]'' (1958) 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]]. He directed "Piano to Thunder Springs" for ''[[Target (U.S. TV series)|Target]]'' (1958).

===''Sea Hunt'' (1958–1961)===
Bridges gained wide recognition as Mike Nelson, the main character in the television series ''[[Sea Hunt]]'', created by [[Ivan Tors]], which ran in [[Television syndication|syndication]] from 1958 to 1961. He also wrote a book with a co-author about skin-diving entitled ''Mask and Flippers''.
[[File:Dick Powell Show Premiere Episode 1961.JPG|thumb|Guest stars for the 1961 premiere episode of [[The Dick Powell Show]], "Who Killed Julie Greer?". Standing, from left: [[Ronald Reagan]], [[Nick Adams (actor, born 1931)|Nick Adams]], Lloyd Bridges, [[Mickey Rooney]], [[Edgar Bergen]], [[Jack Carson]], [[Ralph Bellamy]], [[Kay Thompson]], [[Dean Jones (actor)|Dean Jones]]. Seated, from left, [[Carolyn Jones]] and [[Dick Powell]].]]

Bridges did "Lepke" (1959) for ''[[Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse]]'' (1960), "Ransom" (1960) (directed by [[Budd Boetticher]]) and "Image of a Drawn Sword" (1961) for ''Zane Grey Theatre''. He did a TV movie ''[[The Valley of Decision]]'' (1960), "Death of the Temple Bay" for ''[[The DuPont Show with June Allyson]]'' (1961), "Who Killed Julie Greer?" (1961) for ''[[The Dick Powell Theatre]]'', "The Fortress" (1961) for ''[[Alcoa Premiere]]'' (with [[Fred Astaire]]),<ref>{{cite news| title=Lloyd Bridges Stars in 'The Fortress'| author=Shanley, John P.| newspaper=[[The New York Times]]| date=October 25, 1961}}</ref> and "The Two of Us" (1962) for ''[[Checkmate (American TV series)|Checkmate]]''. He also did a special ''Marineland Carnival'' (1962).<ref>{{cite news| title=Lloyd Bridges: One last splash| author=Smith, Cecil| date=April 22, 1962| newspaper=Los Angeles Times| page=M3}}</ref>

===''The Lloyd Bridges Show'' (1962–1963)===
Bridges starred in the eponymous [[CBS]] [[anthology series]] ''[[The Lloyd Bridges Show]]'' (1962–1963) (produced by [[Aaron Spelling]]) which included appearances by his sons [[Beau Bridges|Beau]] and [[Jeff Bridges|Jeff]].<ref>{{cite news| title=Sink or Swim? Critic Views Lloyd Bridges| author=Wolters, Larry| date=September 14, 1962| newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune|Chicago Daily Tribune]]| page=B12}}</ref>

Bridges followed it with "A Hero for Our Times" for ''[[Kraft Suspense Theatre]]'' (1963), "Wild Bill Hickok – the Legend and the Man" for ''[[The Great Adventure (U.S. TV series)|The Great Adventure]]'' (1964), "Cannibal Plants, They Eat You Alive" for ''[[The Eleventh Hour (1962 TV series)|The Eleventh Hour]]'' (1964) and "Exit from a Plane in Flight" for ''Theater of Stars'' (1965).

Producer [[Gene Roddenberry]] offered Bridges a starring role on what became ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]''.<ref>Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman (2016). The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek: The First 25 Years. Thomas Dunne Books, ISBN 1250065844</ref> Bridges declined, saying he got along well with Roddenberry on a personal level but had no desire to work in [[science fiction]]. The part went to [[Jeffrey Hunter]] for the pilot episode ''The Cage'' and ultimately to [[William Shatner]] for the first incarnation of the television series. 

===''The Loner''===
[[File:Lloyd Bridges The Loner 1965.JPG|thumb|Bridges in ''The Loner'']]
Bridges starred in the [[Western (genre)|western]] series ''[[The Loner (TV series)|The Loner]],'' which lasted one season from 1965 to 1966 and was created and often written by [[Rod Serling]]. ''The Loner'' earned solid reviews but was cancelled due to low ratings and a perception the show was too realistic or mature for audiences who expected escapist action from westerns.

Bridges returned to features with ''[[Around the World Under the Sea]]'' (1966). He guest starred in "Fakeout" for ''[[Mission: Impossible (1966 TV series)|Mission Impossible]]'' (1966), and did a TV movie ''[[A Case of Libel]]'' (1968).

Bridges starred in some action films, ''[[Daring Game]]'' (1968) and ''[[Attack on the Iron Coast]]'' (1968), the latter for [[Ivan Tors]]. He did "The People Next Door" for ''[[CBS Playhouse]]'' (1968).

Bridges starred in some TV movies, ''The Silent Gun'' (1969), and ''[[Silent Night, Lonely Night]]'' (1969). He had a support role in ''[[The Happy Ending]]'' (1969) directed by [[Richard Brooks]].

Bridges returned to Broadway as a replacement for the lead in ''[[Cactus Flower (play)|Cactus Flower]]'' (1967).

===Telemovies===
Bridges was in heavy demand for TV movies such as ''[[The Love War]]'' (1970), ''[[Lost Flight]]'' (1970), ''Do You Take This Stranger?'' (1971), ''A Tattered Web'' (1971), and ''[[The Deadly Dream]]'' (1971). He starred in a short lived series ''[[San Francisco International Airport (TV series)|San Francisco International Airport]]'' (1970/71) and had a support role in a feature, ''[[To Find a Man]]'' (1972).<ref>{{cite news| title=Lloyd Bridge| author=Knapp, Dan| newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=October 25, 1970| page=H1}}</ref>

Bridges had a (then) rare comedy role on ''[[Here's Lucy]]'' with "Lucy's Big Break" (1972). He continued in TV movies: ''[[Haunts of the Very Rich]]'' (1972), ''Trouble Comes to Town'' (1973), ''Crime Club'' (1973), ''Running Wild'' (1973), ''[[Death Race (1973 film)|Death Race]]'' (1973), ''The Whirlwind'' (1974, with son Beau), and ''[[Stowaway to the Moon]]'' (1975).

===''Joe Forrester''===
Bridges starred in a short-lived [[Police Story (1973 TV series)|Police Story]] spin-off ''[[Joe Forrester]]'' (1975–76).

Bridges played significant roles in several mini-series, including ''[[Roots (1977 miniseries)|Roots]]'', and ''[[How the West Was Won (TV series)|How the West Was Won]]''. He returned to TV movies: ''The Force of Evil'' (1978), ''Telethon'' (1978), ''The [[Great Wallendas]]'' (1978) and ''The Critical List'' (1978).<ref>{{cite news| title=Lloyd Bridges in TV Drama| newspaper=Los Angeles Times| date=February 25, 1977| page=F26}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title=Lloyd Bridges Set for 'Critical List'| newspaper=Los Angeles Times| date=March 22, 1978| page=G20}}</ref>

Bridges had a guest part in "[[The Living Legend]]" for ''[[Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' (1978) and went to Australia to make ''[[Shimmering Light]]'' (1978) with Beau. He had a support part in ''[[The Fifth Musketeer]]'' (1979) starring Beau and was in ''[[Disaster on the Coastliner]]'' (1979), ''[[Bear Island (film)|Bear Island]]'' (1979) and ''[[This Year's Blonde]]'' (1980) (as [[Johnny Hyde]])

===''Airplane!'' and 1980s===
[[File:Lloyd Bridges, 1989.jpg|thumb|Bridges at the [[61st Academy Awards]] in 1989]]
Bridges appeared in ''[[Airplane!]]'' (1980), a critically and commercially successful spoof of disaster films. He appeared in a number of mini series such as ''[[East of Eden (miniseries)|East of Eden]]'' (1981), ''[[The Blue and the Gray (miniseries)|The Blue and the Gray]]'' (1982) and ''[[George Washington (miniseries)|George Washington]]'' (1984). He guest starred on shows such as ''[[The Love Boat]]'' (1981), ''[[Loving (TV series)|Loving]]'' (1983), and ''[[Matt Houston]]'' (1983) and continued to make TV movies like ''Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice'' (1982), ''[[Grace Kelly (film)|Grace Kelly]]'' (1983) and ''Grandpa, Will You Run with Me?'' (1983).

Bridges reprised his ''Airplane!'' role in ''[[Airplane II: The Sequel]]'' (1982)

Bridges starred in a short-lived series ''[[Paper Dolls]]'' (1984). For TV he appeared in ''[[Alice in Wonderland (1985 film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'' (1985), ''[[Dress Gray]]'' (1986), and ''[[North and South, Book II]]'' (1986).

He was in ''[[Weekend Warriors (film)|Weekend Warriors]]'' (1986), ''[[The Thanksgiving Promise]]'' (1986) for Disney, and ''[[The Wild Pair (film)|The Wild Pair]]'' (1987) starring and directed by Beau. Bridges appeared with Jeff in ''[[Tucker: The Man and His Dream]]'' (1987) and was in ''She Was Marked for Murder'' (1988), for TV.

Bridges had notable supporting roles in the features ''[[Winter People]]'' (1989) and ''[[Cousins (1989 film)|Cousins]]'' (1989). He was in the TV movie ''[[Cross of Fire]]'' (1989).<ref>{{cite news| title=Lloyd Bridges lives his fantasy in 'Cross of Fire' | author=Shindler, Merrill| date=November 5, 1989| newspaper=Chicago Tribune| page=3}}</ref>

===1990s===
Bridges starred in a short-lived series, ''[[Capital News]]'' (1990), for [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]].<ref>{{cite news| title=Lloyd Bridges Dives Back Into Weekly TV| author=Champlin, Charles| date=September 14, 1989| newspaper=Los Angeles Times| page=E1}}</ref> In 1990, he had a supporting role in ''[[Joe Versus the Volcano]]'', and portrayed [[Harry Helmsley]] in the made-for-television movie, ''[[Leona Helmsley]]: The Queen of Mean''.

Bridges was in ''[[Shining Time Station: 'Tis a Gift]]'' (1990) then reprised his comedy career with a supporting role in ''[[Hot Shots!]]'' (1991). He starred in a TV movie ''[[In the Nick of Time (1991 film)|In the Nick of Time]]'' (1992) and was in ''[[Honey, I Blew Up the Kid]]'' (1992), ''Devlin'' (1992), and ''Mr. Bluesman'' (1993) before reprising his old role in ''[[Hot Shots! Part Deux]]'' (1993).

Bridges did ''Secret Sins of the Father'' (1994) with son Beau (who directed), and ''Cinderella ... Frozen in Time'' (1994). His last regular TV series was ''[[Harts of the West]]'' (1993–1994).

Bridges supported son Jeff in a big budget action film ''[[Blown Away (1994 film)|Blown Away]]'' (1994). He did "Sandkings" (1995) for ''[[The Outer Limits (1995 TV series)|The Outer Limits]]'' (1995) with Beau, ''[[The Other Woman (1995 film)|The Other Woman]]'' (1995), ''[[Nothing Lasts Forever (Sheldon novel)|Nothing Lasts Forever]]'' (1995), and ''The Deliverance of Elaine'' (1996) and did voice work on ''[[Peter and the Wolf]]'' (1995). He had a semi-regular part on ''[[Second Noah]]'' (1996).

He received a second Emmy Award nomination four decades after the first when he was nominated in 1998 for his role as [[List of Seinfeld minor characters#Izzy|Izzy Mandelbaum]] on ''[[Seinfeld]]''.

Bridges served on the advisory board of the [[Los Angeles Student Film Institute]].<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite book| title=National Student Film Institute/L.A: The Sixteenth Annual Los Angeles Student Film Festival| date=June 10, 1994| location=The Directors Guild Theatre| pages=10–11| ref=Program}}</ref><ref name="ReferenceB">{{cite book| title=Los Angeles Student Film Institute: 13th Annual Student Film Festival| date=June 7, 1991| location=The Directors Guild Theatre| page=3| ref=Program}}</ref>

Bridges also guest starred on ''[[Ned and Stacey]]''.

Bridges' last roles were in ''[[Mafia!]]'' (1998) and ''[[Meeting Daddy]]'' (2000).

==Personal life==
[[File:Beau and lloyd Bridges 1992.jpg|left|thumb|Bridges and his son [[Beau Bridges|Beau]] at the 44th Emmy Awards, August 30, 1992]]
Bridges met his wife, [[Dorothy Bridges]] (1915-2009), (née Simpson), in his fraternity; they married in 1938 in New York City.<ref name=lat>{{cite news| first=Dennis| last=McLellan| title=Dorothy Bridges dies at 93; 'the hub' of an acting family| url=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-dorothy-bridges21-2009feb21,0,1331555.story| newspaper=Los Angeles Times| date=February 21, 2009| access-date=April 23, 2009| url-access=subscription}}</ref> They had four children: actors [[Beau Bridges]] (born in 1941) and [[Jeff Bridges]] (born in 1949); a daughter, Lucinda Louise Bridges (born in October 1953);<ref>[http://www.superiorpics.com/beau_bridges/ Superior Pics: Beau Bridges Profile] Retrieved 2012-05-28</ref> and another son, Garrett Myles Bridges, who died of [[Sudden Infant Death Syndrome]] on August 3, 1948. Actor [[Jordan Bridges]] is Beau's son and Lloyd's grandson. Dorothy and Lloyd exchanged vows again for their 50th wedding anniversary.

==Death==
On March 10, 1998, Bridges died of natural causes at the age of 85.<ref>{{cite news| last1=Vosburgh| first1=Dick| title=Obituary: Lloyd Bridges| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-lloyd-bridges-1149762.html| access-date=October 23, 2019| newspaper=[[The Independent]]| location=London| date=March 12, 1998}}</ref>

===Tributes===
An episode ("[[The Burning (Seinfeld)|The Burning]]") in the final ''Seinfeld'' season (1998) was dedicated to the memory of Lloyd Bridges. He had played the character of Izzy Mandelbaum in the episodes "[[The English Patient (Seinfeld)|The English Patient]]" in 1997 and "[[The Blood (Seinfeld)|The Blood]]" later the same year.

Bridges' last film, ''[[Jane Austen's Mafia!]]'', which came out the year of his death, bears a dedication to him.

In 2011, Bridges was posthumously named as one of six recipients that year of the [[Lone Sailor Award]], which honors former Coast Guard servicemen who forged successful careers as civilians. His sons Jeff and Beau also received the same award that year.<ref>{{cite news| title=Lone Sailor Award recipient: Beau Bridges| url=http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2011/09/lone-sailor-award-recipient-beau-bridges/| magazine=Coast Guard Compass| date=September 28, 2011| access-date=March 22, 2014| archive-date=February 20, 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140220064432/http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2011/09/lone-sailor-award-recipient-beau-bridges/| url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title=Navy Memorial Hosts 24th Annual Lone Sailor Awards Dinner| url=http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=62906| website=US Navy| date=September 23, 2011| access-date=March 22, 2014| archive-date=January 14, 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180114183851/http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=62906| url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Film
! Role
! Director
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
| 1936
| ''[[Dancing Feet (film)|Dancing Feet]]''
| Young Man
| [[Joseph Santley]]
| uncredited
|-
| 1936
| ''[[Freshman Love]]''
| College Boy
| William McGann
| uncredited
|-
| 1937
| ''[[Lost Horizon (1937 film)|Lost Horizon]]''
| Uniformed Soldier / Officer
| [[Frank Capra]]
| uncredited
|-
| 1941
| ''I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island''
| Rene
| 
| uncredited
|-
| 1941
| ''[[Harmon of Michigan]]''
| Ozzie
| [[Charles Barton (director)|Charles Barton]]
| 
|-
| 1941
| ''[[Harvard, Here I Come!]]''
| Liarry
| [[Lew Landers]]
| uncredited
|-
| 1941
| ''[[Here Comes Mr. Jordan]]''
| Co-pilot of Plane #22
| [[Alexander Hall]]
| uncredited
|-
| 1941
| ''[[Honolulu Lu]]''
| Desk Clerk
| [[Charles Barton (director)|Charles Barton]]
| uncredited
|-
| 1941
| ''[[Our Wife (1941 film)|Our Wife]]''
| Taxi Driver
| [[John M. Stahl]]
| uncredited
|-
| 1941
| ''[[Sing for Your Supper (film)|Sing for Your Supper]]''
| Doc
| [[Charles Barton (director)|Charles Barton]]
| uncredited
|-
| 1941
| ''[[The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance]]''
| Johnny Baker
| [[Sidney Salkow]]
| 
|-
| 1941
| ''[[The Medico of Painted Springs]]''
| Cowhand
| [[Lambert Hillyer]]
| uncredited
|-
| 1941
| ''[[The Royal Mounted Patrol]]''
| Hap Andrews
| [[Lambert Hillyer]]
| 
|-
| 1941
| ''[[The Son of Davy Crockett]]''
| Sammy
| [[Lambert Hillyer]]
| uncredited
|-
| 1941
| ''[[They Dare Not Love]]''
| Blonde Officer
| [[James Whale]]
| uncredited
|-
| 1941
| ''[[Three Girls About Town]]''
| Reporter
| [[Leigh Jason]]
| uncredited
|-
| 1941
| ''[[Two Latins from Manhattan]]''
| Tommy Curtis
| [[Charles Barton (director)|Charles Barton]]
| 
|-
| 1941
| ''[[You Belong to Me (1941 film)|You Belong to Me]]''
| Ski Patrol
| [[Wesley Ruggles]]
| uncredited
|-
| 1942
| ''[[Stand By All Networks]]''
| Slim Terry
| [[Lew Landers]]
| uncredited
|-
| 1942
| ''Submarine Raider''
| Submarine Engine Seaman
| 
| voice, uncredited
|-
| 1942
| ''[[A Man's World (1942 film)|A Man's World]]''
| Brown
| [[Charles Barton (director)|Charles Barton]]
| 
|-
| 1942
| ''[[Alias Boston Blackie]]''
| Bus Driver
| [[Lew Landers]]
| uncredited
|-
| 1942
| ''[[Atlantic Convoy]]''
| Bert
| [[Lew Landers]]
| 
|-
| 1942
| ''[[Blondie (comic strip)#Film|Blondie Goes to College]]''
| Ben Dixon
| 
| 
|-
| 1942
| ''[[Cadets on Parade]]''
| Reporter
| [[Lew Landers]]
| uncredited
|-
| 1942
| ''[[Canal Zone (film)|Canal Zone]]''
| Recruit Baldwin
| [[Lew Landers]]
|
|-
| 1942
| ''[[Counter-Espionage]]''
| Waiter
| [[Edward Dmytryk]]
| uncredited
|-
| 1942
| ''[[Daring Young Man]]''
| Hans Muller
| [[Frank R. Strayer]]
| 
|-
| 1942
| ''[[Flight Lieutenant (film)|Flight Lieutenant]]''
| Cadet William 'Bill' Robinson
| [[Sidney Salkow]]
| uncredited
|-
| 1942
| ''[[North of the Rockies]]''
| Constable McDowell
| [[Lambert Hillyer]]
| 
|-
| 1942
| ''Pardon My Gun''
| Henchman
| 
| uncredited
|-
| 1942
| ''[[Riders of the Northland]]''
| Alex
| [[William Berke]]
| 
|-
| 1942
| ''[[Shut My Big Mouth]]''
| Skinny
| [[Charles Barton (director)|Charles Barton]]
| 
|-
| 1942
| ''[[Sweetheart of the Fleet]]''
| Sailor
| [[Charles Barton (director)|Charles Barton]]
| 
|-
| 1942
| ''The Great Glover''
| 
| 
| 
|-
| 1942
| ''[[The Spirit of Stanford]]''
| Don Farrell
| [[Charles Barton (director)|Charles Barton]]
| uncredited
|-
| 1942
| ''[[The Talk of the Town (1942 film)|The Talk of the Town]]''
| Donald Forrester
| [[George Stevens]]
| uncredited
|-
| 1942
| ''[[The Wife Takes a Flyer]]''
| German Sergeant
| [[Richard Wallace (director)|Richard Wallace]]
| uncredited
|-
| 1942
| ''[[Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1942 film)|Tramp, Tramp, Tramp]]''
| Guard
| [[Charles Barton (director)|Charles Barton]]
| uncredited
|-
| 1942
| ''[[Underground Agent]]''
| Chemist
| [[Michael Gordon (film director)|Michael Gordon]]
| uncredited
|-
| 1942
| ''[[West of Tombstone]]''
| Martin
| [[Howard Bretherton]]
| uncredited
|-
| 1943
| ''A Rookie's Cookie''
| 
| 
| 
|-
| 1943
| ''[[City Without Men]]''
| Coast Guard Helmsman
| [[Sidney Salkow]]
| uncredited
|-
| 1943
| ''[[Commandos Strike at Dawn]]''
| Young German Soldier
| [[John Farrow]]
| uncredited
|-
| 1943
| ''[[Crime Doctor's Strangest Case]]''
| Jimmy Trotter
| [[Eugene Forde]]
| 
|-
| 1943
| ''[[Destroyer (1943 film)|Destroyer]]''
| 2nd Fireman
| [[William A. Seiter]]
| uncredited
|-
| 1943
| ''[[Hail to the Rangers]]''
| Dave Kerlin
| [[William Berke]]
| 
|-
| 1943
| ''His Wedding Scare''
| Train Conductor Charlie, Susie's 1st Husband
| 
| short
|-
| 1943
| ''[[One Dangerous Night]]''
| Airline Gate Attendant
| [[Michael Gordon (film director)|Michael Gordon]]
| uncredited
|-
| 1943
| ''[[Passport to Suez]]''
| Fritz
| [[Andre de Toth]]
| 
|-
| 1943
| ''[[Sahara (1943 American film)|Sahara]]''
| Fred Clarkson
| [[Zoltán Korda]]
| 
|-
| 1943
| ''[[The Heat's On]]''
| Andy Walker
| [[Gregory Ratoff]]
| 
|-
| 1943
| ''[[There's Something About a Soldier (1943 film)|There's Something About a Soldier]]''
| 
| [[Alfred E. Green]]
| 
|-
| 1943
| ''[[They Stooge to Conga]]''
| Telephone Customer #2
| [[Del Lord]]
| short (uncredited)
|-
| 1944
| ''Riding West''
| Larry
| 
| uncredited
|-
| 1944
| ''[[Louisiana Hayride (film)|Louisiana Hayride]]''
| Montague Price
| [[Charles Barton (director)|Charles Barton]]
| 
|-
| 1944
| ''[[Once Upon a Time (1944 film)|Once Upon a Time]]''
| Aviator Captain
| [[Alexander Hall]]
| uncredited
|-
| 1944
| ''[[Saddle Leather Law]]''
| Paul Edwards
| [[Benjamin H. Kline]]
| 
|-
| 1944
| ''[[She's a Soldier Too]]''
| Charles Jones
| [[William Castle]]
| 
|-
| 1944
| ''[[The Master Race (film)|The Master Race]]''
| Frank
| [[Herbert Biberman]]
| 
|-
| 1945
| ''[[A Walk in the Sun (1945 film)|A Walk in the Sun]]''
| Sgt. Ward
| [[Lewis Milestone]]
| 
|-
| 1945
| ''[[Secret Agent X-9 (1945 serial)|Secret Agent X-9]]''
| Phil Corrigan
| [[Ray Taylor (director)|Ray Taylor]]
| Secret Agent X-9
|-
| 1945
| ''[[Strange Confession]]''
| Dave
| [[John Hoffman (filmmaker)|John Hoffman]]
| 
|-
| 1946
| ''[[Abilene Town]]''
| Henry Dreiser
| [[Edwin L. Marin]]
| 
|-
| 1946
| ''[[Canyon Passage]]''
| Johnny Steele
| [[Jacques Tourneur]]
| 
|-
| 1946
| ''[[Miss Susie Slagle's]]''
| Silas Holmes
| [[John Berry (film director)|John Berry]]
| 
|-
| 1947
| ''[[Ramrod (film)|Ramrod]]''
| Red Cates
| [[Andre de Toth]]
| 
|-
| 1947
| ''[[The Trouble with Women (film)|The Trouble with Women]]''
| Avery Wilson
| [[Sidney Lanfield]]
| 
|-
| 1947
| ''[[Thunderbolt!]]''
| Pilot
| 
| voice
|-
| 1947
| ''[[Unconquered (1947 film)|Unconquered]]''
| Lt. Hutchins
| [[Cecil B. DeMille]]
| 
|-
| 1948
| ''[[16 Fathoms Deep]]''
| Ray Douglas
| [[Irving Allen]]
| 
|-
| 1948
| ''[[Moonrise (film)|Moonrise]]''
| Jerry Sykes
| [[Frank Borzage]]
| 
|-
| 1948
| ''[[Secret Service Investigator]]''
| Steve Mallory / Dan Redfern
| [[R. G. Springsteen]]
| 
|-
| 1949
| ''[[Calamity Jane and Sam Bass]]''
| Joel Collins
| [[George Sherman]]
| 
|-
| 1949
| ''[[Hideout (film)|Hideout]]''
| George Browning
| [[Philip Ford (film director)|Philip Ford]]
| 
|-
| 1949
| ''[[Home of the Brave (1949 film)|Home of the Brave]]''
| Finch
| [[Mark Robson (film director)|Mark Robson]]
| 
|-
| 1949
| ''Mr. Whitney Had a Notion''
| Eli Whitney
| 
| short
|-
| 1949
| ''[[Red Canyon (1949 film)|Red Canyon]]''
| Virgil Cordt
| [[George Sherman]]
| 
|-
| 1949
| ''[[Trapped (1949 film)|Trapped]]''
| Tris Stewart
| [[Richard Fleischer]]
| 
|-
| 1950
| ''[[Colt .45 (1950 film)|Colt .45]]''
| Paul Donovan
| [[Edwin L. Marin]]
| 
|-
| 1950
| ''[[Rocketship X-M]]''
| Col. Floyd Graham
| [[Kurt Neumann (director)|Kurt Neumann]]
| 
|-
| 1950
| ''[[The Sound of Fury (film)|The Sound of Fury]]''
| Jerry Slocum
| [[Cy Endfield]]
| 
|-
| 1950
| ''[[The White Tower (film)|The White Tower]]''
| Mr. Hein
| [[Ted Tetzlaff]]
| 
|-
| 1951
| ''[[Little Big Horn (film)|Little Big Horn]]''
| Capt. Phillip Donlin
| [[Charles Marquis Warren]]
| 
|-
| 1951
| ''[[The Whistle at Eaton Falls]]''
| Brad Adams
| [[Robert Siodmak]]
| 
|-
| 1951
| ''[[Three Steps North]]''
| Frank Keeler
| [[W. Lee Wilder]]
| 
|-
| 1952
| ''[[High Noon]]''
| Deputy Marshal Harvey Pell
| [[Fred Zinnemann]]
| 
|-
| 1952
| ''[[Plymouth Adventure]]''
| Coppin
| [[Clarence Brown]]
| 
|-
| 1953
| ''[[City of Bad Men]]''
| Gar Stanton
| [[Harmon Jones]]
| 
|-
| 1953
| ''[[Last of the Comanches]]''
| Jim Starbuck
| [[Andre de Toth]]
| 
|-
| 1953
| ''[[The Kid from Left Field (1953 film)|The Kid from Left Field]]''
| Pete Haines
| [[Harmon Jones]]
| 
|-
| 1953
| ''[[The Limping Man (1953 film)|The Limping Man]]''
| Frank Prior
| [[Cy Endfield]]
| 
|-
| 1953
| ''[[The Tall Texan]]''
| Ben Trask
| [[Elmo Williams]]
| 
|-
| 1954
| ''[[Pride of the Blue Grass (1954 film)|Pride of the Blue Grass]]''
| Jim
| [[William Beaudine]]
| 
|-
| 1954
| ''[[Third Party Risk]]''
| Philip Graham
| [[Daniel Birt]]
| 
|-
| 1955
| ''[[Apache Woman (1955 film)|Apache Woman]]''
| Rex Moffett
| [[Roger Corman]]
| 
|-
| 1955
| ''[[Wichita (1955 film)|Wichita]]''
| Gyp Clements
| [[Jacques Tourneur]]
| 
|-
| 1956
| ''[[The Rainmaker (1956 film)|The Rainmaker]]''
| Noah Curry
| [[Joseph Anthony]]
| 
|-
| 1956
| ''[[Wetbacks (film)|Wetbacks]]''
| Jim Benson
| [[Hank McCune]]
| 
|-
| 1957
| ''[[Ride Out for Revenge]]''
| Capt. George
| [[Bernard Girard]]
| 
|-
| 1958
| ''[[The Goddess (1958 film)|The Goddess]]''
| Dutch Seymour
| [[John Cromwell (director)|John Cromwell]]
| 
|-
| 1962
| ''A Pair of Boots''
| Otis / Adam Shepherd / Sen. Guthrie / Jonathan Tatum / Various characters
| 
| 
|-
| 1962
| ''My Daddy Can Lick Your Daddy''
| 
| 
| 
|-
| 1966
| ''[[Around the World Under the Sea]]''
| Dr. Doug Standish
| [[Andrew Marton]]
| 
|-
| 1966
| ''The World of Inner Space''
| 
| 
| 
|-
| 1967
| ''Wonderful World of Wheels''
| 
| 
| 
|-
| 1968
| ''[[Attack on the Iron Coast]]''
| Major Jamie Wilson
| [[Paul Wendkos]]
| 
|-
| 1968
| ''[[Daring Game]]''
| Vic Powers
| [[László Benedek]]
| 
|-
| 1969
| ''[[Lost Flight]]''
| Captain Steve Bannerman
| Leonard J. Horn
| 
|-
| 1969
| ''[[The Happy Ending]]''
| Sam
| [[Richard Brooks]]
| 
|-
| 1970
| ''[[The Love War]]''
| Kyle
| [[George McCowan]]
| 
|-
| 1971
| ''[[The Deadly Dream]]''
| Dr. Jim Hanley
| [[Alf Kjellin]]
| 
|-
| 1972
| ''[[Haunts of the Very Rich]]''
| Dave Woodrough
| [[Paul Wendkos]]
| 
|-
| 1972
| ''Scuba''
| 
| 
| 
|-
| 1972
| ''[[To Find a Man]]''
| Frank McCarthy
| [[Buzz Kulik]]
| 
|-
| 1973
| ''[[Death Race (1973 film)|Death Race]]''
| Hans Pimler
| [[David Lowell Rich]]
| 
|-
| 1973
| ''Running Wild''
| Jeff Methune
| 
| 
|-
| 1979
| ''[[Bear Island (film)|Bear Island]]''
| Smithy
| [[Don Sharp]]
| 
|-
| 1979
| ''[[The Fifth Musketeer]]''
| Aramis
| [[Ken Annakin]]
| 
|-
| 1980
| ''[[Airplane!]]''
| Steve McCroskey
| 
| 
|-
| 1982
| ''[[Airplane II: The Sequel]]''
| Steve McCroskey
| [[Ken Finkleman]]
| 
|-
| 1986
| ''[[The Thanksgiving Promise]]''
| Stewart Larson
| [[Beau Bridges]]
| 
|-
| 1986
| ''[[Weekend Warriors (film)|Weekend Warriors]]''
| Col. Archer
| [[Bert Convy]]
| 
|-
| 1987
| ''I Am Joe's Heart''
| Joe's Heart (voice)
| 
| short
|-
| 1987
| ''[[The Wild Pair (film)|The Wild Pair]]''
| Col. Heser
| [[Beau Bridges]]
| 
|-
| 1988
| ''[[Tucker: The Man and His Dream]]''
| Sen. Homer Ferguson
| [[Francis Ford Coppola]]
| uncredited
|-
| 1989
| ''[[Cousins (1989 film)|Cousins]]''
| Vince
| [[Joel Schumacher]]
| 
|-
| 1989
| ''[[Winter People]]''
| William Wright
| [[Ted Kotcheff]]
| 
|-
| 1990
| ''[[Joe Versus the Volcano]]''
| Graynamore
| [[John Patrick Shanley]]
| 
|-
| 1991
| ''[[Hot Shots!]]''
| Adm. Thomas 'Tug' Benson
| [[Jim Abrahams]]
| 
|-
| 1992
| ''Earth and the American Dream''
| 
| 
| 
|-
| 1992
| ''[[Honey, I Blew Up the Kid]]''
| Clifford Sterling
| [[Randal Kleiser]]
| 
|-
| 1993
| ''[[Hot Shots! Part Deux]]''
| Tug Benson
| [[Jim Abrahams]]
| 
|-
| 1993
| ''Mr. Bluesman''
| Bronski
| 
| 
|-
| 1994
| ''[[Blown Away (1994 film)|Blown Away]]''
| Max O'Bannon with son Jeff Bridges
| [[Stephen Hopkins (director)|Stephen Hopkins]]
| 
|-
| 1995
| ''[[Peter and the Wolf (TV special)|Peter and the Wolf]]''
| Grandfather
| [[George Daugherty|George DaughertyJean Flynn]]
| 
|-
| 1998
| ''[[Jane Austen's Mafia!]]''
| Vincenzo Cortino
| [[Jim Abrahams]]
| Released posthumously
|-
| 2000
| ''[[Meeting Daddy]]''
| Mr. Branson
| [[Peter Gould]]
| filmed in 1997; released posthumously
|-
| 2002
| ''From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff''
| Himself 
|
| scenes filmed in the 1990s
|-
|}

==Television work==
{{Div col}}
*''[[Suspense (US TV series)|Suspense]]'' co-star with Arlene Francis in "Her Last Adventure" (August 19, 1952) as James
*''Jukebox Jury'' (1953)
*''[[Crossroads (1955 TV series)|Crossroads]]'' in "Broadway Trust" with [[James Dean]] (November 11, 1955) as Fred
*''[[Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre]]'' in Image of a Drawn Sword (1961) as Lt. Sam Kenyon
*''[[Sea Hunt]]'' (1958–1961) as Mike Nelson / Whitey Fender
*''[[Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre]]'' (1960) as Dundee, Season 5, Episode 6 – Ransom
*''[[The Ford Show|The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford]]'' (January 8, 1959) as Captain Anderson
*''[[The DuPont Show with June Allyson]]'' as Captain Anderson in "Death on the Temple Bay", BSD series finale (1961) as Captain Anderson
*''[[The Lloyd Bridges Show]]'' (1962–1963) as Adam Shepherd / Sen. Guthrie / Jonathan Tatum / Various characters
*''[[The Eleventh Hour (1962 TV series)|The Eleventh Hour]]'' with son Beau, "Cannibal Plants, They Eat You Alive" (1964) as Leonard McCarty
*''[[Kraft Suspense Theatre]]'' (1963) as Mason Etheridge
*''[[The Loner (TV series)|The Loner]]'' (1965–1966) as William Colton
*''[[Mission: Impossible (1966 TV series)|Mission: Impossible]]'' (1966) as Anastas Poltroni
*''[[A Case of Libel]]'' (1968) as Dennis Corcoran
*''[[Lost Flight]]'' (1969) 
*''The Silent Gun'' (1969) as Brad Clinton
*''[[Silent Night, Lonely Night]]'' (1969) as John Sparrow
*''[[The Love War]]'' (1970) as Kyle
*''[[San Francisco International Airport (TV series)|San Francisco International Airport]]'' (1970–1971) as Jim Conrad
*''Do You Take This Stranger?'' (1971) as Steven Breck
*''A Tattered Web'' (1971) as Sgt. Ed Stagg
*''[[The Deadly Dream]]'' (1971) as Dr. Jim Hanley
*''Water World'' (1972–1975) as Narrator
*''[[Haunts of the Very Rich]]'' (1972) as Dave Woodrough
*''Trouble Comes to Town'' (1973) as Sheriff Porter Murdock
*''Crime Club'' (1973) as Paul Cord
*''[[Death Race (1973 film)|Death Race]]'' (1973) as Hans Pimler
*''[[Benjamin Franklin]]'' (1974) (miniseries)
*''The Whirlwind'' (1974) 
*''[[Police Story (1973 TV series)|Police Story]]'' (1974–75) as Joe Forrester / Sgt. Wolf Bozeman
*''[[Stowaway to the Moon]]'' (1975) as Charlie Englehardt
*''Cop on the Beat'' (1975) 
*''[[Joe Forrester (TV series)|Joe Forrester]]'' (1975–76) as Joe Forrester
*''[[Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected]]'' (1977 TV series) episode "The Force of Evil" (Dr. Carrington)<ref>{{cite web| url=http://ctva.biz/US/Anthology/TalesOfTheUnexpected.htm| title=CTVA US Anthology – "Tales of the Unexpected" (Quinn Martin/NBC)(1977)| access-date=August 17, 2014| archive-date=August 19, 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819083515/http://ctva.biz/US/Anthology/TalesOfTheUnexpected.htm| url-status=dead}}</ref>
*''[[Roots (1977 miniseries)|Roots]]'' (1977) (miniseries) 
*''Telethon'' (1977) as Matt Tallman
*''[[How the West Was Won (TV series)|How the West Was Won]]'' (1978) (miniseries) as Orville Gant
*''The Great Wallendas'' (1978) as Karl Wallenda
*''[[Shimmering Light]]'' (1978) as Sean Pearse
*''GI Diary'' (1978) as Narrator (voice)
*''[[Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'' (1978 TV series) as [[Commander Cain]]
*''[[Disaster on the Coastliner]]'' (1979) as Al Mitchell
*''[[East of Eden (miniseries)|East of Eden]]'' (1981 miniseries) as Samuel Hamilton
*''[[The Blue and the Gray (miniseries)|The Blue and the Gray]]'' (1982 miniseries) as Ben Geyser
*''[[Grace Kelly (film)|Grace Kelly]]'' (1983) as Jack Kelly
*''[[Loving (TV series)|Loving]]'' (1983 TV movie pilot) as Jack Forbes
*''[[Paper Dolls]]'' (1984) as Grant Harper
*''[[George Washington (miniseries)|George Washington]]'' (1984) (miniseries) as Caleb Quinn
*''[[Alice in Wonderland (1985 film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'' (1985 miniseries) as White Knight
*''[[North and South (TV miniseries)|North and South]]'' (1986) (miniseries) as Confederate President Jefferson Davis
*''[[Dress Gray]]'' (1986) (miniseries) as Gen. Axel Rylander
*''[[Shining Time Station: 'Tis a Gift]]'' (PBS TV Special) as Mr. Nicholas
*''[[Capital News]]'' (1990) as Jo Jo Turner
*''Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean'' (1990) as Harry Helmsley
*''[[In the Nick of Time (1991 film)|In The Nick Of Time]]'' (1991 Christmas Movie) as Santa Claus
*''[[Harts of the West]]'' (1993–1994) as Jake Terrel
*''[[The Other Woman (1995 film)|The Other Woman]]'' as Jacob
*''[[The Outer Limits (1995 TV series)|The Outer Limits]]'' – "[[The Sandkings]]" (March 26, 1995) as Col. Kress (appeared with son Beau and grandson Dylan)
*''[[Seinfeld]]'' as [[List of Seinfeld minor characters#izzy|Izzy Mandelbaum]]
** Season 8 episode [[The English Patient (Seinfeld)|The English Patient]] (March 13, 1997) 
** Season 9 episode [[The Blood (Seinfeld)|The Blood]] (October 16, 1997)
{{div col end}}

==References==
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==Further reading==
* ''Mask and Flippers'' (1960) (non-fiction) by Lloyd Bridges and Bill Barada, 196 pp.&nbsp;Chilton Company

==External links==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050322171300/http://www.worldpeacenews.org/AUTH/ARCHIVE/077..htm March–April 2004 – United World, "publication of the Coalition for a Democratic World Government, News and Views."]
* [https://archive.today/20121220015537/http://home.comcast.net/~bill.jones.scubaguy/SEA_HUNT/SeaHunt.html ''Sea Hunt'' Trivia Guide, Lloyd Bridges] from [https://web.archive.org/web/20080725220427/http://home.comcast.net/~bill.jones.scubaguy/ The Scuba Guy]
* [https://archive.org/stream/southerncampus1935univ#page/182/mode/2up/search/bridges 1935 Yearbook Photo]

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