Al Bridge
Acting
Born 1891-02-25
Died 1957-12-27
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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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.
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It's a Wonderful Life
The Gene Autry Show
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Annie Oakley
Strangers on a Train
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Saboteur
Sullivan's Travels
I Married a Witch
A Night at the Opera
The Awful Truth
Jezebel
Santa Fe Trail
The Little Foxes
Honky Tonk
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Roaring Twenties
Marie Antoinette
You Only Live Once
Dark Command
Dead End
Down to Earth
The Lady Eve
The Talk of the Town
In This Our Life
The Palm Beach Story
They Were Expendable
Unfaithfully Yours
California
T-Men
Blonde Venus
Silver River
We're Not Married!
Dick Tracy's Dilemma
Road to Utopia
Saratoga Trunk
Nora Prentiss
The Oklahoma Kid
Hail the Conquering Hero
Christmas in July
The Face Behind the Mask
Devil's Island
Westbound Mail
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
A Volta do Besouro Verde
These Three
Galloping Thru
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Ace Drummond
Transient Lady
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
Salty O'Rourke
The Phantom Creeps
Rendezvous
Oh! Susanna
My Little Chickadee
The Doolins of Oklahoma
The Murder Man
California Passage
The Gay Deception
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