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  Lloyd Bridges Dies at 85   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Veteran actor Lloyd Bridges, who starred in the pioneering television series "Sea Hunt" and was the father of actors Beau and Jeff Bridges, died Tuesday at age 85.
Known as one of Hollywood's hardest-working actors, Bridges was born in San Leandro, Calif., on Jan. 15, 1913 and, after studying political science at the University of California at Los Angeles, went to Broadway where he made his debut in a modern-dress version of "Othello".
Bridges' film career began in 1941 when he was placed under contract at Columbia and made his debut in "The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance", appeared in a Three Stooges short, "They Stooge to Conga." Bridges first major films were "Here Comes Mr.
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  Lloyd Bridges Relationships plus Lloyd Bridges and You
Lloyd Bridges inspires others to take positive action in their lives through his own enthusiasm and eagerness to meet life's challenges, and he is attracted to people who are adventurous, courageous and independent.
Lloyd is rather bossy but does not like to be with people that he can boss around too much.
Lloyd Bridges is impressionable and rather gentle, or at least that is the way he appears.
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  Lloyd Bridges - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He is the father of actors Jeff Bridges and Beau Bridges and the grandfather of Jordan Bridges.
Bridges was born in San Leandro, California to Lloyd Vernet Bridges, who was involved in the California hotel business and once owned a cinema, and Harriet Brown.
Bridges is the father of actors Jeff Bridges and Beau Bridges and the grandfather of Jordan Bridges.
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 Beau Bridges - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Beau Bridges, (born Lloyd Vernet Bridges III on December 9, 1941 in Los Angeles, California), is an American actor.
Bridges is also the older brother of actor Jeff Bridges, born in 1949.
Bridges enjoys playing guitar (as does his brother), collects Native American percussion instruments, loves the ocean (as well as swimming and surfing), and is also active in handgun control and environmental protection.
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 The Biography Channel - Lloyd Bridges Biography
Like the screenwriter of 'High Noon', Carl Foreman, Bridges was ‘graylisted’ from the Hollywood A-list in the mid 1950s due to his earlier radicalism and suspected anti-American tendencies.
Bridges found himself a star and a millionaire through endless re-runs of the show.
Bridges was also a fervent environmentalist and campaigner on green issues, active in, amongst others, the American Oceans Campaign and Los Angeles’ 'Heal the Bay' campaign.
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 Lloyd Bridges
Lloyd Bridges was perhaps best known as the character Mike Nelson, the star of "Sea Hunt" (1957-61).
Bridges was trained as a dramatic actor and appeared in such films as "High Noon" and "Unconquered" with Gary Cooper.
His son actor Beau Bridges was a member of the Coast Guard Reserve.
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 Lloyd Bridges Biography (Actor) — FactMonster.com
He is the father of the actors Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges.
Lloyd Bridges - Lloyd Bridges (Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Jr.) actor Born: 1/15/1913 Birthplace: San Leandro, California...
Jeff Bridges - Jeff Bridges actor Born: 12/4/1949 Birthplace: Los Angeles As the son of Lloyd Bridges and younger...
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 Lloyd Bridges
Lloyd Vernet Bridges III (Beau - a family nickname, reportedly after Ashley Wilkes's son in the 1939 film "Gone With the Wind") was born in 1941, and Jeff in 1949.
Briefly during the 1940s Lloyd Bridges was a member of the "Actors' Lab", a radical theatre group with ties to the Communist Party and so it was inevitable that at the height of McCarthyism in the 1950s his name was added to the show business fllist.
Bridges' life was about to change, however, as in 1957 he took on the role that made him famous, Mike Nelson, in "Sea Hunt".
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 Michael McFadyen's Scuba Diving - Lloyd Bridges   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Lloyd Bridges was born on 13 January 1913 in San Leandro, California.
Bridges decided to pursue this appointed course and apparently it was not until he studied constitutional law that he changed his mind.
Lloyd Bridges had seemingly a perfect family life, married to the same woman for almost 60 years, two sons who also became very well known actors (Beau and Jeff) and, I think, a daughter.
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 CLASSIC DIVING BOOKS - Lloyd Bridges.
Bridges the actor is also Bridges the diver and author, with the experienced diver/writer Bill Barada doing the literary make-up.
Bridges acknowledges that the concept of him diving alone was not accepted by the sport diving fraternity as it "violates the principles of buddy diving".
Bridges acknowledges that procedures of sport diving may have been broken, but the aspect of diver safety in respect to training and equipment were never violated.
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 Lloyd Bridges Obituary
Lloyd Bridges, whose half-century in acting ranged from the drama of "High Noon" to the adventure of TV's "Sea Hunt" to the daft "Airplane!," died March 10, 1998.
Bridges' film career began in 1941, when he was placed under contract at Columbia and made his debut in "The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance." A string of potboilers followed, and he even appeared in a Three Stooges short, "They Stooge to Conga." His only major films were the fantasy "Here Comes Mr.
Bridges cleared his name with the FBI and congressional committees, and was allowed to work again.
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Although the rugged, blond actor Lloyd Bridges, who has died aged 85, had been in dozens of movies since 1941, he had to wait more than three decades to achieve substantial fame.
In addition to his acting, Bridges was active in the support of many social and environmental causes and, in 1988, he headed a mission to investigate starvation in sub-Saharan Africa.
Bridges, who leaves his wife, two sons, a daughter and 11 grandchildren, recently completed two forthcoming features, Jane Austin's Mafia and Meeting Daddy, the latter with his elder son Beau.
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 obits.com, The Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for Lloyd Bridges
Bridges attended Petaluma High School, where he was a star athlete as well as a standout member of the school drama society before enrolling in the University of California at Los Angeles.
Bridges wound down the decade with a first turn opposite Gary Cooper and horror star Boris Karloff in "The Unconquered" and the undersea epic "16 Fathoms Deep", a precursor to his later success as the get wet star of "Sea Hunt".
Lloyd Bridges had completed filming "Mafia!" as well as "Meeting Daddy" when he died peacefully in his sleep of natural causes at his Los Angeles home March 10th, 1998 at the age of 85.
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 BBC News | Americas | Hollywood veteran Lloyd Bridges is dead
Bridges began his film career as an actor in westerns in 1941.
Known as one of Hollywood's hardest-working actors, Bridges was born in California and after studying political science at the University of California, went to Broadway where he made his debut in a modern-dress version of Othello.
In the early 1950s, Bridges admitted to being a former member of the Communist Party and was a key witness before the House Un-American Activities Committee, which was probing communist influence in the film industry.
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 Lloyd Bridges @ Filmbug   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Bridges was honored with an Emmy Award nomination for his work in the telefilm Tragedy in a Temporary Town.
Bridges made his mark on the small screen during television's Golden Age, appearing in live presentations on Studio One, The Alcoa Hour, Playhouse 90 and The U.S. Steel Hour.
Born in San Leandro, California, Bridges attended the University of California in Los Angeles, with a major in political science and an eye on law school.
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 CNN - Variety a hallmark of Lloyd Bridges' career - March 11, 1998
Bridges -- the patriarch of a three- generation family of actors -- died of natural causes Tuesday at his home.
The craggy-faced Bridges was known as one of Hollywood's hardest-working actors: He did dozens of films during his career.
During the 1940s, Bridges briefly was a member of the Actors' Lab, a radical theater group with ties to the Communist Party that staged plays in Hollywood.
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 Lloyd Bridges - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Lloyd Bridges (January 15, 1913 - March 10, 1998) was an American actor.
He studied political science at UCLA, where he met his future wife, Dorothy Dean Simpson; the two married in 1939.
Lloyd Bridges is the father of actors Jeff Bridges and Beau Bridges and the grandfather of Jordan Bridges.
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 CNN - Actor Lloyd Bridges dead at age 85 - March 10, 1998
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -- Veteran actor Lloyd Bridges, who starred in the popular TV series "Sea Hunt" and is the father of actors Beau and Jeff Bridges, has died at age 85, his agent said.
The craggy-faced Bridges, who began his career as an actor in westerns in 1941, died at his Los Angeles home, his agent Lee Stollman said, adding that no further details were immediately available.
In the early 1950s, Bridges admitted to being a former member of the Communist Party and was a key witness before the House Un-American Activities Committee, which investigated communist influence in films.
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 Lloyd Bridges Biography :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Over the course of four decades Bridges would try his hand at eight TV series, but his most successful and best-remembered was his first, "Sea Hunt" (syndicated, 1957-61), with the star as ex-Navy frogman turned underwater troubleshooter Mike Nelson.
Bridges displayed a game willingness to parody his stolid authority roles and his occasionally hammy (but always succulent) acting style in the outrageous Abrahams-Zucker genre spoofs "Airplane" (1980) and "Airplane II: The Sequel" (1982).
He was the father of actors Beau and Jeff Bridges, who appeared on "The Lloyd Bridges Show" and who later acted with their father in credits ranging from "Tucker: The Man and His Dream" (1988) to "Blown Away" (1994) and the series "Harts of the West (CBS, 1993).
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 Lloyd Bridges in his own words   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Lloyd Bridges starred as Mike Nelson for only four years out of a 60 year acting career and spent the rest of his life trying to avoid being typecast.
Bridges' movie career began in 1940, but he was stereotyped as a supporting actor, primarily in westerns and war movies.
Dorothy Bridges, Lloyd's wife for more than 50 years, said, 'The first time we went to Hawaii was at the height of Sea Hunt.
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 Lloyd Bridges Photos - Lloyd Bridges News - Lloyd Bridges Information
Lloyd Bridges was born on January 15, 1913, in San Leandro, California.
He appeared in two productions with his son Beau Bridges in which he played his father, a retired colonel, whose first name was never revealed (and his grandson Dylan Bridges): The Outer Limits episodes "The Sandkings (1)" and "The Sandkings (2)" and Meeting Daddy.
Unlike many of his fellow actors, he was a dedicated family man and remained faithful to his wife Dorothy Dean Bridges throughout their sixty year marriage.
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Bridges didn't really smell like fish, but to a little girl that was being held by the star of her favorite TV show SEA HUNT, her imagination was running wild.
Bridges was regularly seen at Dan Tana's, a steakhouse in the 9000 block of Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood.
Bridges said that he wanted to be remembered for his concern for the good health of the earth.
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 Lloyd Bridges   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Married more than 50 years, the Bridges lived in Westwood, a short distance from the UCLA campus where they met as drama students.
Bridges starred in six other series: ``The Lloyd Bridges Show,'' ``The Loner,'' ``San Francisco International Airport'' ``Joe Forrester,'' ``Paper Dolls,'' and ``Capital News.'' He also appeared in dozens of TV movies as well as such miniseries as ``Roots,'' ``Moviola,'' ``East of Eden,'' ``The Blue and the Gray'' and ``George Washington.''
Bridges and his wife received the Ralph Bunche Peace Award in 1994 to commemorate the United Nations Year of the Family.
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 BattlestarPegasus.com | Actors and Production Staff: Lloyd Bridges   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Bridges, who began his film career with B-grade movies for Columbia in the 1940s, starred in more than 150 films in his fifty year Hollywood career.
Lloyd Bridges, 85, passed away Tuesday, March 10, 1998 in his home.
Additional movie and television credits for Lloyd Bridges can be found at the Internet Movie Database (IMdb).
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 Lloyd Bridges   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
Bereits 1936 spielte der junge, gut aussehende Kalifornier in den ersten Filmen ohne größeres Aufsehen zu erregen.
Beau Bridges und Jeff Bridges wurden ebenfalls Schauspieler und sind heute wahrscheinlich bekannter als ihr Vater.
In seinen Hollywood-Filmen spielte Lloyd Bridges eher kleinere Rollen und wurde nie einer der Hollywood-Topstars.
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 Beau Bridges
Lloyd Bridges III is the older brother of B-list movie star Jeff Bridges, and son of TV star Lloyd Bridges.
The nickname "Beau" stuck to Bridges from an early age, and was originally based on his resemblance to the young actor who played Leslie Howard's son in Gone with the Wind.
At 19, Bridges co-starred in The Clear Horizon, a weekday science fiction serial with Ted Knight and Lee Meriwether.
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 Lloyd Bridges - MovieActors.com
Lloyd Bridges was born on January 12, 1913 in San Leandro California.
Allegations that Lloyd Bridges had been involved with the Communist Party threatened to derail his career in the early '50s, but he resumed work after an FBI clearance.
Lloyd Bridges became a small screen star of giant proportions by starring in "Sea Hunt" (1958).
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