Al Bridge
Acting
1891-02-25 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
Filmography
Hell's Outpost
1954 · Movie
Jubilee Trail
1954 · Movie
Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake
1954 · Movie
Annie Oakley
1954 · Series
Iron Mountain Trail
1953 · Movie
Barbed Wire
1952 · Movie
We're Not Married!
1952 · Movie
The Last Musketeer
1952 · Movie
Utah Wagon Train
1951 · Movie
All That I Have
1951 · Movie
Strangers on a Train
1951 · Movie
In Old Amarillo
1951 · Movie
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951 · Series
Oh! Susanna
1951 · Movie
Hunt the Man Down
1950 · Movie
California Passage
1950 · Movie
The Gene Autry Show
1950 · Series
A Woman of Distinction
1950 · Movie
Squadron of Doom
1949 · Movie
The Devil's Henchmen
1949 · Movie
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
1949 · Movie
The Doolins of Oklahoma
1949 · Movie
Quick on the Trigger
1948 · Movie
Unfaithfully Yours
1948 · Movie
Silver River
1948 · Movie
T-Men
1947 · Movie
Messenger of Peace
1947 · Movie
Black Gold
1947 · Movie
The Fabulous Joe
1947 · Movie
Down to Earth
1947 · Movie
Robin Hood Of Texas
1947 · Movie
Framed
1947 · Movie
Dick Tracy's Dilemma
1947 · Movie
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
1947 · Movie
Nora Prentiss
1947 · Movie
California
1947 · Movie
The Mighty McGurk
1947 · Movie
Singin' in the Corn
1946 · Movie
Alias Mr. Twilight
1946 · Movie
It's a Wonderful Life
1946 · Movie
Cross My Heart
1946 · Movie
Below the Deadline
1946 · Movie
Shadows Over Chinatown
1946 · Movie
The Falcon's Alibi
1946 · Movie
Deadline at Dawn
1946 · Movie
Miss Susie Slagle's
1946 · Movie
Road to Utopia
1946 · Movie
They Were Expendable
1945 · Movie
She Wouldn't Say Yes
1945 · Movie
Saratoga Trunk
1945 · Movie
Salty O'Rourke
1945 · Movie
Thunderhead: Son of Flicka
1945 · Movie
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945 · Movie
The Jade Mask
1945 · Movie
The Missing Juror
1944 · Movie
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
1944 · Movie
Hail the Conquering Hero
1944 · Movie
Nobody's Darling
1943 · Movie
Idaho
1943 · Movie
Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground
1943 · Movie
I Married a Witch
1942 · Movie
A Man's World
1942 · Movie
The Palm Beach Story
1942 · Movie
The Talk of the Town
1942 · Movie
Bad Men of the Hills
1942 · Movie
Lady in a Jam
1942 · Movie
Meet the Stewarts
1942 · Movie
In This Our Life
1942 · Movie
Saboteur
1942 · Movie
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
1942 · Movie
The Man Who Returned to Life
1942 · Movie
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
1942 · Movie
Pardon My Stripes
1942 · Movie
Honolulu Lu
1941 · Movie
Fighting Bill Fargo
1941 · Movie
Sullivan's Travels
1941 · Movie
Honky Tonk
1941 · Movie
Badlands of Dakota
1941 · Movie
The Little Foxes
1941 · Movie
Rawhide Rangers
1941 · Movie
Law of the Range
1941 · Movie
Lady from Louisiana
1941 · Movie
The Lady from Cheyenne
1941 · Movie
The Lady Eve
1941 · Movie
The Kid's Last Ride
1941 · Movie
The Face Behind the Mask
1941 · Movie
The Lone Rider Rides On
1941 · Movie
The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
1940 · Movie
Santa Fe Trail
1940 · Movie
Christmas in July
1940 · Movie
Flowing Gold
1940 · Movie
When the Daltons Rode
1940 · Movie
Winners of the West
1940 · Movie
Dark Command
1940 · Movie
Blazing Six Shooters
1940 · Movie
The Courageous Dr. Christian
1940 · Movie
Pioneers of the Frontier
1940 · Movie
My Little Chickadee
1940 · Movie
The Stranger from Texas
1939 · Movie
The Roaring Twenties
1939 · Movie
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939 · Movie
Oklahoma Frontier
1939 · Movie
Thunder Afloat
1939 · Movie
The Man from Sundown
1939 · Movie
Sons of Liberty
1939 · Movie
Blue Montana Skies
1939 · Movie
Buck Rogers
1939 · Movie
Romance of the Redwoods
1939 · Movie
The Oklahoma Kid
1939 · Movie
Devil's Island
1939 · Movie
The Phantom Creeps
1939 · Movie
Adventure in Sahara
1938 · Movie
Colorado Trail
1938 · Movie
Marie Antoinette
1938 · Movie
Highway Patrol
1938 · Movie
Gunsmoke Trail
1938 · Movie
Crime School
1938 · Movie
Two Gun Justice
1938 · Movie
Jezebel
1938 · Movie
Born to Be Wild
1938 · Movie
Little Miss Roughneck
1938 · Movie
Partners of the Plains
1938 · Movie
Tim Tyler's Luck
1937 · Movie
Springtime in the Rockies
1937 · Movie
The Awful Truth
1937 · Movie
Dead End
1937 · Movie
Western Gold
1937 · Movie
They Won't Forget
1937 · Movie
Wild West Days
1937 · Movie
One Man Justice
1937 · Movie
Woman Chases Man
1937 · Movie
Two Gun Law
1937 · Movie
Borderland
1937 · Movie
You Only Live Once
1937 · Movie
Westbound Mail
1937 · Movie
Jungle Jim
1937 · Movie
Dodge City Trail
1936 · Movie
Trail Dust
1936 · Movie
Ace Drummond
1936 · Movie
The Three Mesquiteers
1936 · Movie
They Met in a Taxi
1936 · Movie
Crash Donovan
1936 · Movie
Public Enemy's Wife
1936 · Movie
These Three
1936 · Movie
Call of the Prairie
1936 · Movie
The Lawless Nineties
1936 · Movie
The Bridge of Sighs
1936 · Movie
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
1936 · Movie
Fast Bullets
1936 · Movie
Gallant Defender
1935 · Movie
A Night at the Opera
1935 · Movie
Rendezvous
1935 · Movie
The New Frontier
1935 · Movie
Melody Trail
1935 · Movie
Valley of Wanted Men
1935 · Movie
Confidential
1935 · Movie
Alibi Racket
1935 · Movie
The Gay Deception
1935 · Movie
Diamond Jim
1935 · Movie
The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
1935 · Movie
The Murder Man
1935 · Movie
Silent Valley
1935 · Movie
Alias Mary Dow
1935 · Movie
Circumstantial Evidence
1935 · Movie
Transient Lady
1935 · Movie
North of Arizona
1935 · Movie
Outlaw Rule
1935 · Movie
Mystery Mountain
1934 · Movie
The Curtain Falls
1934 · Movie
We're Not Dressing
1934 · Movie
Honor of the Range
1934 · Movie
Twin Husbands
1933 · Movie
Fighting With Kit Carson
1933 · Movie
Fighting Texans
1933 · Movie
The Lone Avenger
1933 · Movie
Son of the Border
1933 · Movie
Black Beauty
1933 · Movie
Sucker Money
1933 · Movie
Drum Taps
1933 · Movie
The Cheyenne Kid
1933 · Movie
When a Man Rides Alone
1933 · Movie
The Wyoming Whirlwind
1932 · Movie
The Devil Horse
1932 · Movie
The Forty-Niners
1932 · Movie
Slightly Married
1932 · Movie
The Cowboy Counsellor
1932 · Movie
Blonde Venus
1932 · Movie
Broadway to Cheyenne
1932 · Movie
The Thirteenth Guest
1932 · Movie
The Hurricane Express
1932 · Movie
Million Dollar Legs
1932 · Movie
A Man's Land
1932 · Movie
The Spirit of the West
1932 · Movie
Police Court
1932 · Movie
South of Santa Fe
1932 · Movie
Galloping Thru
1931 · Movie
The Ridin' Fool
1931 · Movie
A Rider of the Plains
1931 · Movie
God's Country and the Man
1931 · Movie
The She Wolf
1919 · Movie