Al Bridge
Acting
Born February 25, 1891 ยท 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.
Films (196)
Hell's Outpost
1954
Jubilee Trail
1954
Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake
1954
Iron Mountain Trail
1953
Barbed Wire
1952
We're Not Married!
1952
The Last Musketeer
1952
Utah Wagon Train
1951
All That I Have
1951
Strangers on a Train
1951
In Old Amarillo
1951
Oh! Susanna
1951
Hunt the Man Down
1950
California Passage
1950
A Woman of Distinction
1950
Squadron of Doom
1949
The Devil's Henchmen
1949
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
1949
The Doolins of Oklahoma
1949
Unfaithfully Yours
1948
Quick on the Trigger
1948
Silver River
1948
T-Men
1947
Messenger of Peace
1947
Black Gold
1947
The Fabulous Joe
1947
Down to Earth
1947
Robin Hood Of Texas
1947
Framed
1947
Dick Tracy's Dilemma
1947
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
1947
Nora Prentiss
1947
California
1947
The Mighty McGurk
1947
Singin' in the Corn
1946
Alias Mr. Twilight
1946
It's a Wonderful Life
1946
Cross My Heart
1946
Below the Deadline
1946
Shadows Over Chinatown
1946
The Falcon's Alibi
1946
Deadline at Dawn
1946
Road to Utopia
1946
They Were Expendable
1945
She Wouldn't Say Yes
1945
Saratoga Trunk
1945
Salty O'Rourke
1945
Thunderhead: Son of Flicka
1945
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945
The Jade Mask
1945
The Missing Juror
1944
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
1944
Hail the Conquering Hero
1944
Nobody's Darling
1943
Idaho
1943
Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground
1943
I Married a Witch
1942
A Man's World
1942
The Palm Beach Story
1942
The Talk of the Town
1942
Bad Men of the Hills
1942
Lady in a Jam
1942
Meet the Stewarts
1942
In This Our Life
1942
Saboteur
1942
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
1942
The Man Who Returned to Life
1942
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
1942
Pardon My Stripes
1942
Honolulu Lu
1941
Fighting Bill Fargo
1941
Sullivan's Travels
1941
Honky Tonk
1941
Badlands of Dakota
1941
The Little Foxes
1941
Rawhide Rangers
1941
Law of the Range
1941
Lady from Louisiana
1941
The Lady from Cheyenne
1941
The Lady Eve
1941
The Kid's Last Ride
1941
The Face Behind the Mask
1941
The Lone Rider Rides On
1941
The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
1940
Santa Fe Trail
1940
Christmas in July
1940
Flowing Gold
1940
When the Daltons Rode
1940
Winners of the West
1940
Dark Command
1940
Blazing Six Shooters
1940
The Courageous Dr. Christian
1940
Pioneers of the Frontier
1940
My Little Chickadee
1940
The Stranger from Texas
1939
The Roaring Twenties
1939
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
Oklahoma Frontier
1939
Thunder Afloat
1939
The Man from Sundown
1939
Sons of Liberty
1939
Blue Montana Skies
1939
Buck Rogers
1939
Romance of the Redwoods
1939
The Oklahoma Kid
1939
The Phantom Creeps
1939
Devil's Island
1939
Adventure in Sahara
1938
Colorado Trail
1938
Marie Antoinette
1938
Highway Patrol
1938
Gunsmoke Trail
1938
Crime School
1938
Two Gun Justice
1938
Jezebel
1938
Born to Be Wild
1938
Little Miss Roughneck
1938
Partners of the Plains
1938
Tim Tyler's Luck
1937
Springtime in the Rockies
1937
The Awful Truth
1937
Dead End
1937
Western Gold
1937
They Won't Forget
1937
Wild West Days
1937
One Man Justice
1937
Woman Chases Man
1937
Two Gun Law
1937
Borderland
1937
You Only Live Once
1937
Westbound Mail
1937
Jungle Jim
1937
Dodge City Trail
1936
Trail Dust
1936
Ace Drummond
1936
The Three Mesquiteers
1936
They Met in a Taxi
1936
Crash Donovan
1936
Public Enemy's Wife
1936
These Three
1936
Call of the Prairie
1936
The Lawless Nineties
1936
The Bridge of Sighs
1936
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
1936
Fast Bullets
1936
Gallant Defender
1935
A Night at the Opera
1935
Rendezvous
1935
The New Frontier
1935
Melody Trail
1935
Valley of Wanted Men
1935
Confidential
1935
Alibi Racket
1935
The Gay Deception
1935
Diamond Jim
1935
The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
1935
The Murder Man
1935
Silent Valley
1935
Alias Mary Dow
1935
Circumstantial Evidence
1935
Transient Lady
1935
North of Arizona
1935
Outlaw Rule
1935
Mystery Mountain
1934
The Curtain Falls
1934
We're Not Dressing
1934
Honor of the Range
1934
Twin Husbands
1933
Fighting With Kit Carson
1933
Fighting Texans
1933
The Lone Avenger
1933
Son of the Border
1933
Black Beauty
1933
Sucker Money
1933
Drum Taps
1933
The Cheyenne Kid
1933
When a Man Rides Alone
1933
The Wyoming Whirlwind
1932
The Devil Horse
1932
The Forty-Niners
1932
Slightly Married
1932
The Cowboy Counsellor
1932
Blonde Venus
1932
Broadway to Cheyenne
1932
The Thirteenth Guest
1932
The Hurricane Express
1932
Million Dollar Legs
1932
A Man's Land
1932
The Spirit of the West
1932
Police Court
1932
South of Santa Fe
1932
Galloping Thru
1931
The Ridin' Fool
1931
A Rider of the Plains
1931
God's Country and the Man
1931
The She Wolf
1919