
Al Bridge
Biography
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.
Personal Info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1891-02-25
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Salty O'Rourke
19455.2 / 10
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
19476.3 / 10
The Talk of the Town
19427.3 / 10
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
19426.0 / 10
Nobody's Darling
19430.0 / 10
The Palm Beach Story
19427.0 / 10
The Devil's Henchman
19496.0 / 10
The Bridge of Sighs
19366.0 / 10
Blonde Venus
19326.8 / 10
Dead End
19377.0 / 10
Christmas in July
19406.9 / 10
Framed
19476.4 / 10
Hail the Conquering Hero
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A Man's Land
19326.0 / 10
The Forty-Niners
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The Ridin' Fool
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Two Gun Justice
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The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
19446.8 / 10
Western Gold
19370.0 / 10
Below the Deadline
19464.3 / 10
The Stranger from Texas
19390.0 / 10
Born to Be Wild
19387.0 / 10
Shadows Over Chinatown
19465.8 / 10
The Jade Mask
19456.1 / 10
The Hurricane Express
19325.2 / 10
Jubilee Trail
19544.8 / 10
The Falcon's Alibi
19465.2 / 10
Springtime in the Rockies
19374.7 / 10
Thunderhead: Son of Flicka
19456.7 / 10
Squadron of Doom
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Fighting With Kit Carson
19336.0 / 10
Saratoga Trunk
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The Mighty McGurk
19476.4 / 10
They Won't Forget
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A Night at the Opera
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Pardon My Stripes
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Crime School
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The Murder Man
19356.9 / 10
Rendezvous
19354.8 / 10
Alias Mary Dow
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The Lawless Nineties
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She Wouldn't Say Yes
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In Old Amarillo
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Fast Bullets
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The Kid's Last Ride
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The Cowboy Counsellor
19325.7 / 10
The Lone Avenger
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Barbed Wire
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Valley of Wanted Men
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The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
19356.7 / 10
Gallant Defender
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Ace Drummond
19366.5 / 10
Public Enemy's Wife
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Melody Trail
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Black Gold
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The New Frontier
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Jungle Jim
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North of Arizona
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Alias Mr. Twilight
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Sons of Liberty
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Honor of the Range
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Hell's Outpost
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Son of the Border
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Slightly Married
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The Gay Deception
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We're Not Married!
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The Wyoming Whirlwind
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Drum Taps
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Mystery Mountain
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Down to Earth
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Partners of the Plains
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Wild West Days
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Rawhide Rangers
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Gunsmoke Trail
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They Met in a Taxi
19365.5 / 10
The Spirit of the West
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Woman Chases Man
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The Curtain Falls
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The Phantom Creeps
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Cross My Heart
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Transient Lady
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A Rider of the Plains
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Trail Dust
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Buck Rogers
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Devil's Island
19395.4 / 10
The Man Who Returned to Life
19426.0 / 10
Borderland
19370.0 / 10
The Oklahoma Kid
19396.0 / 10
Thunder Afloat
19395.9 / 10
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
19397.9 / 10
The Roaring Twenties
19397.5 / 10
Confidential
19355.6 / 10
Call of the Prairie
19365.0 / 10
Adventure in Sahara
19385.5 / 10
Quick on the Trigger
19486.0 / 10
It's a Wonderful Life
19468.3 / 10
Deadline at Dawn
19466.3 / 10
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
19495.8 / 10
Dick Tracy's Dilemma
19475.4 / 10
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
19364.0 / 10
Meet the Stewarts
19426.0 / 10
T-Men
19476.8 / 10
The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
19406.2 / 10
The Lady Eve
19417.2 / 10
The Awful Truth
19377.2 / 10
Oh! Susanna
19515.0 / 10
The Cheyenne Kid
19330.0 / 10
The Devil Horse
19324.0 / 10
Saboteur
19426.9 / 10
Highway Patrol
19380.0 / 10
Unfaithfully Yours
19487.2 / 10
Oklahoma Frontier
19390.0 / 10
Romance of the Redwoods
19396.0 / 10
The Lady from Cheyenne
19415.2 / 10
When the Daltons Rode
19406.0 / 10
Santa Fe Trail
19405.7 / 10
Dark Command
19406.3 / 10
My Little Chickadee
19406.4 / 10
Winners of the West
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Dodge City Trail
19363.0 / 10
Two Gun Law
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The Man from Sundown
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The Little Foxes
19417.5 / 10
Flowing Gold
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Jezebel
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The Courageous Dr. Christian
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California Passage
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Robin Hood Of Texas
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Tim Tyler's Luck
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Diamond Jim
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Honolulu Lu
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Sucker Money
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Messenger of Peace
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Utah Wagon Train
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Blazing Six Shooters
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I Married a Witch
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The Last Musketeer
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Bad Men of the Hills
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Sullivan's Travels
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Pioneers of the Frontier
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Fighting Bill Fargo
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Law of the Range
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The Lone Rider Rides On
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Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground
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Silver River
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Badlands of Dakota
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Lady from Louisiana
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Wild Bill Hickok Rides
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Silent Valley
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Idaho
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Honky Tonk
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Million Dollar Legs
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All That I Have
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Colorado Trail
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Outlaw Rule
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These Three
19367.1 / 10
Crash Donovan
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Singin' in the Corn
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Road to Utopia
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Hunt the Man Down
19506.2 / 10
The Three Mesquiteers
19365.0 / 10
Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
19457.6 / 10
You Only Live Once
19377.1 / 10
A Man's World
19426.0 / 10
Marie Antoinette
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In This Our Life
19426.8 / 10
Alibi Racket
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They Were Expendable
19456.6 / 10
South of Santa Fe
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Little Miss Roughneck
19380.0 / 10
God's Country and the Man
19310.0 / 10
Blue Montana Skies
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Iron Mountain Trail
19536.0 / 10
When a Man Rides Alone
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The Fabulous Joe
19475.8 / 10
Police Court
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The Missing Juror
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The Thirteenth Guest
19324.9 / 10
Galloping Thru
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Broadway to Cheyenne
19324.2 / 10
Black Beauty
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Fighting Texans
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The Doolins of Oklahoma
19496.8 / 10
California
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Lady in a Jam
19425.5 / 10
Nora Prentiss
19476.1 / 10
The Face Behind the Mask
19416.5 / 10
Circumstantial Evidence
19356.0 / 10
Strangers on a Train
19517.7 / 10
A Woman of Distinction
19506.2 / 10
Crew
God's Country and the Man
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