Place of Birth:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Date of Birth:
2/25/1891
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.
Salty O'Rourke
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
The Talk of the Town
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Nobody's Darling
The Palm Beach Story
The Devil's Henchman
The Bridge of Sighs
Blonde Venus
Dead End
Christmas in July
Framed
Hail the Conquering Hero
A Man's Land
The Forty-Niners
The Ridin' Fool
Two Gun Justice
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Western Gold
Below the Deadline
The Stranger from Texas
Born to Be Wild
Shadows Over Chinatown
The Jade Mask
The Hurricane Express
Jubilee Trail
The Falcon's Alibi
Springtime in the Rockies
Thunderhead: Son of Flicka
Squadron of Doom
Fighting With Kit Carson
Saratoga Trunk
The Mighty McGurk
Pardon My Stripes
They Won't Forget
A Night at the Opera
Crime School
The Murder Man
Rendezvous
Alias Mary Dow
The Lawless Nineties
She Wouldn't Say Yes
In Old Amarillo
Fast Bullets
The Kid's Last Ride
The Cowboy Counsellor
The Lone Avenger
Barbed Wire
Valley of Wanted Men
The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
Gallant Defender
Ace Drummond
Public Enemy's Wife
Melody Trail
Black Gold
The New Frontier
Jungle Jim
North of Arizona
Alias Mr. Twilight
Sons of Liberty
Honor of the Range
Hell's Outpost
Son of the Border
Slightly Married
The Gay Deception
We're Not Married!
The Wyoming Whirlwind
Drum Taps
Mystery Mountain
Down to Earth
Partners of the Plains
Wild West Days
Rawhide Rangers
Gunsmoke Trail
They Met in a Taxi
The Spirit of the West
Woman Chases Man
The Curtain Falls
The Phantom Creeps
Cross My Heart
Transient Lady
The Greater Love
Trail Dust
Buck Rogers
Devil's Island
The Man Who Returned to Life
Borderland
The Oklahoma Kid
Thunder Afloat
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Roaring Twenties
Confidential
Call of the Prairie
Adventure in Sahara
Quick on the Trigger
It's a Wonderful Life
Deadline at Dawn
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
Dick Tracy's Dilemma
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
T-Men
Meet the Stewarts
The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
The Lady Eve
The Awful Truth
Oh! Susanna
The Cheyenne Kid
The Devil Horse
Saboteur
Highway Patrol
Unfaithfully Yours
Oklahoma Frontier
Romance of the Redwoods
The Lady from Cheyenne
When the Daltons Rode
Santa Fe Trail
Dark Command
My Little Chickadee
Winners of the West
Dodge City Trail
Two Gun Law
The Man from Sundown
The Little Foxes
Flowing Gold
Jezebel
The Courageous Dr. Christian
California Passage
Robin Hood Of Texas
Tim Tyler's Luck
Diamond Jim
Honolulu Lu
Sucker Money
Messenger of Peace
Utah Wagon Train
Blazing Six Shooters
I Married a Witch
The Last Musketeer
Bad Men of the Hills
Sullivan's Travels
Pioneers of the Frontier
Fighting Bill Fargo
The Lone Rider Rides On
Law of the Range
Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground
Silver River
Badlands of Dakota
Lady from Louisiana
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Silent Valley
Idaho
Honky Tonk
Million Dollar Legs
All That I Have
Colorado Trail
Outlaw Rule
These Three
Crash Donovan
Singin' in the Corn
Road to Utopia
Hunt the Man Down
The Three Mesquiteers
Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
You Only Live Once
A Man's World
Marie Antoinette
In This Our Life
Alibi Racket
They Were Expendable
South of Santa Fe
Little Miss Roughneck
God's Country and the Man
Blue Montana Skies
Iron Mountain Trail
When a Man Rides Alone
The Fabulous Joe
Police Court
The Missing Juror
The Thirteenth Guest
Galloping Thru
Broadway to Cheyenne
Black Beauty
Fighting Texans
The Doolins of Oklahoma
California
Lady in a Jam
Nora Prentiss
The Face Behind the Mask
Circumstantial Evidence