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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Cast
Salty O'Rourke
1945
5.20
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
1947
6.30
The Talk of the Town
1942
7.30
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
1942
6.00
Nobody's Darling
1943
0.00
The Palm Beach Story
1942
7.01
The Devil's Henchman
1949
6.00
The Bridge of Sighs
1936
6.00
Blonde Venus
1932
6.82
Dead End
1937
7.00
Christmas in July
1940
6.90
Framed
1947
6.40
Hail the Conquering Hero
1944
7.00
A Man's Land
1932
6.00
The Forty-Niners
1932
0.00
The Ridin' Fool
1931
0.00
Two Gun Justice
1938
6.00
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
1944
6.80
Western Gold
1937
0.00
Below the Deadline
1946
4.30
The Stranger from Texas
1939
0.00
Born to Be Wild
1938
7.00
Shadows Over Chinatown
1946
5.80
The Jade Mask
1945
6.10
The Hurricane Express
1932
5.20
Jubilee Trail
1954
4.80
The Falcon's Alibi
1946
5.20
Springtime in the Rockies
1937
4.67
Thunderhead: Son of Flicka
1945
6.70
Squadron of Doom
1949
0.00
Fighting With Kit Carson
1933
6.00
Saratoga Trunk
1945
5.70
The Mighty McGurk
1947
6.40
They Won't Forget
1937
5.70
A Night at the Opera
1935
7.44
Pardon My Stripes
1942
6.00
Crime School
1938
6.30
The Murder Man
1935
6.90
Rendezvous
1935
4.80
Alias Mary Dow
1935
6.20
The Lawless Nineties
1936
5.23
She Wouldn't Say Yes
1945
5.90
In Old Amarillo
1951
6.00
Fast Bullets
1936
4.50
The Kid's Last Ride
1941
3.67
The Cowboy Counsellor
1932
5.70
The Lone Avenger
1933
0.00
Barbed Wire
1952
5.00
Valley of Wanted Men
1935
5.00
The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
1935
6.70
Gallant Defender
1935
0.00
Ace Drummond
1936
6.50
Public Enemy's Wife
1936
5.80
Melody Trail
1935
4.70
Black Gold
1947
6.00
The New Frontier
1935
4.61
Jungle Jim
1937
4.80
North of Arizona
1935
4.20
Alias Mr. Twilight
1946
5.10
Sons of Liberty
1939
6.20
Honor of the Range
1934
5.00
Hell's Outpost
1954
5.00
Son of the Border
1933
9.00
Slightly Married
1932
5.50
The Gay Deception
1935
6.40
We're Not Married!
1952
5.90
The Wyoming Whirlwind
1932
3.00
Drum Taps
1933
4.50
Mystery Mountain
1934
0.00
Down to Earth
1947
6.00
Partners of the Plains
1938
0.00
Wild West Days
1937
0.00
Rawhide Rangers
1941
5.00
Gunsmoke Trail
1938
5.00
They Met in a Taxi
1936
5.50
The Spirit of the West
1932
0.00
Woman Chases Man
1937
5.60
The Curtain Falls
1934
5.00
The Phantom Creeps
1939
4.20
Cross My Heart
1946
0.00
Transient Lady
1935
5.50
A Rider of the Plains
1931
0.00
Trail Dust
1936
4.00
Buck Rogers
1939
6.00
Devil's Island
1939
5.40
The Man Who Returned to Life
1942
6.00
Borderland
1937
0.00
The Oklahoma Kid
1939
6.00
Thunder Afloat
1939
5.90
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
7.85
The Roaring Twenties
1939
7.49
Confidential
1935
5.60
Call of the Prairie
1936
5.00
Adventure in Sahara
1938
5.50
Quick on the Trigger
1948
6.00
It's a Wonderful Life
1946
8.28
Deadline at Dawn
1946
6.30
Dick Tracy's Dilemma
1947
5.40
Meet the Stewarts
1942
6.00
T-Men
1947
6.80
The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
1940
6.20
The Lady Eve
1941
7.20
The Awful Truth
1937
7.20
Oh! Susanna
1951
5.00
The Cheyenne Kid
1933
0.00
The Devil Horse
1932
4.00
Saboteur
1942
6.90
Highway Patrol
1938
0.00
Unfaithfully Yours
1948
7.20
Oklahoma Frontier
1939
0.00
Romance of the Redwoods
1939
6.00
The Lady from Cheyenne
1941
5.20
When the Daltons Rode
1940
6.00
Santa Fe Trail
1940
5.70
Dark Command
1940
6.30
My Little Chickadee
1940
6.44
Winners of the West
1940
0.00
Dodge City Trail
1936
3.00
Two Gun Law
1937
0.00
The Man from Sundown
1939
0.00
The Little Foxes
1941
7.50
Flowing Gold
1940
7.00
Jezebel
1938
7.00
The Courageous Dr. Christian
1940
5.40
California Passage
1950
4.00
Robin Hood Of Texas
1947
0.00
Tim Tyler's Luck
1937
0.00
Diamond Jim
1935
6.00
Honolulu Lu
1941
4.20
Sucker Money
1933
4.70
Messenger of Peace
1947
0.00
Utah Wagon Train
1951
5.00
Blazing Six Shooters
1940
0.00
I Married a Witch
1942
6.80
The Last Musketeer
1952
0.00
Bad Men of the Hills
1942
0.00
Sullivan's Travels
1941
7.40
Pioneers of the Frontier
1940
0.00
Fighting Bill Fargo
1941
6.00
Law of the Range
1941
5.00
The Lone Rider Rides On
1941
0.00
Silver River
1948
5.91
Badlands of Dakota
1941
5.90
Lady from Louisiana
1941
5.30
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
1942
4.70
Silent Valley
1935
0.00
Idaho
1943
5.70
Honky Tonk
1941
6.40
Million Dollar Legs
1932
6.60
All That I Have
1951
5.00
Colorado Trail
1938
0.00
Outlaw Rule
1935
0.00
These Three
1936
7.10
Crash Donovan
1936
0.00
Singin' in the Corn
1946
0.00
Road to Utopia
1946
6.60
Hunt the Man Down
1950
6.20
The Three Mesquiteers
1936
5.00
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945
7.60
You Only Live Once
1937
7.10
A Man's World
1942
6.00
Marie Antoinette
1938
6.60
In This Our Life
1942
6.80
Alibi Racket
1935
6.00
They Were Expendable
1945
6.60
South of Santa Fe
1932
3.00
Little Miss Roughneck
1938
0.00
God's Country and the Man
1931
0.00
Blue Montana Skies
1939
2.00
Iron Mountain Trail
1953
6.00
When a Man Rides Alone
1933
3.00
The Fabulous Joe
1947
5.80
Police Court
1932
5.00
The Missing Juror
1944
6.00
The Thirteenth Guest
1932
4.95
Galloping Thru
1931
6.00
Broadway to Cheyenne
1932
4.20
Black Beauty
1933
0.00
Fighting Texans
1933
0.00
The Doolins of Oklahoma
1949
6.80
California
1947
6.50
Lady in a Jam
1942
5.50
Nora Prentiss
1947
6.10
The Face Behind the Mask
1941
6.50
Circumstantial Evidence
1935
6.00
Strangers on a Train
1951
7.66
A Woman of Distinction
1950
6.20