
Al Bridge
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 25, 1891
- Died
- December 27, 1957 (aged 66)
- Birthplace
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
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Filmography

Jubilee Trail
Movie · as Mr. Turner (uncredited)

Hell's Outpost
Movie · as Banker (uncredited)

Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake
Movie · as Hotel Desk Clerk

Annie Oakley
TV · as Pop Wade, Walt Stone · 1 ep

Iron Mountain Trail
Movie · as Marshal

Barbed Wire
Movie · as Homesteader McGraw

We're Not Married!
Movie · as Detective Magnus (uncredited)

The Last Musketeer
Movie · as Lem Shaver

In Old Amarillo
Movie · as Sheriff (uncredited)

Oh! Susanna
Movie · as Jake Ledbetter

Utah Wagon Train
Movie · as Sam Sickle

All That I Have
Movie · as John Biddle

Strangers on a Train
Movie · as Tennis Judge (uncredited)

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
TV · as Sheriff (uncredited) · 1 ep

California Passage
Movie · as Conover

Hunt the Man Down
Movie · as Ulysses Grant Sheldon (uncredited)

A Woman of Distinction
Movie · as Editor

The Gene Autry Show
TV · as Sheriff · 2 eps

The Devil's Henchmen
Movie · as Elmer Hood

Squadron of Doom
Movie · as Wyckoff

The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
Movie · as Sheriff

The Doolins of Oklahoma
Movie · as Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)

Quick on the Trigger
Movie · as Judge Kormac

Unfaithfully Yours
Movie · as House Detective

Silver River
Movie · as Sam Slade

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Movie · as Wild Bill Hickock

Framed
Movie · as (uncredited)

The Mighty McGurk
Movie · as Toothless Derelict (uncredited)

Black Gold
Movie · as Dr. Jonas - Veterinarian

Down to Earth
Movie · as Police Captain (uncredited)

Dick Tracy's Dilemma
Movie · as Mr. Cudd (uncredited)

T-Men
Movie · as Agent in Phone Booth (uncredited)

Robin Hood Of Texas
Movie · as Sheriff

Messenger of Peace
Movie · as Harry Franzmeirer

The Fabulous Joe
Movie · as Florida Club Bartender

California
Movie · as Town Marshal (uncredited)

Nora Prentiss
Movie · as New York City Policeman (uncredited)

Below the Deadline
Movie · as Turner

Shadows Over Chinatown
Movie · as Captain Allen

The Falcon's Alibi
Movie · as Police Inspector Blake

Alias Mr. Twilight
Movie · as Sam Bartlett

Cross My Heart
Movie · as Detective Flynn

It's a Wonderful Life
Movie · as Sheriff (uncredited)

Deadline at Dawn
Movie · as Detective Smiley (uncredited)

Singin' in the Corn
Movie · as Honest John Richards

Road to Utopia
Movie · as Ship Captain (uncredited)

Miss Susie Slagle's
Movie · as Cab Driver (uncredited)

My Pal Trigger
Movie · as Henry Wallace (uncredited)

Salty O'Rourke
Movie · as Bartender (uncredited)

The Jade Mask
Movie · as Sheriff Mack

Thunderhead: Son of Flicka
Movie · as Dr. Hicks

Saratoga Trunk
Movie · as Soule Gang Engineer (uncredited)

She Wouldn't Say Yes
Movie · as Conductor (uncredited)

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Movie · as Cheap Charlie (uncredited)

They Were Expendable
Movie · as Lieutenant Colonel (uncredited)

Hail the Conquering Hero
Movie · as Political Boss

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Movie · as Mr. Johnson

The Missing Juror
Movie · as Deputy Sheriff Ben (uncredited)

Nobody's Darling
Movie · as Bum (uncredited)

Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground
Movie · as Matt Warner

Idaho
Movie · as Jailer

The Talk of the Town
Movie · as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)

The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Movie · as Trustee

The Palm Beach Story
Movie · as Conductor

Pardon My Stripes
Movie · as Guard (uncredited)

The Man Who Returned to Life
Movie · as Hobo

Meet the Stewarts
Movie · as Police Turnkey (uncredited)

Saboteur
Movie · as Marine MP Sergeant (uncredited)

I Married a Witch
Movie · as Second Prison Guard (uncredited)

Bad Men of the Hills
Movie · as Mace Arnold

Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Movie · as Man

A Man's World
Movie · as Captain Peterson

In This Our Life
Movie · as Worker (uncredited)

Lady in a Jam
Movie · as Furniture Mover (uncredited)

The Kid's Last Ride
Movie · as Bob Harmon / Jim Breeden

Rawhide Rangers
Movie · as Rawlings

The Lady from Cheyenne
Movie · as Mr. Matthews

The Little Foxes
Movie · as Dawson (uncredited)

Honolulu Lu
Movie · as Shooting Gallery Proprietor

Sullivan's Travels
Movie · as The Mister

Fighting Bill Fargo
Movie · as Tom Houston

Law of the Range
Movie · as Jamison

The Lone Rider Rides On
Movie · as Bob Cameron

Badlands of Dakota
Movie · as Plainview Lawman

Lady from Louisiana
Movie · as Captain of Police

Honky Tonk
Movie · as Townsman at Meeting House (uncredited)

The Face Behind the Mask
Movie · as Flop House Manager (uncredited)

The Lady Eve
Movie · as First Steward (uncredited)

Christmas in July
Movie · as Mr. Hillbeiner

The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Movie · as Ship's Captain

When the Daltons Rode
Movie

Santa Fe Trail
Movie · as Palmyra Townsman (uncredited)

Dark Command
Movie · as Slave Trader

My Little Chickadee
Movie · as Barfly Drinking Straight Whiskey (uncredited)

Winners of the West
Movie · as Captain

Flowing Gold
Movie · as Highway Patrolman (uncredited)

The Courageous Dr. Christian
Movie · as Sheriff

Blazing Six Shooters
Movie · as Bert Karsin

Pioneers of the Frontier
Movie · as Marshal Larsen

The Stranger from Texas
Movie · as Jeff Browning

Sons of Liberty
Movie · as Prisoner (uncredited)

The Phantom Creeps
Movie · as White Rose Sailor

Buck Rogers
Movie · as Dynamo Room Floor Guard

Devil's Island
Movie · as Captain of the Guards

The Oklahoma Kid
Movie · as Would-Be Settler (uncredited)

Thunder Afloat
Movie · as Fisherman (uncredited)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Movie · as Senator Dwight (uncredited)

The Roaring Twenties
Movie · as Ship Captain (uncredited)

Oklahoma Frontier
Movie · as Kentuck

Romance of the Redwoods
Movie · as Boss Whittaker

The Man from Sundown
Movie · as Slick Larson

Blue Montana Skies
Movie · as Marshal

Two Gun Justice
Movie · as Sheriff (as Al Bridges)

Born to Be Wild
Movie · as Kennedy - Trucker in Cafe (uncredited)

Crime School
Movie · as Mr. Burke

Partners of the Plains
Movie · as Scar Lewis

Gunsmoke Trail
Movie · as Sheriff chasing Loma

Adventure in Sahara
Movie · as Cpl. Dronov
Highway Patrol
Movie · as Jarvis

Jezebel
Movie · as New Orleans Sheriff (uncredited)

Colorado Trail
Movie · as Mark Sheldon

Marie Antoinette
Movie · as Official in Passport Office (uncredited)

Little Miss Roughneck
Movie · as Sheriff

Dead End
Movie · as Policeman in Drina's Apartment (uncredited)

Western Gold
Movie · as Holman (as Alan Bridge)

Springtime in the Rockies
Movie · as Briggs

They Won't Forget
Movie · as Mob Leader Outside Governor's Mansion (uncredited)

Jungle Jim
Movie · as Slade

Wild West Days
Movie · as Steve Claggett, Henchman

Woman Chases Man
Movie · as Process Server (uncredited)

Borderland
Movie · as Dandy Morgan

The Awful Truth
Movie · as Motor Cop (uncredited)

Two Gun Law
Movie · as Kipp Faulkner

Tim Tyler's Luck
Movie · as Capt. Trowbridge

You Only Live Once
Movie · as Guard (uncredited)

Westbound Mail
Movie · as 'Bull' Feeney

One Man Justice
Movie · as Red Grindy

The Bridge of Sighs
Movie · as Ballistics Expert (uncredited)

The Lawless Nineties
Movie · as Steele

Fast Bullets
Movie · as Travis

Ace Drummond
Movie · as Paul Wyckoff

Public Enemy's Wife
Movie · as Swartzman

They Met in a Taxi
Movie · as Detective

Trail Dust
Movie · as Babson

Call of the Prairie
Movie · as Sam Porter

The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Movie · as Henchman Black

Dodge City Trail
Movie · as Dawson

These Three
Movie · as Mrs. Walton's Chauffeur (uncredited)

Crash Donovan
Movie · as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)

The Three Mesquiteers
Movie · as Alden Canfield

A Night at the Opera
Movie · as Immigration Inspector (uncredited)

The Murder Man
Movie · as Judge John C. Garfield (uncredited)

Rendezvous
Movie · as Sergeant (uncredited)

Alias Mary Dow
Movie · as Ditch-Digger (uncredited)

Valley of Wanted Men
Movie · as Ranger Sergeant Parsons

The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
Movie · as Mitchell

Gallant Defender
Movie · as Salty Smith

Melody Trail
Movie · as Matt Kirby

The New Frontier
Movie · as Kit

North of Arizona
Movie · as George Tully

The Gay Deception
Movie · as Jail Attendant (uncredited)

Transient Lady
Movie · as Sheriff Angel Verner

Confidential
Movie · as Hanover - Walsh's Henchman

Diamond Jim
Movie · as Poker Player on Train

Silent Valley
Movie · as Jim Farley

Outlaw Rule
Movie · as Deputy Bat Lindstrom

Alibi Racket
Movie · as Chief Inspector August Wilmer

Circumstantial Evidence
Movie · as John Cassidy (uncredited)

Honor of the Range
Movie · as Townsman (uncredited)

Mystery Mountain
Movie · as Tom Henderson

The Curtain Falls
Movie · as Mover

We're Not Dressing
Movie · as Ship's Officer in Rescue Party (uncredited)

Fighting With Kit Carson
Movie · as Reynolds

The Lone Avenger
Movie · as Burl Adams

Son of the Border
Movie · as Tupper

Drum Taps
Movie · as Lariat Smith

The Cheyenne Kid
Movie · as Denver Ed

Sucker Money
Movie · as George Hunter

When a Man Rides Alone
Movie · as Montana Slade

Black Beauty
Movie · as Hack Driver

Fighting Texans
Movie · as Gur Durkin

Twin Husbands
Movie · as Highway Patrolman (uncredited)

Blonde Venus
Movie · as Bouncer (uncredited)

A Man's Land
Movie · as Steve - Rustler

The Forty-Niners
Movie · as Squaw O'Hara

The Hurricane Express
Movie · as The Station Agent

The Cowboy Counsellor
Movie · as Sheriff Matt Farraday

Slightly Married
Movie · as Tenant

The Wyoming Whirlwind
Movie · as Steve Cantrell

The Spirit of the West
Movie · as Tom Fallon

The Devil Horse
Movie · as Henchman Curley Bates

Million Dollar Legs
Movie · as Secret Emissary #3 (uncredited)

South of Santa Fe
Movie · as Henchman Wooly

Police Court
Movie

The Thirteenth Guest
Movie · as Policeman (uncredited)

Broadway to Cheyenne
Movie · as Al

The Ridin' Fool
Movie · as Nikkos (as Al Bridges)

A Rider of the Plains
Movie · as Deputy Bill Gaines

God's Country and the Man
Movie · as Livermore

Galloping Thru
Movie · as Sandy Thompson
The She Wolf
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