Al Bridge
Born: 1891-02-26 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1957-12-27
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 cent ...
Acting (in our collection)
Unfaithfully Yours
(1948)
It's a Wonderful Life
(1946)
Road to Utopia
(1946)
They Were Expendable
(1945)
Thunderhead - Son of Flicka
(1945)
Hail the Conquering Hero
(1944)
The Palm Beach Story
(1942)
The Talk of the Town
(1942)
I Married a Witch
(1942)
The Lady Eve
(1941)
Sullivan's Travels
(1941)
Christmas in July
(1940)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
(1939)
The Roaring Twenties
(1939)
Marie Antoinette
(1938)
You Only Live Once
(1937)