Though he made more than 150 films during his six-decade Hollywood career, Lloyd Bridges became a household name as the star of television's classic series "Sea Hunt." Born Jan. 13, 1913, in San Leandro, Calif., he developed an interest in acting while attending the University of California at Los Angeles.Bridges worked in stock companies, graduated to Broadway and in 1936 began appearing in uncredited bit parts in movies. His first leading role came in She's a Soldier Too (1944), followed by meaty parts in A Walk in the Sun (1945), the prophetic 16 Fathoms Deep (1948), High Noon (1952) and The Rainmaker (1956).
Graylisted during the legendary Red Purge of the mid-1950s, Bridges transitioned to the small screen but returned to the big screen with a bang in the 1980 spoof Airplane and its 1982 sequel. Bridges, the father of actors Jeff and Beau, died in Los Angeles March 10, 1998.
Rocketship X-MLed by the intrepid Col. Floyd Graham (Lloyd Bridges), a crew of astronauts (Osa Massen, John Emery, Noah Beery Jr. and Hugh O'Brian) embarks on the first manned mission to the moon. But as often happens in early-1950s sci-fi adventures, their mission goes awry, and they crash-land on Mars. Instead... Read More
Attack on the Iron CoastDespite being haunted by past missions in which many of his men perished, Maj. James Wilson (Lloyd Bridges) sets out with his top-notch team of commandos to destroy a prized Nazi stronghold on the coast of France. Assigned to the same task are a crew of British seamen and their captain (Andrew Keir)... Read More
The Other WomanSingle mom Tessa Bryan (Jill Eikenberry) is managing well enough on her own, but everything changes when she's diagnosed with terminal cancer. Now, determined that her two girls will have a mother when she's gone, Tessa tries to get them to accept their stepmom (Laura Leighton) -- a much younger... Read More
TrappedDirector Richard Fleischer's sophisticated thriller traces the U.S. government's efforts to take down a successful counterfeiting ring. With fake $20 bills flooding the system, the gang is making buckets of money at taxpayers' expense. Desperate Treasury Department agents know one man who can help... Read More
Little Big Horn / RimfireYou'll get a double shot of noir with these two gems from the revisionist Western genre. In Little Big Horn (1951), Lloyd Bridges stars as a cavalryman trying to warn Gen. George Custer (who never appears on screen) about an imminent Sioux attack. Then, in Rimfire (1949), James Millican plays a... Read More
