Al Bridge
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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.
Known for
Credits
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
as Sheriff (uncredited)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
as Tennis Judge (uncredited)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
as Senator Dwight (uncredited)
I Married a Witch (1942)
as Second Prison Guard (uncredited)
Saboteur (1942)
as Marine MP Sergeant (uncredited)
Jezebel (1938)
as New Orleans Sheriff (uncredited)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
as Ship Captain (uncredited)
They Were Expendable (1945)
as Lieutenant Colonel (uncredited)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
as Immigration Inspector (uncredited)
The Lady Eve (1941)
as First Steward (uncredited)
The Awful Truth (1937)
as Motor Cop (uncredited)
The Little Foxes (1941)
as Dawson (uncredited)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
as The Mister
Dark Command (1940)
as Slave Trader
Blonde Venus (1932)
as Bouncer (uncredited)
You Only Live Once (1937)
as Guard (uncredited)
Silver River (1948)
as Sam Slade
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
as Cheap Charlie (uncredited)
T-Men (1947)
as Agent in Phone Booth (uncredited)
Dead End (1937)
as Policeman in Drina's Apartment (uncredited)
Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
as House Detective
In This Our Life (1942)
as Worker (uncredited)
Santa Fe Trail (1940)
as Palmyra Townsman (uncredited)
These Three (1936)
as Mrs. Walton's Chauffeur (uncredited)
The Talk of the Town (1942)
as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Westbound Mail (1937)
as 'Bull' Feeney
The Oklahoma Kid (1939)
as Would-Be Settler (uncredited)
The Palm Beach Story (1942)
as Conductor
Honky Tonk (1941)
as Townsman at Meeting House (uncredited)
Down to Earth (1947)
as Police Captain (uncredited)
Devil's Island (1939)
as Captain of the Guards
Dick Tracy's Dilemma (1947)
as Mr. Cudd (uncredited)
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
as Mr. Johnson
Road to Utopia (1946)
as Ship Captain (uncredited)
Marie Antoinette (1938)
as Official in Passport Office (uncredited)
California (1947)
as Town Marshal (uncredited)
Oh! Susanna (1951)
as Jake Ledbetter
Christmas in July (1940)
as Mr. Hillbeiner
Nora Prentiss (1947)
as New York City Policeman (uncredited)
We're Not Married! (1952)
as Detective Magnus (uncredited)
Ace Drummond (1936)
as Paul Wyckoff
The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1940)
as Ship's Captain
Badlands of Dakota (1941)
as Plainview Lawman
The Gay Deception (1935)
as Jail Attendant (uncredited)
Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
as Political Boss
Galloping Thru (1931)
as Sandy Thompson
Salty O'Rourke (1945)
as Bartender (uncredited)
When the Daltons Rode (1940)
Actor
Transient Lady (1935)
as Sheriff Angel Verner
Honolulu Lu (1941)
as Shooting Gallery Proprietor
Framed (1947)
as (uncredited)
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949)
as Sheriff
Thunder Afloat (1939)
as Fisherman (uncredited)
The Lawless Nineties (1936)
as Steele
The Phantom Creeps (1939)
as White Rose Sailor
Saratoga Trunk (1945)
as Soule Gang Engineer (uncredited)
Cross My Heart (1946)
as Detective Flynn
Miss Susie Slagle's (1946)
as Cab Driver (uncredited)
The Face Behind the Mask (1941)
as Flop House Manager (uncredited)
Deadline at Dawn (1946)
as Detective Smiley (uncredited)
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)
as Wild Bill Hickock
A Man's World (1942)
as Captain Peterson
Jubilee Trail (1954)
as Mr. Turner (uncredited)
Rendezvous (1935)
as Sergeant (uncredited)
The Adventures of Rex and Rinty (1935)
as Mitchell
The Doolins of Oklahoma (1949)
as Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
Lady from Louisiana (1941)
as Captain of Police
The Devil's Henchmen (1949)
as Elmer Hood
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine (1942)
as Trustee
Crime School (1938)
as Mr. Burke
Meet the Stewarts (1942)
as Police Turnkey (uncredited)
My Little Chickadee (1940)
as Barfly Drinking Straight Whiskey (uncredited)
The Murder Man (1935)
as Judge John C. Garfield (uncredited)
Lady in a Jam (1942)
as Furniture Mover (uncredited)
They Met in a Taxi (1936)
as Detective
The Wyoming Whirlwind (1932)
as Steve Cantrell
Hell's Outpost (1954)
as Banker (uncredited)
Buck Rogers (1939)
as Dynamo Room Floor Guard
Squadron of Doom (1949)
as Wyckoff
Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942)
as Man
The New Frontier (1935)
as Kit
A Woman of Distinction (1950)
as Editor
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (1936)
as Henchman Black
California Passage (1950)
as Conover
Diamond Jim (1935)
as Poker Player on Train
Singin' in the Corn (1946)
as Honest John Richards
Public Enemy's Wife (1936)
as Swartzman
The Three Mesquiteers (1936)
as Alden Canfield
The Thirteenth Guest (1932)
as Policeman (uncredited)
Pardon My Stripes (1942)
as Guard (uncredited)
The Lady from Cheyenne (1941)
as Mr. Matthews
Iron Mountain Trail (1953)
as Marshal
The Mighty McGurk (1947)
as Toothless Derelict (uncredited)
Million Dollar Legs (1932)
as Secret Emissary #3 (uncredited)
Nobody's Darling (1943)
as Bum (uncredited)
The Jade Mask (1945)
as Sheriff Mack
Flowing Gold (1940)
as Highway Patrolman (uncredited)
The Fabulous Joe (1947)
as Florida Club Bartender
Hunt the Man Down (1950)
as Ulysses Grant Sheldon (uncredited)
Black Gold (1947)
as Dr. Jonas - Veterinarian
Crash Donovan (1936)
as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
One Man Justice (1937)
as Red Grindy
Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake (1954)
as Hotel Desk Clerk
Sons of Liberty (1939)
as Prisoner (uncredited)
The Bridge of Sighs (1936)
as Ballistics Expert (uncredited)
Robin Hood Of Texas (1947)
as Sheriff
The Man Who Returned to Life (1942)
as Hobo
Call of the Prairie (1936)
as Sam Porter
Shadows Over Chinatown (1946)
as Captain Allen
Valley of Wanted Men (1935)
as Ranger Sergeant Parsons
Tim Tyler's Luck (1937)
as Capt. Trowbridge
They Won't Forget (1937)
as Mob Leader Outside Governor's Mansion (uncredited)
Thunderhead: Son of Flicka (1945)
as Dr. Hicks
She Wouldn't Say Yes (1945)
as Conductor (uncredited)
Borderland (1937)
as Dandy Morgan
Alias Mr. Twilight (1946)
as Sam Bartlett
Utah Wagon Train (1951)
as Sam Sickle
The Hurricane Express (1932)
as The Station Agent
Idaho (1943)
as Jailer
We're Not Dressing (1934)
as Ship's Officer in Rescue Party (uncredited)
Wild West Days (1937)
as Steve Claggett, Henchman
Alias Mary Dow (1935)
as Ditch-Digger (uncredited)
Winners of the West (1940)
as Captain
Below the Deadline (1946)
as Turner
The Lone Rider Rides On (1941)
as Bob Cameron
Born to Be Wild (1938)
as Kennedy - Trucker in Cafe (uncredited)
Jungle Jim (1937)
as Slade
Western Gold (1937)
as Holman (as Alan Bridge)
The Last Musketeer (1952)
as Lem Shaver
Adventure in Sahara (1938)
as Cpl. Dronov
Confidential (1935)
as Hanover - Walsh's Henchman
The Falcon's Alibi (1946)
as Police Inspector Blake
Fighting With Kit Carson (1933)
as Reynolds
A Rider of the Plains (1931)
as Deputy Bill Gaines
Bad Men of the Hills (1942)
as Mace Arnold
The She Wolf (1919)
Actor
Son of the Border (1933)
as Tupper
Dodge City Trail (1936)
as Dawson
Woman Chases Man (1937)
as Process Server (uncredited)
Silent Valley (1935)
as Jim Farley
Law of the Range (1941)
as Jamison
Springtime in the Rockies (1937)
as Briggs
Barbed Wire (1952)
as Homesteader McGraw
Trail Dust (1936)
as Babson
Honor of the Range (1934)
as Townsman (uncredited)
Gallant Defender (1935)
as Salty Smith
All That I Have (1951)
as John Biddle
Partners of the Plains (1938)
as Scar Lewis
The Missing Juror (1944)
as Deputy Sheriff Ben (uncredited)
Pioneers of the Frontier (1940)
as Marshal Larsen
Melody Trail (1935)
as Matt Kirby
Oklahoma Frontier (1939)
as Kentuck
Slightly Married (1932)
as Tenant
Fast Bullets (1936)
as Travis
In Old Amarillo (1951)
as Sheriff (uncredited)
The Man from Sundown (1939)
as Slick Larson
Romance of the Redwoods (1939)
as Boss Whittaker
Blazing Six Shooters (1940)
as Bert Karsin
The Stranger from Texas (1939)
as Jeff Browning
Blue Montana Skies (1939)
as Marshal
Circumstantial Evidence (1935)
as John Cassidy (uncredited)
Sucker Money (1933)
as George Hunter
The Courageous Dr. Christian (1940)
as Sheriff
Rawhide Rangers (1941)
as Rawlings
North of Arizona (1935)
as George Tully
The Lone Avenger (1933)
as Burl Adams
South of Santa Fe (1932)
as Henchman Wooly
Twin Husbands (1933)
as Highway Patrolman (uncredited)
Two Gun Justice (1938)
as Sheriff (as Al Bridges)
Quick on the Trigger (1948)
as Judge Kormac
Broadway to Cheyenne (1932)
as Al
The Ridin' Fool (1931)
as Nikkos (as Al Bridges)
Mystery Mountain (1934)
as Tom Henderson
The Forty-Niners (1932)
as Squaw O'Hara
Black Beauty (1933)
as Hack Driver
The Devil Horse (1932)
as Henchman Curley Bates
Messenger of Peace (1947)
as Harry Franzmeirer
The Kid's Last Ride (1941)
as Bob Harmon / Jim Breeden
Alibi Racket (1935)
as Chief Inspector August Wilmer
The Curtain Falls (1934)
as Mover
Outlaw Rule (1935)
as Deputy Bat Lindstrom
The Cheyenne Kid (1933)
as Denver Ed
Fighting Bill Fargo (1941)
as Tom Houston
Little Miss Roughneck (1938)
as Sheriff
Highway Patrol (1938)
as Jarvis
Drum Taps (1933)
as Lariat Smith
Police Court (1932)
Actor
A Man's Land (1932)
as Steve - Rustler
Two Gun Law (1937)
as Kipp Faulkner
Fighting Texans (1933)
as Gur Durkin
Colorado Trail (1938)
as Mark Sheldon
The Spirit of the West (1932)
as Tom Fallon
Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground (1943)
as Matt Warner
When a Man Rides Alone (1933)
as Montana Slade
Gunsmoke Trail (1938)
as Sheriff chasing Loma
God's Country and the Man (1931)
as Livermore
The Cowboy Counsellor (1932)
as Sheriff Matt Farraday