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.
197 movies · 3 shows
Hell's Outpost
1954·5.5
Jubilee Trail
1954·5.2
Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake
1954·7.0
Iron Mountain Trail
1953·6.5
Barbed Wire
1952·6.5
We're Not Married!
1952·5.9
The Last Musketeer
1952·8.0
Utah Wagon Train
1951·6.7
All That I Have
1951·6.0
Strangers on a Train
1951·7.7
In Old Amarillo
1951·8.0
Oh! Susanna
1951·7.0
Hunt the Man Down
1950·6.3
California Passage
1950·6.0
A Woman of Distinction
1950·7.0
Squadron of Doom
1949·10.0
The Devil's Henchmen
1949·7.5
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
1949·5.9
The Doolins of Oklahoma
1949·6.8
Quick on the Trigger
1948·6.5
Unfaithfully Yours
1948·7.2
Silver River
1948·6.2
T-Men
1947·6.8
Messenger of Peace
1947·8.0
Black Gold
1947·7.0
The Fabulous Joe
1947·5.5
Down to Earth
1947·6.0
Robin Hood Of Texas
1947·7.0
Framed
1947·6.5
Dick Tracy's Dilemma
1947·5.5
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
1947·6.4
Nora Prentiss
1947·6.2
California
1947·6.8
The Mighty McGurk
1947·6.7
Singin' in the Corn
1946·7.0
Alias Mr. Twilight
1946·6.1
It's a Wonderful Life
1946·8.3
Cross My Heart
1946·9.0
Below the Deadline
1946·4.9
Shadows Over Chinatown
1946·6.2
The Falcon's Alibi
1946·5.3
Deadline at Dawn
1946·6.2
Miss Susie Slagle's
1946·8.5
Road to Utopia
1946·6.7
They Were Expendable
1945·6.5
She Wouldn't Say Yes
1945·6.4
Saratoga Trunk
1945·6.1
Salty O'Rourke
1945·6.0
Thunderhead: Son of Flicka
1945·6.6
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945·7.5
The Jade Mask
1945·6.1
The Missing Juror
1944·6.3
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
1944·6.9
Hail the Conquering Hero
1944·7.1
Nobody's Darling
1943·8.0
Idaho
1943·6.3
Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground
1943·9.0
I Married a Witch
1942·6.9
A Man's World
1942·7.0
The Palm Beach Story
1942·7.0
The Talk of the Town
1942·7.3
Bad Men of the Hills
1942·8.0
Lady in a Jam
1942·5.6
Meet the Stewarts
1942·5.5
In This Our Life
1942·6.9
Saboteur
1942·6.9
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
1942·6.4
The Man Who Returned to Life
1942·7.3
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
1942·5.5
Pardon My Stripes
1942·6.5
Honolulu Lu
1941·5.8
Fighting Bill Fargo
1941·7.0
Sullivan's Travels
1941·7.4
Honky Tonk
1941·6.4
Badlands of Dakota
1941·6.0
The Little Foxes
1941·7.5
Rawhide Rangers
1941·6.7
Law of the Range
1941·6.5
Lady from Louisiana
1941·5.4
The Lady from Cheyenne
1941·5.7
The Lady Eve
1941·7.3
The Kid's Last Ride
1941·4.8
The Face Behind the Mask
1941·6.5
The Lone Rider Rides On
1941·9.0
A Volta do Besouro Verde
1940·6.8
Santa Fe Trail
1940·5.8
Christmas in July
1940·7.0
Flowing Gold
1940·6.7
When the Daltons Rode
1940·6.2
Winners of the West
1940·7.0
Dark Command
1940·6.4
Blazing Six Shooters
1940·8.0
The Courageous Dr. Christian
1940·6.2
Pioneers of the Frontier
1940·9.0
My Little Chickadee
1940·6.5
The Stranger from Texas
1939·8.0
The Roaring Twenties
1939·7.5
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939·7.8
Oklahoma Frontier
1939·6.0
Thunder Afloat
1939·6.1
The Man from Sundown
1939·10.0
Sons of Liberty
1939·6.3
Blue Montana Skies
1939·4.5
Buck Rogers
1939·6.1
Romance of the Redwoods
1939·7.0
The Oklahoma Kid
1939·6.0
The Phantom Creeps
1939·4.5
Devil's Island
1939·5.7
Adventure in Sahara
1938·5.8
Colorado Trail
1938·8.0
Marie Antoinette
1938·6.6
Highway Patrol
1938·9.0
Gunsmoke Trail
1938·6.0
Crime School
1938·6.4
Two Gun Justice
1938·7.5
Jezebel
1938·7.0
Born to Be Wild
1938·7.5
Little Miss Roughneck
1938·10.0
Partners of the Plains
1938·5.0
Tim Tyler's Luck
1937·7.0
Springtime in the Rockies
1937·5.5
The Awful Truth
1937·7.2
Dead End
1937·7.1
Western Gold
1937·9.0
They Won't Forget
1937·5.9
Wild West Days
1937·8.0
One Man Justice
1937·6.5
Woman Chases Man
1937·5.9
Two Gun Law
1937·10.0
Borderland
1937·7.5
You Only Live Once
1937·7.1
Westbound Mail
1937·8.0
Jungle Jim
1937·5.4
Dodge City Trail
1936·3.0
Trail Dust
1936·5.3
Ace Drummond
1936·7.0
The Three Mesquiteers
1936·7.0
They Met in a Taxi
1936·6.8
Crash Donovan
1936·8.0
Public Enemy's Wife
1936·6.4
These Three
1936·7.2
Call of the Prairie
1936·5.8
The Lawless Nineties
1936·5.5
The Bridge of Sighs
1936·8.0
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
1936·5.7
Fast Bullets
1936·5.7
Gallant Defender
1935·9.0
A Night at the Opera
1935·7.4
Rendezvous
1935·4.9
The New Frontier
1935·4.9
Melody Trail
1935·5.3
Valley of Wanted Men
1935·6.3
Confidential
1935·6.3
Alibi Racket
1935·6.2
The Gay Deception
1935·6.3
Diamond Jim
1935·6.5
The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
1935·7.3
The Murder Man
1935·7.1
Silent Valley
1935·10.0
Alias Mary Dow
1935·7.2
Circumstantial Evidence
1935·6.3
Transient Lady
1935·6.3
North of Arizona
1935·5.4
Outlaw Rule
1935·9.0
Mystery Mountain
1934·6.5
The Curtain Falls
1934·6.0
We're Not Dressing
1934·6.7
Honor of the Range
1934·6.3
Twin Husbands
1933·4.7
Fighting With Kit Carson
1933·6.5
Fighting Texans
1933·9.0
The Lone Avenger
1933·10.0
Son of the Border
1933·7.3
Black Beauty
1933·10.0
Sucker Money
1933·5.3
Drum Taps
1933·5.5
The Cheyenne Kid
1933·5.5
When a Man Rides Alone
1933·6.5
The Wyoming Whirlwind
1932·5.0
The Devil Horse
1932·5.7
The Forty-Niners
1932·9.0
Slightly Married
1932·6.3
The Cowboy Counsellor
1932·6.0
Blonde Venus
1932·6.8
Broadway to Cheyenne
1932·5.0
The Thirteenth Guest
1932·5.2
The Hurricane Express
1932·5.4
Million Dollar Legs
1932·6.8
A Man's Land
1932·7.5
The Spirit of the West
1932·7.0
Police Court
1932·5.8
South of Santa Fe
1932·5.5
Galloping Thru
1931·6.5
The Ridin' Fool
1931·10.0
A Rider of the Plains
1931·9.0
God's Country and the Man
1931·8.0
The She Wolf
1919·7.0