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Al Bridge
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.
As actor
Jubilee Trail
Hell's Outpost
Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake
Iron Mountain Trail
Barbed Wire
We're Not Married!
The Last Musketeer
In Old Amarillo
Oh! Susanna
Utah Wagon Train
All That I Have
Strangers on a Train
California Passage
Hunt the Man Down
A Woman of Distinction
The Devil's Henchmen
Squadron of Doom
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
The Doolins of Oklahoma
Quick on the Trigger
Unfaithfully Yours
Silver River
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Framed
The Mighty McGurk
Black Gold
Down to Earth
Dick Tracy's Dilemma
T-Men
Robin Hood Of Texas