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.
200 acting credits
Acting · 200
The Gene Autry Show
1950
It's a Wonderful Life
1946
Annie Oakley
1954
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951
Strangers on a Train
1951
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
They Were Expendable
1945
Jezebel
1938
The Roaring Twenties
1939
Saboteur
1942
Dead End
1937
Sullivan's Travels
1941
The Awful Truth
1937
Crime School
1938
The Little Foxes
1941
The Talk of the Town
1942
A Night at the Opera
1935
The Lady Eve
1941
Silver River
1948
Marie Antoinette
1938
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945
T-Men
1947
California
1947
The Oklahoma Kid
1939
I Married a Witch
1942
Santa Fe Trail
1940
Honky Tonk
1941
The Phantom Creeps
1939
We're Not Married!
1952
A Volta do Besouro Verde
1940
Unfaithfully Yours
1948
Nora Prentiss
1947
The Palm Beach Story
1942
Dark Command
1940
Blonde Venus
1932
Jungle Jim
1937
Deadline at Dawn
1946
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
1942
Dick Tracy's Dilemma
1947
You Only Live Once
1937
The Doolins of Oklahoma
1949
Christmas in July
1940
Road to Utopia
1946
My Little Chickadee
1940
Buck Rogers
1939
When the Daltons Rode
1940
Idaho
1943
Hail the Conquering Hero
1944
In This Our Life
1942
The Devil's Henchmen
1949
Saratoga Trunk
1945
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
1944
Rendezvous
1935
Badlands of Dakota
1941
The Lawless Nineties
1936
Framed
1947
These Three
1936
The Gay Deception
1935
Hunt the Man Down
1950
Lady from Louisiana
1941
We're Not Dressing
1934
Circumstantial Evidence
1935
Mystery Mountain
1934
Thunder Afloat
1939
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
1947
The Thirteenth Guest
1932
Diamond Jim
1935
The Face Behind the Mask
1941
Western Gold
1937
Down to Earth
1947
Meet the Stewarts
1942
Lady in a Jam
1942
The Missing Juror
1944
The Lady from Cheyenne
1941
Oh! Susanna
1951
Hell's Outpost
1954
Confidential
1935
Shadows Over Chinatown
1946
Call of the Prairie
1936
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
1942
Fighting With Kit Carson
1933
They Won't Forget
1937
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
1949
Black Beauty
1933
Jubilee Trail
1954
California Passage
1950
The Murder Man
1935
Miss Susie Slagle's
1946
Public Enemy's Wife
1936
Transient Lady
1935
Law of the Range
1941
Alias Mr. Twilight
1946
The Mighty McGurk
1947
Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake
1954
The Jade Mask
1945
Devil's Island
1939
Slightly Married
1932
Blue Montana Skies
1939
The Three Mesquiteers
1936
Borderland
1937
Alias Mary Dow
1935
Rawhide Rangers
1941
Black Gold
1947
Fast Bullets
1936
Born to Be Wild
1938
The Hurricane Express
1932
They Met in a Taxi
1936
The Last Musketeer
1952
Million Dollar Legs
1932
Crash Donovan
1936
Salty O'Rourke
1945
Adventure in Sahara
1938
Springtime in the Rockies
1937
Flowing Gold
1940
Utah Wagon Train
1951
A Woman of Distinction
1950
Sons of Liberty
1939
In Old Amarillo
1951
Broadway to Cheyenne
1932
She Wouldn't Say Yes
1945
Iron Mountain Trail
1953
The New Frontier
1935
A Man's World
1942
Robin Hood Of Texas
1947
Ace Drummond
1936
Melody Trail
1935
Oklahoma Frontier
1939
Honor of the Range
1934
Romance of the Redwoods
1939
Police Court
1932
Colorado Trail
1938
The Lone Rider Rides On
1941
Pioneers of the Frontier
1940
Trail Dust
1936
Nobody's Darling
1943
Cross My Heart
1946
Honolulu Lu
1941
Two Gun Justice
1938
All That I Have
1951
The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
1935
Drum Taps
1933
Woman Chases Man
1937
The Courageous Dr. Christian
1940
Two Gun Law
1937
The Man Who Returned to Life
1942
Thunderhead: Son of Flicka
1945
Twin Husbands
1933
Little Miss Roughneck
1938
The Fabulous Joe
1947
Blazing Six Shooters
1940
Winners of the West
1940
Sucker Money
1933
Gunsmoke Trail
1938
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
1936
Quick on the Trigger
1948
Gallant Defender
1935
Highway Patrol
1938
Silent Valley
1935
The Falcon's Alibi
1946
Messenger of Peace
1947
When a Man Rides Alone
1933
Dodge City Trail
1936
Outlaw Rule
1935
The Bridge of Sighs
1936
Wild West Days
1937
The Curtain Falls
1934
Fighting Texans
1933
The Lone Avenger
1933
Below the Deadline
1946
A Man's Land
1932
Son of the Border
1933
Pardon My Stripes
1942
Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground
1943
Valley of Wanted Men
1935
God's Country and the Man
1931
The Cowboy Counsellor
1932
Galloping Thru
1931
The Stranger from Texas
1939
The Forty-Niners
1932
A Rider of the Plains
1931
Fighting Bill Fargo
1941
Singin' in the Corn
1946
South of Santa Fe
1932
North of Arizona
1935
Squadron of Doom
1949
Westbound Mail
1937
Partners of the Plains
1938
The Cheyenne Kid
1933
Tim Tyler's Luck
1937
Barbed Wire
1952
The Kid's Last Ride
1941
Alibi Racket
1935
The Wyoming Whirlwind
1932
The Ridin' Fool
1931
The Spirit of the West
1932
Bad Men of the Hills
1942
The Devil Horse
1932
The Man from Sundown
1939
The She Wolf
1919
One Man Justice
1937