
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