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Lloyd Bridges
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Born:
January 15, 1913 in San Leandro, CA
Death:
March 10, 1998 in Los Angeles, CA
Biography:Working from the ground up in stock companies, "Lloyd Bridges" was a member of the progressive Actors Lab company in the mid 1930s. He made his Broadway debut toward the end of that decade in a production of "Othello". Signed by Columbia in 1941, Bridges appeared in everything the studio assigned him, from Three Stooges 2-reel comedies to such "A" pictures as "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" (1941), "Talk of the Town" (1942), and "Sahara" (1943). He began freelancing in 1945, accepting the prescient role of a deep-sea diver in 1948's "16 Fathoms Deep", among other films. The most memorable of his '50s assignments was the leading role in the cult science-fiction programmer "Rocketship X-M" (1950) and the part of the look-out-for-number-one deputy in "High Noon" (1952).

Thanks to his earlier involvement in the Actors Lab and his admission at the HUAC hearings that he'd once flirted with communism, Bridges was... Full Biography

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