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Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 25, 1891
Died
December 27, 1957
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Also Known As
- Alan Bridge
- Alfred Morton Bridge
Al Bridge
0.5 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
5.0
Banker (uncredited)
Hell's Outpost
1954
4.8
Mr. Turner (uncredited)
Jubilee Trail
1954
0.0
Hotel Desk Clerk
Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake
1954
5.2
Pop Wade
Annie Oakley
1954
5.2
Walt Stone
Annie Oakley
1954
6.0
Marshal
Iron Mountain Trail
1953
5.0
Homesteader McGraw
Barbed Wire
1952
5.8
Detective Magnus (uncredited)
We're Not Married!
1952
0.0
Lem Shaver
The Last Musketeer
1952
5.0
Sam Sickle
Utah Wagon Train
1951
Credits
Hell's Outpost
as Banker (uncredited)
1954
5.0
Jubilee Trail
as Mr. Turner (uncredited)
1954
4.8
Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake
as Hotel Desk Clerk
1954
0.0
Annie Oakley
as Pop Wade
1954
5.2
Annie Oakley
as Walt Stone
1954
5.2
Iron Mountain Trail
as Marshal
1953
6.0
Barbed Wire
as Homesteader McGraw
1952
5.0
We're Not Married!
as Detective Magnus (uncredited)
1952
5.8
The Last Musketeer
as Lem Shaver
1952
0.0
Utah Wagon Train
as Sam Sickle
1951
5.0
All That I Have
as John Biddle
1951
5.0
Strangers on a Train
as Tennis Judge (uncredited)
1951
7.7
In Old Amarillo
as Sheriff (uncredited)
1951
6.0
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
as Sheriff (uncredited)
1951
4.5
Oh! Susanna
as Jake Ledbetter
1951
5.0
Hunt the Man Down
as Ulysses Grant Sheldon (uncredited)
1950
6.2
California Passage
as Conover
1950
4.0
The Gene Autry Show
as Sheriff
1950
4.2
A Woman of Distinction
as Editor
1950
6.2
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Squadron of Doom
as Wyckoff
1949
0.0
The Devil's Henchmen
as Elmer Hood
1949
6.0
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
as Sheriff
1949
5.8
The Doolins of Oklahoma
as Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
1949
6.8
Unfaithfully Yours
as House Detective
1948
7.2
Quick on the Trigger
as Judge Kormac
1948
6.0
Silver River
as Sam Slade
1948
5.9
T-Men
as Agent in Phone Booth (uncredited)
1947
6.8
🎬
Messenger of Peace
as Harry Franzmeirer
1947
0.0
Black Gold
as Dr. Jonas - Veterinarian
1947
6.0
The Fabulous Joe
as Florida Club Bartender
1947
5.2
Down to Earth
as Police Captain (uncredited)
1947
5.9
Robin Hood Of Texas
as Sheriff
1947
0.0
Framed
as (uncredited)
1947
6.4
Dick Tracy's Dilemma
as Mr. Cudd (uncredited)
1947
5.4
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
as Wild Bill Hickock
1947
6.3
Nora Prentiss
as New York City Policeman (uncredited)
1947
6.1
California
as Town Marshal (uncredited)
1947
6.7
The Mighty McGurk
as Toothless Derelict (uncredited)
1947
6.4
Singin' in the Corn
as Honest John Richards
1946
0.0
Alias Mr. Twilight
as Sam Bartlett
1946
5.3
It's a Wonderful Life
as Sheriff (uncredited)
1946
8.3
Cross My Heart
as Detective Flynn
1946
0.0
Below the Deadline
as Turner
1946
4.3
Shadows Over Chinatown
as Captain Allen
1946
6.0
The Falcon's Alibi
as Police Inspector Blake
1946
4.8
Deadline at Dawn
as Detective Smiley (uncredited)
1946
6.2
Road to Utopia
as Ship Captain (uncredited)
1946
6.7
They Were Expendable
as Lieutenant Colonel (uncredited)
1945
6.5
She Wouldn't Say Yes
as Conductor (uncredited)
1945
5.9
Saratoga Trunk
as Soule Gang Engineer (uncredited)
1945
5.7
Salty O'Rourke
as Bartender (uncredited)
1945
5.3
Thunderhead: Son of Flicka
as Dr. Hicks
1945
6.7
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
as Cheap Charlie (uncredited)
1945
7.5
The Jade Mask
as Sheriff Mack
1945
6.1
The Missing Juror
as Deputy Sheriff Ben (Uncredited)
1944
6.0
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
as Mr. Johnson
1944
6.8
Hail the Conquering Hero
as Political Boss
1944
7.0
Nobody's Darling
as Bum (uncredited)
1943
0.0
Idaho
as Jailer
1943
5.7
Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground
as Matt Warner
1943
0.0
I Married a Witch
as Second Prison Guard (uncredited)
1942
6.8
A Man's World
as Captain Peterson
1942
6.0
The Palm Beach Story
as Conductor
1942
7.0
The Talk of the Town
as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
1942
7.3
Bad Men of the Hills
as Mace Arnold
1942
0.0
Lady in a Jam
as Furniture Mover (uncredited)
1942
5.3
Meet the Stewarts
as Police Turnkey (uncredited)
1942
4.3
In This Our Life
as Worker (uncredited)
1942
6.8
Saboteur
as Marine MP Sergeant (uncredited)
1942
6.9
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
as Trustee
1942
6.0
The Man Who Returned to Life
as Hobo
1942
6.0
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
as Man
1942
4.7
Pardon My Stripes
as Guard (uncredited)
1942
6.0
Honolulu Lu
as Shooting Gallery Proprietor
1941
4.2
Fighting Bill Fargo
as Tom Houston
1941
6.0
Sullivan's Travels
as The Mister
1941
7.4
Honky Tonk
as Townsman at Meeting House (uncredited)
1941
6.4
Badlands of Dakota
as Plainview Lawman
1941
5.9
The Little Foxes
as Dawson (uncredited)
1941
7.5
Rawhide Rangers
as Rawlings
1941
5.0
Law of the Range
as Jamison
1941
5.0
Lady from Louisiana
as Captain of Police
1941
5.3
The Lady from Cheyenne
as Mr. Matthews
1941
4.6
The Lady Eve
as First Steward (uncredited)
1941
7.2
The Kid's Last Ride
as Bob Harmon / Jim Breeden
1941
3.7
The Face Behind the Mask
as Flop House Manager (uncredited)
1941
6.5
The Lone Rider Rides On
as Bob Cameron
1941
0.0
The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
as Ship's Captain
1940
6.2
Santa Fe Trail
as Palmyra Townsman (uncredited)
1940
5.7
Christmas in July
as Mr. Hillbeiner
1940
6.9
Flowing Gold
as Highway Patrolman (uncredited)
1940
7.0
When the Daltons Rode
1940
6.0
Winners of the West
as Captain
1940
0.0
Dark Command
as Slave Trader
1940
6.3
Blazing Six Shooters
as Bert Karsin
1940
0.0
The Courageous Dr. Christian
as Sheriff
1940
5.4
Pioneers of the Frontier
as Marshal Larsen
1940
0.0
My Little Chickadee
as Barfly Drinking Straight Whiskey (uncredited)
1940
6.4
The Stranger from Texas
as Jeff Browning
1939
0.0
The Roaring Twenties
as Ship Captain (uncredited)
1939
7.5
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as Senator Dwight (uncredited)
1939
7.8
Oklahoma Frontier
as Kentuck
1939
0.0
Thunder Afloat
as Fisherman (uncredited)
1939
5.9
The Man from Sundown
as Slick Larson
1939
0.0
Sons of Liberty
as Prisoner (uncredited)
1939
6.2
Blue Montana Skies
as Marshal
1939
2.0
Buck Rogers
as Dynamo Room Floor Guard
1939
6.0
Romance of the Redwoods
as Boss Whittaker
1939
6.0
The Oklahoma Kid
as Would-Be Settler (uncredited)
1939
6.0
Devil's Island
as Captain of the Guards
1939
5.4
The Phantom Creeps
as White Rose Sailor
1939
4.2
Adventure in Sahara
as Cpl. Dronov
1938
5.5
Colorado Trail
as Mark Sheldon
1938
0.0
Marie Antoinette
as Official in Passport Office (uncredited)
1938
6.5
🎬
Highway Patrol
as Jarvis
1938
0.0
Gunsmoke Trail
as Sheriff chasing Loma
1938
5.0
Crime School
as Mr. Burke
1938
6.3
Two Gun Justice
as Sheriff (as Al Bridges)
1938
6.0
Jezebel
as New Orleans Sheriff (uncredited)
1938
7.0
Born to Be Wild
as Kennedy - Trucker in Cafe (uncredited)
1938
7.0
Little Miss Roughneck
as Sheriff
1938
0.0
Partners of the Plains
as Scar Lewis
1938
3.0
Tim Tyler's Luck
as Capt. Trowbridge
1937
0.0
Springtime in the Rockies
as Briggs
1937
4.7
The Awful Truth
as Motor Cop (uncredited)
1937
7.2
Western Gold
as Holman (as Alan Bridge)
1937
0.0
Dead End
as Policeman in Drina's Apartment (Uncredited)
1937
7.0
They Won't Forget
as Mob Leader Outside Governor's Mansion (uncredited)
1937
5.6
Wild West Days
as Steve Claggett, Henchman
1937
0.0
Woman Chases Man
as Process Server (uncredited)
1937
5.6
Two Gun Law
as Kipp Faulkner
1937
0.0
Borderland
as Dandy Morgan
1937
5.0
You Only Live Once
as Guard (uncredited)
1937
7.1
Jungle Jim
as Slade
1937
4.8
Dodge City Trail
as Dawson
1936
3.0
Trail Dust
as Babson
1936
4.0
Ace Drummond
as Paul Wyckoff
1936
6.5
The Three Mesquiteers
as Alden Canfield
1936
5.0
They Met in a Taxi
as Detective
1936
5.5
Crash Donovan
as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
1936
0.0
Public Enemy's Wife
as Swartzman
1936
5.8
These Three
as Mrs. Walton's Chauffeur (uncredited)
1936
7.1
Call of the Prairie
as Sam Porter
1936
4.7
The Lawless Nineties
as Steele
1936
5.2
The Bridge of Sighs
as Ballistics Expert (uncredited)
1936
6.0
The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
as Henchman Black
1936
4.0
Fast Bullets
as Travis
1936
4.5
Gallant Defender
as Salty Smith
1935
0.0
A Night at the Opera
as Immigration Inspector (uncredited)
1935
7.4
Rendezvous
as Sergeant (uncredited)
1935
4.3
The New Frontier
as Kit
1935
4.6
Melody Trail
as Matt Kirby
1935
4.7
Valley of Wanted Men
as Ranger Sergeant Parsons
1935
4.5
Confidential
as Hanover - Walsh's Henchman
1935
5.8
Alibi Racket
as Chief Inspector August Wilmer
1935
6.0
The Gay Deception
as Jail Attendant (uncredited)
1935
6.4
Diamond Jim
as Poker Player on Train
1935
6.0
The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
as Mitchell
1935
6.7
The Murder Man
as Judge John C. Garfield (uncredited)
1935
6.9
Silent Valley
as Jim Farley
1935
0.0
Alias Mary Dow
as Ditch-Digger (uncredited)
1935
6.2
Circumstantial Evidence
as John Cassidy (uncredited)
1935
6.0
Transient Lady
as Sheriff Angel Verner
1935
5.5
North of Arizona
as George Tully
1935
4.2
Outlaw Rule
as Deputy Bat Lindstrom
1935
0.0
Mystery Mountain
as Tom Henderson
1934
0.0
The Curtain Falls
as Mover
1934
5.0
We're Not Dressing
as Ship's Officer in Rescue Party (uncredited)
1934
6.7
Honor of the Range
as Townsman (uncredited)
1934
5.0
Twin Husbands
as Highway Patrolman (uncredited)
1933
3.6
Fighting With Kit Carson
as Reynolds
1933
6.0
Fighting Texans
as Gur Durkin
1933
0.0
The Lone Avenger
as Burl Adams
1933
0.0
Son of the Border
as Tupper
1933
9.0
Black Beauty
as Hack Driver
1933
0.0
Sucker Money
as George Hunter
1933
4.7
Drum Taps
as Lariat Smith
1933
4.5
The Cheyenne Kid
as Denver Ed
1933
0.0
When a Man Rides Alone
as Montana Slade
1933
3.0
The Wyoming Whirlwind
as Steve Cantrell
1932
3.0
The Devil Horse
as Henchman Curley Bates
1932
4.0
The Forty-Niners
as Squaw O'Hara
1932
0.0
Slightly Married
as Tenant
1932
5.5
The Cowboy Counsellor
as Sheriff Matt Farraday
1932
5.7
Blonde Venus
as Bouncer (uncredited)
1932
6.8
Broadway to Cheyenne
as Al
1932
4.3
The Thirteenth Guest
as Policeman (uncredited)
1932
4.9
The Hurricane Express
as The Station Agent
1932
5.2
Million Dollar Legs
as Secret Emissary #3 (uncredited)
1932
6.6
A Man's Land
as Steve - Rustler
1932
6.0
The Spirit of the West
as Tom Fallon
1932
0.0
Police Court
1932
5.0
South of Santa Fe
as Henchman Wooly
1932
3.0
Galloping Thru
as Sandy Thompson
1931
6.0
The Ridin' Fool
as Nikkos (as Al Bridges)
1931
0.0
A Rider of the Plains
as Deputy Bill Gaines
1931
0.0
God's Country and the Man
as Livermore
1931
0.0