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.

It's a Wonderful Life

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

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Saboteur

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A Night at the Opera

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Sullivan's Travels

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The Lady Eve

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The Awful Truth

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The Roaring Twenties

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I Married a Witch

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Jezebel

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The Palm Beach Story

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The Little Foxes

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You Only Live Once

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Blonde Venus

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Dead End

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Unfaithfully Yours

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They Were Expendable

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The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

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The Talk of the Town

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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T-Men

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Christmas in July

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Hail the Conquering Hero

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Dark Command

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Santa Fe Trail

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In This Our Life

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Road to Utopia

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These Three

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Framed

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Deadline at Dawn

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The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

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My Little Chickadee

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Marie Antoinette

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They Won't Forget

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The Oklahoma Kid

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Silver River

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Dick Tracy's Dilemma

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Down to Earth

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The Phantom Creeps

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We're Not Married!

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Nora Prentiss

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When the Daltons Rode

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Million Dollar Legs

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Crime School

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The Thirteenth Guest

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California

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The Jade Mask

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Hunt the Man Down

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The Hurricane Express

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Saratoga Trunk

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Devil's Island

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Lady from Louisiana

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The Murder Man

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Buck Rogers

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The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend

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The New Frontier

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Honky Tonk

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Adventure in Sahara

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The Doolins of Oklahoma

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Lady in a Jam

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Shadows Over Chinatown

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The Falcon's Alibi

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The Lawless Nineties

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Sons of Liberty

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Woman Chases Man

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Badlands of Dakota

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The Missing Juror

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Salty O'Rourke

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Jubilee Trail

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The Mighty McGurk

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Rendezvous

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The Gay Deception

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Flowing Gold

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Annie Oakley

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Below the Deadline

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Thunderhead: Son of Flicka

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Public Enemy's Wife

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Sucker Money

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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine

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She Wouldn't Say Yes

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Hell's Outpost

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Thunder Afloat

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Confidential

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Broadway to Cheyenne

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Jungle Jim

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Alias Mr. Twilight

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Slightly Married

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The Green Hornet Strikes Again!

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The Courageous Dr. Christian

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The Fabulous Joe

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The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

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The Gene Autry Show

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The Cowboy Counsellor

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The Adventures of Rex and Rinty

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Melody Trail

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North of Arizona

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The Lady from Cheyenne

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Wild Bill Hickok Rides

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Idaho

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Alibi Racket

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Police Court

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Springtime in the Rockies

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Alias Mary Dow

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Fast Bullets

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The Kid's Last Ride

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Ace Drummond

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Black Gold

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Honor of the Range

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Drum Taps

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Transient Lady

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Call of the Prairie

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The Adventures of Frank Merriwell

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Meet the Stewarts

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The Devil Horse

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Honolulu Lu

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Utah Wagon Train

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The Devil's Henchman

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The Bridge of Sighs

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A Man's Land

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Two Gun Justice

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Born to Be Wild

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Fighting With Kit Carson

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Pardon My Stripes

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In Old Amarillo

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Barbed Wire

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Valley of Wanted Men

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Son of the Border

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The Wyoming Whirlwind

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Rawhide Rangers

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Gunsmoke Trail

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They Met in a Taxi

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The Curtain Falls

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Trail Dust

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The Man Who Returned to Life

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Quick on the Trigger

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Oh! Susanna

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The Cheyenne Kid

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Oklahoma Frontier

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Romance of the Redwoods

6.0

Dodge City Trail

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California Passage

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Diamond Jim

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Fighting Bill Fargo

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Law of the Range

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All That I Have

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The Three Mesquiteers

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A Man's World

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South of Santa Fe

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Blue Montana Skies

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Iron Mountain Trail

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When a Man Rides Alone

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Nobody's Darling

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The Forty-Niners

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The Ridin' Fool

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Western Gold

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The Stranger from Texas

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Squadron of Doom

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The Lone Avenger

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Gallant Defender

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Mystery Mountain

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Partners of the Plains

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Wild West Days

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The Spirit of the West

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Cross My Heart

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The Greater Love

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Borderland

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Highway Patrol

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Winners of the West

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Two Gun Law

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The Man from Sundown

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Robin Hood Of Texas

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Tim Tyler's Luck

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Messenger of Peace

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Blazing Six Shooters

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The Last Musketeer

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Bad Men of the Hills

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Pioneers of the Frontier

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The Lone Rider Rides On

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Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground

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Silent Valley

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Colorado Trail

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Outlaw Rule

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Crash Donovan

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Singin' in the Corn

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Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake

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Little Miss Roughneck

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God's Country and the Man

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Galloping Thru

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Black Beauty

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Fighting Texans

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