Date of birth: 1891-02-25
Place of birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Alan Bridge, Alfred Morton 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.

1945-03-22
A gambler and his buddy find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse.

1947-04-04
Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered H

1942-08-20
Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood fri

1942-03-27
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify

1943-08-27
Ugly duckling Janie Farnsworth is a student at Pennington High School, and has a crush on Charles Gr

1942-08-28
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, de

1949-09-15
Insurance agent Jesse Arno is posing as a sailor while on the trail of a gang of waterfront thieves,

1936-02-14
Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of

1932-09-23
In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retire

1937-08-27
The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day

1940-10-25
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the g

1947-05-25
Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks

1944-08-09
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow

1932-06-10
Tex Mason and Peggy Turner each inherit one half of the Triple X Ranch. Thomas wants the ranch and h

1932-10-27
O'Hara has been hired to lead a wagon train west. Instead he has led it off the trail to where it ca

1931-05-31
The Ridin' Fool presented the bantamweight star as Steve Kendall, a young cowboy saving gambler Bost

1938-04-29
A western town is being overrun and ruled by a gang of outlaws led by Bart (John Merton). Former Ran

1944-09-18
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell

1937-08-27
President Lincoln personally sends Bill Gibson west to see if he can stop the holdups of the needed

1946-08-03
A veteran, Joe Hilton, returns from the war to find that his brother Jeffrey Hilton, a gangster, has

1939-12-02
Things get under way when US marshal Tom (Starrett) finds himself in the midst of a range war. The v

1938-02-16
Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking c

1946-06-27
In San Francisco's Chinatown, Charlie helps two different people search for their missing relatives

1945-01-26
The latest assignment for respected detective Charlie Chan has come directly from the government and

1932-08-01
The Wrecker wrecks trains on the L & R Railroad. One of his victims is Larry Baker's father. Baker w

1954-05-15
A wild-west trader and his New York wife head out for the California by wagon train. The trader is k

1946-04-12
A society sleuth sets out on the trail of a society matron's lost jewels.

1937-11-13
Ranch owner Sandra, fresh from animal husbandry school, brings a flock of sheep into cattle country.

1945-03-15
A young boy tries to train Thunderhead, a beautiful white colt and the son of his beloved Flicka, to
1949-12-15

1933-07-01
In this Western, comprised of 12 chapters from a serial, Kit leads a group carrying a large gold shi

1945-11-21
An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces

1947-01-02
A retired prizefighter becomes the unlikely guardian of a young orphan boy recently arrived from Eng

1937-07-14
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration D

1935-11-15
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly busin

1942-01-26
Football player Henry Platt (William Henry)mistakes a helmet for the football in his zeal to make a

1938-05-10
In the slums, teenager Frankie Warren hangs out with a rowdy gang who one day knock him out in a fig

1935-07-12
Steve Grey, reporter for the Daily Star, has a habit of scooping all the other papers in town. When

1935-10-25
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.

1935-05-01
A taxi-dancer agrees to pose as a girl who had been kidnapped as a child 18 years before.

1936-02-15
Federal Agents Tipton and Bridger have been sent to Wyoming where the vote on statehood is imminent.

1945-11-29
Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her prac

1951-05-15
A drought is about to end the cattle business. The owner of a canning factory wants to buy all the r

1936-01-01
Two Texas Rangers (Tom Tyler, Rex Lease) nab smugglers and rescue a woman (Margaret Nearing) from a

1941-02-10
The fifth film in the 24-film Range Busters series finds "Crash", "Dusty" and Alibi, on their way to

1932-10-14
A con man posing as a lawyer tries to sell copies of a phony law book. Things get serious when he ha

1933-05-14
A prominent banker commits suicide. His son thinks otherwise and sets out to prove it.

1952-07-25
A cattle buyer, a federal agent and a newswoman snip a railroad plot.

1935-10-19
Three men escape from prison, go back to their hometown to try to find out who framed them.

1935-08-30
A 12 episode serial starring Rex, the King of the Wild Horses and Rin-Tin-Tin, Jr. Rex is brought fr

1935-11-29
Munro and his gang control the valley and are driving away all nesters. Johnny arrives, and taking a

1936-10-18
This 13 chapter serial is based on the comic strip character Ace Drummond created by Eddie Rickenbac

1936-07-24
Judith has just been paroled for a crime which her vindictive, jealous, violent husband, Gene, finge

1935-10-21
Gene goes after the badguys after they kidnap the baby he should have been babysitting.

1947-09-16
A Native American man trains a horse for the Kentucky Derby.

1935-10-25
In 1889 pioneers race ahead of the law to claim free land in Oklahoma, forming wide-open towns. In o

1937-01-18
Two safaris enter the African jungle intent on finding a white girl who is the heiress to a fortune.

1935-02-02
Perrin is a cowboy who comes to the aid of local Indians being swindled out of their gold. He signs

1946-12-24
Geoffrey Holden (Lloyd Corrigan) is an elderly con-man who is a lovable old man when providing his b

1939-05-20
Set during the American Revolution, this colorful 2 reel short tells the story of Haym Salomon, Amer

1934-04-15
After Sheriff Ken puts money in the safe, his brother Clem gives Rawhide the combination. With the m

1954-12-15
A returning Korean War vet becomes embroiled in a fight over possession of a tungsten mine.

1933-05-05
An honest rancher, after killing his best friend who's turned outlaw, takes his pal's orphaned young

1932-10-15
Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for pros

1935-09-13
A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City,

1952-07-11
A Justice of the Peace performed weddings a few days before his license was valid. A few years later

1932-12-30
A mysterious bandit known as "The Wolf" steals the payroll from a country ranch.

1933-01-23
Skinner and his gang are grabbing land from the ranchers. When they go after Kerry's ranch Ken stops

1934-12-02
Ken Williams is determined to discover the identity of the mysterious Rattler, who preys upon railro

1947-08-21
Upset at a new Broadway musical mocking The Nine Muses, Greek goddess Terpsichore comes down to eart

1938-01-14
Lorna Drake has inherited a ranch. Hoppy teaches her a bit about ranching and handles Scar Lewis, th

1937-07-05
Retired lawman Kentucky Wade and his three buddies, Mike Morales, "Dude" Hanford and "Trigger" Bento

1941-07-18
A group of frontier businessmen set up a protective organization for the purpose of extorting money

1938-05-26
Learning of Walters' inheritance, Larson kills him and assumes his identity. When Larson's men try t

1936-09-08
A cab driver takes in a young woman who claims to be a reluctant bride, and becomes involved in the

1932-03-01
To bring in the bad guys, a rodeo champ poses as an inept cowhand.

1937-05-07
A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing de

1934-10-02
In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and rea

1939-01-07
A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.

1946-12-18
A compulsive liar admits to a killing she didn't commit so her husband, a lawyer, can clear her and

1935-03-04
A senator's brother turns up murdered, and the senator tries to pin the blame on a man he knows is i

1931-05-03
Blackie Saunders and his young partner Sandy arrive in Indian Springs where Blackie meets his old fr

1936-12-11
Hoppy, Johnny and Windy are fighting a malicious gang trying to stop a cattle drive from reaching a

1939-04-10
Buck Rogers and Buddy Wade are in the middle of a trans-polar dirigible flight when they are caught

1939-01-07
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.

1942-02-05
An accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an eight-

1937-02-26
Hoppy goes undercover as an outlaw (which permits him, for once, to drink and be mean to children) t

1939-03-11
McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw

1939-09-15
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.

1939-10-19
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replaceme

1939-10-28
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally

1935-10-16
A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicat

1936-03-06
Hoppy returns to find Johnny in trouble. Buck Peters has been shot by Porter who made it look like J

1938-11-15
Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppress

1948-12-02
Quick on the Trigger was Charles Starrett's second "Durango Kid" picture for 1949. It all begins whe

1946-12-20
George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents ri

1946-03-18
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of m

1949-05-27
Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She

1947-05-20
Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and severa

1936-01-13
A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his

1942-05-28
A young, newlywed couple learns to make their marriage work—on a budget.

1947-12-15
Two U.S. Treasury ("T-men") agents go undercover in Detroit, and then Los Angeles, in an attempt to

1940-12-24
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.

1941-02-25
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Ch

1937-10-21
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start underm

1951-03-01
Unable to keep peace between frontier Indians and the US Cavalry, a heroic Captain risks court-marti

1933-01-20
Chasing a gambler that stole money, Tom Larkin gets his horse shot out from under him. Meeting an ou

1932-11-01
Bob Norton, seeking his brother's killer, tangles with outlaws, wild horses, and a "wild" boy.

1942-04-22
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of sta
1938-06-27
Arrested for speeding by highway patrolman Bill Rolph (Robert Paige), J.W. Brady (Robert Middlemass)

1948-12-10
Before he left for a brief European visit, symphony conductor Sir Alfred De Carter casually asked hi

1939-10-09
It's the opening of the Cherokee strip and the Rankins are after a particular section. Frazier is al

1939-03-29
June Martin is a dishwasher in a California logging camp boarding house. Steve Blake fights Jed Malo

1941-04-11
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founde

1940-08-23
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Dalto

1940-12-20
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, G

1940-04-15
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place,

1940-02-09
While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked

1940-07-02
Beyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a va

1936-12-12
With the increasing popularity of Republic's sagebrush crooner Gene Autry, rival company Columbia fo

1937-04-06
Hero Bob Larson takes on an impressive triumvirate of villains.

1939-07-14
The hero, Texas Ranger Larry Whalen (Charles Starrett), is on the trail of a mysterious outlaw leade

1941-08-29
In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mi

1940-08-24
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and th

1938-03-26
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who car

1940-04-04
A doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the rest of

1950-12-15
A series of reversals bring two desperate people together. When a saloon owner is framed by his part

1947-07-15
When the bank is robbed, Gene and the boys are singing nearby and the Chief arrests them as gang mem

1937-12-27
A 12-episode serial in which Tim Tyler goes to Africa in search of his father in gorilla country. He

1935-09-01
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

1941-12-11
While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a g

1933-02-28
A phony spiritualist hypnotizes the daughter of a wealthy banker in a scheme to swindle the banker o
1947-10-30
Poignant true story of Pastor Armin Ritter, who is sent to build a church in a backwoods community a

1951-10-14
Rancher Rex Allen receives a summons from his uncle. an old time frontiersman, that he is in trouble

1940-04-10
The story revolves around a valuable silver deposit, located between two ranches. Villain Lash Bende

1942-10-30
A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter

1952-03-01
A greedy rancher is charging excessive prices for access to the area's only water supply, extorting

1942-08-13
U.S. Marshal Dave Upjohn arrives in Sundown to investigate reports of lawlessness.

1941-11-30
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterp

1940-02-14
Wild Bill Saunders discovers that his uncle Mort has been murdered by an unscrupulous ranch foreman,

1941-12-09
Johnny Mack Brown essays the title role in Universal's Fighting Bill Forgo. Returning to his home to

1941-06-20
The Wolverine Kid kills a man and it looks like Steve Howard did it. But Steve's father recognizes t

1941-01-10
Tom Cameron is searching for the outlaws who ambushed a wagon train, murdered his parents and stole

1943-02-05
In order to obtain a stage coach mail contract, a new road must be built. A gang of outlaws try to p

1948-05-20
Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be use

1941-09-15
In the Dakotas during the days of the Great Gold Boom, brothers Jim and Bob Holliday are bumping hea

1941-04-22
Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate b

1942-01-31
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.

1935-05-02
A sheriff tracking a gang of rustlers discovers that one of them is the brother of his fiance.

1943-03-10
A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for

1941-10-01
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his

1932-07-08
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a

1951-10-01
As a wealthy retired surgeon nears the end of his life, he begins to distribute his wealth to those

1938-09-08
In this western a traveling gun ends up in a small town and rescues an important rancher. Out of gra

1935-02-01
A rancher, frustrated with constant cattle rustling and the inability of the local sheriff to stop i

1936-03-18
Close friends Martha and Karen build a private boarding school together with the aid of the local do

1936-08-01
A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.

1946-12-26
Judy McCoy, a fortune teller with a circus, learns she has inherited some property and heads west to

1946-02-27
While on a ship to Skagway, Alaska, Duke and Chester find a map to a secret gold mine, which had bee

1950-12-26
A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.

1936-09-22
When a group of World War 1 buddies head west to farmstead, they run into trouble.

1954-03-29
In 1857 Edwin L. Drake is sent to investigate an oil seep in a creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania.

1945-02-28
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's

1937-01-23
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a bre

1942-09-17
Somewhere beyond the shores of the United States on a small island, where men ask no questions, wome

1938-08-26
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France,

1942-05-08
An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the l

1935-09-14
How police interrogation cracks the "airtight" alibi of a criminal.

1945-12-07
After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat

1932-01-08
Stone kills Thorton but only gets one half of the map to Thorton's gold mine. Tom arrives and, tryin

1938-01-23
Sad-eyed, uniquely talented child actress Edith Fellows was Columbia's "answer" to Shirley Temple, J

1931-05-01
A government agent is sent to a tough frontier town to arrest & bring back one of the most ruthless

1939-05-03
Gene Autry follows a clue written on a rock by his murdered partner and discovers a fur smuggling op

1953-05-08
Rex Allen and Slim Pickens are sent from Washington, D.C. to California in 1850 to speed up deliveri

1933-01-14
The Llano Kid is robbing stages but only taking money from Montana Slade's Cottonwood Mine. He then

1947-08-28
Milo Terkel's life is never the same after he is willed a dog named Joe. Milo buys his wife a diamon

1932-02-19
A once great stage and screen actor has fallen from fame because of his alcoholism; his young son is

1944-11-16
A newsman tracks down a phantom killer of murder-trial jurors.

1932-08-09
Thirteen years after a dinner party in which the thirteenth guest failed to arrive, the remaining gu

1931-12-05
A young buck returns to his hometown after several years' absence, only to see his father shot down

1932-09-09
A cowboy detective goes up against a gang of big-city thugs trying to set up a protection racket out

1933-04-01
Black Beauty is being trained to run in the steeplechase race, upon which the Cameron family has sta

1933-06-15
Randolph Graves, a high-pressure haberdashery salesman, is fired for arguing with a customer and get

1949-05-27
When the Daltons are killed at Coffeyville, gang member Bill Doolin, arriving late, escapes but kill

1947-02-21
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but

1942-06-19
A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned

1947-02-22
Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a stree

1941-01-16
A kindly, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of

1935-03-30
A reporter sets out to provide how unreliable circumstantial evidence is by faking a murder and then

1951-06-27
A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit th

1950-03-16
Ice-cold college dean Susan Middlecott feels there's no room in her life for romance. Enter Prof. Al

1933-11-29
The wife of a businessman and his secretary attempt to trick her husband's double into impersonating

1934-04-27
Beautiful high society type Doris Worthington is entertaining guests on her yacht in the Pacific whe
1919-06-23
1919 American silent film starring Texas Guinan.

1937-01-22
The gold mine belonging to "Gun" Barlow is worked out, and Barlow attempts to buy adjacent land, wit

1937-07-01
Larry Clarke rides into the town of Mesa, Arizona, from Texas, where he has just sold his ranch. Sev