Lloyd Bridges

Bridges was born in San Leandro, California, to Harriet Evelyn (née Brown) Bridges (1893–1950) and Lloyd Vernet Bridges Sr. (1887–1962), who was involved in the California hotel business and once owned a movie theater.{{cite book| title=Current biography yearbook| volume=51| publisher=H. W. Wilson Co.| year=1990| page=90}} His parents were both from Kansas; both were of almost entirely English ancestry. Bridges was a direct descendant of William Bridges, who arrived in New England in 1623 aboard the ship "Little James."Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8) Bridges graduated from Petaluma High School in 1930.{{cite web| url=http://www.classmates.com/yearbooks/Petaluma-High-School/5456?page=24| title=1930 Petaluma High School Yearbook| website=Classmates.com| url-access=subscription}} He then studied political science at UCLA, where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

Bridges had small uncredited roles in the films Freshman Love (1936) and Dancing Feet (1936).

Bridges made his Broadway debut in 1937 in a short-lived production of Shakespeare's Othello, starring Walter Huston and Brian Aherne; Bridges was in the Ensemble.

He appeared on stage in Suzanna and the Elders (1940). In Hollywood he had an uncredited role in Northwest Passage (1940).

In 1940, Bridges joined the stock company at Columbia Pictures at $75 a week, where he played small roles in features and short subjects.{{cite news| title=Lloyd Bridges| newspaper=The Times| location=London| date=March 12, 1998|page=25}}{{cite news| title=Jane Withers, Jackie Cooper Columbia Team|author=Schallert, Edwin| date=December 18, 1940| newspaper=Los Angeles Times| page=21}}

He could be seen in The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance (1941), They Dare Not Love (1941), Doctor's Alibi (1941), Blue Clay (1941), Our Wife (1941), and I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island (1941). In Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) Bridges is the pilot of the plane in the "heaven" scene.

Bridges later reflected,

{{blockquote|I didn't have enough maturity for a leading man. I looked too broad in the shoulders ... too much like a kid. I never could get into (Columbia studio boss) Harry Cohn's office. All the best roles went to Glenn Ford and William Holden. They just put me in these awful B-pictures, like Two Latins from Manhattan. I even did a Three Stooges short. Sometimes I'd be in two or three movies a week. It was tough sledding.Lovell, Glenn (April 26, 1989). "Lloyd Bridges Catches His Second Wind". St. Louis Post.}}

He left Columbia Pictures during World War II to enlist in the United States Coast Guard. Following his discharge, he returned to acting. In later years, he was a member of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, did several public service announcements for the organization, and was made an honorary commodore. Bridges' Sea Hunt character Mike Nelson was also portrayed as a member of the Coast Guard Auxiliary and sometimes appeared in uniform. Bridges' sons, actors Beau and Jeff, also served in the Coast Guard and Coast Guard Reserve.[http://www.uscg.mil/history/faqs/lloydbridges.asp "Lloyd Bridges"]. U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office. Retrieved 5 February 2014. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020224037/http://www.uscg.mil/history/faqs/lloydbridges.asp |date=October 20, 2013 }}

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Bridges' first lead role was in the serial Secret Agent X-9 (1945) made for Universal. That studio kept him on for Strange Confession (1945), an Inner Sanctum mystery.

Bridges had some support roles in independent films, A Walk in the Sun (1945), and Abilene Town (1946). He was in Paramount's Miss Susie Slagle's (1946) and Walter Wanger's Canyon Passage (1947).

In 1947 he appeared in a small role in Cecil B. DeMille's film Unconquered.

He returned to lead roles with Secret Service Investigator (1948) at Republic Pictures, and 16 Fathoms Deep (1948) for Monogram Pictures. Bridges had a support role in Frank Borzage's Moonrise (1948) then was the lead in Hideout (1949) for Republic.

Bridges was in a Western at Universal directed by George Sherman, Red Canyon (1949), and a short at MGM, Mr. Whitney Had a Notion (1949). He had a good role in Home of the Brave (1949). At Universal he was Howard Duff's friend in Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (1949), again for Sherman.

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Bridges had the star role in Trapped (1949) directed by Richard Fleischer for Eagle Lion and Rocketship X-M (1950) for Lippert Pictures. He had supporting roles in Colt .45 (1951), The White Tower (1951), and The Sound of Fury (1950) (directed by Cy Endfield).

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Bridges was blacklisted briefly in the 1950s{{cite news| last=Musibay| first=Oscar| title=TV and Film Actor Lloyd Bridges Dies| url-access=subscription| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1998/03/11/tv-and-film-actor-lloyd-bridges-dies/f574ec42-ebfd-4552-9369-a83f4706910d/| newspaper=The Washington Post| date=March 11, 1998| access-date=September 30, 2021}} after he admitted to the House Un-American Activities Committee that he had once been a member of the Actors' Laboratory Theatre, a group found to have had links to the Communist Party USA. He returned to acting after recanting his membership and serving as a cooperative witness, achieving his greatest success in television.{{cite book| last=Rosenfeld| first=Seth| author-link=Seth Rosenfeld| title=Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power| publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux| year=2012| page=130| isbn=978-0-3742-5700-2}}

Bridges made his TV debut in 1951 with "Man's First Debt" in The Bigelow Theatre. He had starring roles in the films The Fighting Seventh (1951), Three Steps North (1951), and Richer Than the Earth (1951).

On TV he did "Rise Up and Walk" for Robert Montgomery Presents (1952) and "International Incident" for Studio One in Hollywood (1952) (the latter directed by Franklin J. Schaffner). Bridges had a supporting role in High Noon (1952).

Bridges guest starred on Suspense ("Her Last Adventure") and Schlitz Playhouse ("This Plane for Hire"), and had support roles in Plymouth Adventure (1952) and The Sabre and the Arrow (1953). Bridges returned to leads in The Tall Texan (1953) for Lippert Pictures.

Bridges was in "The Long Way Home" for Goodyear Playhouse (1953), and appeared in The Kid from Left Field (1953) and City of Bad Men (1953) for Fox. He travelled to the UK to star in The Limping Man (1953) for Cy Endfield. He returned to Broadway in Dead Pigeon (1953–54), which had a short run.

He had the lead in a horse movie, Prince of the Blue Grass (1954) and returned to England to make Third Party Risk (1954) for Hammer Films.

In Hollywood Bridges supported Joel McCrea in Wichita (1955) and had the lead in Roger Corman's low-budget Apache Woman (1955).

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On TV Bridges performed in "Broadway Trust" for Crossroads (1955), "The Dark Fleece" and "Edge of Terror" for Climax! (1955) (the latter directed by John Frankenheimer), "The Ainsley Case" for Front Row Center (1956), "Across the Dust" and "Prairie Dog Court" for Chevron Hall of Stars (1956), and "The Silent Gun" and "American Primitive" for Studio One in Hollywood (1956). He had the lead in the low budget Wetbacks (1956) and a support role in The Rainmaker (1956).

Bridges gained attention in 1956 for his emotional performance on the live anthology program The Alcoa Hour, in an episode titled "Tragedy in a Temporary Town" written by Reginald Rose and directed by Sidney Lumet.{{cite news| title=Actor's Slip Of Tongue Keeps TV Viewers Arguing| newspaper=The Hartford Courant| date=March 9, 1956| page=9| url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/893284932.html?dids=893284932:893284932&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Mar+09%2C+1956&author=&pub=Hartford+Courant&desc=Actor%27s+Slip+Of+Tongue+Keeps+TV+Viewers+Arguing&pqatl=google| access-date=May 7, 2011| archive-date=July 25, 2012| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120725042537/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/893284932.html?dids=893284932%3A893284932&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS%3AAI&type=historic&date=Mar%2009%2C%201956&author=&pub=Hartford%20Courant&desc=Actor%27s%20Slip%20Of%20Tongue%20Keeps%20TV%20Viewers%20Arguing&pqatl=google| url-status=dead}} During the performance, Bridges inadvertently used profanity while ad-libbing.{{cite news| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FCdUAAAAIBAJ&pg=7194,3300013&dq=alcoa+hour+bridges&hl=en| title=Profanity Ad-libbed by Emotional Actor| agency=Associated Press| newspaper=The Leader-Post| location=Regina| date=February 20, 1956| access-date=May 7, 2011}} Although the slip of the tongue generated hundreds of complaints, the episode won a Robert E. Sherwood Television Award, with Bridges' slip being defended even by some members of the clergy.{{cite book| last=Newcomb| first=Horace| title=Encyclopedia of Television| url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofte0000unse_02ed/page/50/mode/2up?q=alcoa+hour| year=2004| publisher=CRC Press| isbn=978-1-57958-411-5| page=50}}{{cite book| last=Hyatt| first=Wesley| title=A Critical History of Television's The Red Skelton Show, 1951–1971| date=March 10, 2004| url=https://archive.org/details/criticalhistoryo0000hyat/page/48/mode/2up?q=bridges| publisher=McFarland| isbn=978-0-7864-1732-2| page=48}} Bridges received an Emmy Award nomination for the role.{{cite news| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=X7YgAAAAIBAJ&pg=4916,1706712&dq=alcoa-hour+bridges&hl=en| title=Bridges Stars at Ogunquit| date=July 18, 1964| access-date=May 7, 2011 | newspaper=Lewiston Evening Journal| page=4A}}

Bridges did "The Regulators" for Studio 57 (1956), "They Never Forget" for The United States Steel Hour (1957), "Ride the Wild Mare" for The Alcoa Hour (1957), "Man on the Outside" for Studio 57 (1957), "The Sound of Silence", "Figures in Clay" and "The Disappearance of Amanda Hale" for Climax!, "Heritage of Anger" (1956) and "Clash by Night" (1957) for Playhouse 90, the latter with Kim Stanley. Bridges also made several episodes of Zane Grey Theatre including "Time of Decision" (1957) and "Wire" (1958).

He supported Rory Calhoun in Ride Out for Revenge (1957) and did "A Time to Cry" on The Frank Sinatra Show (1958) and had one of his best ever cinema roles in The Goddess (1958) based on a script by Paddy Chayefsky based on the life of Marilyn Monroe; Bridges played a sportsman based on Joe di Maggio opposite Kim Stanley. He directed "Piano to Thunder Springs" for Target (1958).

Bridges gained wide recognition as Mike Nelson, the main character in the television series Sea Hunt, created by Ivan Tors, which ran in syndication from 1958 to 1961. He also wrote a book with a co-author about skin-diving entitled Mask and Flippers.

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Bridges did "Lepke" (1959) for Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1960), "Ransom" (1960) (directed by Budd Boetticher) and "Image of a Drawn Sword" (1961) for Zane Grey Theatre. He did a TV movie The Valley of Decision (1960), "Death of the Temple Bay" for The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1961), "Who Killed Julie Greer?" (1961) for The Dick Powell Theatre, "The Fortress" (1961) for Alcoa Premiere (with Fred Astaire),{{cite news| title=Lloyd Bridges Stars in 'The Fortress'| author=Shanley, John P.| newspaper=The New York Times| date=October 25, 1961}} and "The Two of Us" (1962) for Checkmate. He also did a special Marineland Carnival (1962).{{cite news| title=Lloyd Bridges: One last splash| author=Smith, Cecil| date=April 22, 1962| newspaper=Los Angeles Times| page=M3}}

Bridges starred in the eponymous CBS anthology series The Lloyd Bridges Show (1962–1963) (produced by Aaron Spelling) which included appearances by his sons Beau and Jeff.{{cite news| title=Sink or Swim? Critic Views Lloyd Bridges| author=Wolters, Larry| date=September 14, 1962| newspaper=Chicago Daily Tribune| page=B12}}

Bridges followed it with "A Hero for Our Times" for Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963), "Wild Bill Hickok – the Legend and the Man" for The Great Adventure (1964), "Cannibal Plants, They Eat You Alive" for The Eleventh Hour (1964) and "Exit from a Plane in Flight" for Theater of Stars (1965).

Producer Gene Roddenberry offered Bridges a starring role on what became Star Trek.Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman (2016). The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek: The First 25 Years. Thomas Dunne Books, ISBN 1250065844 Bridges declined, saying he got along well with Roddenberry on a personal level but had no desire to work in science fiction. The part went to Jeffrey Hunter for the pilot episode The Cage and ultimately to William Shatner for the first incarnation of the television series.

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Bridges starred in the western series The Loner, which lasted one season from 1965 to 1966 and was created and often written by Rod Serling. The Loner earned solid reviews but was cancelled due to low ratings and a perception the show was too realistic or mature for audiences who expected escapist action from westerns.

Bridges returned to features with Around the World Under the Sea (1966). He guest starred in "Fakeout" for Mission Impossible (1966), and did a TV movie A Case of Libel (1968).

Bridges starred in some action films, Daring Game (1968) and Attack on the Iron Coast (1968), the latter for Ivan Tors. He did "The People Next Door" for CBS Playhouse (1968).

Bridges starred in some TV movies, The Silent Gun (1969), and Silent Night, Lonely Night (1969). He had a support role in The Happy Ending (1969) directed by Richard Brooks.

Bridges returned to Broadway as a replacement for the lead in Cactus Flower (1967).

Bridges was in heavy demand for TV movies such as The Love War (1970), Lost Flight (1970), Do You Take This Stranger? (1971), A Tattered Web (1971), and The Deadly Dream (1971). He starred in a short lived series San Francisco International Airport (1970/71) and had a support role in a feature, To Find a Man (1972).{{cite news| title=Lloyd Bridge| author=Knapp, Dan| newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=October 25, 1970| page=H1}}

Bridges had a (then) rare comedy role on Here's Lucy with "Lucy's Big Break" (1972). He continued in TV movies: Haunts of the Very Rich (1972), Trouble Comes to Town (1973), Crime Club (1973), Running Wild (1973), Death Race (1973), The Whirlwind (1974, with son Beau), and Stowaway to the Moon (1975).

Bridges starred in a short-lived Police Story spin-off Joe Forrester (1975–76).

Bridges played significant roles in several mini-series, including Roots, and How the West Was Won. He returned to TV movies: The Force of Evil (1978), Telethon (1978), The Great Wallendas (1978) and The Critical List (1978).{{cite news| title=Lloyd Bridges in TV Drama| newspaper=Los Angeles Times| date=February 25, 1977| page=F26}}{{cite news| title=Lloyd Bridges Set for 'Critical List'| newspaper=Los Angeles Times| date=March 22, 1978| page=G20}}

Bridges had a guest part in "The Living Legend" for Battlestar Galactica (1978) and went to Australia to make Shimmering Light (1978) with Beau. He had a support part in The Fifth Musketeer (1979) starring Beau and was in Disaster on the Coastliner (1979), Bear Island (1979) and This Year's Blonde (1980) (as Johnny Hyde)

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Bridges appeared in Airplane! (1980), a critically and commercially successful spoof of disaster films. He appeared in a number of mini series such as East of Eden (1981), The Blue and the Gray (1982) and George Washington (1984). He guest starred on shows such as The Love Boat (1981), Loving (1983), and Matt Houston (1983) and continued to make TV movies like Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice (1982), Grace Kelly (1983) and Grandpa, Will You Run with Me? (1983).

Bridges reprised his Airplane! role in Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)

Bridges starred in a short-lived series Paper Dolls (1984). For TV he appeared in Alice in Wonderland (1985), Dress Gray (1986), and North and South, Book II (1986).

He was in Weekend Warriors (1986), The Thanksgiving Promise (1986) for Disney, and The Wild Pair (1987) starring and directed by Beau. Bridges appeared with Jeff in Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1987) and was in She Was Marked for Murder (1988), for TV.

Bridges had notable supporting roles in the features Winter People (1989) and Cousins (1989). He was in the TV movie Cross of Fire (1989).{{cite news| title=Lloyd Bridges lives his fantasy in 'Cross of Fire' | author=Shindler, Merrill| date=November 5, 1989| newspaper=Chicago Tribune| page=3}}

Bridges starred in a short-lived series, Capital News (1990), for ABC.{{cite news| title=Lloyd Bridges Dives Back Into Weekly TV| author=Champlin, Charles| date=September 14, 1989| newspaper=Los Angeles Times| page=E1}} In 1990, he had a supporting role in Joe Versus the Volcano, and portrayed Harry Helmsley in the made-for-television movie, Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean.

Bridges was in Shining Time Station: 'Tis a Gift (1990) then reprised his comedy career with a supporting role in Hot Shots! (1991). He starred in a TV movie In the Nick of Time (1992) and was in Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992), Devlin (1992), and Mr. Bluesman (1993) before reprising his old role in Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993).

Bridges did Secret Sins of the Father (1994) with son Beau (who directed), and Cinderella ... Frozen in Time (1994). His last regular TV series was Harts of the West (1993–1994).

Bridges supported son Jeff in a big budget action film Blown Away (1994). He did "Sandkings" (1995) for The Outer Limits (1995) with Beau, The Other Woman (1995), Nothing Lasts Forever (1995), and The Deliverance of Elaine (1996) and did voice work on Peter and the Wolf (1995). He had a semi-regular part on Second Noah (1996).

He received a second Emmy Award nomination four decades after the first when he was nominated in 1998 for his role as Izzy Mandelbaum on Seinfeld.

Bridges served on the advisory board of the Los Angeles Student Film Institute.{{cite book| title=National Student Film Institute/L.A: The Sixteenth Annual Los Angeles Student Film Festival| date=June 10, 1994| location=The Directors Guild Theatre| pages=10–11| ref=Program}}{{cite book| title=Los Angeles Student Film Institute: 13th Annual Student Film Festival| date=June 7, 1991| location=The Directors Guild Theatre| page=3| ref=Program}}

Bridges also guest starred on Ned and Stacey.

Bridges' last roles were in Mafia! (1998) and Meeting Daddy (2000).

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Bridges met his wife, Dorothy Bridges (1915-2009), (née Simpson), in his fraternity; they married in 1938 in New York City.{{cite news| first=Dennis| last=McLellan| title=Dorothy Bridges dies at 93; 'the hub' of an acting family| url=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-dorothy-bridges21-2009feb21,0,1331555.story| newspaper=Los Angeles Times| date=February 21, 2009| access-date=April 23, 2009| url-access=subscription}} They had four children: actors Beau Bridges (born in 1941) and Jeff Bridges (born in 1949); a daughter, Lucinda Louise Bridges (born in October 1953);[http://www.superiorpics.com/beau_bridges/ Superior Pics: Beau Bridges Profile] Retrieved 2012-05-28 and another son, Garrett Myles Bridges, who died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome on August 3, 1948. Actor Jordan Bridges is Beau's son and Lloyd's grandson. Dorothy and Lloyd exchanged vows again for their 50th wedding anniversary.

On March 10, 1998, Bridges died of natural causes at the age of 85.{{cite news| last1=Vosburgh| first1=Dick| title=Obituary: Lloyd Bridges| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-lloyd-bridges-1149762.html| access-date=October 23, 2019| newspaper=The Independent| location=London| date=March 12, 1998}}

An episode ("The Burning") in the final Seinfeld season (1998) was dedicated to the memory of Lloyd Bridges. He had played the character of Izzy Mandelbaum in the episodes "The English Patient" in 1997 and "The Blood" later the same year.

Bridges' last film, Jane Austen's Mafia!, which came out the year of his death, bears a dedication to him.

In 2011, Bridges was posthumously named as one of six recipients that year of the Lone Sailor Award, which honors former Coast Guard servicemen who forged successful careers as civilians. His sons Jeff and Beau also received the same award that year.{{cite news| title=Lone Sailor Award recipient: Beau Bridges| url=http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2011/09/lone-sailor-award-recipient-beau-bridges/| magazine=Coast Guard Compass| date=September 28, 2011| access-date=March 22, 2014| archive-date=February 20, 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140220064432/http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2011/09/lone-sailor-award-recipient-beau-bridges/| url-status=dead}}{{cite news| title=Navy Memorial Hosts 24th Annual Lone Sailor Awards Dinner| url=http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=62906| website=US Navy| date=September 23, 2011| access-date=March 22, 2014| archive-date=January 14, 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180114183851/http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=62906| url-status=dead}}

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• Suspense co-star with Arlene Francis in "Her Last Adventure" (August 19, 1952) as James
• Jukebox Jury (1953)
• Crossroads in "Broadway Trust" with James Dean (November 11, 1955) as Fred
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre in Image of a Drawn Sword (1961) as Lt. Sam Kenyon
• Sea Hunt (1958–1961) as Mike Nelson / Whitey Fender
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1960) as Dundee, Season 5, Episode 6 – Ransom
• The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford (January 8, 1959) as Captain Anderson
• The DuPont Show with June Allyson as Captain Anderson in "Death on the Temple Bay", BSD series finale (1961) as Captain Anderson
• The Lloyd Bridges Show (1962–1963) as Adam Shepherd / Sen. Guthrie / Jonathan Tatum / Various characters
• The Eleventh Hour with son Beau, "Cannibal Plants, They Eat You Alive" (1964) as Leonard McCarty
• Kraft Suspense Theatre (1963) as Mason Etheridge
• The Loner (1965–1966) as William Colton
• Mission: Impossible (1966) as Anastas Poltroni
• A Case of Libel (1968) as Dennis Corcoran
• Lost Flight (1969)
• The Silent Gun (1969) as Brad Clinton
• Silent Night, Lonely Night (1969) as John Sparrow
• The Love War (1970) as Kyle
• San Francisco International Airport (1970–1971) as Jim Conrad
• Do You Take This Stranger? (1971) as Steven Breck
• A Tattered Web (1971) as Sgt. Ed Stagg
• The Deadly Dream (1971) as Dr. Jim Hanley
• Water World (1972–1975) as Narrator
• Haunts of the Very Rich (1972) as Dave Woodrough
• Trouble Comes to Town (1973) as Sheriff Porter Murdock
• Crime Club (1973) as Paul Cord
• Death Race (1973) as Hans Pimler
• Benjamin Franklin (1974) (miniseries)
• The Whirlwind (1974)
• Police Story (1974–75) as Joe Forrester / Sgt. Wolf Bozeman
• Stowaway to the Moon (1975) as Charlie Englehardt
• Cop on the Beat (1975)
• Joe Forrester (1975–76) as Joe Forrester
• Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected (1977 TV series) episode "The Force of Evil" (Dr. Carrington){{cite web| url=http://ctva.biz/US/Anthology/TalesOfTheUnexpected.htm| title=CTVA US Anthology – "Tales of the Unexpected" (Quinn Martin/NBC)(1977)| access-date=August 17, 2014| archive-date=August 19, 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819083515/http://ctva.biz/US/Anthology/TalesOfTheUnexpected.htm| url-status=dead}}
• Roots (1977) (miniseries)
• Telethon (1977) as Matt Tallman
• How the West Was Won (1978) (miniseries) as Orville Gant
• The Great Wallendas (1978) as Karl Wallenda
• Shimmering Light (1978) as Sean Pearse
• GI Diary (1978) as Narrator (voice)
• Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series) as Commander Cain
• Disaster on the Coastliner (1979) as Al Mitchell
• East of Eden (1981 miniseries) as Samuel Hamilton
• The Blue and the Gray (1982 miniseries) as Ben Geyser
• Grace Kelly (1983) as Jack Kelly
• Loving (1983 TV movie pilot) as Jack Forbes
• Paper Dolls (1984) as Grant Harper
• George Washington (1984) (miniseries) as Caleb Quinn
• Alice in Wonderland (1985 miniseries) as White Knight
• North and South (1986) (miniseries) as Confederate President Jefferson Davis
• Dress Gray (1986) (miniseries) as Gen. Axel Rylander
• Shining Time Station: 'Tis a Gift (PBS TV Special) as Mr. Nicholas
• Capital News (1990) as Jo Jo Turner
• Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean (1990) as Harry Helmsley
• In The Nick Of Time (1991 Christmas Movie) as Santa Claus
• Harts of the West (1993–1994) as Jake Terrel
• The Other Woman as Jacob
• The Outer Limits – "The Sandkings" (March 26, 1995) as Col. Kress (appeared with son Beau and grandson Dylan)
• Seinfeld as Izzy Mandelbaum
• Season 8 episode The English Patient (March 13, 1997)
• Season 9 episode The Blood (October 16, 1997)

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• Mask and Flippers (1960) (non-fiction) by Lloyd Bridges and Bill Barada, 196 pp. Chilton Company

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