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Lloyd Bridges
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Birth Date :
15/01/1913
Birth Place :
San Leandro, California
Death Date :
10 March 1998
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Baby boomers know Lloyd Bridges as Mike Nelson, the square-jawed frogman star of the undersea adventure series Sea Hunt. The show ran from 1958-1961 and then continued for years in reruns. In 1980 Bridges' career was resurrected when he played a goofy plane dispatcher in the 1980 satire Airplane! and its 1982 sequel Airplane II. He is the father of the actors Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges.
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Baby boomers know Lloyd Bridges as Mike Nelson, the square-jawed frogman star of the undersea adventure series Sea Hunt. The show ran from 1958-1961 and then continued for years in reruns. In 1980 Bridges' career was resurrected when he played a goofy plane dispatcher in the 1980 satire Airplane! and its 1982 sequel Airplane II. He is the father of the actors Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges.
Bridges was briefly blacklisted for political activism during the McCarthy era... In the 1990s he appeared in two more aerial parodies, Hot Shots! (1991) and Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993).
