Lloyd Bridges - biography

“I’m foremost an actor.  I feel embarrassed being compared to the guys who really work at it.  I fake it, I make believe I know all about it, which is what you’re supposed to do as an actor.”

“I needed to feed my family.  I read a couple of the episodes.  How can you keep on doing the same thing?”

“As time went on, I got envious and wanted to do a lot of stunts myself.”

“Carrying those double tanks around all the time got to be a little rough on me.  I had to put that damn wetsuit on and take it off, sometimes three or four times a day.”

“For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me.  Butit opened up a lot of doors.”

“Sea Hunt was the first time anyone tackled a show that took place underwater.  The stories were sort of exciting for kids, like cops and robbers underwater.”

“Bear Valley is the hidden treasure of the Sierra.”

“There’s a lot to be said about what’s happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage that’s being spilled in there.”

“We wanted to set a good example for the growing number of divers watching.”

“We worked under a lot of pressure...  three days to do an episode, sometimes two in a week, 39 episodes a year.”

Lloyd Bridges has appeared in the following films:
Freshman Love (1936)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
They Dare Not Love (1941)
Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942)
Counter-Espionage (1942)
Flight Lieutenant (1942)
The Talk of the Town (1942)
Destroyer (1943)
Sahara (1943)
A Walk in the Sun (1945)
Secret Agent X-9 (1945)
Strange Confession (1945)
Canyon Passage (1946)
Miss Susie Slagle’s (1946)
Ramrod (1947)
Thunderbolt (1947)
Unconquered (1947)
16 Fathoms Deep (1948)
Moonrise (1948)
Home of the Brave (1949)
Trapped (1949)
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (1949)
The White Tower (1950)
The Sound of Fury (1950)
Richer Than the Earth (1951)
High Noon (1952)
Plymouth Adventure (1952)
The Kid from Left Field (1953)
Third Party Risk (1954)
Apache Woman (1955)
Wichita (1955)
The Rainmaker (1956)
Attack on the Iron Coast (1968)
Bear Island (1979)
The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
Airplane! (1980)
Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
Weekend Warriors (1986)
The Wild Pair (1987)
Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
Winter People (1989)
Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)
Honey I Blew Up the Kid (1992)
Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)
Blown Away (1994)
Jane Austen’s Mafia! (1998)
Meeting Daddy (2000)