Beau Bridges - Biography, Filmography

Beau Bridges: Biography

Name:
Beau Bridges
Date of Birth:
December 9, 1941
Place of Birth:
Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA

The son of actor Lloyd Bridges, Beau Bridges (born Lloyd Vernet Bridges III) was actually named for his father; the nickname "Beau" was borrowed from Ashley Wilkes' son in Gone With the Wind. Beau received good billing for his secondary juvenile role in The Red Pony in 1949, although he was primarily seen in bit parts during the late '40s. This suited him fine; not all that interested in films, young Bridges had aspirations of being a basketball star. Despite being only 5'9", he played on the U.C.L.A. basketball team and at the University of Hawaii. But realizing that his height would always hold him back in professional sports, Bridges returned to acting via a small role on his father's TV series Sea Hunt. He made his stage debut in 1966's Where's Daddy and continued appearing in leading film roles throughout the 1960s and '70s, easing into character leads. Bridges directed two feature films, The Wild Pair (1987) and Seven Hours to Judgment (1988), in addition to the TV special The Thanksgiving Promise, in which virtually the entire Bridges clan (including his mother Dorothy) was cast. Bridges received Emmy and the Golden Globe awards for his portrayal of the title character in the 1992 TV movie Without Warning: The James Brady Story (1991), and won awards for his participation in the gloriously-titled made-for-cable The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993).

Beau Bridges: Filmography

Don't Fade Away (2008) (post-production)
Dirty Politics (2009) (completed)

Desperate Housewives (1 episode, 2009)
Max Payne (2008)
My Name Is Earl (7 episodes, 2005-2008)
Stargate: Continuum (2008)
Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008)
Family Practice (2008)
Single with Parents (2008)
Spinning Into Butter (2007)
Americanizing Shelley (2007)
Stargate SG-1 (40 episodes, 2005-2007)
Two Families (2007)
Charlotte's Web (2006)
Stargate: Atlantis (5 episodes, 2005-2006)
The Good German (2006)
10.5: Apocalypse (2006)
I-See-You.Com (2006)
Into the West (2005)
Smile (2005)
The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)
Evel Knievel (2004)
10.5 (2004)
Debating Robert Lee (2004)
The Agency (22 episodes, 2002-2003)
Out of the Ashes (2003)
Sightings: Heartland Ghost (2002)
We Were the Mulvaneys (2002)
The Agency (2001)
Boys Klub (2001)
Voyage of the Unicorn (2001)
The Christmas Secret (2000)
Songs in Ordinary Time (2000)
Meeting Daddy (2000)
Sordid Lives (2000)
Common Ground (2000)
The White River Kid (1999) .... Daddy Weed
... aka White River (USA: video title)
P.T. Barnum (1999)
Inherit the Wind (1999)
The Defenders: Taking the First (1998)
"Maximum Bob" (1998)
The Defenders: Choice of Evils (1998)
The Defenders: Payback (1997)
RocketMan (1997)
The Second Civil War (1997)
Jerry Maguire (1996) (uncredited)
Hidden in America (1996)
The Uninvited (1996)
Losing Chase (1996)
Nightjohn (1996)
A Stranger to Love (1996)
Memphis PD: War on the Streets (1996) (voice)
Kissinger and Nixon (1995)
Million Dollar Babies (1994)
Harts of the West (15 episodes, 1993-1994)
Secret Sins of the Father (1994)
Vault of Horror I (1994)
The Man with Three Wives (1993)
Elvis and the Colonel: The Untold Story (1993)
Sidekicks (1992)
Wildflower (1991)
Married to It (1991)
Tales from the Crypt (1 episode, 1991)
Without Warning: The James Brady Story (1991)
Guess Who's Coming for Christmas? (1990)
Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will? (1990)
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990)
The Wizard (1989)
The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)
Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure (1989)
Signs of Life (1989)
Behind God's Back (1989)
The Iron Triangle (1989)
Just Another Secret (1989)
Seven Hours to Judgment (1988)
The Wild Pair (1987)
... aka The Devil's Odds
The Killing Time (1987)
The Thanksgiving Promise (1986)
A Fighting Choice (1986)
Outrage! (1986)
Alice in Wonderland (1985)
The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)
The Red-Light Sting (1984)
Heart Like a Wheel (1983)
Witness for the Prosecution (1982)
Love Child (1982)
The Kid from Nowhere (1982)
Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)
Night Crossing (1981)
Silver Dream Racer (1980)
United States (1980)
The Runner Stumbles (1979)
The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
The Child Stealer (1979)
Norma Rae (1979)
Stubby Pringle's Christmas (1978)
The President's Mistress (1978)
Shimmering Light (1978)
Greased Lightning (1977)
The Four Feathers (1977)
Two-Minute Warning (1976)
Swashbuckler (1976)
Dragonfly (1976)
The Other Side of the Mountain (1975)
Medical Story (1975)
The Whirlwind (1974)
Benjamin Franklin (1974)
Lovin' Molly (1974)
The Stranger Who Looks Like Me (1974)
Your Three Minutes Are Up (1973)
The Man Without a Country (1973)
Child's Play (1972)
Hammersmith Is Out (1972)
The Christian Licorice Store (1971)
The Landlord (1970)
Adam's Woman (1970)
Insight (2 episodes, 1968-1969)
Gaily, Gaily (1969)
The Legend of Jud Starr (1967)
National Velvet (1 episode, 1962)
A Pair of Boots (1962)
The Explosive Generation (1961)
Sea Hunt (2 episodes, 1960-1961)
Zane Grey Theater (1 episode, 1961)
The Clear Horizon (1960)
The Company She Keeps (1951)
Zamba (1949)
The Red Pony (1949)
Force of Evil (1948)
No Minor Vices (1948)