Beau Bridges

Beau Bridges
Bridges at the Comic Con in 2008
Born	Lloyd Vernet Bridges III December 9, 1941 (1941-12-09) Los Angeles
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1949-present
Spouse	Julie Landfield (1964–1984 Divorced) Wendy Treece (1984-Present)

Lloyd Vernet "Beau" Bridges III (born December 9, 1941) is an American actor and director.

Early life

Bridges was born in Los Angeles, the son of actors Lloyd Bridges and Dorothy Bridges (née Simpson). He was nicknamed "Beau" by his parents after Ashley Wilkes' son in Gone with the Wind.^{[citation needed]} His younger brother is actor Jeff Bridges, and he has a younger sister Lucinda. Another brother Garrett died in childhood of Sudden infant death syndrome in 1948. He has shared a close relationship with Jeff, to whom he acted as a surrogate father during childhood, when their father was busy with work.^{[citation needed]} He and his siblings were raised in the Holmby Hills section of Los Angeles.

Wanting to become a basketball star, he played in his freshman year at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and later transferred to the University of Hawaii. In 1959, he enlisted in the US Coast Guard and also served for eight years in the Coast Guard Reserve.

Career

In 1949, Bridges played a secondary juvenile role in the movie The Red Pony.

In the 1962–1963 television season, Bridges, along with his brother, Jeff, appeared on their father's CBS anthology series, The Lloyd Bridges Show. In 1965 he guest-starred as Corporal Corbett in second season episode 3, "Then Came The Mighty Hunter" of 12 O-Clock High (TV series) 1966-1967 The Fugitive

In 1989, he starred opposite his brother, Jeff, in perhaps his best known role, as one of The Fabulous Baker Boys.

In the 1993–1994 television season, Bridges appeared again with his father in the 15-episode CBS comedy/western series, Harts of the West, set at a dude ranch in Nevada. The cast also included Harley Jane Kozak as Beau's wife, Alison Hart, and Sean Murray as older son Zane Grey Hart.

In 1995, Bridges starred with his father Lloyd and son Dylan in the two-part pilot episode of the Showtime science fiction series, The Outer Limits titled The Sandkings. In 1998, he starred as Judge Bob Gibbs in the one-season Maximum Bob on ABC. He had a recurring role in the Showtime series Beggars and Choosers (1999–2000).

In 2001, he guest-starred as Daniel McFarland, the stepfather of Jack McFarland, in two episodes of the NBC sitcom Will & Grace. He also played a single father and college professor in the fantasy adventure film, Voyage of the Unicorn based on the novel by James C. Christensen.

From 2002 to 2003, he took on the role of Senator Tom Gage, newly appointed Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, in over 30 episodes of the drama series The Agency. In January 2005, he was cast as Major General Hank Landry, the new commander of Stargate Command in Stargate SG-1. That same character, played by him, appears also in five episodes of the spin-off series Stargate Atlantis.

In November 2005, he guest-starred as Carl Hickey, the father of the title character in the hit NBC Comedy My Name Is Earl. Bridges's character became recurring. Bridges received a 2007 nomination for his performance.

Beau Bridges on USS Midway Museum flight deck to promote Stargate: Continuum, July 2008

In 2008, Bridges starred in the motion picture Max Payne, based on the video game-character. The film also starred Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis. Bridges portrayed "BB" Hensley, an ex-cop who aides Wahlberg on his quest to bring down a serial killer. The film got mixed reviews, but Bridges participation was noted for being a positive one.

On February 8, 2009, he won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album. He along with Cynthia Nixon and Blair Underwood, read Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.

In 2009, he guest-starred as Eli Scruggs on the 100th episode of Desperate Housewives and received an Emmy Award nomination for his performance.

In 2010, Bridges has signed on with Chris Mallick in the production of their upcoming movie Columbus Circle.

On March 19, 2010, it was announced that Bridges would play the role of Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford, the father of private eye Jim Rockford, on the pilot episode of a new version of The Rockford Files, scheduled for production for broadcast in fall 2010. In 2011 he guest-starred as an old boyfriend of matriarch Nora Walker in Brothers and Sisters and as an attorney, estranged from his son Jared Franklin in Franklin & Bash.

On January 3, 2012, he took on the role of J.B. Biggley in the hit revival of the Broadway musical "How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"; taking over for John Larroquette. He is currently contracted to play the role until July 1, 2012.

As of 2011, Bridges has 14 Emmy Award nominations with three wins:

• 1992 Outstanding Lead Actor In A Miniseries Or Special, for "Without Warning: The James Brady Story"
• 1993 Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Miniseries Or A Special, for "The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom"
• 1997 Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Miniseries Or Special, for "The Second Civil War"

Personal life

Bridges married Julie Landfield in 1964. They divorced in 1984. They have 2 children:

• Casey Bridges (b. 1969)
• Jordan Bridges (b. 1973)

Married Wendy Treece in 1984. They have 3 Children:

• Dylan Bridges (b. 1984)
• Emily Bridges (b. 1986)
• Ezekiel (Zeke) Jeffrey Bridges (b. 1990)

Bridges is a Christian. He has stated that if the script calls for his character to say God's name in vain he will ask the director if he can change the line.

Filmography

Bridges with his father Lloyd in 1992.

• Force of Evil (1948)
• The Red Pony (1949)
• The Eleventh Hour episode Cannibal Plants, They Eat You Alive (1964)
• Combat! episode The Short Day Of Private Putnam (1964)
• Village of the Giants (1965)
• Cimarron Strip episode: "Legend of Jud Starr" (1967)
• The Incident (1967)
• For Love of Ivy (1968)
• Gaily, Gaily (1969)
• Adam's Woman (1970)
• The Landlord (1970)
• Hammersmith Is Out (1972)
• Child's Play (1972)
• Your Three Minutes Are Up (1973)
• Lovin' Molly (1974)
• The Other Side of the Mountain (1975)
• Swashbuckler (1976)
• Two-Minute Warning (1976)
• One Summer Love (1976)
• The Four Feathers (1977)
• Greased Lightning (1977)
• The President's Mistress (1978)
• The Runner Stumbles (1979)
• Norma Rae (1979)
• The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
• Silver Dream Racer (1980)
• Night Crossing (1981)
• Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)
• Love Child (1982)
• Witness for the Prosecution (1982)
• Heart Like a Wheel (1983)
• The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)
• Alice in Wonderland (1985)
• The Thanksgiving Promise (1986)
• The Killing Time (1987)
• Seven Hours to Judgement (1988)
• The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)
• The Iron Triangle (1989)
• Signs of Life (1989)
• Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure (1989)
• The Wizard (1989)
• Daddy's Dyin': Who's Got the Will? (1990)
• UFO Cafe (1990)
• Wildflower (1991)
• Without Warning: The James Brady Story (1991)
• Married to It (1991)
• Sidekicks (1992)
• The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993)
• The Man with Three Wives (1993)
• Million Dollar Babies (1994)
• Kissinger & Nixon (1995)
• The Outer Limits episode "The Sandkings" (1995)
• A Stranger To Love (1996) (Made for TV movie)
• Jerry Maguire (1996)
• Hidden in America (1996)
• Nightjohn (1996)
• The Second Civil War (1997)
• Rocket Man (1997)
• Maximum Bob (1998)
• P.T. Barnum (1999)
• Inherit the Wind (1999)
• Common Ground (2000)
• Sordid Lives (2000)
• Voyage of the Unicorn (2001)
• We Were the Mulvaneys (2002)
• Sightings: Heartland Ghosts (2002)
• The Agency (2002–2003)
• Out of the Ashes (2003)
• Debating Robert Lee (2004)
• Evel Knievel (2004)
• 10.5 (2004)
• Smile (2005)
• The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)
• Into the West (2005)
• Stargate SG-1 (2005–2007)
• Stargate: Atlantis (2005–2006)
• My Name Is Earl (2005–2009)
• 10.5: Apocalypse (2006)
• The Good German (2006)
• I-See-You.Com (2006)
• American Dad! (2005–2006) (voice)
• Charlotte's Web (2006)
• Spinning Into Butter (2007)
• Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008)
• Stargate: Continuum (2008)
• Max Payne (2008)
• Americanizing Shelley (2008)
• Desperate Housewives (2009)
• A Dog Year (2009)
• Don't Fade Away (2009)
• The Closer (2009)
• Columbus Circle (2010)
• My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (2010)
• Free Willy 4 (2010)
• The Descendants (2011)
• Brothers & Sisters (2011)
• Franklin and Bash (2011)

• White Collar (2011–2012)
• Game Time: Tackling the Past (2011)

References

Tales from the Crypt: episode- Abra Cadaver

External links

• Beau Bridges at the Internet Movie Database
• Beau Bridges at AllRovi
• Beau Bridges at Yahoo! Movies
• LifetimeTV.com Chat: Beau Bridges
• BeauBridges.com