Lloyd Bridges Filmography

Mafia!

Actors: Jay Mohr, Billy Burke, Christina Applegate, Pam Gidley, Olympia Dukakis

Synopsis: Satirist Jim Arahams returned with this comedy spoofing the Godfather trilogy, and other films and TV, including Jurassic Park, Lord of the Dance, and Barney. The opening emulates a Saul Bass sequence with Anthony Cortino (Jay Mohr) in a flight amid flames much like Robert De Niro in the Casino Read More

Meeting Daddy

Actors: Josh Charles, Alexandra Wentworth, Lloyd Bridges, Beau Bridges, Kristy Swanson

Synopsis: In this dark comedy, Peter (Josh Charles) is a well-educated Jewish writer from Los Angeles who has fallen in love with Melanie (Alexandra Wentworth), who was born and raised in the Deep South -- where much of her family still lives. Melanie travels to Georgia for a few days to visit her father Read More

Seinfeld: The Blood

Synopsis: After an unfortunate encounter with an Exacto knife, Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) receives an infusion of Kramer's blood -- and he isn't keen on being regarded as a "blood brother." George (Jason Alexander) finds both his appetite and his libido increasing thanks to some vanilla-scented incense. Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus Read More

Seinfeld: The English Patient

Synopsis: Classic alert! When Kramer (Michael Richards) asks Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) to "pick up some Cubans" from his cigar salesman, he wasn't expecting real Cubans -- or even real Dominicans. Elsewhere, George (Jason Alexander) has his curiosity aroused when a woman mistakes him for a guy named Neil. Read More

The Deliverance of Elaine

Synopsis: Throughout her life, small-town schoolteacher Elaine Hodges (Mare Winningham) has been fiercely devoted to her infirm, alcoholic father Addison (Lloyd Bridges). Even her affection for a local cop (Ron Lea)--who happens to already have a wife--will not permit Elaine to even consider leaving her Read More

Peter and the Wolf

Actors: Kirstie Alley, Lloyd Bridges, Ross Malinger

Synopsis: This program interweaves an animated musical telling of the story of Peter and the Wolf with a live action narrative about another boy named Peter who finds his own creative inspiration in the old tale. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide Read More

The Other Woman

Actors: Jill Eikenberry

Synopsis: Jill Eikenberry stars in this made-for-television drama about a mother's strength. Eikenberry stars as divorcee Tessa Bryan, who is raising her two daughters alone while her ex-husband takes up with a young model named Carolyn (Laura Leighton). When Tessa learns that she has terminal cancer, she Read More

Nothing Lasts Forever

Actors: Vanessa A. Williams, Brooke Shields, Lloyd Bridges, Stephen Caffrey

Synopsis: This drama examines the behavior of three female resident doctors working at a San Francisco hospital. It is based on a novel by Sidney Sheldon. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Blown Away

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Lloyd Bridges, Forest Whitaker, Suzy Amis

Synopsis: Opening within one month from each other in 1994, Blown Away invited many comparisons to Speed. Both are pyrotechnical displays involving mad bombers and a multitude of flying building debris and body parts. The cop and the mad bomber in this one are Jimmy Dove (Jeff Bridges), a veteran of the Read More

Secret Sins of the Father

Actors: Lee Purcell, Lloyd Bridges, Beau Bridges

Synopsis: Real-life father and son Lloyd and Beau Bridges star in the tense modern melodrama Secret Sins of the Father. Nebraska farmer Louis Thielman (Lloyd) is charged with murder of his wife. Making the charge is Louis's son Tom (Beau), the town sheriff. Though the evidence points to Louis, there are Read More

Hot Shots! Part Deux

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Valeria Golino, Richard Crenna, Brenda Bakke

Synopsis: Movie references, sight gags, silly puns, and double entendres abound in Hot Shots! Part Deux, Jim Abrahams' sequel to Hot Shots -- only now the object of the skewering is the Stallone Rambo movies instead of Top Gun. Charlie Sheen returns as the lunk-headed Topper Harley, who has retreated to a Read More

Cinderella: Frozen in Time

Actors: Dorothy Hamill

Synopsis: See world and Olympic figure skating champion Dorothy Hamill perform the lead role in this Ice Capades production. With an original score by award-winning composer Michael Conway Baker, intricate choreography, beautiful costumes, and special effects, this performance will delight skating fans of Read More

Wild West

Synopsis: A five-volume collection of some 3500 photos, sketches, and paintings of myths of the American West between the end of the Civil War to 1900. Includes first-person narratives, anecdotes, newspaper accounts, journals, and letters covering Buffalo Bill Cody, Calamity Jane, Wild Bill Hickok, Bat Read More

Earth and the American Dream

Actors: Mel Gibson, E.G. Marshall

Synopsis: This exhaustive treatment of the roots of environmental destruction in the modern world has come in for scathing criticism from those spearheading the "environmental backlash" movement, which is composed largely of rabidly pro-corporate thinkers and those who take "pure" capitalism as their Read More

Mr. Bluesman

Harts of the West [TV Series]

Actors: Beau Bridges, Lloyd Bridges, Harley Jane Kozak

Honey, I Blew Up the Kid

Actors: Rick Moranis, Marcia Strassman, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Oliveri, Daniel Shalikar, Joshua Shalikar

Synopsis: In the sequel to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, a bumbling but brilliant scientist (Rick Moranis) accidentally makes his two-year-old son into a giant who becomes larger every time he comes in contact with electricity. Though he and his wife try to control their son, the child inevitably escapes and Read More

Devlin

Synopsis: In this made-for-cable-TV crime drama, New York detective Devlin must prove that he is innocent of killing his brother-in-law, a mayoral candidate. It is not easy for the unhappily married, alcoholic gumshoe because he suspects that the man trying to frame him is his arch nemesis, his corrupt Read More

Shining Time Station: 'Tis a Gift

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Ringo Starr

Synopsis: Taken from the television series "Shining Time Station," this holiday special tells the story of an unusual passenger, Mr. Nicholas, as he passes through the station shortly before Christmas. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

In the Nick of Time

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Michael Tucker, Alison La Placa

Synopsis: When a North Pole bookkeeping boo-boo threatens to destroy the magic of Christmas, poor Santa is left with very little time in which to find a suitable replacement. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hot Shots!

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Valeria Golino, Cary Elwes, Lloyd Bridges, Kevin Dunn

Synopsis: From director Jim Abrahams, one of the minds behind the Airplane! and Naked Gun films, comes another parody. This time around, Abrahams has his sights set on the action-adventure genre, specifically Top Gun. Charlie Sheen stars as Topper Harley, a maverick air force pilot who constantly lives in Read More

Joe Versus the Volcano

Actors: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Abe Vigoda, Dan Hedaya

Synopsis: Academy Award-winning screenwriter John Patrick Shanley's first foray into the director's chair is a quirky romantic fantasy, featuring Bo Welch's signature production design. Tom Hanks plays Joe Banks, a man who hates his job, thinks the overhead fluorescent lights are making him sick, and quakes Read More

The Queen of Mean

Synopsis: This exploitation flick cashes in on the fate of a notorious, wealthy hotel magnate who was convicted for cheating on her taxes. This is based on a true story. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Capital News

Actors: Lloyd Bridges

Synopsis: Lloyd Bridges stars as a newspaper chief in this made-for-television movie about life in big-city journalism. This fast-paced movie, which was the pilot for a short-lived series of the same name on ABC, follows various plotlines as the reporters' personal and professional lives become intertwined. Read More

Help Save Planet Earth: Easy Ways to Make a Difference

Actors: Ted Danson

Leona Helmsley - The Queen of Mean

Synopsis: Based on fact, this TV drama details the life of New York property magnate, Leona Helmsley, her personal ups and downs and her well publicised run in with the IRS. ~ Mark Hockley, All Movie Guide Read More

Winter People

Actors: Kurt Russell, Kelly McGillis, Lloyd Bridges, Mitchell Ryan, Amelia Burnette

Synopsis: Set in the Appalachians during the Depression, this drama follows the events that take place when Wayland Jackson (Kurt Russell) falls in love with Collie Wright (Kelly McGillis) and becomes involved in the family feud that is sparked by the existence of Collie's illegitimate son. ~ Iotis Read More

Cousins

Actors: Ted Danson, Isabella Rossellini, Sean Young, William L. Petersen, Lloyd Bridges

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, two people brought together by marriage are brought even closer by their mates. Maria Hardy (Isabella Rossellini) and Larry Konzinski (Ted Danson) first meet at a wedding, where Maria's mother and Larry's uncle are tying the knot. However, the new cousins also have Read More

Cross of Fire

Synopsis: The two-part TV movie Cross of Fire is set in the 1920s, when the Ku Klux Klan was at the height of its political power in Indiana. Part One, originally telecast November 5, 1989, details the resurgence of the Klan (which had been created during the Reconstruction era) under the leadership of Read More

Tucker: The Man and His Dream

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau, Frederic Forrest, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: History tells us that would-be automobile mogul Preston Tucker was a silver-tongued con man, who misappropriated his investors' money and played fast and loose with ethics and legalities in the pursuit of his dream. Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola isn't buying this: to hear Coppola tell it, Tucker Read More

She Was Marked for Murder

Synopsis: In this suspenseful drama, a prominent publishing executive marries a younger man soon after the death of her husband. After the nuptials, the bride realizes she has made a terrible mistake as her charming groom seems to be planning to murder her. The film is also called Marked for Murder. Read More

Whale Song: Whales and Dolphins of the Pacific

The Wild Pair

Actors: Beau Bridges, Bubba Smith, Lloyd Bridges, Gary Lockwood, Raymond St. Jacques

Synopsis: When uptight FBI agent Joe Jennings (Beau Bridges) is forced to team up with reluctant local officer Benny Avalon (Bubba Smith), the two must learn to overcome their differences and work together to break up a drug smuggling operation. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Weekend Warriors

Actors: Chris Lemmon, Vic Tayback, Lloyd Bridges, Graham Jarvis, Daniel Greene

Synopsis: This comedy is set in Hollywood in 1961, where a group of young men join the National Guard in an attempt to escape Vietnam. The men basically do nothing while on supposed weekend duty until they get a visit from the Army, which threatens to ship them out on active duty unless they shape up. Their Read More

The Thanksgiving Promise

Actors: Beau Bridges, Jeff Bridges

Synopsis: When it was first telecast on November 23, 1986, the made-for-TV Thanksgiving Promise (based on a novel by Blaine and Brenton Yorgason) was advertised as "A Thanksgiving Story as Only Disney Can Tell It." Actually, the film might not have come to fruition at all without the input of the Bridges Read More

North and South, Book II

Actors: Kirstie Alley

Synopsis: This six-part, 12-hour miniseries was a sequel to the 1985 "mini" North and South, and like its predecessor it was based on a novel by John Jakes (Love and War). In the tradition of The Birth of a Nation (but without the negative racist content), North and South, Book III followed the fortunes of Read More

Dress Gray

Synopsis: A made for TV movie which serves as much a condemnation of the military establishment as a murder mystery, this film revolves around an upper classman who is falsely accused of responsibility for the death of a student when he begins to investigate the mysterious demise of the young gay cadet. Read More

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Synopsis: This live action trip back to Wonderland finds Alice dodging the Jabberwocky and encountering a Wonderland crew including Humpty Dumpty, Tiger Lily, and Tweedledum and Tweedledee. The voice cast is staggering, including (to mention a few) father and son Lloyd Bridges and Beau Bridges, Phyllis Diller Read More

George Washington

Synopsis: Barry Bostwick plays the Father of Our Country in this 3-part, eight-hour TV miniseries. The Richard Fielder/Jon Boothe teleplay, based on a book by James Thomas Flexner, covers the years 1743 through 1783, tracing Washington from age 11 to his farewell to the troops at Valley Forge. A great deal Read More

Paper Dolls [TV Series]

Actors: Nicollette Sheridan, Terry Farrell, Brenda Vaccaro, Jennifer Warren, Morgan Fairchild

Synopsis: This short-lived TV series was based on the 1982 television movie of the same name and focused on two young women and their mothers negotiating the New York modeling scene with the rich, the fashionable, and the powerful. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Loving

Synopsis: Following the lead of the CBS soap opera Capitol, NBC's daytime drama Loving was introduced by a two-hour, prime-time TV movie. Created by Agnes Nixon, Loving is largely set on the campus of the fictional Alden University. The serial's "backstory" is cleverly related by having TV anchorwoman Read More

A Case of Libel

Synopsis: A Case of Libel was adapted from the 1953 Broadway play by Henry Denker. The story was inspired by the real-life courtroom battle between journalists Quentin Reynolds and Westbrook Pegler. Gordon Pinsent plays a liberal news correspondent who has performed heroically in World War II. Nonetheless Read More

Grace Kelly

Actors: Cheryl Ladd, Ian McShane

Synopsis: Grace Kelly, the high-society beauty who became an Oscar-winning actress and then a European princess, is the subject of this TV biopic. Cheryl Ladd has the looks and poise of the original Grace, though she isn't quite as charismatic. The early portion of the film retraces the stormy relationship Read More

Alice in Wonderland

Actors: Donald O'Connor

Synopsis: This 1982 made-for-TV version of the Lewis Carroll classic Alice in Wonderland features an all-star cast. Such celebrities as Donald O'Connor, Maureen Stapleton and Eve Arden struggle to perform while buried under mounds of makeup and tons of eccentric costuming as Carroll's alternate-world Read More

Airplane II: The Sequel

Actors: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, William Shatner

Synopsis: With the Jerry Zucker-Jim Abrahams-David Zucker team absent, this sequel to the cash-cow 1980 spoof Airplane once again finds garrulous man-with-a-past Ted Striker (Robert Hays) compelled to take over the controls of crippled aircraft, all the while trying to patch up his relationship with Read More

The Blue and the Gray

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Colleen Dewhurst, Stacy Keach, Gregory Peck, Robert Vaughn

Synopsis: Originally networkcast in three installments, the 8-hour Blue and the Gray is a sprawling adaptation of a story concept by Civil War historian Bruce Catton. The drama begins in 1859, with young war correspondent-to-be John Hammond meeting future Union officer Stacy Keach at the trial of Read More

Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice

Synopsis: Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice is a fact-based TV movie starring Carol Burnett and Lloyd Bridges. Burnett plays Beatrice (emphasis on the second syllable: "Be-AT-trice") who compensates for her shyness and lack of self-respect by drinking heavily. Bridges plays Beatrice's husband, who Read More

East of Eden

Synopsis: The 1955 film version of John Steinbeck's East of Eden will always be popular because of the presence in the cast of James Dean. Even so, the film covered only a small portion of the original novel. For those Steinbeck completists who prefer a more thorough treatment, we submit for your approval Read More

The Secret Love of Marilyn Monroe

Actors: Lloyd Bridges

Synopsis: Actress and popular culture icon Marilyn Monroe is the subject of yet another made-for-television movie. This film, which aired as part of the on-going Moviola series, chronicles young Marilyn's (Constance Forslund) relationship in both business and her personal life, with agent Johnny Hyde (Lloyd Bridges Read More

Moviola: This Year's Blonde

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Constance Forslund, Norman Fell, Vic Tayback, Michael Lerner

Synopsis: This film profiles the early career of Marilyn Monroe when she develops a relationship with her Hollywood agent, Johnny Hyde. (AKA This Year's Blonde) ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Bear Island

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Barbara Parkins

Synopsis: Up on Bear Island -- somewhere off the northeast American coast -- a U.S. meteorological team discovers German submarines stashed with gold. Though the plot is difficult to follow, it does involve murder and a certain amount of intrigue, though many have felt that this movie version of the Read More

Airplane!

Actors: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack

Synopsis: This spoof of the Airport series of disaster movies relies on ridiculous sight gags, groan-inducing dialogue, and deadpan acting -- a comedy style that would be imitated for the next 20 years. Airplane! pulls out all the clichés as alcoholic pilot Ted Striker (Robert Hays), who's developed a fear Read More

Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack

Actors: Lloyd Bridges

Synopsis: Several episodes of the TV series were edited together to create this Battlestar Galactica full-length feature. The ship is stranded in space without fuel, and an impending attack by the Cylon robots must be stopped. Two commanders, Commander Adama (Lorne Green) and Commander Cain (Lloyd Bridges) Read More

Disaster on the Coastliner

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Robert Fuller, Pat Hingle, Yvette Mimieux, William Shatner

Synopsis: It's Airplane on the rails in the made-for-TV Disaster on the Coastliner. A crazed engineer holds his employers responsible for the deaths of his wife and daughter. He gets even by setting two passenger trains on an irrevocable collision course. Salvation comes from a most unexpected corner in Read More

Battlestar Galactica: The Living Legend, Part 2

Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Adama (Lorne Greene) clashes with Commander Cain (Lloyd Bridges), a legendary--and extremely egocentric--colonial warrior. Cain wants to use the combined forces of his battleship Pegasus and Adama's Galactica for an all-out resistance against a massive Cylon Read More

The Great Wallendas

Synopsis: Lloyd Bridges stars as stubborn high-wire artist Karl Wallenda in the made-for-TV The Great Wallendas. The famed family aerialist troupe suffered a tragic setback when, during a performance in Detroit on January 30, 1962, an accident caused the death of Karl's son-in-law and nephew, and the Read More

Battlestar Galactica: The Living Legend, Part 1

Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, a recon mission led by Apollo (Richard Hatch) and Starbuck (Dirk Benedict) confronts a fleet of Vipers from the long-lost Battlestar Pegasus. Ultimately, Cmdr. Adama (Lorne Greene) comes face to face with the Pegasus' skipper, legendary colonial warrior Read More

The Critical List

Actors: Barbara Parkins

Synopsis: Critical List divides its four-hour running time between a big city hospital and a courtroom where the hospital heads are battling numerous malpractice suits. Medical director Lloyd Bridges is obliged to juggle the travails at the hospital with his own deteriorating marriage. Prosecutor Buddy Ebsen Read More

Shimmering Light

Synopsis: In this gentle drama, a young American man (Beau Bridges) forsakes his promising career working with his father (Lloyd Bridges), a powerful business magnate, in favor of becoming a professional beach bum in Australia. After the boy becomes a world renowned surfer, his dad turns up from the States Read More

Tales of the Unexpected

Synopsis: In this drama, a man swears revenge upon those who sent him to jail. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mutual Respect

Synopsis: An elderly rich man (Lloyd Bridges) decides to search out his long-forgotten son (Beau Bridges) in this 1977 film. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The 5th Musketeer

Actors: Beau Bridges, Rex Harrison, Sylvia Kristel, Ursula Andress, Cornel Wilde, Ian McShane, Lloyd Bridges

Synopsis: The story in this lavish cinemadaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Man in the Iron Mask remains faithful to the original novel: the right heir to the throne of France is imprisoned in a dungeon by his evil twin brother, his identity kept secret with an uncomfortable iron mask. It's up to the aging Read More

The Force of Evil

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, an insane killer is released from prison and sets out to extract his revenge from the family of the man whose court statement turned the case against him. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Telethon

Synopsis: A marathon fundraiser held in exciting Las Vegas finds itself beset by behind-the-scenes romance and danger in this drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Roots

Actors: LeVar Burton, Louis Gossett, Jr., John Amos, Ben Vereen

Synopsis: This award-winning six-part historical epic was one of the first examples of the miniseries format and one of the highest-rated television programs in broadcasting history. Based on the best-selling novel by author Alex Haley, Roots chronicles the progress of Haley's own family across many Read More

The Return of Joe Forrester

Synopsis: Lloyd Bridges stars as plainclothes policeman Joe Forrester. When a gang of robber-rapists besiege his old beat, Forrester voluntarily returns to uniform duty. He hopes that his presence will encourage the frightened residents to help bring the gang to justice, but the most immediate results of