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Actor Lloyd Bridges dead at age 85
March 10, 1998
Bridges
Web posted at: 9:09 p.m. EST (0209 GMT)LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -- Veteran actor Lloyd Bridges, who starred in the popular TV series "Sea Hunt" and is the father of actors Beau and Jeff Bridges, has died at age 85, his agent said.
The craggy-faced Bridges, who began his career as an actor in westerns in 1941, died at his Los Angeles home, his agent Lee Stollman said, adding that no further details were immediately available.
One of his best-known screen performances was the calculating deputy sheriff in the 1952 classic "High Noon," who refuses to aid the sheriff played by Gary Cooper.
Newer audiences cherished his sense of timing in the Airplane film comedy series of the early 1980s in which he played a gruff controller trying to guide endangered planes to safe landings, while smoking up a storm and drinking himself into oblivion.
He starred in several TV series, including "The Lloyd Bridges Show" and "Sea Hunt," and in scores of movies in which he frequently played the villain.
In the early 1950s, Bridges admitted to being a former member of the Communist Party and was a key witness before the House Un-American Activities Committee, which investigated communist influence in films.
Copyright 1998 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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