Lloyd Bridges
Actor
Baby boomers know Lloyd Bridges as Mike Nelson, the square-jawed frogman star of the undersea adventure series Sea Hunt. The show ran from 1958-1961 and then continued for years in reruns. In 1980 Bridges' career was resurrected when he played a goofy plane dispatcher in the 1980 satire Airplane! and its 1982 sequel Airplane II. He is the father of the actors Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges.Extra credit: Bridges was briefly blacklisted for political activism during the McCarthy era... In the 1990s he appeared in two more aerial parodies, Hot Shots! (1991) and Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993).
Four Good Links
Lloyd Bridges Dead at 85
Bridges' 1998 obituary from CNN
Sea Hunt
Nice series recap from TVParty.Com
Lloyd Bridges Filmography
Salvage work from the Internet Movie Database
The Scuba Guy
A Houston fan offers Sea Hunt notes, trivia and even an FAQ
Vital Stats
Birth
Birthplace
Death
10 March 1998
(natural causes, age 85)
Best Known As
Mike Nelson on Sea Hunt
