Beau Bridges
Acting • Born 1941-12-09
Biography
Lloyd Vernet "Beau" Bridges (born December 9, 1941) is an American actor and director. He is a three-time Emmy, two-time Golden Globe and one-time Grammy Award winner, as well as a two-time Screen Actors Guild Award nominee. He was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on April 7, 2003, for his contributions to the television industry. He is the son of actor Lloyd Bridges and elder brother of fellow actor Jeff Bridges. In 1948, he had an uncredited role in Force of Evil, and No Minor Vices, while in 1949, he played in the film The Red Pony. In the 1962–1963 television season, he and his brother, Jeff, appeared on their father's series, The Lloyd Bridges Show. He appeared in other television series too, including National Velvet (1962), The Fugitive (1963), Bonanza (1967), Mr. Novak (1963), and The Loner (1966). He appeared in such feature films during that time as The Landlord (1970), The Other Side of the Mountain (1975), Greased Lightning (1977), Norma Rae (1979), Heart Like a Wheel (1983), and The Hotel New Hampshire (1984). In 1989, in perhaps his best-known role, he starred in The Fabulous Baker Boys. In the 1993–94 television season, he appeared with his father in the 15-episode series Harts of the West. 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, in two episodes in Will & Grace. From 2002 to 2003, he took on the role of Senator Tom Gage in The Agency. In January 2005, he was cast as Major General Hank Landry in Stargate SG-1. He also played the character in five episodes of the spin-off series Stargate Atlantis, as well as the two direct to DVD films Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Stargate: Continuum, both in 2008. In 2005, he guest-starred as Carl Hickey in My Name Is Earl; later, his character became recurring. He received a 2007 Emmy Award nomination for his performance. 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 2011, he guest-starred in Brothers and Sisters, and in Franklin & Bash. In 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. In 2013, he became a major character on the CBS television show The Millers. He has had several roles in movies since then including Underdog Kids (2015), and Lawless Range (2016). He has also had guest roles on the shows Masters of Sex (2013–2016) and Code Black (2016).
Filmography
255 credits
The Good German
Movie • 2006
Colonel Muller
The Wizard
Movie • 1989
Sam
End of the Road
Movie • 2022
Capt. JD Hammers
07 Spaceys
Movie • 2007
The Fifth Musketeer
Movie • 1979
Philippe / Louis XIV
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Movie • 1989
Frank Baker
Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will?
Movie • 1990
Orville
Witness for the Prosecution
Movie • 1982
Leonard Vole
Voyage of the Unicorn
Movie • 2001
Professor Alan Aisling
Wildflower
Movie • 1991
Jack Perkins
The Hotel New Hampshire
Movie • 1984
Win Berry
Dreamin' Wild
Movie • 2023
Don Emerson Sr.
Two-Minute Warning
Movie • 1976
Mike Ramsay
The Red Pony
Movie • 1949
Beau
Sidekicks
Movie • 1992
Jerry Gabrewski
Silver Dream Racer
Movie • 1980
Bruce McBride
The Killing Time
Movie • 1987
Sam Wayburn
Married to It
Movie • 1991
John Morden
Stargate: Continuum
Movie • 2008
Major General Hank Landry
Stargate: The Ark of Truth
Movie • 2008
Maj. Gen. Henry Landry
Max Payne
Movie • 2008
BB Hensley
Charlotte's Web
Movie • 2006
Dr. Dorian
Heart Like a Wheel
Movie • 1983
Connie Kalitta
Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove
Movie • 2010
Gus Grisby
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Movie • 2007
Voice 'Aftermath'
Norma Rae
Movie • 1979
Sonny
Greased Lightning
Movie • 1977
Hutch
Swashbuckler
Movie • 1976
Major Folly
I-See-You.com
Movie • 2006
Harvey Bellinger
RocketMan
Movie • 1997
Bud Nesbitt
Village of the Giants
Movie • 1965
Fred
Don't Fade Away
Movie • 2010
Chris White
Pablo
Movie • 2012
Self
Stasis
Movie • 2010
Dr. Graham
Smile
Movie • 2005
Steven
Camera
Movie • 2024
Eric
The Landlord
Movie • 1970
Elgar Enders
The Descendants
Movie • 2011
Cousin Hugh
The Incident
Movie • 1967
Pfc. Felix Teflinger
The Ballad of Jack and Rose
Movie • 2005
Marty Rance
Honky Tonk Freeway
Movie • 1981
Duane Hansen
The White River Kid
Movie • 1999
Daddy Weed
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
Movie • 1993
Terry Harper
Out of the Ashes
Movie • 2003
Herman Prentiss, Interrogator
Sordid Lives
Movie • 2000
G.W. Nethercott
For Love of Ivy
Movie • 1968
Tim Austin
The Christmas Secret
Movie • 2000
Nick
Child's Play
Movie • 1972
Paul Reis
Love Child
Movie • 1982
Jack Hansen
Game Time: Tackling the Past
Movie • 2011
Frank Walker
Columbus Circle
Movie • 2012
Dr. Raymond Fontaine
Signs of Life
Movie • 1989
John Alder
Hammersmith Is Out
Movie • 1972
Billy Breedlove
The Other Side of the Mountain
Movie • 1975
Dick Buek
Night Crossing
Movie • 1982
Guenter Wetzel
Eden
Movie • 2013
Bob
The Wild Pair
Movie • 1987
Joe Jennings
Vanessa in the Garden
Movie • 1985
Theodore 'Teddy' Shearing
Hit & Run
Movie • 2012
Clint Perrkins
Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure
Movie • 1989
Police Chief Richard Czech
Losing Chase
Movie • 1996
Mr. Richard Phillips
The Iron Triangle
Movie • 1989
Capt. Keene
Without Warning: The James Brady Story
Movie • 1991
James Brady
The Man with Three Wives
Movie • 1993
Dr. Norman Grayson
Are We Still Going to the Movies?
Movie • 1974
What About McBride?
Movie • 1974
A Stranger to Love
Movie • 1996
Allan Grant / Allan Grey
The Runner Stumbles
Movie • 1979
Toby Felker
UFO Cafe
Movie • 1990
Arnold Zimmerman
The Uninvited
Movie • 1996
Charles Johnson
Songs In Ordinary Time
Movie • 2000
Omar Duvall
Gaily, Gaily
Movie • 1969
Ben Harvey
Sightings: Heartland Ghost
Movie • 2002
Derek
The Explosive Generation
Movie • 1961
Stephen
Blue Eyed Girl
Movie • 2025
Dad
Seven Hours to Judgment
Movie • 1988
John Eden
Meeting Daddy
Movie • 2000
Larry Branson
Rushlights
Movie • 2013
Sheriff Robert Brogden Jr.
Your Three Minutes Are Up
Movie • 1973
Charlie
Lovin' Molly
Movie • 1974
Johnny
The Four Feathers
Movie • 1978
Harry Feversham
Dragonfly
Movie • 1976
Jesse
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
Movie • 1990
Gerry Green
Medical Story
Movie • 1975
Dr. Steve Drucker
The Defenders: Payback
Movie • 1997
Don Preston
We Were the Mulvaneys
Movie • 2002
Michael Mulvaney, Sr.
Underdog Kids
Movie • 2015
Ron Butz
The Man Without a Country
Movie • 1973
Frederick Ingham
The Stranger Who Looks Like Me
Movie • 1974
Chris Schroeder
Outrage!
Movie • 1986
Bruce Gordon
P.T. Barnum
Movie • 1999
P.T. Barnum
Just Another Secret
Movie • 1989
Jack Grant
Kissinger and Nixon
Movie • 1995
Richard Nixon
Hidden in America
Movie • 1996
Bill
The Second Civil War
Movie • 1997
Governor Jim Farley
Shimmering Light
Movie • 1978
Kevin Pearse
A Christmas Mystery
Movie • 2022
Mayor Donovan
The Wandering Man’s Burden: Making The Loner
Movie • 2016
Self
Jerry Maguire
Movie • 1996
Matt Cushman (uncredited)
Americanizing Shelley
Movie • 2007
Gary Gordon
The Neon Highway
Movie • 2024
Claude Allen
Nightjohn
Movie • 1996
Clel Waller
Night of 100 Stars III
Movie • 1990
Self
The Child Stealer
Movie • 1979
David Rodman
The Defenders: Choice of Evils
Movie • 1998
Don Preston
Adam's Woman
Movie • 1970
Adam
Our Italian Christmas Memories
Movie • 2022
Vincent Coluccia
Evel Knievel
Movie • 2004
John Bork
The Kid From Nowhere
Movie • 1982
Bud Herren
Boys Klub
Movie • 2001
Mario's Dad
Words from a Bear
Movie • 2019
Self
Zamba
Movie • 1949
Tommy
Quincy Jones...The First 50 Years
Movie • 1998
Self
Stanley Kramer: A Man's Search for Truth
Movie • 2008
Self
Desert Road
Movie • 2024
Old Man
Force of Evil
Movie • 1950
Frankie Tucker (uncredited)
The Perfect Drug Film
Movie • 1971
Narrator
It's My Hobby
Movie • 1974
Himself
Secret Sins of the Father
Movie • 1994
Tom Thielman
Debating Robert Lee
Movie • 2004
Mr. Lee
The Red-Light Sting
Movie • 1984
Frank Powell
My Girlfriend's Boyfriend
Movie • 2010
Uncle Logan
Lawless Range
Movie • 2018
Mr. Reed
Common Ground
Movie • 2000
Father Leon
Can A Guy Say No?
Movie • 1986
Mr. Tauscher
Flower Shop Mystery: Mum's the Word
Movie • 2016
Jeffrey Knight
Flower Shop Mystery: Snipped in the Bud
Movie • 2016
Jeffrey
Flower Shop Mystery: Dearly Depotted
Movie • 2016
Jeffrey
Spinning Into Butter
Movie • 2009
Dean Burton Strauss
The President's Mistress
Movie • 1978
Ben Morton
Hal
Movie • 2019
Self
Stubby Pringle's Christmas
Movie • 1978
Stubby Pringle
Inherit the Wind
Movie • 1999
E. K. Hornbeck
A Fighting Choice
Movie • 1986
Thad Taylor
Elvis and the Colonel: The Untold Story
Movie • 1993
Colonel Thomas A. Parker
Galveston
Movie • 2018
Stan Ptitko
The Thanksgiving Promise
Movie • 1986
Hank Tilby
No Minor Vices
Movie • 1948
Bertram (uncredited)
5 American Handguns - 5 American Kids
Movie • 1995
Narrator
The Company She Keeps
Movie • 1951
Obie, Boy at Train Station (uncredited)
The Mountain Between Us
Movie • 2017
Walter
Dangerous Company
Movie • 1982
Ray Johnson
The Christian Licorice Store
Movie • 1971
Cane
All About Nina
Movie • 2018
Larry Michaels
Christmas in Angel Falls
Movie • 2017
Michael D'Angelo
Two/One
Movie • 2020
Alfred
Elsewhere
Movie • 2020
Dad
Supervized
Movie • 2019
Ted
Vault of Horror I
Movie • 1994
Dr. Martin Fairbanks (archive footage)
Atta Girl, Kelly!
Movie • 1967
Matt Howell
One Night in Miami...
Movie • 2020
Mr. Carlton
1000 to 1
Movie • 2014
Coach
The Defenders: Taking the First
Movie • 1998
Don Preston
Sordid Lives
Movie • 2020
Tinsel - The Lost Movie About Hollywood
Movie • 2020
Self
Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides
Movie • 2011
Self
Acting: The First Six Lessons
Movie • 2020
The Teacher/Movie Director
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
Movie • 2009
Self
Shaolin Ulysses: Kung Fu Monks in America
Movie • 2003
Help Save Planet Earth
Movie • 1990
Self
The Tony Danza Show
TV • 2004
Self
The District
TV • 2000
Tom Gage
American Dad!
TV • 2005
Doctor / Lieutenant Thacker (voice)
United States
TV • 1980
Richard Chapin
My Three Sons
TV • 1960
The Agency
TV • 2001
Tom Gage
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Jerry Foley
The Daily Show
TV • 1996
Self
Desperate Housewives
TV • 2004
Eli Scruggs
Stargate Atlantis
TV • 2004
Hank Landry
My Name Is Earl
TV • 2005
Carl Hickey
Everwood
TV • 2002
Daniel Sullivan
Tales from the Crypt
TV • 1989
Dr. Martin Fairbanks
Dialing Home
TV • 2017
Self
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Jason
Maximum Bob
TV • 1998
Judge Bob Gibbs
Combat!
TV • 1962
Orville Putnam
Stargate SG-1
TV • 1997
Hank Landry
Will & Grace
TV • 1998
Daniel McFarland
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Stubby Pringle
Sea Hunt
TV • 1958
Mr. Mayor
TV • 2021
Adolphus Hass
Felony Squad
TV • 1966
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Billy Johanson
Cimarron Strip
TV • 1967
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Gary Keller
Into the West
TV • 2005
Stephen Hoxie
The Don Knotts Show
TV • 1970
Self
The Loner
TV • 1965
The Clear Horizon
TV • 1960
Beau Bridges
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Larry Corby
Branded
TV • 1965
Ben Casey
TV • 1961
Mr. Novak
TV • 1963
Pat Knowland
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Cpl. Moss
Vacation Playhouse
TV • 1963
Brandon Drood
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Bob Colby
The Outer Limits
TV • 1995
Dr. Simon Kress
Harts of the West
TV • 1993
Dave Hart
The Premise
TV • 2021
William
The Wild Thornberrys
TV • 1998
Hayden Adams (voice)
The Millers
TV • 2013
Tom Miller
White Collar
TV • 2009
Agent Kramer
Amazing Stories
TV • 1985
Teddy Shearing
Space
TV • 1985
Randy Claggett
Brothers and Sisters
TV • 2006
Nick Brody
American Dad!
TV • 2005
Lieutenant Thacker (voice)
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
Ensign O'Toole
TV • 1962
Spicer
Stargate Atlantis
TV • 2004
Major General Henry Landry
Ensign O'Toole
TV • 1962
Seaman Howard Spicer
Franklin & Bash
TV • 2011
Leonard Franklin
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
TV • 2014
Sheriff Scaley Briggs (voice)
Bloodline
TV • 2015
Roy Gilbert
Voyage of the Unicorn
TV • 2001
Alan Aisling
Lessons in Chemistry
TV • 2023
Harry Wilson
Mosaic
TV • 2018
Alan Pape
Mr. Novak
TV • 1963
Jay Bartlett
black-ish
TV • 2014
Paul
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
TV • 1974
Young Benjamin Franklin
Million Dollar Babies
TV • 1994
Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe
Flick Flack
TV • 1974
The Goodwin Games
TV • 2013
Benjamin Goodwin
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Leonard Vole
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
TV • 1995
King Big Daddy (voice)
Greenleaf
TV • 2016
Bob Whitmore
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Horace Perkins
10.5
TV • 2004
Paul Hollister
10.5: Apocalypse
TV • 2006
Paul Hollister
Masters of Sex
TV • 2013
Dr. Barton Scully
Founding Fathers
TV • 2000
Samuel Adams (voice)
On Air with Ryan Seacrest
TV • 2004
Self
Messiah
TV • 2020
Edmund DeGuilles
Stargate Atlantis
TV • 2004
Major General Hank Landry
Goliath
TV • 2016
Roy Wheeler
Homeland
TV • 2011
Ralph Warner
Robbie
TV • 2020
Robbie Walton Sr.
The Closer
TV • 2005
Detective George Andrews / Georgette
The Megan Mullally Show
TV • 2006
Self - Guest
Matlock
TV • 2024
Howard 'Senior' Markston
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self
Alice in Wonderland
TV • 1985
Unicorn
The Lloyd Bridges Show
TV • 1962
Carl
Medical Story
TV • 1975
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
Unconventional
TV • 2025
Wayne Guillory
The Lloyd Bridges Show
TV • 1962
Skippy Mannox
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Matt Howell
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Thad Taylor
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
Jeopardy!
TV • 1984
Self
P.T. Barnum
TV • 1999
P.T. Barnum
Tales from the Crypt - Uncut
TV • 1992
Fridays
TV • 1980
Self