People see me dive on the show and think I’m an expert. “I’ve always loved the ocean,” he told The Times in 1960 in the series’ heyday. On stage since the late 1930s, Bridges became a household face and name as Mike Nelson, ex-Navy frogman and freelance underwater investigator in television’s “Sea Hunt.” The innovative series, filmed largely in a tank at the now-defunct Marineland of the Pacific on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, ran from 1957 to 1961 and appeared in syndication through the 1960s.Īlthough he was an avid lifelong tennis player and swimmer and played basketball, baseball and football in his high school and college years, Bridges admitted that he had never tried skin diving until he landed the part. He had recently completed filming the motion picture “Meeting Daddy” with Beau, and had a role in the upcoming film “Jane Austen’s Mafia!” scheduled for release next summer. He played a recurring role on Beau’s television series “Harts of the West” in 1993, and two years later was on cable television’s “The Outer Limits” with Beau and grandson Dylan. In 1986 the patriarch introduced grandson Jordan in the television movie “Thanksgiving Promise.” The true family feature starred Lloyd, Beau and Jordan and included Lloyd’s wife, Dorothy, in a supporting role and son Jeff in a walk-on.īridges appeared with Jeff in the films “Tucker: The Man and His Dream” in 1988 and “Blown Away” in 1994. In recent years, Bridges frequently acted with sons Beau and Jeff (whom he first put before the camera in “Sea Hunt”) in films and television productions.
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