Beau Bridges' Main TV Roles Show Character(s) My Name Is Earl Carl Hickey Stargate SG-1 Major Gener… Into the West Stephen Hoxie 10.5: Apocalypse President P… Single with Parents Joe Space Astronaut R… Harts of the West Dave Hart Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Fr… The Agency (2001) Sen. Tom Gage The Loner Johnny Sharp United States Richard Cha…

Main Movie Roles 2010 - My Girlfriend's Boyfriend 2008 - Max Payne 2007 - Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience 2007 - Americanizing Shelley 2007 - Spinning Into Butter 2006 - The Good German 2006 - I-See-You.Com 2006 - Charlotte's Web 2005 - The Ballad of Jack and Rose 1999 - The White River Kid 1997 - RocketMan 1996 - Jerry Maguire 1992 - Sidekicks 1991 - Married to It 1990 - Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will? 1989 - The Wizard 1989 - The Fabulous Baker Boys 1987 - The Killing Time 1984 - The Hotel New Hampshire 1983 - Heart Like A Wheel 1981 - Honky Tonk Freeway 1980 - Silver Dream Racer 1979 - The Fifth Musketeer 1977 - Greased Lightning 1976 - Swashbuckler 1976 - Two-Minute Warning 1972 - Child's Play 1965 - Village of the Giants 1949 - The Red Pony 1948 - Force of Evil

BIOGRAPHY:

Beau Bridges is the son of actor Lloyd Bridges and his wife, who was his college sweetheart, Dorothy Dean Bridges. Born just two days after the attack on Pearl Harbour, he was delivered by candlelight because of a power blackout. Named Lloyd Vernet Bridges III, his parents immediately started calling him Beau after Ashley Wilkes' son in Gone with the Wind (1939), a book they were reading at the time. His younger brother, actor Jeff Bridges (I), was born in 1949 and a sister, Cindy Bridges, the following year.

Although only 5'10", Beau played basketball for UCLA his freshman year. The following year he transferred to the University of Hawaii, but dropped out to pursue acting and got his first major role in 1967. During his first marriage to Julie Landifield, they adopted Casey Bridges and then had Jordan Bridges. He and his second wife, Wendy Treece Bridges, have three children from this marriage: Dylan Bridges (born 1985); Emily Bridges, (born 1987) and Ezekiel Jeffry Bridges.

Beau likes to play guitar and collects Native American percussion instruments. He also loves the ocean, including swimming and surfing. He is also active in environmental causes and handgun control.


TRIVIA:

• Brother of 'Jeff Bridges (I)' (qv).
• Especially active as president of an environmental group Ventura Coast Keeper in native California. Is pushing state to buy and preserve 265 acres of wetlands near Oxnard now sought by mammoth Occidental Petroleum Corp.
• Son of 'Lloyd Bridges' (qv).
• Father of 'Casey Bridges' (qv) (adopted), 'Jordan Bridges' (qv), 'Dylan Bridges' (qv), 'Emily Bridges' (qv), and Ezekiel Jeffry Bridges (b. 1993).
• Starred with father 'Lloyd Bridges' (qv) and son 'Dylan Bridges' (qv) in Showtime's _"The Outer Limits" (1995)_ (qv) on 22 March 1995.
• Another brother, Garrett Myles Bridges was born in June of 1948 but died of SIDS less than two months later.
• Brother of 'Cindy Bridges' (qv).
• 7 April 2003: Received star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, next to the stars of younger brother 'Jeff Bridges (I)' (qv) and father 'Lloyd Bridges' (qv).