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Beau Bridges
Birth at
9 December 1941
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Lloyd Vernet (Bo) Bridges III, American actor and director, was born on December 9, 1941 in Hollywood. His family was famous in the film industry and contributed to the creative career of Beau Bridges. The boy received his nickname “Bo” from his parents, actor Lloyd Bridges and his college girlfriend, who named him after his son Ashley Wilkes from Gone with the Wind. Beau Bridges first appeared on the screen at the age of seven, when he played roles in the film No Minor Vices (1948) by Liis Mileston
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Lloyd Vernet (Bo) Bridges III, American actor and director, was born on December 9, 1941 in Hollywood. His family was famous in the film industry and contributed to the creative career of Beau Bridges. The boy received his nickname “Bo” from his parents, actor Lloyd Bridges and his college girlfriend, who named him after his son Ashley Wilkes from Gone with the Wind.
Beau Bridges first appeared on the screen at the age of seven, when he played roles in the film No Minor Vices (1948) by Liis Mileston and the production of John Steinbeck's novel Red Pony (1949). As a child, Bridges was fond of basketball and in his early years was a member of the basketball team of the University of California. A little later he transferred to the University of Hawaii, which he dropped out for filming.
Beau Bridges first appeared in the role of director in 1987, when he was working on
The Wild Couple He cast his father as Colonel Haster. He also played a major role there. A little later, continuing to act in films of different genres and, at the same time, work as a director, Bo again invites Lloyd Bridges to shoot his own film. It was a picture of "The Secret Sins of My Father", made in 1994. The drama with a criminal background tells the story of the investigation into the death of the mother of the protagonist. She fell down the stairs of the house, died, and the son suspects his father that he “helped” her fall. Almost the entire Bridges dynasty worked on the film, including Jeff, who flashed in the footage of amateur filming.
The creative career of Beau Bridges is saturated with a huge number of shootings as an actor along with his directorial productions. The comprehensive activism and boundless talent in the film industry deserve admiration and respect. That is why during his years he received more than two dozen film awards, including eleven Emmy Awards, three Golden Globes, as well as Gemini Awards and Satellite Awards. /