Beau (I) Bridges filmography and biography
Date of birth: 9 December 1941, Hollywood, California, USA
Beau (I) Bridges 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, 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.
Beau (I) Bridges trivia
- Son of Lloyd Bridges and Dorothy Dean Bridges.
- Older brother of Jeff Bridges (I) and Cindy Bridges.
- Father of Casey Bridges (adopted, born March 16, 1969) and
Jordan Bridges (born November 13, 1973) with
Julie Bridges and Dylan Bridges (born October 25, 1984),
Emily Bridges (born July 2, 1986) and Jeffery Bridges
(born September 24, 1993) with Wendy Treece.
- Starred with father Lloyd Bridges and son Dylan Bridges in
Showtime's The Outer Limits on 22 March 1995.
- 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.
- 7 April 2003: Received star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, next to the stars
of younger brother Jeff Bridges (I) and father
Lloyd Bridges.
- Another brother, Garrett Myles Bridges was born on June 14, 1948 but
died of SIDS less than two months later on August 3, 1948.
- He was a very promising basketball player in his youth, and was scouted
by quite a few NBA teams.
- He was born one day before his Village of the Giants
co-star Tommy Kirk.
- Enlisted in the US Coast Guard in 1959, and also served for eight years
in the Coast Guard Reserve.
- Brother-in-law of Susan Bridges (II). Uncle of
Isabelle Bridges, Jessica Lily Bridges and Haley Roselouise
Bridges.