As time went on, I got envious and wanted to do a lot of stunts myself.
Bear Valley is the hidden treasure of the Sierra.
Carrying those double tanks around all the time got to be a little rough on me. I had to put that damn wetsuit on and take it off, sometimes three or four times a day.
For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me. Butit opened up a lot of doors.
I am very flattered people recognize I had something to do with the development of interest in the underwater world.
I do more snorkeling than diving.
I needed to feed my family. I read a couple of the episodes. How can you keep on doing the same thing?
I'm foremost an actor. I feel embarrassed being compared to the guys who really work at it. I fake it, I make believe I know all about it, which is what you're supposed to do as an actor.
It was very important that you kept your sanity and didn't let the pressure of time affect what would be seen later on the screen.
One of the good things about being recognized is that guys in the business take me out. I take advantage of it.
Sea Hunt was the first time anyone tackled a show that took place underwater. The stories were sort of exciting for kids, like cops and robbers underwater.
The pollution could ruin our oceans. I love the sea and I love diving.
There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage that's being spilled in there.
We wanted to set a good example for the growing number of divers watching.
We worked under a lot of pressure... three days to do an episode, sometimes two in a week, 39 episodes a year.
Zale and I did the pilot for Sea Hunt. She taught me a lot about diving, and she was especially beautiful underwater. She doubled for all the gals.
He appeared in two productions with his son Beau Bridges in which he played his father, a retired colonel, whose first name was never revealed (and his grandson Dylan Bridges): The Outer Limits episodes "The Sandkings (1)" and "The Sandkings (2)" and Meeting Daddy.
Unlike many of his fellow actors, he was a dedicated family man and remained faithful to his wife Dorothy Dean Bridges throughout their sixty year marriage.
His final film was Jane Austen's Mafia!. It was released on July 24, 1998, over four months after his death.
Lloyd Bridges: "The devastation caused by war and the pollution of our environment knows no boundaries. Only an effective world government could provide sufficient law and have the power to control these destructive forces."
His parents were Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Sr. and Harriet Brown.
In 1914, he was awarded the winner's cup in a fat-baby contest by its judge, former President William H. Taft, who thought Lloyd was as fat as he was. He was also among the last living people to have known Taft.
He is the father of Beau Bridges, Jeff Bridges and Cindy Bridges.
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