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Jeff Bridges

Jeff Bridges, AKA Jeffrey Leon Bridges

Born: 4-Dec-1949
Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA

Gender: Male
Religion: Lutheran
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Party Affiliation: Democratic

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Starman, TRON

Military service: U.S. Coast Guard

Jeff Bridges's father was busy B-movie star and TV icon Lloyd Bridges, so he got to skip the entire "struggling actor" phase. He played an infant in his first movie, The Company She Keeps (1951), and before adolescence he had appeared on his father's Sea Hunt. At 14, he was in a touring stage production of Anniversary Waltz. At 17, his parents contacted a group called Developing Adolescents Without Narcotics, which put Bridges through an "intervention" to snap his marijuana habit. At 21, he was in The Last Picture Show, and Bridges became a movie star.

His famous films include Hearts of the West, the 1976 King Kong, Tron, Starman, Jagged Edge, The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Fisher King, and Seabiscuit. Bridges also starred in The Big Lebowski (1998), directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Bridges is simply perfect as an aging, bearded, cocktail-sipping, pothead bowler who answers only to "The Dude". The part was written for him, and he wears some of his own clothes in the movie, causing some to suspect that "The Dude" is Jeff Bridges.

When he isn't making movies, Bridges chairs Hunger Free America. Bridges has dropped acid, done transcendental meditation, and in 2000 he released an album of pop music.

Father: Lloyd Bridges (actor)
Mother: Dorothy (Simpson) Dean Bridges (former actress)
Brother: Beau Bridges (actor, b. 9-Dec-1941)
Brother: Gary Bridges (b. 1947, d. 1947, sudden infant death syndrome)
Sister: Lucinda Bridges (b. 1954)
Girlfriend: Cybill Shepherd (actress, dated 1971)
Girlfriend: Candy Clark (actress, dated 1972)
Girlfriend: Valerie Perrine (actress, dated 1973)
Wife: Susan Geston (former maid; b. 1954, dated 1975-77, m. 1977)
Daughter: Isabelle Bridges (b. 1982)
Daughter: Jessica Bridges (b. 1984)
Daughter: Haley Bridges (b. 1988)

    High School: Palisades High School, Pacific Palisades, CA
    High School: University High School, Los Angeles, CA

    John Kerry for President
    Kucinich for President
    MoveOn.org
    Risk Factors: Smoking, Marijuana, LSD

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Iron Man (14-Apr-2008)
    Surf's Up (7-Jun-2007) [VOICE]
    Stick It (21-Apr-2006)
    Tideland (9-Sep-2005)
    The Amateurs (6-Feb-2005)
    The Door in the Floor (18-Jun-2004)
    Seabiscuit (22-Jul-2003)
    Masked and Anonymous (22-Jan-2003)
    Lost in La Mancha (11-Feb-2002) Narrator [VOICE]
    K-PAX (22-Oct-2001)
    Scenes of the Crime (8-Sep-2001)
    The Contender (10-Sep-2000)
    Simpatico (15-Sep-1999)
    The Muse (27-Aug-1999)
    Arlington Road (19-Mar-1999)
    The Big Lebowski (15-Feb-1998)
    Hidden in America (1-Dec-1996)
    The Mirror Has Two Faces (15-Nov-1996)
    White Squall (2-Feb-1996)
    Wild Bill (1-Dec-1995)
    Blown Away (1-Jul-1994)
    Fearless (15-Oct-1993)
    The Vanishing (05-Feb-1993)
    American Heart (17-Sep-1992)
    The Fisher King (13-Sep-1991)
    Texasville (28-Sep-1990)
    The Fabulous Baker Boys (13-Oct-1989)
    See You in the Morning (14-Apr-1989)
    Tucker: The Man and His Dream (12-Aug-1988)
    Nadine (07-Aug-1987)
    The Morning After (25-Dec-1986)
    8 Million Ways to Die (3-Oct-1986)
    Jagged Edge (5-Sep-1985)
    Live Aid (13-Jul-1985) Himself
    Starman (14-Dec-1984)
    Against All Odds (02-Mar-1984)
    Kiss Me Goodbye (22-Dec-1982)
    The Last Unicorn (19-Nov-1982) [VOICE]
    TRON (9-Jul-1982)
    Cutter's Way (12-Sep-1981)
    Heaven's Gate (19-Nov-1980)
    The American Success Company (1980)
    Winter Kills (11-May-1979)
    King Kong (17-Dec-1976)
    Hearts of the West (28-May-1976)
    Stay Hungry (23-Apr-1976)
    Rancho Deluxe (14-Mar-1975)
    Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (2-Sep-1974)
    The Iceman Cometh (10-Nov-1973)
    The Last American Hero (27-Jul-1973)
    Bad Company (8-Oct-1972)
    Fat City (26-Jul-1972)
    The Last Picture Show (3-Oct-1971)

Official Website:
http://www.jeffbridges.com/

  Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (2-Sep-1974)
Somebody saw this movie?
Is so fucking great, i saw it last friday.But i'm not agree whit the end but whatever...life goes on.
Jeff Bridges is a real Dude.

Jeff was in the Coast Guard?

I too dabbled with joining the Coast Guard after high school.

Quote from: SmokeytheBuddha on July 14, 2008, 02:11:18 PM
Jeff was in the Coast Guard?

I too dabbled with joining the Coast Guard after high school.

How was that dude? I thought about it too but I think I missed the deadline, too old now.

Quote from: Turtle on July 14, 2008, 08:20:31 PM

Quote from: SmokeytheBuddha on July 14, 2008, 02:11:18 PM
Jeff was in the Coast Guard?

I too dabbled with joining the Coast Guard after high school.

How was that dude? I thought about it too but I think I missed the deadline, too old now.

I didn't get beyond the thinking stage, either. Ended up smoking Thai sticks and occupying university buildings instead.

Quote from: SmokeytheBuddha on July 14, 2008, 08:46:29 PM

Quote from: Turtle on July 14, 2008, 08:20:31 PM

Quote from: SmokeytheBuddha on July 14, 2008, 02:11:18 PM
Jeff was in the Coast Guard?

I too dabbled with joining the Coast Guard after high school.

How was that dude? I thought about it too but I think I missed the deadline, too old now.

I didn't get beyond the thinking stage, either. Ended up smoking Thai sticks and occupying university buildings instead.

During league play?

Quote from: digitalbuddha on July 16, 2008, 07:31:53 PM

Quote from: SmokeytheBuddha on July 14, 2008, 08:46:29 PM

Quote from: Turtle on July 14, 2008, 08:20:31 PM

Quote from: SmokeytheBuddha on July 14, 2008, 02:11:18 PM
Jeff was in the Coast Guard?

I too dabbled with joining the Coast Guard after high school.

How was that dude? I thought about it too but I think I missed the deadline, too old now.

I didn't get beyond the thinking stage, either. Ended up smoking Thai sticks and occupying university buildings instead.

During league play?

Oh, I told him if it was during league play--I, uh...

Whats during league play?

Quote from: Turtle on July 17, 2008, 03:02:28 AM
Whats during league play?

Coutis 

Quote from: digitalbuddha on July 17, 2008, 08:26:20 PM

Quote from: Turtle on July 17, 2008, 03:02:28 AM
Whats during league play?

Coutis 

Whats Coutis Walter?

Quote from: Turtle on July 18, 2008, 08:12:19 PM

Quote from: digitalbuddha on July 17, 2008, 08:26:20 PM

Quote from: Turtle on July 17, 2008, 03:02:28 AM
Whats during league play?

Coutis 

Whats Coutis Walter?

Shut the fuck up, Turtle............ V.I. Coitus, Vladimir Ilyich Coitus

Historical note..............

Phone's ringing, Digitalbhuddadude

You lost me at "marijuana habit"

What better than to abide...anything else is gravy

Starman was a good movie.

Donny, you're out of your element

Quote from: brandt on July 18, 2008, 11:34:05 PM
Phone's ringing, Digitalbhuddadude

Thank you, brandt