Jeff Bridges - Partial filmography

Film actor, born in Los Angeles, California, USA, the son of actor Lloyd Bridges (1913–98). He appeared in the television series Sea Hunt as a child, and after military academy and the coastguards he became a professional actor, receiving Oscar nominations for The Last Picture Show (1971), Starman (1984), and Tucker (1988). Later films include The Fisher King (1991), The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996), K-Pax (2001), Seabiscuit (2003), and The Moguls (2005). His brother Beau Bridges (1941– ) is also an actor.

Jeffrey Leon Bridges (born December 4, 1949 in Los Angeles, California) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. He is the son of Dorothy Simpson and Lloyd Bridges, the brother of Beau Bridges and the uncle of Jordan Bridges.

Bridges's first major role was in the 1971 movie The Last Picture Show for which he garnered a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1984 for playing the alien in Starman. He also took the leading role of "The Dude" in the Coen brothers' film The Big Lebowski.

Bridges is also a first rate character actor in films like The Vanishing as a psychopathic college professor, a standoffish U.S. president in 2000's The Contender (produced by co-star Gary Oldman and producer Douglas Urbanski and for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor again) and The Muse as a carefree screenwriter buddy of Albert Brooks. Bridges narrated the documentary Lost in La Mancha (2002), a singularly unique filmographic witness of the "unmaking" of a Terry Gilliam retelling of Don Quixote, tentatively titled The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, which would have starred Johnny Depp as Sancho Panza and Jean Rochefort as the quixotic hero. Clark: Great Journey West (2002, IMAX), Raising the Mammoth (2000, TV), and The Heroes of Rock and Roll (1979, TV).

In his off time while on set, he has been known to document the filmmaking process by photographing fellow actors and on-set staff with a panoramic camera. Some of his "doodles" have appeared in various films, such as K-PAX and The Door in the Floor (a short story-within-story by John Irving).

Partial filmography

The Last Picture Show (1971) Bad Company (1972) The Last American Hero (1973) Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) King Kong (1976) Stay Hungry (1976) Winter Kills (1979) Cutter's Way (1980) Tron (1982) Starman (1984) Against All Odds (1984) Jagged Edge (1985) The Morning After (1986) Nadine (1987) Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) Texasville (1990) The Fisher King (1991) American Heart (1992) The Vanishing (1993) Fearless (1993) Blown Away (1994) Wild Bill (1995) The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) White Squall (1996) The Big Lebowski (1998) Arlington Road (1999) Simpatico (1999) The Contender (2000) Raising the Mammoth (narrator) (2000) K-PAX (2001) Scenes Of The Crime(2001) Masked and Anonymous (2003) Seabiscuit (2003) The Door in the Floor (2004) The Moguls (2005) Tideland (2005) Stick It (2006) A Dog Year (2007)