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Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Jr. (born January 15 , 1913 in San Leandro, California ; died March 10 , 1998 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American Actor . EARLY LIFE Bridges was born in San Leandro to Lloyd Vernet Bridges, who was involved in the California hotel business and once owned a cinema, and Harriet Brown. He graduated from Eureka Senior High school in 1931. Bridges studied political science at UCLA , where he met his future wife, Dorothy Dean Simpson; the two married in 1939 . CAREER Bridges made his as Mr. Nicholas (Santa Claus). PRIVATE LIFE A World Federalist , Bridges once said, “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" {Link without Title} . Bridges is the father of actors Jeff Bridges and Beau Bridges and the grandfather of Jordan Bridges . TRIVIA An episode of Seinfeld ( The Burning ) is dedicated in memory of Lloyd Bridges. He played the character of Izzy Mandelbaum (see Minor Characters In Seinfeld ) in the episodes The English Patient and The Blood . REFERENCES |
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