Beau Bridges

Bridges enjoys playing guitar (as does his brother), collects Native American percussion instruments, loves the ocean (such as swimming and surfing), and is also active in handgun control and environmental protection. He is currently working on a sequel to Spaceballs. Realizing his height was holding him back from excelling in basketball, however, he dropped out of school to continue acting instead. Married to actress Anne Bancroft, and the father of Max, he owns homes on both coasts. Wanting to be a basketball star, however, he played his freshmen year at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and later transferred to the University of Hawaii. Brooks is one of a select group who have received an Oscar, Emmy (as both an actor and writer), Tony and Grammy. In 1949, Bridges played a secondary juvenile role in the movie The Red Pony, for which he received good billing. Knowing that anyone seeing the poster with 'Mel Brooks presents The Elephant Man' would go along expecting a comedy he set up the company Brooksfilm to produce the film. Brooksfilm has since produced a number of non-comedy films.

Their sister, Cindy, was born in 1950. In 1980 Brooks became interested in producing the film "The Elephant Man" directed by David Lynch. Bridges is also the older brother of actor Jeff Bridges, born in 1949. His most recent success has been a transfer of his film, The Producers, to the Broadway stage. He was nicknamed "Beau" by his mother and father after Ashley Wilkes' son in Gone With the Wind, the title of the book they were reading at the time. Brooks developed a repertory company of sorts for his film work: performers with three or more Brooks films to their credit include Wilder, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Cloris Leachman and, of course, Brooks himself. Beau Bridges, actually born Lloyd Vernet Bridges III on December 9, 1941, is an American actor. He is the son of actor Lloyd Bridges and his college sweetheart, Dorothy Dean. Among his most popular films have been Young Frankenstein (co-written with Gene Wilder) and Blazing Saddles, both of which were released in 1974.

No Minor Vices (1948). He later moved into film, working as an actor, director, writer and producer. Force of Evil (1948). With Buck Henry, he created the successful TV series Get Smart. Red Pony, The (1949). In 1961, with Carl Reiner, he created the persona of the 2000 Year Old Man, a collection of ad libbed comedy routines made into a series of comedy records. Village of the Giants (1965). He started out in show business as a stand-up comic before becoming a comedy writer for television, working on Your Show of Shows.

For Love of Ivy (1968). Born Melvin Kaminsky in Brooklyn, New York, Brooks served in the US Army during World War II as an engineer. Gaily, Gaily (1969). Mel Brooks (born June 28, 1926) is an American actor, writer and director, best known as a creator of broad film farces and parodies. Landlord, The (1970). Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) (writer, director, actor). Hammersmith Is Out (1972). Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) (writer, director, actor).

Lovin' Molly (1974). Life Stinks (1991) (writer, director, actor). Other Side of the Mountain, The (1975). Spaceballs (1987) (writer, director, actor). Two Minute Warning (1976). To Be or Not to Be (1983) (actor). Greased Lightning (1977). History of the World, Part I (1981) (writer, director, actor).

Four Feathers, The (1977) (TV). High Anxiety (1978) (writer, director, actor). Norma Rae (1979). Silent Movie (1976) (writer, director, actor). Silver Dream Racer (1980). Blazing Saddles (1974) (writer, director, actor). Hotel New Hampshire, The (1984). Young Frankenstein (1974) (co-writer, director).

Alice in Wonderland (1985) (TV). The Twelve Chairs (1970) (writer, director, actor). Thanksgiving Promise, The (1986) (TV). The Producers (1968) (writer, director; Academy Award, best original screenplay). Wild Pair, The (1987). Killing Time, The (1987).

Seven Hours to Judgment (1988). Fabulous Baker Boys, The (1989). Who's Got the Will? (1990). Daddy's Dyin'..

Without Warning: The James Brady Story (1991) (TV). Married to It (1991). Sidekicks (1992). Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom, The (1993) (TV).

Jerry Maguire (1996). Rocket Man (1997). White River Kid, The (1999). Sordid Lives (2000).

Boys Klub (2001). We Were the Mulvaneys (2002) (TV). Sightings: Heartland Ghost (2002) (TV). Out of the Ashes (2003) (TV).

Evel Knievel (2004) (TV). Victim of the Haunt (2004). Jordan Bridges. Casey Bridges (adopted).

Julie Landifield (married 1964 to 1984)