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Home is the Hunter
home from the Sea Hunt — and to see Lloyd Bridges there is to know he needs no other "hobby'
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DESCRIBING his location work for the roaring Ziv series, Sea Hunt, Lloyd Bridges sums up with what must be the understatement of the television year: "It's a lot safer at home." Six-two, blond and rugged of build, Lloyd isn't the man to complain. A prime fact of his life is his "actor's life," whose everyday routines, these days, pack a wallop and downright hazard to limb and life -expectancy alike. Lloyd realizes the sea-going show, though rough at times, is not necessarily a dangerous proposition, but that "you do have to be on your toes, alert all the time." On location, a while back, at Lake Mead, for example, fourteen members of the company were laid up with broken bones or sprains. "We were fortunate the first thirty-nine," says the star, "the most that happened was that everybody got seasick." . . . Man's man par excellence, Lloyd turns into a veritable "boy's boy" the minute he goes home and changes into the polo shirt and denims that have become his off-camera uniform. His sons. Beau and Jeff, would rather be roughhousing with Dad than with their own friends. At five, little Cindy is, of course, the apple of her daddy's eye. Dorothy Bridges tells how "two or three times, the doorbell has rung and some little child will be asking, 'Can Lloyd come out to play?' He is always organizing some street ballgame or other," says she. . . . The Bridges entertain a great deal at home but, here again, the thing they both enjoy most is
providing a fun atmosphere for entertaining their children's friends. "It is wonderful, from a selfish point of view," says Lloyd. "I don't know . . . just being around the kids makes me very happy. They are so honest and free." . . . Lloyd traces his career-choice to his childhood in San Leandro, California. His mother used to trundle the youngster off to his father's theater and leave him there while she did her shopping. Lloyd's dad had been against his acting career, but became reconciled to it over the years, seeing that his son was utterly happy and coming to achieve no mean success, via such films as "High Noon," "Home of the Brave," "The Goddess," and finally the Sea Hunt series. Nowadays, Lloyd's dad looks after the business end of his son's affairs, while Lloyd happily reads "every page of the paper but the financial news." Both Lloyd and Dorothy feel it an irony that, after years of struggle, they now have the money, but not the time, to go looking for a new house or a piece of land. They've always loved travel, and it's a current project of Dorothy's to get the Sea Hunt crew to Honolulu for shooting, and have the whole family go along for a vacation. Son Beau takes it for granted he'll be an actor eventually, and his parents feel that any travel or professional experience he can get is all to the good. To Lloyd and Dorothy, building the younger Bridges' is a perennial, fulltime and utterly delightful job.