Anecdotes

Older brother of Jeff Bridges and Cindy Bridges.

Another brother, Garrett Myles Bridges was born on June 14, 1948, but passed away from SIDS less than two months later on August 3, 1948.

He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 7065 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on April 7, 2003. His star is located next to the stars of younger brother Jeff Bridges and father Lloyd Bridges.

He was a very promising basketball player in his youth, and was scouted by several NBA teams.

In 1959, he enlisted in the United States Coast Guard Reserve and served for eight years, much like his father Lloyd, and his younger brother Jeff.

He, his father Lloyd Bridges and his son Dylan Bridges played three generations of the Kress family in the series episode Sandkings (1995).

Son of Lloyd Bridges and Dorothy Dean Bridges.

Is the only actor to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special more than once, with two wins.

Father of Casey Bridges (adopted, born March 16, 1969) and Jordan Bridges (born November 13, 1973) with Julie Bridges and Dylan Bridges (born October 25, 1984), Emily Bridges (born July 2, 1986) and Jeffery Bridges (born September 24, 1993) with Wendy Treece.

Received the inaugural Betty Garrett Lifetime Achievement Award from Theatre West in Hollywood, California on September 13, 2012, during the theater company's 50th anniversary gala.

Has appeared in three films which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture: Norma Rae (1979), Jerry Maguire (1996) and The Descendants (2011).

Has appeared with his father Lloyd Bridges in five films: Shimmering Light (1978), Le 5e mousquetaire (1979), Alice au pays des merveilles (1985), Duo de choc (1987) and Secret Sins of the Father (1994).

Beau's father was from a family that had long lived in the United States (since the 1600s on many lines), and had English, and some Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), ancestry. Beau's maternal grandfather was an English immigrant (born in Liverpool, Lancashire, England), while Beau's maternal grandmother had Irish, Swiss-German, and German ancestry.

Especially active as president of the environmental group Ventura Coast Keeper in native California. Is pushing state to buy and preserve 265 acres of wetlands near Oxnard now sought by mammoth Occidental Petroleum Corporation.

Has appeared in one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant": Norma Rae (1979).

Brother-in-law of Susan Bridges. Uncle of Isabelle Bridges, Jessica Lily Bridges and Haley Roselouise Bridges.

He starred in two different television series for the 2013 television season with Margo Martindale: Masters of Sex (2013) and The Millers (2013).

He was born one day before his Village of the Giants (1965) co-star Tommy Kirk.

He played Helen Shaver's husband in both United States (1980) and Sandkings (1995).