 He spent the next 25 years as a familiar face in B-Westerns and mainstream comedies and dramas.In the forties, Bridge was part of Preston Sturges' unofficial "stock company" of character actors, appearing in ten of the eleven American films that Sturges wrote and directed.He is perhaps best remembered for his role as "The Mister", the chain-gang boss over Joel McCrea in Preston Sturges' "Sullivan's Travels".