Albert Dekker

Born: 1905-12-20

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Albert Dekker (December 20, 1905 – May 5, 1968) was an American character actor and politician best known for his roles in Dr. Cyclops, The Killers, Kiss Me Deadly, and The Wild Bunch. He is sometimes credited as Albert Van Dekker or Albert van Dekker. Description above from the Wikipedia article Albert Dekker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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The Wild Bunch

as Pat Harrigan
Released: 1969-06-19

An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is...

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The Killers

as Big Jim Colfax
Released: 1946-08-30

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the...

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Dr. Cyclops

as Dr. Alexander Thorkel
Released: 1940-04-09

Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich...

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Gentleman's Agreement

as John Minify
Released: 1947-11-11

A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.

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Suddenly, Last Summer

as Lawrence Hockstader
Released: 1959-12-22

The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine....

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East of Eden

as Will Hamilton
Released: 1955-04-10

In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against...

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The Furies

as Mr. Reynolds
Released: 1950-08-16

A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.

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Kiss Me Deadly

as Dr. G.E. Soberin
Released: 1955-04-28

One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country...

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The Man in the Iron Mask

as Louis XIII
Released: 1939-07-13

Tyrannical King Louis XIV learns that he has an identical twin brother, Philippe, who was raised...

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Once Upon a Honeymoon

as Gaston Le Blanc
Released: 1942-11-27

A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.

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California

as Mr. Pike
Released: 1947-02-21

"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo,...

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The Wonderful Country

as Cap. Rucker (Texas Ranger)
Released: 1959-10-21

Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin...

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Strange Cargo

as Moll
Released: 1940-03-01

Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.

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Illegal

as Frank Garland
Released: 1955-10-09

A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to...

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Beau Geste

as Schwartz
Released: 1939-07-24

When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves...

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Marie Antoinette

as Comte de Provence
Released: 1938-08-26

The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of...

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Middle of the Night

as Walter Lockman
Released: 1959-05-20

Jerry Kingsley is a wealthy garment manufacturer left lonely in his 50s when his wife dies....

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The Kid from Texas

as Alexander Kain
Released: 1950-03-01

Billy the Kid becomes embroiled in Lincoln County, NM, land wars. When rancher who gave him a...

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The Silver Chalice

as Kester
Released: 1954-12-20

A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim...

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Experiment Perilous

as 'Clag' Claghorn
Released: 1944-12-18

In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him...

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Gammera the Invincible

as Secretary of Defense
Released: 1966-12-15

An atomic explosion awakens Gammera, a giant fire breathing turtle monster from his millions of...

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Among the Living

as John Raden / Paul Raden
Released: 1941-12-12

A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble...

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Tarzan's Magic Fountain

as Trask
Released: 1949-02-05

An expedition tries to enlist Tarzan's help in finding the secret Blue Valley, which legend says...

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Wake Island

as Shad McClosky
Released: 1942-08-11

In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries...

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In Old Oklahoma

as James E. 'Hunk' Gardner
Released: 1943-12-06

Cowboy Dan Somers and oilman Jim "Hunk" Gardner compete for oil lease rights on Indian land in...

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Reaching for the Sun

as Herman
Released: 1941-05-01

Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by...

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In Old California

as Britt Dawson
Released: 1942-05-31

Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss...

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As Young as You Feel

as Louis McKinley
Released: 1951-06-15

Sixty-five-year-old John Hodges must retire from Acme Printing. He later impersonates the...

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The Sound and the Fury

as Earl Snopes
Released: 1959-03-27

Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution...

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Never Say Die

as Kidley's Second
Released: 1939-03-08

Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times...

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Buckskin Frontier

as Gideon Skene
Released: 1943-05-14

A railroad man and the owner of a freight line battle for control of a crucial mountain pass.

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Salome, Where She Danced

as Von Bohlen
Released: 1945-04-17

During the Austrian-Prussian war, Anna Marie is a dancer who is forced to flee her country after...

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Honky Tonk

as Brazos Hearn
Released: 1941-10-01

Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but...

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The Woman of the Town

as Bat Masterson
Released: 1943-12-31

Bat Masterson, who after failing to secure a job as a newspaper reporter becomes marshal of...

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The Forest Rangers

as Twig Dawson
Released: 1942-10-21

Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds...

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Star Spangled Rhythm

as Albert Dekker (uncredited)
Released: 1942-03-05

Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his...

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Fury at Furnace Creek

as Edward Leverett
Released: 1948-04-30

The Arizona wilderness, 1880. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell sends a message telling Capt. Walsh, who...

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Suspense

as Frank Leonard
Released: 1946-06-15

The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor at the show to a management...

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Seven Sinners

as Dr. Martin
Released: 1940-10-25

Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her...

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Lulu Belle

as Mark Brady
Released: 1948-08-15

Lulu Belle is singing in a cheap dive in Natchez, Mississippi in the early 1900's when she meets...

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She Devil

as Dr. Richard Bach
Released: 1957-04-01

Biochemists give fruit-fly serum to a dying woman, with side effects.

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Death of a Salesman

as Ben
Released: 1966-05-07

Adaptation of Arthur Miller's play.

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Destination Murder

as Armitage
Released: 1950-06-09

Laura Mansfield catches a glimpse of mob hit man Jackie Wales after he shoots her businessman...

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Buy Me That Town

as Louie Lanzer
Released: 1941-10-03

A gangster and his mob buy a small-town in this warm comedy. They, tired of trying to make it as...

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Slave Girl

as Pasha
Released: 1947-07-17

Tongue-in-cheek adventure tale of an American attempting to free sailors held as hostages and...

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The Horror Show

as (archive footage)
Released: 1979-02-06

A history of horror movies.

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Two Years Before the Mast

as Brown
Released: 1946-11-22

In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is...

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Cass Timberlane

as Boone Havock
Released: 1947-11-06

Judge Cass Timberlane marries a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Virginia Marshland. A...

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Come Spy with Me

as Walter Ludeker
Released: 1967-01-18

Set amidst the steamy underworld of Bermuda and Jamaica, this spy adventure chronicles the...

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The Great Garrick

as LeBrun
Released: 1937-10-30

A British actor insults a French acting group only to fall victim to a prank that might destroy...

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These Thousand Hills

as Marshal Conrad
Released: 1959-05-07

A cowboy tries for easy money with his partner, then tries ranching with a saloon hostess's money.

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Hold That Blonde!

as Police Inspector Callahan
Released: 1945-11-23

Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by...

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The Lone Wolf in Paris

as Marquis Louis de Meyerson
Released: 1938-05-25

Former jewel thief Michael Lanyard toys with a princess and a grand duke.

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Yokel Boy

as 'Buggsy' Malone
Released: 1942-03-13

A film company hires a gangster to mock himself holding up a bank, but he succeeds too well and...

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The Kansan

as Steve Barat
Released: 1943-09-10

Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the...

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Rangers of Fortune

as George Bird
Released: 1940-09-27

Fred MacMurray stars as a US Army misfit who, with pals Albert Dekker and Gilbert Roland, roam...

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The Fabulous Texan

as Gibson Hart
Released: 1947-11-09

A couple of Confederate soldiers, returning home from the Civil War, find Texas transformed into...

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The French Key

as Johnny Fletcher
Released: 1946-05-18

Private detective Johnny Fletcher and his sidekick Sam Cragg skip out on their rented room, but...

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The Last Warning

as Higgs the Butler
Released: 1938-12-07

In their third and last teaming, Bill Crane and Doc Williams visit a country estate to...

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Wyoming

as Duke Lassiter
Released: 1947-07-28

Small ranchers battle against a land baron trying to take their spreads.

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Incendiary Blonde

as Joe Cadden
Released: 1945-07-25

Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New...

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She Married an Artist

as Whitney Holton
Released: 1937-11-27

Because Thornwood's portraits of comely model Sally Dennis are in such great demand, he is...

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Extortion

as Jeffrey Thompson (as Albert Van Dekker)
Released: 1938-05-09

In this B potboiler, a college professor finds himself suspected of a murder on his school's campus.

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Machete

as Don Luis Montoya
Released: 1958-12-01

This 1959 film-noir take on "Othello," filmed in Puerto Rico, stars Mari Blanchard as...

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The Great Commandment

as Longinus
Released: 1939-10-02

Portrays the conversion to Christianity of a young Zealot, Joel, and the Roman soldier Longinus...

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Hotel Imperial

as Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: 1939-05-11

It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and...

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Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie

as Lloyd Slocum
Released: 1952-06-27

At the fiftieth anniversary of his town's founding, the town's first barber recalls his...

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You're the One

as uncredited
Released: 1941-02-19

100% fictional film, in which not a single performer plays "Himself" nor "Herself" but the two...

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Bride of Vengeance

as Vanetti
Released: 1949-04-07

The tiny independent duchy of Ferrara is located between Casare Borgia's Rome and Venice, and...

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The Lady Has Plans

as Baron Von Kemp
Released: 1942-01-20

Some dastardly criminals have stolen some top secret plans and tattoo them on the back of a...

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Ten Blocks on the Camino Real

as Mr. Gutman
Released: 1966-10-07

A collection of ten vignettes by Tennessee Williams offering various viewpoints on life, love,...

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Blonde Inspiration

as Phil Hendricks
Released: 1941-02-07

A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.

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The Pretender

as Kenneth Holden
Released: 1947-08-11

Story of an investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime...

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Night in New Orleans

as Police Lieutenant William Richards
Released: 1942-07-01

A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under...

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Once Upon a Tractor

as Colonel
Released: 1965-09-09

Alan Bates and Diane Cilento play an odd couple fleeing across fictitious European countries...

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Search for Danger

as Kirk
Released: 1949-04-15

The murders of a suspected thief and a rival private eye draw the attention of The Falcon.

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Mission: Impossible

as Colonel Shtemenko
First aired: 1966-09-17

Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by...

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Climax!

as Brewster
First aired: 1954-10-07

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was...

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The Defenders

as Mark Vronis
First aired: 1961-09-16

The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed...

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Rawhide

as Josh Breeden
First aired: 1959-01-09

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across...

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Rawhide

as Jonas Bolt
First aired: 1959-01-09

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across...

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Naked City

as Samuel Grafton
First aired: 1958-09-30

Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network....

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Naked City

as Herbert B. Warick
First aired: 1958-09-30

Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network....

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Studio One

as Billy Bones
First aired: 1948-11-07

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...

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Route 66

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-10-07

Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet...

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Kraft Suspense Theatre

as Karl Hesse
First aired: 1963-10-10

Kraft Suspense Theatre is an American anthology series that was telecast from 1963 to 1965 on...

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Run for Your Life

as Sir Harry Hiller
First aired: 1965-09-13

Run for Your Life is an American television drama series starring Ben Gazzara as a man with only...

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Judd for the Defense

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-09-08

High-priced Houston lawyer Clinton Judd and his assistant Ben Caldwell take difficult cases...

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Decoy

as Otto Flagler
First aired: 1957-10-14

New York City policewoman Casey Jones' assignment to fight crime often entails her going...

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Lights Out

as uncredited
First aired: 1949-07-19

Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a...

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