Brad Dexter
Birthday: 1917-04-09
Place of Birth: Goldfield, Nevada, USA
Biography: Brad Dexter (born Veljko Soso; April 9, 1917 – December 12, 2002) was an American actor and film producer. He is known for tough-guy and western roles including the 1960 film The Magnificent Seven (1960) and producing several films for Sidney J. Furie such as Lady Sings the Blues. He is also known for a short marriage to Peggy Lee, a friendship with Marilyn Monroe and for saving Frank Sinatra from drowning. Known as a nice guy off screen, Dexter's tough-guy roles contrasted with his easy going and friendly personality.
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The Magnificent Seven
An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes....
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House of Bamboo
Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a fo...
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Von Ryan's Express
Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by...
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Macao
Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an ...
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The Las Vegas Story
When newlyweds visit Las Vegas, the wife's shady past comes to the surface....
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Winter Kills
The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and de...
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Last Train from Gun Hill
A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for the ra...
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99 River Street
A former boxer turned taxi driver earns the scorn of his nagging wife and gets mixed up with jewel t...
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Taras Bulba
Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a C...
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None But the Brave
American and Japanese soldiers, stranded on a tiny Pacific island during World War II, must make a t...
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Sinbad the Sailor
Daredevil sailor Sinbad embarks on a voyage across the Seven Seas to find the lost riches of Alexand...
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The Asphalt Jungle
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emme...
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Winged Victory
Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pi...
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Violent Saturday
Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, whi...
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Untamed
When the great potato famine hits Ireland, the diaspora begins as thousands emigrate. Among those le...
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Heldorado
Roy Rogers, a Nevada State Ranger Captain in charge of the Rangers Reclamation Service, makes a trip...
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Johnny Cool
A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S....
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Invitation to a Gunfighter
In New Mexico, a Confederate veteran returns home to find his fiancée married to a Union soldier, hi...
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Vigilante Force
In a small town in California, the quiet citizens find their lives disrupted by boisterous, lawless ...
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Twenty Plus Two
A famous movie star's fan club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newsp...
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The Oklahoman
After his wife dies in childbirth, a doctor settles down in the small Oklahoma town of Cherokee Well...
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The George Raft Story
The 1961 film biography of the nightclub dancer-turned-movie star George Raft....
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The Bottom of the Bottle
An alcoholic escaped convict asks his Arizona lawyer brother to help him cross the Mexican border....
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Bus Riley's Back in Town
Bus Riley returns to his small town after time in the army. On his return, his ex-girlfriend wants t...
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Law and Order
Story follows three generations of a family in the New York City Police Department....
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X-15
X-15 is a 1961 movie that tells a fictionalized account of the X-15 research rocket plane, the men w...
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The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
The story of J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI from 1924-1972, following his racket-busting days thro...
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Jory
Jory is a fifteen-year-old boy who joins a horse-drive after his father is killed by a drunkard. The...
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Run Silent, Run Deep
The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper ano...
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13 Fighting Men
A group of Union Army soldiers is charged with protecting a box of gold and getting it to its rightf...
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Cognac
A wealthy American on the quest for a perfect brandy runs afoul of petty criminal monks and falls in...
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Fourteen Hours
A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to...
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Blindfold
A patient being psychoanalyzed by Dr. Snow is a government scientist. General Pratt hides him in a s...
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Kings of the Sun
In order to flee from powerful enemies, young Mayan king Balam leads his people north across the Gul...
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Valentine
A feisty widow falls in love with a zestful widower in a retirement community, much to the disapprov...
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Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'
A documentary about 'The Magnificent Seven'....
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Between Heaven and Hell
Sam Gifford remembers : In prewar years he was an arrogant southern cotton plantation owner, married...
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Shampoo
A Beverly Hills hairdresser runs around town on the eve of the 1968 presidential election trying to ...
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