Albert Dekker

Albert Dekker

Birthday: 1905-12-20

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA

Biography: 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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East of Eden
East of Eden

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

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The Wild Bunch
The Wild Bunch

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

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Dr. Cyclops
Dr. Cyclops

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

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The Pretender
The Pretender

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

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Experiment Perilous
Experiment Perilous

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

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The Wonderful Country
The Wonderful Country

Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady t...

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Suspense
Suspense

The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor to a management position based on su...

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Gentleman's Agreement
Gentleman's Agreement

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

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The Horror Show
The Horror Show

A history of horror movies....

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The Furies
The Furies

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

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Gammera the Invincible
Gammera the Invincible

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

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Seven Sinners
Seven Sinners

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

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In Old California
In Old California

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

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In Old Oklahoma
In Old Oklahoma

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

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Destination Murder
Destination Murder

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

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The Killers
The Killers

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

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Suddenly, Last Summer
Suddenly, Last Summer

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

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Beau Geste
Beau Geste

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

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Among the Living
Among the Living

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

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Wake Island
Wake Island

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

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Once Upon a Honeymoon
Once Upon a Honeymoon

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

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Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette

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

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The Kid from Texas
The Kid from Texas

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

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Kiss Me Deadly
Kiss Me Deadly

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

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Search for Danger
Search for Danger

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

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The Kansan
The Kansan

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

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Illegal
Illegal

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

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These Thousand Hills
These Thousand Hills

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

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Strange Cargo
Strange Cargo

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

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Machete
Machete

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

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Honky Tonk
Honky Tonk

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

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The Lady Has Plans
The Lady Has Plans

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

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Star Spangled Rhythm
Star Spangled Rhythm

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

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Middle of the Night
Middle of the Night

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

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Cass Timberlane
Cass Timberlane

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

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The Lone Wolf in Paris
The Lone Wolf in Paris

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

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The French Key
The French Key

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

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Night in New Orleans
Night in New Orleans

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

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Buckskin Frontier
Buckskin Frontier

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

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Fury at Furnace Creek
Fury at Furnace Creek

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

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She Devil
She Devil

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

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Incendiary Blonde
Incendiary Blonde

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

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Bride of Vengeance
Bride of Vengeance

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

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The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury

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

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Tarzan's Magic Fountain
Tarzan's Magic Fountain

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

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Blonde Inspiration
Blonde Inspiration

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

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The Fabulous Texan
The Fabulous Texan

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

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Slave Girl
Slave Girl

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

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Hotel Imperial
Hotel Imperial

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

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The Woman of the Town
The Woman of the Town

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

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Come Spy with Me
Come Spy with Me

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

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Two Years Before the Mast
Two Years Before the Mast

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

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Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real

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

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Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie

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

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As Young as You Feel
As Young as You Feel

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

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Reaching for the Sun
Reaching for the Sun

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

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Hold That Blonde!
Hold That Blonde!

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

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She Married an Artist
She Married an Artist

Because Thornwood's portraits of comely model Sally Dennis are in such great demand, he is obliged t...

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Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman

Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job an...

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The Great Commandment
The Great Commandment

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

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Never Say Die
Never Say Die

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

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The Man in the Iron Mask
The Man in the Iron Mask

Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with t...

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Rangers of Fortune
Rangers of Fortune

An US Army misfit and his pals roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they ...

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Yokel Boy
Yokel Boy

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

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The Forest Rangers
The Forest Rangers

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

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The Last Warning
The Last Warning

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

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Buy Me That Town
Buy Me That Town

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

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Salome, Where She Danced
Salome, Where She Danced

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

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Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed
Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed

In 1879, the American Indian lived under severe handicaps: having no legal status as a human being a...

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California
California

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

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Once Upon a Tractor
Once Upon a Tractor

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

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Lulu Belle
Lulu Belle

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

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The Silver Chalice
The Silver Chalice

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

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Wyoming
Wyoming

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

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Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci

This documentary tells the story of the brilliant Italian polymath, artist, sculptor, painter, poet,...

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You're the One
You're the One

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

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The Great Garrick
The Great Garrick

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

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Extortion
Extortion

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

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Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

Famous Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies...

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