Albert Dekker
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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.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.696 |
| Birthday | 1905-12-20 |
| Place of Birth | Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Thomas Albert Ecke Van Dekker, |
1955
East of Eden
7.546/744
In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their fath...
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East of Eden
1969
The Wild Bunch
7.596/1189
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
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The Wild Bunch
1940
Dr. Cyclops
6.1/66
Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who shrinks th...
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Dr. Cyclops
1947
The Pretender
5.5/13
Story of an investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by marrying the estate's heiress. The girl is already...
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The Pretender
1944
Experiment Perilous
5.591/33
In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his l...
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Experiment Perilous
1959
The Wonderful Country
6.1/54
Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady travels to Texas to broker an arms deal for his Mex...
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The Wonderful Country
1946
Suspense
6.3/17
The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor at the show to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act o...
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Suspense
1947
Gentleman's Agreement
6.952/251
A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.
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Gentleman's Agreement
1979
The Horror Show
6/2
A history of horror movies.
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The Horror Show
1950
The Furies
7.1/66
A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.
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The Furies
1966
Gammera the Invincible
4.9/32
An atomic explosion awakens Gammera, a giant fire breathing turtle monster from his millions of years of hibernation.
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Gammera the Invincible
1940
Seven Sinners
6/29
Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangste...
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Seven Sinners
1942
In Old California
5/31
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citi...
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In Old California
1943
In Old Oklahoma
6.3/37
Cowboy Dan Somers and oilman Jim "Hunk" Gardner compete for oil lease rights on Indian land in Oklahoma, as well as for the favors of schoolteacher Ca...
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In Old Oklahoma
1950
Destination Murder
5.1/19
Laura Mansfield catches a glimpse of mob hit man Jackie Wales after he shoots her businessman father. At the police station, Laura identifies Jackie a...
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Destination Murder
1946
The Killers
7.344/384
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Si...
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The Killers
1959
Suddenly, Last Summer
7.295/279
The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane;...
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Suddenly, Last Summer
1939
Beau Geste
6.9/97
When three brothers join the Foreign Legion to escape a troubled past, they find themselves trapped under the command of a sadistic sergeant deep in t...
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Beau Geste
1941
Among the Living
6.1/27
A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble for his identical twin brother.
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Among the Living
1942
Wake Island
5.6/24
In late 1941, with no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island b...
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Wake Island
1942
Once Upon a Honeymoon
6.1/45
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
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Once Upon a Honeymoon
1938
Marie Antoinette
6.3/28
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the riv...
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Marie Antoinette
1950
The Kid from Texas
5.3/20
Billy the Kid becomes embroiled in Lincoln County, NM, land wars. When rancher who gave him a break is killed by rival henchman, Billy vows revenge. N...
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The Kid from Texas
1955
Kiss Me Deadly
7.176/370
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thug...
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Kiss Me Deadly
1949
Search for Danger
0/0
The murders of a suspected thief and a rival private eye draw the attention of The Falcon.
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Search for Danger
1943
The Kansan
5.2/5
Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He s...
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The Kansan
1955
Illegal
6.4/40
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney...
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Illegal
1959
These Thousand Hills
6.2/18
A cowboy tries for easy money with his partner, then tries ranching with a saloon hostess's money.
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These Thousand Hills
1940
Strange Cargo
7/52
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
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Strange Cargo
1958
Machete
5.9/4
This 1959 film-noir take on "Othello," filmed in Puerto Rico, stars Mari Blanchard as flirtatious Jean, who marries an older man, plantation owner Don...
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Machete
1941
Honky Tonk
6.4/12
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right...
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Honky Tonk
1942
The Lady Has Plans
5.3/3
Some dastardly criminals have stolen some top secret plans and tattoo them on the back of a woman so she can sell them to the highest bidder in Lisbon...
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The Lady Has Plans
1942
Star Spangled Rhythm
5.9/8
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddie...
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Star Spangled Rhythm
1959
Middle of the Night
7/30
Jerry Kingsley is a wealthy garment manufacturer left lonely in his 50s when his wife dies. Despite the difference in their ages, he strikes up a roma...
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Middle of the Night
1947
Cass Timberlane
5.9/7
Judge Cass Timberlane marries a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Virginia Marshland. A baby is stillborn and she turns more and more to attorne...
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Cass Timberlane
1938
The Lone Wolf in Paris
6/3
Former jewel thief Michael Lanyard toys with a princess and a grand duke.
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The Lone Wolf in Paris
1946
The French Key
5/1
Private detective Johnny Fletcher and his sidekick Sam Cragg skip out on their rented room, but when they sneak back to retrieve their luggage, they d...
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The French Key
1942
Night in New Orleans
4/3
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
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Night in New Orleans
1943
Buckskin Frontier
6/2
A railroad man and the owner of a freight line battle for control of a crucial mountain pass.
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Buckskin Frontier
1948
Fury at Furnace Creek
6/13
The Arizona wilderness, 1880. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell sends a message telling Capt. Walsh, who is escorting a wagon-train through Apache territory, he...
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Fury at Furnace Creek
1957
She Devil
5.5/17
Biochemists give fruit-fly serum to a dying woman, with side effects.
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She Devil
1945
Incendiary Blonde
5.1/7
Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underwor...
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Incendiary Blonde
1949
Bride of Vengeance
4.5/2
The tiny independent duchy of Ferrara is located between Casare Borgia's Rome and Venice, and Borgia has plans to conquer Venice via Ferrara. He murde...
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Bride of Vengeance
1959
The Sound and the Fury
6.6/15
Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith, fo...
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The Sound and the Fury
1949
Tarzan's Magic Fountain
5.5/10
An expedition tries to enlist Tarzan's help in finding the secret Blue Valley, which legend says is the location of a miraculous fountain of youth.
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Tarzan's Magic Fountain
1941
Blonde Inspiration
5.4/6
A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.
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Blonde Inspiration
1947
The Fabulous Texan
4/1
A couple of Confederate soldiers, returning home from the Civil War, find Texas transformed into an armed camp with a quasi-dictator gathering up land...
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The Fabulous Texan
1947
Slave Girl
5/1
Tongue-in-cheek adventure tale of an American attempting to free sailors held as hostages and becoming involved in middle-East tribal wars.
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Slave Girl
1939
Hotel Imperial
6/2
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of W...
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Hotel Imperial
1943
The Woman of the Town
6/3
Bat Masterson, who after failing to secure a job as a newspaper reporter becomes marshal of Dodge City. Preferring socializing to peacekeeping, Master...
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The Woman of the Town
1967
Come Spy with Me
0/0
Set amidst the steamy underworld of Bermuda and Jamaica, this spy adventure chronicles the exploits of a female spy trying to investigate the mysterio...
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Come Spy with Me
1946
Two Years Before the Mast
6.2/8
In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own ship...
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Two Years Before the Mast
1966
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
0/0
A collection of ten vignettes by Tennessee Williams offering various viewpoints on life, love, and death.
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Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
1952
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
5.6/7
At the fiftieth anniversary of his town's founding, the town's first barber recalls his long-dead, spirited bride and the flaw in his own character th...
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Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
1951
As Young as You Feel
6.8/18
Sixty-five-year-old John Hodges must retire from Acme Printing. He later impersonates the president of the parent company and arrives at his old plant...
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As Young as You Feel
1941
Reaching for the Sun
6/2
Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by working on auto assembly line.
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Reaching for the Sun
1945
Hold That Blonde!
7/6
Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a girl. His psychoanalyst advises him to find another...
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Hold That Blonde!
1937
She Married an Artist
0/0
Because Thornwood's portraits of comely model Sally Dennis are in such great demand, he is obliged to spend virtually all his time with Sally, which p...
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She Married an Artist
1966
Death of a Salesman
5.9/9
Adaptation of Arthur Miller's play.
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Death of a Salesman
1939
The Great Commandment
4.2/4
Portrays the conversion to Christianity of a young Zealot, Joel, and the Roman soldier Longinus through the teachings of Jesus in his Parable of the G...
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The Great Commandment
1939
Never Say Die
6.8/6
Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry h...
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Never Say Die
1939
The Man in the Iron Mask
7.1/26
Tyrannical King Louis XIV learns that he has an identical twin brother, Philippe, who was raised from birth by his late father's trusted friend D'Arta...
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The Man in the Iron Mask
1940
Rangers of Fortune
5/1
Fred MacMurray stars as a US Army misfit who, with pals Albert Dekker and Gilbert Roland, roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small to...
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Rangers of Fortune
1942
Yokel Boy
4.7/3
A film company hires a gangster to mock himself holding up a bank, but he succeeds too well and makes off with the money. But all ends well.
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Yokel Boy
1942
The Forest Rangers
0/0
Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidence of arson. He suspects Twig Dawson but can't prov...
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The Forest Rangers
1938
The Last Warning
7/1
In their third and last teaming, Bill Crane and Doc Williams visit a country estate to investigate threatening letters from the mysterious 'Eye.'
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The Last Warning
1941
Buy Me That Town
6/2
A gangster and his mob buy a small-town in this warm comedy. They, tired of trying to make it as big city hoods, buy the town to use as a hideout. The...
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Buy Me That Town
1945
Salome, Where She Danced
3.7/6
During the Austrian-Prussian war, Anna Marie is a dancer who is forced to flee her country after she is accused of being a spy. She ends up in a lawle...
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Salome, Where She Danced
1961
Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed
0/0
In 1879, the American Indian lived under severe handicaps: having no legal status as a human being and with the requirement to stay on reservations. D...
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Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed
1947
California
6.5/18
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When Jo...
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California
1965
Once Upon a Tractor
5/1
Alan Bates and Diane Cilento play an odd couple fleeing across fictitious European countries with NYC and the UN as their destination. A short film di...
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Once Upon a Tractor
1948
Lulu Belle
4.6/5
Lulu Belle is singing in a cheap dive in Natchez, Mississippi in the early 1900's when she meets rising young attorney George Davis. He gives up his f...
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Lulu Belle
1954
The Silver Chalice
4.5/33
A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. He travels...
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The Silver Chalice
1947
Wyoming
6/3
Small ranchers battle against a land baron trying to take their spreads.
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Wyoming
1952
Leonardo da Vinci
6/1
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Leonardo da Vinci
1941
You're the One
1/1
100% fictional film, in which not a single performer plays "Himself" nor "Herself" but the two lead performers use their own name as a character.
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You're the One
1937
The Great Garrick
5.9/10
A British actor insults a French acting group only to fall victim to a prank that might destroy his career.
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The Great Garrick
1938
Extortion
5/1
In this B potboiler, a college professor finds himself suspected of a murder on his school's campus.
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