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.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Death In Hollywood
1990
as (archive footage)
HOLLYWOOD. Tinseltown. Land of the stars. A city where an actor can reach the greatest heights overnight - and descend just as rapidly. What goes up m...
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988
Famous Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
The Horror Show
1979
as (archive footage)
A history of horror movies.
The Wild Bunch
1969
as Pat Harrigan
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
Come Spy with Me
1967
as Walter Ludeker
Set amidst the steamy underworld of Bermuda and Jamaica, this spy adventure chronicles the exploits of a female spy trying to investigate the mysterio...
Gammera the Invincible
1966
as Secretary of Defense
An atomic explosion awakens Gammera, a giant fire breathing turtle monster from his millions of years of hibernation.
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
1966
as Mr. Gutman
A collection of ten vignettes by Tennessee Williams offering various viewpoints on life, love, and death.
Death of a Salesman
1966
as Ben
Willy Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family: Willy's ...
Once Upon a Tractor
1965
as Colonel
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...
Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed
1961
as Judge Dundy
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...
Suddenly, Last Summer
1959
as Lawrence Hockstader
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;...
The Wonderful Country
1959
as Cap. Rucker (Texas Ranger)
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...
Middle of the Night
1959
as Walter Lockman
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...
These Thousand Hills
1959
as Marshal Conrad
A cowboy tries for easy money with his partner, then tries ranching with a saloon hostess's money.
The Sound and the Fury
1959
as Earl Snopes
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...
Machete
1958
as Don Luis Montoya
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...
She Devil
1957
as Dr. Richard Bach
Biochemists give fruit-fly serum to a dying woman, with side effects.
Illegal
1955
as Frank Garland
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...
Kiss Me Deadly
1955
as Dr. G.E. Soberin
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...
East of Eden
1955
as Will Hamilton
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...
The Silver Chalice
1954
as Kester
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...
Leonardo da Vinci
1952
as Narration
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
1952
as Lloyd Slocum
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...
As Young as You Feel
1951
as Louis McKinley
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...
The Furies
1950
as Mr. Reynolds
A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.
Destination Murder
1950
as Armitage
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...
The Kid from Texas
1950
as Alexander Kain
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...
Search for Danger
1949
as Kirk
The murders of a suspected thief and a rival private eye draw the attention of The Falcon.
Bride of Vengeance
1949
as Vanetti
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...
Tarzan's Magic Fountain
1949
as Trask
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.
Lulu Belle
1948
as Mark Brady
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...
Fury at Furnace Creek
1948
as Edward Leverett
The Arizona wilderness, 1880. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell sends a message telling Capt. Walsh, who is escorting a wagon-train through Apache territory, he...
Gentleman's Agreement
1947
as John Minify
A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.
The Fabulous Texan
1947
as Gibson Hart
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...
Cass Timberlane
1947
as Boone Havock
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...
The Pretender
1947
as Kenneth Holden
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...
Wyoming
1947
as Duke Lassiter
Small ranchers battle against a land baron trying to take their spreads.
Slave Girl
1947
as Pasha
Tongue-in-cheek adventure tale of an American attempting to free sailors held as hostages and becoming involved in middle-East tribal wars.
California
1947
as Mr. Pike
"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...
Two Years Before the Mast
1946
as Brown
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...
The Killers
1946
as Big Jim Colfax
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...
Suspense
1946
as Frank Leonard
The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's...
The French Key
1946
as Johnny Fletcher
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...
Hold That Blonde!
1945
as Police Inspector Callahan
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...
Incendiary Blonde
1945
as Joe Cadden
Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underwor...
Salome, Where She Danced
1945
as Von Bohlen
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...
Experiment Perilous
1944
as 'Clag' Claghorn
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...
The Woman of the Town
1943
as Bat Masterson
Bat Masterson, who after failing to secure a job as a newspaper reporter becomes marshal of Dodge City. Preferring socializing to peacekeeping, Master...
In Old Oklahoma
1943
as James E. 'Hunk' Gardner
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...
The Kansan
1943
as Steve Barat
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...
Buckskin Frontier
1943
as Gideon Skene
A railroad man and the owner of a freight line battle for control of a crucial mountain pass.
Once Upon a Honeymoon
1942
as Gaston Le Blanc
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
The Forest Rangers
1942
as Twig Dawson
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...
Wake Island
1942
as Shad McClosky
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...
Night in New Orleans
1942
as Police Lieutenant William Richards
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
In Old California
1942
as Britt Dawson
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citi...
Yokel Boy
1942
as 'Buggsy' Malone
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.
Star Spangled Rhythm
1942
as Albert Dekker (uncredited)
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...
The Lady Has Plans
1942
as Baron Von Kemp
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...
Among the Living
1941
as John Raden / Paul Raden
A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble for his identical twin brother.
Buy Me That Town
1941
as Louie Lanzer
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...
Honky Tonk
1941
as Brazos Hearn
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...
Reaching for the Sun
1941
as Herman
Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by working on auto assembly line.
You're the One
1941
as Luke Laramie
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.
Blonde Inspiration
1941
as Phil Hendricks
A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.
Seven Sinners
1940
as Dr. Martin
Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangste...
Rangers of Fortune
1940
as George Bird
An US Army misfit and his pals roam the west in search of adventure. Arriving in a small town, they befriend the elderly newspaper editor and his youn...
Dr. Cyclops
1940
as Dr. Alexander Thorkel
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...
Strange Cargo
1940
as Moll
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
The Great Commandment
1939
as Longinus
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...
Beau Geste
1939
as Schwartz
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...
The Man in the Iron Mask
1939
as Louis XIII
Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical K...
Hotel Imperial
1939
as Sergeant (uncredited)
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...
Never Say Die
1939
as Kidley's Second
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...
The Last Warning
1938
as Higgs the Butler
In their third and last teaming, Bill Crane and Doc Williams visit a country estate to investigate threatening letters from the mysterious 'Eye.'
Marie Antoinette
1938
as Comte de Provence
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the riv...
The Lone Wolf in Paris
1938
as Marquis Louis de Meyerson
Former jewel thief Michael Lanyard toys with a princess and a grand duke.
Extortion
1938
as Jeffrey Thompson (as Albert Van Dekker)
In this B potboiler, a college professor finds himself suspected of a murder on his school's campus.
She Married an Artist
1937
as Whitney Holton
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...
The Great Garrick
1937
as LeBrun
A British actor insults a French acting group only to fall victim to a prank that might destroy his career.