Biography
Otto Kruger (September 6, 1885 – September 6, 1974) was an American actor who began his career in 1915. His career was most prolific during the 1930s and 1940s.
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Complete Filmography

Sex and the Single Girl
1964
as Dr. Anderson
A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurl...

Della
1964
as Walter Garrick
Della Chappell is a very wealthy and incredibly reclusive woman. When a big company wants to develop some land that Della owns, the town sends out Bar...

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
1962
as The King (segment "The Singing Bone")
The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. Wilhelm fights to write s...

Cash McCall
1960
as Will Atherson
Wealthy hotshot Cash McCall makes his money by purchasing unsuccessful businesses, whipping them into shape and then selling them for a huge profit. W...

The Young Philadelphians
1959
as John Marshall Wharton
Up and coming young lawyer Anthony Lawrence faces several ethical and emotional dilemmas as he climbs the Philadelphia social ladder. His personal and...

The Colossus of New York
1958
as Dr. William Spensser
A brilliant surgeon encases his dead son's brain in a large robot body, with unintended results...

The Last Command
1955
as Stephen F. Austin
During the Texas War of Independence of 1836 American frontiersman and pioneer Jim Bowie pleads for caution with the rebellious Texicans. They don't h...

The Desert Song
1955
as General Birabeau
Live television version of the classic musical.

Black Widow
1954
as Gordon Ling
A young stage hopeful is murdered and suspicion falls on her mentor, a Broadway producer.

Magnificent Obsession
1954
as Edward Randolph
Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from the town’s only resuscitator while a local hero, Dr. Phillips, ...

High Noon
1952
as Judge Percy Mettrick
Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train....

Valentino
1951
as Mark Towers
Italian immigrant Rudolph Valentino makes it big in silent Hollywood, but he ends up struggling between his career and the woman he loves.

Payment on Demand
1951
as Ted Prescott
David gives his wife, Joyce, an unexpected—and unpleasant—surprise when he suddenly demands a divorce. When she then learns that David has taken up wi...

711 Ocean Drive
1950
as Carl Stephans
A telephone repairman in Los Angeles uses his knowledge of electronics to help a bookie set up a betting operation. After the bookie is murdered, the ...

Lulu Belle
1948
as Harry Randolph
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...

Romance on the High Seas
1948
as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband che...

Smart Woman
1948
as D.A. Bradley Wayne
A crusading DA falls for a defense attorney with a criminal past.

Love and Learn
1947
as Andrew Wyngate
A wealthy socialite bored with her life meets and falls in love with a struggling songwriter on the verge of leaving New York and quitting the music b...

Duel in the Sun
1946
as Mr. Langford
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad...

The Fabulous Suzanne
1946
as Hendrick Courtney Sr.
Suzanne, a waitress, comes up with a sure-fire method for winning at the racetrack and, later, when she inherits a fortune from a customer of the rest...

Woman Who Came Back
1945
as Rev. Jim Stevens
A young woman is tormented by the belief that she is the victim of a witch's curse.

Allotment Wives
1945
as Whitey Colton
Unscrupulous women marry servicemen for their pay.

On Stage Everybody
1945
as James Carlton
Radio's miracle show is on the screen.

The Chicago Kid
1945
as John Mitchell
The story of Joe Ferrill, whose efforts to raise enough money so that his imprisoned father can live comfortably upon release come to naught when the ...

The Jungle Captive
1945
as Dr. Stendahl
Once again Paula the ape woman is brought back to life, this time by a mad doctor and his disfigured assistant, who also kidnaps a nurse in order to h...

Wonder Man
1945
as District Attorney
Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs k...

The Great John L.
1945
as Richard Martin
Portrait of legendary fighter John L. Sullivan, aka "The Boston Strong Boy", and his meteoric rise to become the first gloved World Heavyweight Champ...

Escape in the Fog
1945
as Paul Devon
A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. When she meets a m...

Earl Carroll Vanities
1945
as Earl Carroll
Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring attractive young ladies. Carroll's annual "Vanities...

Murder, My Sweet
1944
as Jules Amthor
After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.

Storm Over Lisbon
1944
as Alexis Vanderlyn
A nightclub star helps trap an enemy agent on the trail of an American newsman.

They Live in Fear
1944
as Matthew Van Camp
After witnessing the killing of a professor in concentration camp "Dachau" German student Paul emigrates to the USA. Here an American fellow student e...

Cover Girl
1944
as John Coudair
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.

Knickerbocker Holiday
1944
as Roosevelt
The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this period musical-comedy. In 1650...

Tarzan's Desert Mystery
1943
as Paul Hendrix
A letter from Jane, who is nursing British troops, asks Tarzan's help in obtaining a malaria serum extractable from jungle plants. Tarzan and Boy set ...

Stage Door Canteen
1943
as Otto Kruger
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreati...

Night Plane from Chungking
1943
as Albert Pasavy
Without lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road en route from Chunking to the Indian border. Passengers include a ...

Corregidor
1943
as Dr. Jan Stockman
A doctor and his staff in a hospital on the Philippine island of Corregidor shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor try to treat the sick, i...

Power of the Press
1943
as Howard Raskin
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war e...

Hitler's Children
1943
as Colonel Henkel
This lurid exposé of the Hitler Youth follows the woes of an American girl declared legally German by the Nazi government.

Secrets of a Co-Ed
1942
as James Reynolds
An attorney's immature college-student daughter becomes romantically involved with a mobster, unaware that a nightclub singer also loves him - or that...

Friendly Enemies
1942
as Anton Miller
During World War I, two German men friends who emigrated to the US and become millionaires agree on most things, with one major difference: one has ta...

Saboteur
1942
as Charles Tobin
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.

The Men in Her Life
1941
as Victor
A circus performer becomes a ballerina and then begins her life of a career versus marriage and a home-life. She marries her first husband, her mentor...

Mercy Island
1941
as Dr. Sanderson
The beautiful Florida Keys provide the setting of this adventure that tells the tale of a fun-filled fishing trip that becomes a nightmare when the ch...

The Big Boss
1941
as Jim Maloney
Why did the Governor want to resign?

A Dispatch from Reuters
1940
as Dr. Magnus
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.

The Man I Married
1940
as Heinrich Hoffman
An American vacations in Europe with her husband and watches him turn into a Nazi.

Seventeen
1940
as Sylvanus Baxter, Sr.
A high-school student in a small town becomes smitten with the sophisticated new girl who's just arrived from Chicago. Based on Booth Tarkington's sto...

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
1940
as Dr. Emil Von Behring
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.

Another Thin Man
1939
as Van Slack
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.

Scandal Sheet
1939
as Jim Stevenson
The crimes of a tabloid publisher are exposed by a reporter, his secret illegitimate son.

A Woman is the Judge
1939
as Steven Graham
Twenty years earlier, Mary Cabot had lost contact with her infant daughter Justine. Now a grown woman, Justine accidentally shoots a man who'd impugne...

The Zero Hour
1939
as Julian Forbes
A celebrated Broadway actress and a wealthy widowed businessman are brought together through their shared affection for a young orphan.

Black Eyes
1939
as Ivan Ivanovich Petroff
Ivan Petrov has one weakness in his life, and one love: his little black-eyed daughter, Tania. In fact, his entire career is devoted to her future hap...

The Gang's All Here
1939
as Mike Chadwick
John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a fo...

Disbarred
1939
as Tyler Craden
The Bar Association disbars attorney Tyler Cradon when it appears he was implicated in the murder of a prominent vice crusader. Cradon, not wishing to...

Thanks for the Memory
1938
as Gil Morrell
Steve Merrick is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Merrick's publishe...

Exposed
1938
as William Reardon
A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted.

I Am the Law
1938
as Eugene Ferguson
With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.

Housemaster
1938
as Charles Donkin
Three girls arrive at a stuffy English public school and cause all sorts of problems with both the staff and pupils.
Star of the Circus
1938
as Garvin
English-language version or remake of the German film, TRUXA (1937).

The Barrier
1937
as Stark
Gale, a store owner, lives in an Alaskan village with his grown ward, Necia, whom he had rescued years before from her murderer father, Captain Bennet...

Counsel for Crime
1937
as William Mellon
Otto Kruger once again plays a dynamic, bombastic attorney in Columbia's Counsel for Crime. Kruger plays William Mellon, a shifty shyster whose underh...

They Won't Forget
1937
as Michael Gleason
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with polit...

Glamorous Night
1937
as King Stefan
Based on Ivor Novello's hit stage play: an opera singer and her gypsy friends try to rescue their king from the clutches of a would-be dictator.

Dracula's Daughter
1936
as Jeffrey Garth
A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.

Living Dangerously
1936
as Dr. David Stanley Norton
The dramatic story of a normal, intelligent man of good principles driven to contemplate thoughts of murder.

Lady of Secrets
1936
as David Eastman
Because of a very unhappy affair she had earlier in her life, a woman shuts herself off from the rest of the world.

Two Sinners
1935
as Henry Vane
An ex-convict gets released after shooting a fellow who made a play for his wife. When he meets Sleeper, his life takes a change for the better, but a...

Vanessa: Her Love Story
1935
as Ellis Herries
The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.

Chained
1934
as Richard I. Field
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him. Concerned that Diane will now lose inter...

Springtime for Henry
1934
as Henry Dewlip
A rakish fellow involves himself with a married woman. Later his secretary endeavors to win him away with the promise of a more stable relationship. T...

Treasure Island
1934
as Doctor Livesey
In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in searc...

Paris Interlude
1934
as Sam
Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro...

Men in White
1934
as Dr. Levine
A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his social register fianceé can't accept the fact that he...

The Crime Doctor
1934
as Dan Gifford
When he finds out that his wife is having an affair, a criminologist commits the perfect murder--and pins the crime on his wife's boyfriend so well th...

The Women in His Life
1933
as Kent 'Barry' Barringer
An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ex-wife, who left him.

Gallant Lady
1933
as Phillip Lawrence
Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies.

The Prizefighter and the Lady
1933
as Willie Ryan
An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title.

Ever in My Heart
1933
as Hugo Wilbrandt
World War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German.

Beauty for Sale
1933
as Mr. Sherwood
A beautiful woman lands a job at an exclusive salon that deals with the wives of wealthy businessmen. Her contact with these men leads to a series of ...

Turn Back the Clock
1933
as Ted Wright
While recuperating in a hospital after he's hit by an automobile, a struggling shopowner dreams what his life might have been like if he'd made differ...
Mr. Intruder
1930
A magazine editor gets a good story when he comes home to find his wife with his best friend.

The Home Girl
1928
A short film featuring the debut of actress Miriam Hopkins.

Under the Red Robe
1923
as Henri de Cocheforet
A young man is tasked by the powerful Cardinal Richelieu to capture one of the cardinal's enemies but falls in love with his target's sister. The fil...