Otto Kruger

Otto Kruger

1885-09-06 Toledo, Ohio, USA 86 Credits

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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Sex and the Single Girl

Sex and the Single Girl

1964

as Dr. Anderson

6.6
Acting

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

Della

1964

as Walter Garrick

7.2
Acting

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

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

1962

as The King (segment "The Singing Bone")

5.8
Acting

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

Cash McCall

1960

as Will Atherson

6.0
Acting

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

The Young Philadelphians

1959

as John Marshall Wharton

7.5
Acting

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

The Colossus of New York

1958

as Dr. William Spensser

5.6
Acting

A brilliant surgeon encases his dead son's brain in a large robot body, with unintended results...

The Last Command

The Last Command

1955

as Stephen F. Austin

6.4
Acting

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

The Desert Song

1955

as General Birabeau

7.0
Acting

Live television version of the classic musical.

Black Widow

Black Widow

1954

as Gordon Ling

6.4
Acting

A young stage hopeful is murdered and suspicion falls on her mentor, a Broadway producer.

Magnificent Obsession

Magnificent Obsession

1954

as Edward Randolph

6.8
Acting

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

High Noon

High Noon

1952

as Judge Percy Mettrick

7.7
Acting

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

Valentino

1951

as Mark Towers

4.3
Acting

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

Payment on Demand

1951

as Ted Prescott

6.2
Acting

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

711 Ocean Drive

1950

as Carl Stephans

6.3
Acting

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

Lulu Belle

1948

as Harry Randolph

4.8
Acting

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

Romance on the High Seas

1948

as Wedding Guest (uncredited)

6.8
Acting

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

Smart Woman

1948

as D.A. Bradley Wayne

5.5
Acting

A crusading DA falls for a defense attorney with a criminal past.

Love and Learn

Love and Learn

1947

as Andrew Wyngate

5.5
Acting

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

Duel in the Sun

1946

as Mr. Langford

6.3
Acting

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

The Fabulous Suzanne

1946

as Hendrick Courtney Sr.

5.0
Acting

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

Woman Who Came Back

1945

as Rev. Jim Stevens

5.5
Acting

A young woman is tormented by the belief that she is the victim of a witch's curse.

Allotment Wives

Allotment Wives

1945

as Whitey Colton

6.0
Acting

Unscrupulous women marry servicemen for their pay.

On Stage Everybody

On Stage Everybody

1945

as James Carlton

Acting

Radio's miracle show is on the screen.

The Chicago Kid

The Chicago Kid

1945

as John Mitchell

Acting

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

The Jungle Captive

1945

as Dr. Stendahl

5.6
Acting

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

Wonder Man

1945

as District Attorney

6.6
Acting

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.

The Great John L.

1945

as Richard Martin

5.0
Acting

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

Escape in the Fog

1945

as Paul Devon

5.3
Acting

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

Earl Carroll Vanities

1945

as Earl Carroll

5.0
Acting

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

Murder, My Sweet

Murder, My Sweet

1944

as Jules Amthor

7.2
Acting

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

Storm Over Lisbon

1944

as Alexis Vanderlyn

4.8
Acting

A nightclub star helps trap an enemy agent on the trail of an American newsman.

They Live in Fear

They Live in Fear

1944

as Matthew Van Camp

Acting

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

Cover Girl

1944

as John Coudair

6.4
Acting

A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.

Knickerbocker Holiday

Knickerbocker Holiday

1944

as Roosevelt

5.0
Acting

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

Tarzan's Desert Mystery

1943

as Paul Hendrix

6.1
Acting

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

Stage Door Canteen

1943

as Otto Kruger

5.8
Acting

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

Night Plane from Chungking

1943

as Albert Pasavy

6.0
Acting

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

Corregidor

1943

as Dr. Jan Stockman

3.5
Acting

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

Power of the Press

1943

as Howard Raskin

6.2
Acting

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

Hitler's Children

1943

as Colonel Henkel

5.9
Acting

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

Secrets of a Co-Ed

1942

as James Reynolds

2.0
Acting

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

Friendly Enemies

1942

as Anton Miller

5.7
Acting

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

Saboteur

1942

as Charles Tobin

6.9
Acting

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

The Men in Her Life

1941

as Victor

6.2
Acting

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

Mercy Island

1941

as Dr. Sanderson

6.5
Acting

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

The Big Boss

1941

as Jim Maloney

5.8
Acting

Why did the Governor want to resign?

A Dispatch from Reuters

A Dispatch from Reuters

1940

as Dr. Magnus

5.8
Acting

German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.

The Man I Married

The Man I Married

1940

as Heinrich Hoffman

6.3
Acting

An American vacations in Europe with her husband and watches him turn into a Nazi.

Seventeen

Seventeen

1940

as Sylvanus Baxter, Sr.

Acting

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

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

1940

as Dr. Emil Von Behring

6.4
Acting

True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.

Another Thin Man

Another Thin Man

1939

as Van Slack

7.1
Acting

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

Scandal Sheet

1939

as Jim Stevenson

Acting

The crimes of a tabloid publisher are exposed by a reporter, his secret illegitimate son.

A Woman is the Judge

A Woman is the Judge

1939

as Steven Graham

Acting

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

The Zero Hour

1939

as Julian Forbes

4.5
Acting

A celebrated Broadway actress and a wealthy widowed businessman are brought together through their shared affection for a young orphan.

Black Eyes

Black Eyes

1939

as Ivan Ivanovich Petroff

5.5
Acting

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

The Gang's All Here

1939

as Mike Chadwick

5.0
Acting

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

Disbarred

1939

as Tyler Craden

6.0
Acting

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

Thanks for the Memory

1938

as Gil Morrell

5.6
Acting

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

Exposed

1938

as William Reardon

5.0
Acting

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

I Am the Law

I Am the Law

1938

as Eugene Ferguson

6.6
Acting

With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.

Housemaster

Housemaster

1938

as Charles Donkin

Acting

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

2.0
Acting

English-language version or remake of the German film, TRUXA (1937).

The Barrier

The Barrier

1937

as Stark

Acting

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

Counsel for Crime

1937

as William Mellon

5.8
Acting

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

They Won't Forget

1937

as Michael Gleason

5.7
Acting

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

Glamorous Night

1937

as King Stefan

6.0
Acting

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

Dracula's Daughter

1936

as Jeffrey Garth

5.9
Acting

A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.

Living Dangerously

Living Dangerously

1936

as Dr. David Stanley Norton

3.5
Acting

The dramatic story of a normal, intelligent man of good principles driven to contemplate thoughts of murder.

Lady of Secrets

Lady of Secrets

1936

as David Eastman

6.0
Acting

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

Two Sinners

1935

as Henry Vane

10.0
Acting

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

Vanessa: Her Love Story

1935

as Ellis Herries

6.0
Acting

The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.

Chained

Chained

1934

as Richard I. Field

6.8
Acting

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

Springtime for Henry

1934

as Henry Dewlip

1.0
Acting

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

Treasure Island

1934

as Doctor Livesey

6.5
Acting

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

Paris Interlude

1934

as Sam

3.5
Acting

Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro...

Men in White

Men in White

1934

as Dr. Levine

6.0
Acting

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

The Crime Doctor

1934

as Dan Gifford

3.5
Acting

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

The Women in His Life

1933

as Kent 'Barry' Barringer

4.0
Acting

An immensely successful criminal lawyer is blindsided when he learns that his new case involves his ex-wife, who left him.

Gallant Lady

Gallant Lady

1933

as Phillip Lawrence

6.0
Acting

Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies.

The Prizefighter and the Lady

The Prizefighter and the Lady

1933

as Willie Ryan

5.7
Acting

An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title.

Ever in My Heart

Ever in My Heart

1933

as Hugo Wilbrandt

5.3
Acting

World War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German.

Beauty for Sale

Beauty for Sale

1933

as Mr. Sherwood

7.0
Acting

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

Turn Back the Clock

1933

as Ted Wright

5.1
Acting

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

Acting

A magazine editor gets a good story when he comes home to find his wife with his best friend.

The Home Girl

The Home Girl

1928

Acting

A short film featuring the debut of actress Miriam Hopkins.

Under the Red Robe

Under the Red Robe

1923

as Henri de Cocheforet

5.0
Acting

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...