Albert Dekker — Actor (25)
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Cass Timberlane (1947) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Cass Timberlane
director: George Sidney actor: Spencer Tracy / Lana Turner …
other title: Il giudice Timberlane / Fesseln der Liebe …
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 attorney friend of of Cass' Brad Criley. While quarreling the Judge tells Virginia to stay with Brad, but when she becomes sick he brings her home.
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Buy Me That Town (1941) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Buy Me That Town
director: Eugene Forde actor: Lloyd Nolan / Constance Moore …
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 leader of the gang begins to have a change of heart after he begins falling for a local girl.
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The Pretender (1947) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Pretender
director: W. Lee Wilder actor: Albert Dekker / Catherine Craig …
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 engaged, so he arranges to have the fiance killed. A mix up involving the society section of the newspaper places him in the sights of his own hired gun.
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Fury at Furnace Creek (1948) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Fury at Furnace Creek
director: H. Bruce Humberstone actor: Victor Mature / Coleen Gray …
other title: L'assalto / Rache ohne Gnade …
The Arizona wilderness, 1880. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell sends a message telling Capt. Walsh, who is escorting a wagon-train through Apache territory, heading for the fort at Furnace Creek, that he should cancel the escort and rush to another town. Apache leader "Little Dog" is leading the attack on the wagon-train and massacring everyone at the poorly manned fort. As a result the treaty is broken with the Indians and the white settlers take over the territory with the help of the cavalry, as the Apaches are wiped out and only "Little Dog" remains at large. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell is court-martial-led for treason.
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The Kansan (1943) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Kansan
director: George Archainbaud actor: Richard Dix / Jane Wyatt …
other title: Der Sheriff von Kansas / Le Cavalier du Kansas …
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 soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.
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The Woman of the Town (1943) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Woman of the Town
director: George Archainbaud actor: Claire Trevor / Albert Dekker …
other title: Eine Frau für den Marshall / Una dama en el oeste …
Bat Masterson, who after failing to secure a job as a newspaper reporter becomes marshal of Dodge City. Preferring socializing to peacekeeping, Masterson falls in love with Dora Hand, the obligatory golden-hearted chorus girl whose concern for the welfare of her fellow citizens at time reaches Madonna-like dimensions. When Dora is shot down cattle baron King Kennedy, Masterson begins taking his job seriously. After taking care of Kennedy, Masterson determines to enshrine the memory of Dora, whose efforts to clean up Dodge City were largely ignored by the "decent" townsfolk.
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Bride of Vengeance (1949) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Bride of Vengeance
director: Mitchell Leisen actor: Paulette Goddard / John Lund …
other title: La maschera dei Borgia / La máscara de los Borgia
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 murders his sister's husband and makes it appear that Alfonso D'Este of Ferrara was behind the killing. To avenge herself against Ferrara and D'Este, Lucretia Borgia marries D'Este and intends to poison him. But...she falls in love with him.
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The Lady Has Plans (1942) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Lady Has Plans
director: Sidney Lanfield actor: Ray Milland / Paulette Goddard …
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. This woman plans to take the place of a 'Sidney Royce', a legitimate traveler going to Lisbon as a reporter. Crossed signals allows the real Sidney to reach Portugal first, where she is pursued by those trying to obtain the plans and US government agents trying to prevent the sale.
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Incendiary Blonde (1945) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Incendiary Blonde
director: George Marshall actor: Betty Hutton / Arturo de Córdova …
other title: La rubia de los cabellos de fuego
Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"
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California (1947) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
California
director: John Farrow actor: Ray Milland / Barbara Stanwyck …
other title: Californie terre promise / Califórnia …
"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 Johnny and Michael finally arrive, Lily is rich from her saloon and storekeeper (former slaver) Pharaoh Coffin is bleeding the miners dry. But worse troubles are ahead: California is inching toward statehood, and certain people want to make it their private empire.
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Suspense (1946) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Suspense
director: Frank Tuttle actor: Belita / Barry Sullivan …
other title: Orgasmo / Ein gefährlicher Rivale …
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 star, who also happens to be the owner's wife. However, he soon begins to notice that his new manager is paying more attention to his wife than he believes is appropriate.
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Salome, Where She Danced (1945) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Salome, Where She Danced
director: Charles Lamont actor: Yvonne De Carlo / Rod Cameron …
other title: Salomè / Salomé, la embrujadora …
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 lawless western town in Arizona, where she uses her charms and dancing skills to transform herself into "Salome" during her dance routines.
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The French Key (1946) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The French Key
director: Walter Colmes actor: Albert Dekker / Evelyn Ankers …
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 discover a dead body on the bed, holding a gold coin in its hand. Fletcher is told by a coin collector that the piece is an old and valuable Spanish coin, but Fletcher soon begins to suspect that the man is himself involved in the murder. Fletcher's investigation leads to he and Sam getting caught up in a murder and gold smuggling scheme.
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Rangers of Fortune (1940) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Rangers of Fortune
director: Sam Wood actor: Fred MacMurray / Patricia Morison …
other title: Avéntureros románticos / Le Mystère de Santa Marta …
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 young granddaughter. The trio learn that the community is under the thumb of a covetous land baron, who's endeavoring to push out ranch owners and take over the territory.
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The Forest Rangers (1942) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Forest Rangers
director: George Marshall actor: Fred MacMurray / Paulette Goddard …
other title: Corazones en llamas
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 prove it. Butch loves Don but he, poor fool, won't notice her as a woman; instead he meets socialite Celia in town and elopes with her. The action plot (Don's pursuit of the fire starter) parallels Tana's comic efforts to scare tenderfoot Celia back to the city.