Cast: Albert Dekker

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Albert Dekker. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Killers

1946 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Burt Lancaster · Ava Gardner · Edmond O'Brien · Albert Dekker

Synopsis Two professional killers invade a small town and kill a gas station attendant, "the Swede", who's expecting them. Insurance investigator Reardon pursues the case against the orders of his boss, who considers it trivial. Weaving together threads of the Swede's...

7.9

8K votes

7.9

8K votes

East of Eden

1955 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast James Dean · Raymond Massey · Julie Harris · Richard Davalos

Synopsis In the Salinas Valley, in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother Aron for the love of their father Adam. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to...

7.6

11K votes

7.6

11K votes

Suddenly, Last Summer

1959 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Montgomery Clift · Katharine Hepburn · Albert Dekker

Synopsis In 1937 New Orleans, Dr. John Cukrowicz, working at the state run Lion's View Mental Institution, is experimenting with a radical new treatment for hopeless cases of lunacy: lobotomy. Lion's View is woefully underfunded, but a supposed savior comes forth...

7.6

7K votes

7.6

7K votes

Beau Geste

1939 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Gary Cooper · Ray Milland · Robert Preston · Brian Donlevy

Synopsis BEAU GESTE begins with a framed scene of a mounted column approaching Fort Zinderneuf in the desert of French Morocco. No one answers Colonel de Beaujolais's signal. Someone fires shots at his feet. When he points out that the troopers...

7.5

4K votes

7.5

4K votes

7.4

94 votes

Kiss Me Deadly

1955 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Ralph Meeker · Albert Dekker · Paul Stewart · Juano Hernández

Synopsis Detective Mike Hammer fights to solve the murder of a beautiful hitchhiker with a mysterious connection to the Mob.

7.1

3K votes

7.1

3K votes

The Furies

1950 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Wendell Corey · Walter Huston · Judith Anderson

Synopsis The 1870s, New Mexico territory: T.C. Jeffords is a cattle baron who built his ranch, the Furies, from scratch. He borrows from banks, pays hired hands with his own script ("T.C.'s"), and carries on low-level warfare with the Mexicans who...

7.0

550 votes

7.0

550 votes

Gentleman's Agreement

1947 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Gregory Peck · Dorothy McGuire · John Garfield · Celeste Holm

Synopsis Gregory Peck is an investigative journalist assigned to write about anti-Semitism. Frustrated with cold facts and statistics, he decides to get an insider's view by telling people he is Jewish. An excellent study of the insidious nature of prejudice.

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Illegal

1955 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Allen

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Nina Foch · Hugh Marlowe · Jayne Mansfield

Synopsis After an overly aggressive district attorney unknowingly sends an innocent man to the chair, he resigns, turns to drink, and acquires a criminal clientele. Remake of "The Man Who Talked Too Much".

6.7

269 votes

6.7

269 votes

The Man in the Iron Mask

1939 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction James Whale

Cast Louis Hayward · Joan Bennett · Warren William · Joseph Schildkraut

Synopsis D'Artagnan and the musketeers are the only ones who know of the existence of a twin brother, and Fouquet uses his influence to keep everyone silenced. The main story was changed by portraying Louis XIV as selfish, cruel, and incompetent,...

6.5

183 votes

6.5

183 votes

Middle of the Night

1959 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast Kim Novak · Fredric March · Martin Balsam · Albert Dekker

Synopsis Jerry Kingsley (March) is a widower, a lonely but successful clothing manufacturer who falls in love with Betty Preisser (Novak), one of his employees. The employee-boss relationship is one hurdle the erstwhile couple have to overcome, another is the thirty-year...

6.4

111 votes

6.4

111 votes

The Pretender

1947 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction W. Lee Wilder

Cast Albert Dekker · Catherine Craig · Charles Drake · Alan Carney

Synopsis Kenneth Holden (Albert Dekker), a banker steals funds from an estate and decides to marry the heiress,Claire Worthington ('Catherine Craig (I)' Qv)) to safeguard his position. He arranges for her fiancé to be killed but does not state the fiancé's...

6.4

21 votes

6.4

21 votes

These Thousand Hills

1959 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

6.3

350 votes

6.3

350 votes

Experiment Perilous

1944 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast Hedy Lamarr · George Brent · Paul Lukas · Albert Dekker

Synopsis In 1903, Dr. Bailey meets a very strange woman on a train, then hears that she has died under mysterious circumstances. Through a friend, he becomes acquainted with the Bederaux family, all of whom seem to be neurotic and secretive;...

6.3

430 votes

6.3

430 votes

Strange Cargo

1940 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Joan Crawford · Clark Gable · Ian Hunter · Peter Lorre

Synopsis Verne wants nothing more than to escape from a penal colony located off the northern coast of South America. He tries to involve Julie, a saloon girl, in his plans but she turns him in to the authorities. On Verne's...

6.3

229 votes

6.3

229 votes

Suspense

1946 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast Belita · Barry Sullivan · Bonita Granville · Albert Dekker

Synopsis Frank Leonard (Albert Dekker), the proprietor of an ice-skating revue, promotes a strong-arming peanut-vendor named Joe Morgan (Barry Sullivan) at the show to a management position based on suggestions he makes to improve the act of the show's star, Roberta...

6.2

64 votes

6.2

64 votes

Seven Sinners

1940 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Marlene Dietrich · John Wayne · Albert Dekker · Broderick Crawford

Synopsis Bijou, a saloon singer with a reputation for insighting brouhahas, is one of several deportees from a south Pacific island to arrive at another U.S. protectorate, Boni Komba. She becomes very popular with U.S. navymen by performing at the 'Seven...

6.2

120 votes

6.2

120 votes

The Wonderful Country

1959 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Robert Parrish

Cast Robert Mitchum · Julie London · Gary Merrill · Pedro Armendáriz

Synopsis 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 Mexican boss, strongman Governor Cipriano Castro. Brady breaks a leg and while recuperating...

6.2

522 votes

6.2

522 votes

Two Years Before the Mast

1946 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction John Farrow

Cast Alan Ladd · Brian Donlevy · William Bendix · Barry Fitzgerald

Synopsis The playboy son of a wealthy shipping magnate discovers at first hand the desperate privations suffered by the crew of one of his fathers ships when he is unwillingly pressganged aboard.

6.2

24 votes

6.2

24 votes

As Young as You Feel

1951 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Harmon Jones

Cast Monty Woolley · Thelma Ritter · David Wayne · Jean Peters

Synopsis 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 on an inspection tour. Acme president McKinley is so nervous not even his beautiful secretary Harriet can...

6.1

45 votes

6.1

45 votes