A graduate of Bowdoin college, Albert Dekker made his professional acting bow with a Cincinnati stock company in 1927. Within a few months he was featured in the Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's Marco Millions.

After a decade's worth of impressive theatrical appearance, Dekker made his first film, 1937's The Great Garrick. Usually cast as villains, Dekker was starred in the Technicolor horror film Dr. Cyclops (1940) and played a fascinating dual role in the 1941 suspenser Among the Living.

Dekker's offscreen preoccupation with politics led to his winning a California State Assembly seat in 1944; during the McCarthy era, Dekker became an outspoken critic of the Wisconsin senator's tactics, and as a result the actor found it hard to get work in Hollywood.

He returned to Broadway, then made a movie comeback in 1959. During his last decade, Dekker alternated between film, stage and TV assignments; he also embarked on several college-campus lecture tours.

In May of 1968, Dekker was found strangled to death in his Hollywood home. His naked body was bound hand and foot, a hypodermic needle was jammed into each arm, and obscenities were scrawled all over the corpse. At first, it seemed that Dekker was a closet homosexual who had committed suicide (early reports suggested that the writings on his body were his bad movie reviews) or had died while having rough sex.

While the kinky particulars of the case were never officially explained, it was finally ruled that Albert Dekker had died of accidental asphyxiation.

Albert Dekker Filmography

Wild Bunch, The (1969) .... Pat Harrigan
Come Spy with Me (1967) .... Walter Ludeker
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966) (TV) .... Mr. Gutman
Death of a Salesman (1966/II) (TV) .... Ben
Daikaijû Gamera (1965) .... Secretary of Defense
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) .... Dr. Hockstader
Wonderful Country, The (1959) .... Texas Ranger Capt. Rucker
Middle of the Night (1959) .... Walter Lockman
These Thousand Hills (1959) .... Marshall Conrad
Sound and the Fury, The (1959) .... Earl Snopes
Machete (1958) .... Don Luis Montoya
She Devil (1957) .... Dr. Richard Bach
All My Sons (1955) (TV)
Illegal (1955) .... Frank Garland
Kiss Me Deadly (1955) .... Dr. G.E. Soberin
East of Eden (1955) .... Will Hamilton
Silver Chalice, The (1954) .... Kester
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952) .... Lloyd Slocum
As Young as You Feel (1951) .... Louis McKinley
Furies, The (1950) .... Mr. Reynolds
Destination Murder (1950) .... Armitage
Kid from Texas, The (1950) .... Alexander Kain
Search for Danger (1949) .... Kirk
Bride of Vengeance (1949) .... Vanetti
Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949) .... Mr. Trask
Lulu Belle (1948) .... Mark Brady
Fury at Furnace Creek (1948) .... Leverett
Gentleman's Agreement (1947) .... John Minify
Fabulous Texan, The (1947) .... Gibson Hart
Cass Timberlane (1947) .... Boone Havock
Slave Girl (1947) .... Pasha
Pretender, The (1947) .... Kenneth Holden
Wyoming (1947) .... Duke Lassiter
California (1947) .... Mr. Pike
Two Years Before the Mast (1946) .... Brown
Killers, The (1946) .... Big Jim Colfax
Suspense (1946) .... Frank Leonard
French Key, The (1946) .... Johnny Fletcher
Hold That Blonde (1945) .... Insp. Callahan
Incendiary Blonde (1945) .... Joe Cadden
Salome, Where She Danced (1945) .... Count Erik Von Bohlen
Experiment Perilous (1944) .... Clag
Hitler Gang, The (1944) (uncredited) .... Narrator
Woman of the Town, The (1943) .... Bat Masterson
In Old Oklahoma (1943) .... Jim 'Hunk' Gardner (president, Gardner Oil Co.)
Kansan, The (1943) .... Steve Barat
Buckskin Frontier (1943) .... Gideon Skene
Night in New Orleans (1942) .... Police Lieutenant William Richards
Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942) .... Gaston Le Blanc
Forest Rangers, The (1942) .... Twig Dawson
Wake Island (1942) .... Shad McClosky
In Old California (1942) .... Britt Dawson
Yokel Boy (1942) .... Bussie Malone
Lady Has Plans, The (1942) .... Baron Von Kemp
Blonde Inspiration (1941) .... Phil Hendricks
You're the One (1941) .... Luke Laramie
Among the Living (1941) .... John Raden/Paul Raden
Buy Me That Town (1941) .... Louie
Honky Tonk (1941) .... Brazos Hearn
Reaching for the Sun (1941) .... Herman
Seven Sinners (1940) .... Dr. Martin
Rangers of Fortune (1940) .... George Bird
Dr. Cyclops (1940) .... Dr. Alexander Thorkel
Strange Cargo (1940) .... Moll
Great Commandment, The (1939) .... Longinus
Beau Geste (1939) .... Legionnaire Schwartz (mutineer leader)
Man in the Iron Mask, The (1939) .... King Louis XIII
Hotel Imperial (1939) .... Sergeant
Never Say Die (1939) (uncredited) .... Kidley's second
Paris Honeymoon (1939) (uncredited) .... Amorous Drunk
Last Warning, The (1939) .... Higgs
Marie Antoinette (1938) (as Albert Van Dekker) .... Comte de Provence
Lone Wolf in Paris, The (1938) .... Marquis Louis de Meyerson
Extortion (1938) (as Albert Van Dekker) .... Jeffrey Thompson
She Married an Artist (1937) (as Albert van Dekker) .... Whitney Holton
Great Garrick, The (1937) (as Albert Van Dekker) .... M. LeBrun

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