Albert Van Dekker Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
A stage actor from 1927, Albert Dekker was an established Broadway star when he made his film debut ten years later. Tall and with rugged good looks, Dekker often played aggressive character roles, and was memorable as the double-crossing gang leader in the classic The Killers (1946). From 1945 to 1946 he served a term in the California legislature...
The theater is a horrible place in which to make a living. They sit you on the shelf for years. They take you off and brush you off and later you have to find your way back to that shelf.
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Fact
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In 1940 he hired modernist Los Angeles architect Rudolph Schindler to design and build a house for he and his wife Esther in Canoga Park, CA. In the late 1940s it was sold to screenwriter A.I. Bezzerides.
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Was the uncle of David Ott Miller, famed artist and educator of Emmaus, Pennsylvania.
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Graduated from Bowdoin College.
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Was of Dutch ancestry.
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Accidentally hanged himself. On May 5, 1968, Dekker was found dead in his Hollywood apartment after failing to answer numerous phone calls for two days. Although money and camera equipment were missing, there were no signs of forced entry. He was found naked, kneeling in his bathtub with a noose around his neck that was looped around the shower curtain rod. He was handcuffed, blindfolded, gagged and had sexually explicit words scrawled on his body in red lipstick. The coroner ruled his death accidental stating, "We have no information that Mr. Dekker planned to take his own life." Dekker was cremated and his remains were interred at Garden State Crematory in North Bergen, New Jersey.
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Served in California legislature 1944 to 1946 as the Democratic Assemblyman from the 57th District (Hollywood).
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Wild Bunch
1969
Harrigan
Bonanza
1968
TV Series
Barney Sturgess
I Spy
1968
TV Series
Indris
Judd for the Defense
1968
TV Series
George Stuka
Run for Your Life
1968
TV Series
Sir Harry Hiller
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1967
TV Series
Harry Beldon
Come Spy with Me
1967
Walter Ludeker
Mission: Impossible
1966
TV Series
Colonel Shtemenko
Gammera the Invincible
1966
Secretary of Defense
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
1966
TV Movie
Mr. Gutman
Death of a Salesman
1966
TV Movie
Ben
Rawhide
1965
TV Series
Jonas Bolt / Josh Breeden
Seaway
1965
TV Series
Captain Marland
The Trials of O'Brien
1965
TV Series
George Brewer
Once Upon a Tractor
1965
Short
Colonel
The Defenders
1964
TV Series
Mark Vronis
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1964
TV Series
Karl Hesse
Naked City
1961
TV Series
Herbert B. Warick / Samuel Grafton
Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed
1961
TV Movie
Judge Dundy
Festival
1961
TV Series
Moreen / King Henry VIII
Route 66
1961
TV Series
Frank Ivy
The Witness
1961
TV Series
Jimmy Hines
Play of the Week
1960
TV Series
King Herod
Suddenly, Last Summer
1959
Dr. Lawrence J. Hockstader
The Wonderful Country
1959
Texas Ranger Capt. Rucker
Decoy
1959
TV Series
Otto
Middle of the Night
1959
Walter Lockman
These Thousand Hills
1959
Marshal Conrad
The Sound and the Fury
1959
Earl Snopes
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre
1959
TV Series
Dr. Joseph Pearson
Folio
1958
TV Series
Willie Loman
Machete
1958
Don Luis Montoya
ITV Play of the Week
1957-1958
TV Series
Joe Keller
Willy Loman
She Devil
1957
Dr. Richard Bach
Climax!
1956
TV Series
Brewster
Playwrights '56
1955-1956
TV Series
Mr. Anderson / Maj. Tobey
Illegal
1955
Frank Garland
Kiss Me Deadly
1955
Dr. G.E. Soberin
Goodyear Playhouse
1955
TV Series
East of Eden
1955
Will Hamilton
The Silver Chalice
1954
Kester
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
1952
Lloyd Slocum
Studio One in Hollywood
1952
TV Series
Billy Bones
CBS Television Workshop
1952
TV Series
Lights Out
1952
TV Series
Celanese Theatre
1951
TV Series
Clyde Rochester
Stars Over Hollywood
1951
TV Series
As Young as You Feel
1951
Louis McKinley
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse
1951
TV Series
George Washington
The Furies
1950
Mr. Reynolds
Destination Murder
1950
Armitage
Fireside Theatre
1950
TV Series segment "The Human Touch"
- The Human Touch/The Assassin 1950 ... segment "The Human Touch"