Alan Dexter

Acting

Alan Dexter

Born October 21, 1918 · Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

Died December 19, 1983 · aged 65

No biography available.

Known For

The Enemy BelowThe Enemy Below · 1957
The Enemy Below
★ 7.21957
MovieWar
The crew of the American destroyer escort, the USS Haynes, detects a German U-Boat—resulting in a prolonged, deadly battle of wits.
Paint Your WagonPaint Your Wagon · 1969
Paint Your Wagon
★ 6.31969
MovieComedyWestern
A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnapping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boom town. Along the way there is plenty of drinking, gambling, and singing. They even find time to do some creative gold mining.
Operation PetticoatOperation Petticoat · 1959
Operation Petticoat
★ 7.21959
MovieComedyWar
A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.
It Came from Outer SpaceIt Came from Outer Space · 1953
It Came from Outer Space
★ 6.31953
MovieScience FictionHorror
Author and amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona. Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up close, he announces that it is a spacecraft, and that it is inhabited...
PushoverPushover · 1954
Pushover
★ 6.61954
MovieCrimeThriller
A police detective falls for the bank robber's girlfriend he is supposed to be tailing.
Kiss Me, StupidKiss Me, Stupid · 1964
Kiss Me, Stupid
★ 7.01964
MovieComedyRomance
While traveling home from Vegas, an amorous lounge singer named Dino gets conned by a local mechanic/songwriter into staying in town for the night. The mechanic's songwriting partner, Orville, offers Dino his home for overnight lodging and enlists a local waitress/call girl to pose as his wife in order to placate Dino's urges.
I Married a Monster from Outer SpaceI Married a Monster from Outer Space · 1958
I Married a Monster from Outer Space
★ 6.01958
MovieHorrorScience Fiction
Aliens from Outer Space are slowly switching places with real humans -- one of the first being a young man about to get married. Slowly, his new wife realizes something is wrong, and her suspicions are confirmed when her husband's odd behaviour begins to show up in other townspeople.
The Mississippi GamblerThe Mississippi Gambler · 1953
The Mississippi Gambler
★ 7.21953
MovieRomanceAdventure
Mark Fallon, with partner Kansas John Polly, tries to introduce honest gambling on the riverboats. His first success makes enemies of the crooked gamblers and of fair Angelique Dureau, whose necklace he won. Later in New Orleans, Mark befriends Angelique's father, but she still affects to despise him as his gambling career brings him wealth. Duelling, tragedy, and romantic complications follow.

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Four Star PlayhouseFour Star Playhouse · 1952
Four Star Playhouse
★ 6.81952
SeriesDramaComedy
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.

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Black SaddleBlack Saddle · 1959
Black Saddle
★ 6.21959
SeriesWesternDrama
Black Saddle is an American Western television series starring Peter Breck that aired 44 episodes on ABC from January 10, 1959 to May 6, 1960. The half-hour program was produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television, and the original pilot was an episode of CBS's Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, with Chris Alcaide portraying the principal character, Clay Culhane. For syndicated reruns, Black Saddle was combined with three other Western series from the same company, Law of the Plainsman starring Michael Ansara, Johnny Ringo starring Don Durant and Mark Goddard, and the critically acclaimed creation of Sam Peckinpah, The Westerner with Brian Keith, under the umbrella title, The Westerners, with new hosting sequences by Keenan Wynn.

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