Brad Dexter (born Veljko Soso; April 9, 1917 – December 12, 2002) was an American actor and film producer. He is known for tough-guy and western roles including the 1960 film The Magnificent Seven (1960) and producing several films for Sidney J. Furie such as Lady Sings the Blues. He is also known for a short marriage to Peggy Lee, a friendship with Marilyn Monroe and for saving Frank Sinatra from drowning. Known as a nice guy off screen, Dexter’s tough-guy roles contrasted with his easy going and friendly personality.
Brad Dexter Biography / Wiki
| Name | Brad Dexter |
| Also Know | Barry Mitchell |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Goldfield, Nevada, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1917-04-09 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 85 |
| Deathday | 2002-12-12 |
Brad Dexter Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| 13 Fighting Men | Maj. Simon Boyd | 1960-03-31 | A group of Union Army soldiers is charged with protecting a box of gold and getting it to its rightful place within the government coffers…. |
| Vice Raid | Vince Malone | 1959-12-01 | A prostitute sets out to frame a cop…. |
| 99 River Street | Victor Rawlins | 1953-08-21 | A former boxer –now taxi driver– gets mixed up with jewel thieves…. |
| The Oklahoman | Dobie | 1957-05-19 | After his wife dies in childbirth, a doctor (Joel McCrea) settles down in the small Oklahoma town of Cherokee Wells to raise his newborn daughter. Unf… |
| Valentine | Cosmo | 1979-12-07 | Two people meet in a retirement home in Venice, California where a former policeman decides to entice the other residents into new activities…. |
| Von Ryan’s Express | Sergeant Bostick | 1965-06-23 | Von Ryan’s Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win ov… |
| Bus Riley’s Back in Town | Wallace Slocum | 1965-03-24 | Bus Riley returns to his small town after time in the army. On his return, his ex-girlfriend wants to resume their relationship. The only problem is s… |
| Run Silent, Run Deep | Cartwright | 1958-03-27 | The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper another sub after a year of working a desk job. His s… |
| House of Bamboo | Capt. Hanson | 1955-07-01 | Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen… |
| The Las Vegas Story | Tom Hubler | 1952-01-30 | When newlyweds visit Las Vegas, the wife’s shady past comes to the surface…. |
| Last Train from Gun Hill | Beero, Belden Foreman | 1959-07-29 | A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for the rape and murder of his wife…. |
| Taras Bulba | Shilo | 1962-11-21 | Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for hi… |
| Heldorado | Alec Baxter (as Barry Mitchell) | 1946-12-15 | Roy Rogers, a Nevada State Ranger Captain in charge of the Rangers Reclamation Service, makes a trip to Las Vegas for the annual Heldorado Frontier Da… |
| Kings of the Sun | Ah Haleb | 1963-12-18 | In order to flee from powerful enemies, young Mayan king Balam leads his people north across the Gulf of Mexico to the coast of what will become the U… |
| Vigilante Force | Mayor Bradford | 1976-09-09 | In a small town in California, the quiet citizens find their lives disrupted by boisterous, lawless oil-field workers who have infested their communit… |
| The Magnificent Seven | Harry Luck | 1960-10-12 | An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes…. |
| Macao | Vincent Halloran | 1952-04-11 | A man on the run in the Far East is mistaken for an undercover cop…. |
| Johnny Cool | Lennart Crandall | 1963-10-02 | A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S…. |
| X-15 | Maj. Anthony Rinaldi | 1961-12-22 | X-15 is a 1961 movie that tells a fictionalized account of the X-15 research rocket plane, the men who flew it and the women who loved them…. |
| Between Heaven and Hell | Lt. Joe ‘Little Joe’ Johnson | 1956-10-11 | Sam Gifford remembers : In prewar years he was an arrogant southern cotton plantation owner, married to the daughter of a colonel. At the beginning of… |
| Invitation to a Gunfighter | Kenarsie | 1964-10-14 | In New Mexico, a Confederate veteran returns home to find his fiancée married to a Union soldier, his Yankee neighbors rallied against him and his pr… |
| Twenty Plus Two | Leroy Dane | 1961-08-13 | A famous movie star’s fan club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newspaper clippings regarding a missing heiress. Did th… |
| The Bottom of the Bottle | Stanley Miller | 1956-02-01 | An alcoholic escaped convict asks his Arizona lawyer brother to help him cross the Mexican border…. |
| Blindfold | Harrigan | 1966-05-23 | A patient being psychoanalyzed by Dr. Snow is a government scientist. General Pratt hides him in a secret place known as “Base X,” forcing Dr. Snow to… |
| Untamed | Lt. Christian | 1955-03-01 | When the great potato famine hits Ireland, the diaspora begins as thousands emigrate. Among those leaving the Emerald Isle is Katie O’Neill and her hu… |
| The George Raft Story | Benny Siegal | 1961-11-22 | The 1961 film biography of the nightclub dancer-turned-movie star George Raft…. |
| Cognac | Veljko Pantović | 1988-06-21 | A wealthy American on the quest for a perfect brandy runs afoul of petty criminal monks and falls in love with an impostor…. |
| Sinbad the Sailor | Muallin | 1947-01-13 | Daredevil sailor Sinbad embarks on a voyage across the Seven Seas to find the lost riches of Alexander the Great. His first stop is the port of Basra,… |
| Winter Kills | Captain Heller One | 1979-05-11 | 19 years after President Timothy Keegan was assassinated, his brother Nick discovers a dying man claiming to have been the gunman. While trying to avo… |
| Violent Saturday | Gil Clayton | 1955-04-01 | Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly…. |
| The Asphalt Jungle | Bob Brannom | 1950-05-12 | Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar “Doc” Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of v… |
| None But the Brave | Sgt. Bleeker | 1965-02-24 | American and Japanese soldiers, stranded on a tiny Pacific island during World War II, must make a temporary truce and cooperate to survive various tr… |
| Fourteen Hours | Reporter (uncredited) | 1951-04-01 | A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of … |
| Guns for Hire: The Making of ‘The Magnificent Seven’ | Self | 2000-05-13 | A documentary about ‘The Magnificent Seven’…. |
| The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover | Alvin Karpis | 1977-12-01 | The files that escaped the shredder have become an incredible motion picture. From the Kennedys to Martin Luther King. From cab drivers to Congressmen… |
| Shampoo | Senator East | 1975-02-11 | George Roundy is a Beverly Hills hairstylist whose uncontrolled libido stands between him and his ambitions. He wants the security of a relationship. … |
| Law and Order | Patrolman Tierney | 1976-05-06 | Story follows three generations of a family in the New York City Police Department…. |
Brad Dexter Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Lawyer | Producer | 1970-03-10 | Tony Petrocelli, a bright young lawyer practicing in the rich cattle town of Baker, becomes embroiled in a murder case…. |
| Lady Sings the Blues | Producer | 1972-10-12 | Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday. Her late childhood, stint as a prostitute, early tours, marriages and drug addi… |
| Little Fauss and Big Halsy | Executive Producer | 1970-10-21 | A banned motorcycle racer becomes mechanic for a selfish braggart who races under his name…. |
| Skag | Producer | 1980-01-06 | Pete “Skag” Skagska is a 56 year old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling sroke forces him to stay home and try to put his life … |
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