Brad Dexter
Acting • Born 1917-04-09 – Died 2002-12-12
Biography
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.
Filmography
63 credits
The Magnificent Seven
Movie • 1960
Harry Luck
House of Bamboo
Movie • 1955
Capt. Hanson
Von Ryan's Express
Movie • 1965
Sergeant Bostick
Macao
Movie • 1952
Vincent Halloran
The Las Vegas Story
Movie • 1952
Tom Hubler
Vice Raid
Movie • 1959
Vince Malone
Winter Kills
Movie • 1979
Captain Heller One
Last Train from Gun Hill
Movie • 1959
Beero, Belden Foreman
99 River Street
Movie • 1953
Victor Rawlins
Taras Bulba
Movie • 1962
Shilo
None But the Brave
Movie • 1965
Sgt. Bleeker
Sinbad the Sailor
Movie • 1947
Muallin
The Asphalt Jungle
Movie • 1950
Bob Brannom
Winged Victory
Movie • 1944
Jack Browning (uncredited)
Violent Saturday
Movie • 1955
Gil Clayton
Untamed
Movie • 1955
Lt. Christian
Heldorado
Movie • 1946
Alec Baxter (as Barry Mitchell)
Johnny Cool
Movie • 1963
Lennart Crandall
Invitation to a Gunfighter
Movie • 1964
Kenarsie
Vigilante Force
Movie • 1976
Mayor Bradford
Twenty Plus Two
Movie • 1961
Leroy Dane
The Oklahoman
Movie • 1957
Dobie
The George Raft Story
Movie • 1961
Benny Siegal
The Bottom of the Bottle
Movie • 1956
Stanley Miller
Bus Riley's Back in Town
Movie • 1965
Wallace Slocum
Law and Order
Movie • 1976
Patrolman Tierney
X-15
Movie • 1961
Maj. Anthony Rinaldi
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
Movie • 1977
Alvin Karpis
Jory
Movie • 1973
Jack
Run Silent, Run Deep
Movie • 1958
Cartwright
13 Fighting Men
Movie • 1960
Maj. Simon Boyd
Cognac
Movie • 1988
Veljko Pantović
Fourteen Hours
Movie • 1951
Reporter (uncredited)
Blindfold
Movie • 1966
Harrigan
Kings of the Sun
Movie • 1963
Ah Haleb
Valentine
Movie • 1979
Cosmo
Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'
Movie • 2000
Self
Between Heaven and Hell
Movie • 1956
Lt. Joe 'Little Joe' Johnson
Shampoo
Movie • 1975
Senator East
77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
Bourbon Street Beat
TV • 1959
The Incredible Hulk
TV • 1977
Mr. Lucky
TV • 1959
Mannix
TV • 1967
Surfside 6
TV • 1960
Kojak
TV • 1973
Arnie Naylor
Hawaiian Eye
TV • 1959
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Jock Petrie
Mission: Impossible
TV • 1966
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
S.W.A.T.
TV • 1975
Yancy Derringer
TV • 1958
Charles Hammond
The Aquanauts
TV • 1960
Carney
McCloud
TV • 1970
Climax!
TV • 1954
Harvey Bozer
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
TV • 1957
Wilton Mills
Bronco
TV • 1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Stranger / Davis
Bat Masterson
TV • 1958
Dallas Agate
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Cleland Ames
Tightrope
TV • 1959
Behind Closed Doors
TV • 1958
The Investigators
TV • 1961
Simon Montserrat