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Brad Dexter

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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.

09-04-1917

Birthday

Aries

Zodiac Sign

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Genres

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Total Films

Boris Michel Soso

Also known as (male)

Goldfield, Nevada, USA

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

39 Works

producer

4 Works

director

4 Works

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Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'

Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'

A documentary about 'The Magnificent Seven'.
6.8

Year:

2000

Cognac

Cognac

A wealthy American on the quest for a perfect brandy runs afoul of petty criminal monks and falls in love with an impostor.
5.0

Year:

1988

Valentine

Valentine

A feisty widow falls in love with a zestful widower in a retirement community, much to the disapproval of her married daughter.
0.0

Year:

1979

Winter Kills

Winter Kills

The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be the real shooter.
5.8

Year:

1979

The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

The story of the late J. Edgar Hoover, who was head of the FBI from 1924-1972. The film follows Hoover from his racket-busting days through his reign under eight U.S. presidents.
5.0

Year:

1977

Vigilante Force

Vigilante Force

In a small town in California, the quiet citizens find their lives disrupted by boisterous, lawless oil-field workers who have infested their community. One resident, Ben Arnold, enlists his brother Aaron, a Vietnam veteran, to assemble a group of men to restore law and order to the town. Though Aaron's crew succeeds, the newfound power goes to some of their heads, and Aaron and Ben must again reclaim the town for the citizens.
4.9

Year:

1976

Law and Order

Law and Order

Story follows three generations of a family in the New York City Police Department.
0.0

Year:

1976

Shampoo

Shampoo

A Beverly Hills hairdresser runs around town on the eve of the 1968 presidential election trying to make heads or tails of his financial and romantic entanglements. His attempts to gather the money to open his own salon are continually side-tracked by the distractions presented by his many lovers.
6.0

Year:

1975

Jory

Jory

Jory is a fifteen-year-old boy who joins a horse-drive after his father is killed by a drunkard. The drive's leader and a likable cowhand take the boy under their wing, and find that tragedy has taught him how to take care of himself better than anyone could expect.
7.3

Year:

1973

Blindfold

Blindfold

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 wear a blindfold whenever he is taken there ...
6.3

Year:

1966

Von Ryan's Express

Von Ryan's Express

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 over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.
7.1

Year:

1965

Bus Riley's Back in Town

Bus Riley's Back in Town

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 she has married in the mean time. Searching for fulfilment in his life, Bus decides to get a job with his gay friend who is a mortician. When the mortician makes a pass at him, Bus quickly gets out.
5.2

Year:

1965

None But the Brave

None But the Brave

American and Japanese soldiers, stranded on a tiny Pacific island during World War II, must make a temporary truce and cooperate to survive various tribulations. Told through the eyes of the American and Japanese unit commanders, who must deal with an atmosphere of growing distrust and tension between their men.
6.4

Year:

1965

Invitation to a Gunfighter

Invitation to a Gunfighter

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 property sold by the local banker who then hires a gunman to kill him.
5.9

Year:

1964

Kings of the Sun

Kings of the Sun

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 United States. They build a home in the new land but come into conflict with a tribe of Native Americans led by their chief, Black Eagle, while both Balam and Black Eagle fall in love the beautiful Mayan princess Ixchel.
6.1

Year:

1963

Johnny Cool

Johnny Cool

A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S.
5.3

Year:

1963

Taras Bulba

Taras Bulba

Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for his family and his folk and his passion for a Polish woman.
6.3

Year:

1962

X-15

X-15

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.
5.9

Year:

1961

The George Raft Story

The George Raft Story

The 1961 film biography of the nightclub dancer-turned-movie star George Raft.
3.3

Year:

1961

Twenty Plus Two

Twenty Plus Two

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 the secretary know something about the mystery of the heiress?
6.0

Year:

1961

The Magnificent Seven

The Magnificent Seven

An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.
7.5

Year:

1960

13 Fighting Men

13 Fighting Men

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.
3.0

Year:

1960

Vice Raid

Vice Raid

A prostitute sets out to frame a cop.
6.2

Year:

1959

Last Train from Gun Hill

Last Train from Gun Hill

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.
7.1

Year:

1959

Run Silent, Run Deep

Run Silent, Run Deep

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 singleminded determination for revenge against the destroyer that sunk his previous vessel puts his new crew in unneccessary danger.
6.9

Year:

1958

The Oklahoman

The Oklahoman

After his wife dies in childbirth, a doctor settles down in the small Oklahoma town of Cherokee Wells to raise his newborn daughter. Unfortunately, not all the citizens there are hospitable, especially when the doctor hires a pretty Indian teenager as his child's nanny.
5.6

Year:

1957

Between Heaven and Hell

Between Heaven and Hell

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 the war he was mobilized with his National Guard unit as a sergeant. Came the day when, revolted by the cowardice of his lieutenant, who had fired at his own men, he hit him. Downgraded, he was sent to a disciplinary battalion. Sam now discovers his new detachment, his new commanding officer, just another cowardly brute, Captain Waco Grimes. While in combat, Sam will gradually become closer to the privates, working-class people he used to despise. He will become another man, a better man.
5.9

Year:

1956

The Bottom of the Bottle

The Bottom of the Bottle

An alcoholic escaped convict asks his Arizona lawyer brother to help him cross the Mexican border.
5.5

Year:

1956

House of Bamboo

House of Bamboo

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 and Japanese locals.
6.1

Year:

1955

Violent Saturday

Violent Saturday

Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.
6.7

Year:

1955

Untamed

Untamed

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 husband, who decide that the promised land is South Africa and make their way there. Once there, they discover the hardships that are the reality of the homesteader experience.
5.6

Year:

1955

99 River Street

99 River Street

A former boxer turned taxi driver earns the scorn of his nagging wife and gets mixed up with jewel thieves.
6.8

Year:

1953

Macao

Macao

Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord. Undercover, can he mislead the bad guys and still woo the attractive singer/petty crook, Julie Benson?
6.2

Year:

1952

The Las Vegas Story

The Las Vegas Story

When newlyweds visit Las Vegas, the wife's shady past comes to the surface.
5.8

Year:

1952

Fourteen Hours

Fourteen Hours

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 a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of it.
7.2

Year:

1951

The Asphalt Jungle

The Asphalt Jungle

Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
7.5

Year:

1950

Sinbad the Sailor

Sinbad the Sailor

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, where his ship is seized and scheduled for auction. In his attempt to win it back, he befriends beautiful concubine Shireen. But when her master, the nefarious Emir, calls her back to duty, Sinbad must interrupt his adventure to save the "Jewel of Persia."
5.9

Year:

1947

Heldorado

Heldorado

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 Days Festival, as he wants to help his old friend Gabby Whittaker who originated the idea (at least, in this film).In Las Vegas, Roy meets heiress Carol Randall, who has been selected as the Queen of the Heldorado. Roy is informed that the F.B.I. wants an immediate investigation of the counterfeit thousand dollar bills that are being passed over the gambling tables at the casino.
5.5

Year:

1946

Winged Victory

Winged Victory

Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with Bobby Grills and Irving Miller, and the five struggle through the rigid training and grueling tests involved in becoming pilots. Not all of them succeed, and tragedy awaits for some.
5.5

Year:

1944