Otto Kruger

Actor

About

Birth Place

Toledo, Ohio, USA

Born

September 06, 1885

Died

September 06, 1974

Biography

1920s Broadway star turned prolific and highly likable character player, often as sleek, sophisticated types, both sympathetic and villainous....

Filmography

Sex and the Single Girl (1964)

Dr. Anderson

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)

The King

Cash McCall (1960)

Will Atherson

The Young Philadelphians (1959)

John Marshall Wharton

The Colossus of New York (1958)

Dr. William Everett Spensser

The Last Command (1955)

Stephen Austin

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Young Philadelphians, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) I Always Used A Diagram

Ever In My Heart (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Two Little German Puppies

Biography

1920s Broadway star turned prolific and highly likable character player, often as sleek, sophisticated types, both sympathetic and villainous.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Sex and the Single Girl (1964)

Dr. Anderson

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)

The King

Cash McCall (1960)

Will Atherson

The Young Philadelphians (1959)

John Marshall Wharton

The Colossus of New York (1958)

Dr. William Everett Spensser

The Last Command (1955)

Stephen Austin

Magnificent Obsession (1954)

Payment on Demand (1951)

[Theodore] Prescott

Valentino (1951)

Mark Towers

711 Ocean Drive (1950)

Carl Stephans

Smart Woman (1948)

District Attorney Bradley Wayne

Lulu Belle (1948)

Harry Randolph

Duel in the Sun (1947)

Mr. Langford

Love and Learn (1947)

Andrew Wyngate

The Fabulous Suzanne (1946)

Hendrick Courtney, Sr.

Wonder Man (1945)

District Attorney [O'Brien]

The Chicago Kid (1945)

John W. Mitchell

The Jungle Captive (1945)

Dr. Stendahl

Escape in the Fog (1945)

Paul Devon

Allotment Wives (1945)

Whitey Colton

The Woman Who Came Back (1945)

Reverend Jim Stevens

Earl Carroll Vanities (1945)

Earl Carroll

The Great John L. (1945)

Richard Martin

On Stage Everybody (1945)

James Carlton

Cover Girl (1944)

John Coudair

Knickerbocker Holiday (1944)

Roosevelt

They Live in Fear (1944)

Matthew Van Camp

Murder, My Sweet (1944)

Jules Amthor

Storm Over Lisbon (1944)

Alexis Vanderlyn

Stage Door Canteen (1943)

Corregidor (1943)

Dr. Jan Stockman

Power of the Press (1943)

Howard Rankin

Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943)

Paul Hendrix

Hitler's Children (1943)

Colonel Henkel

Night Plane from Chungking (1943)

Albert Pasavy

Secrets of a Co-ed (1942)

James Reynolds

Saboteur (1942)

[Charles] Tobin

Friendly Enemies (1942)

Anton Miller [also known as George Stewart]

The Men in Her Life (1941)

Victor

Mercy Island (1941)

Dr. Sanderson, also known as Captain Powell

The Big Boss (1941)

Jim Maloney, previously known as Frank Dugan and Butch McAllister

A Dispatch from Reuters (1940)

Dr. Magnus

The Man I Married (1940)

Heinrich Hoffman

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)

A Woman Is the Judge (1939)

Tyler Cradon [also known as Jim Thomas]

Another Thin Man (1939)

Thanks for the Memory (1938)

Gil Morrell

Housemaster (1938)

Counsel for Crime (1937)

Bill Mellon

The Barrier (1937)

[Ben] Stark

They Won't Forget (1937)

[Michael] Gleason

Lady of Secrets (1936)

David Eastman

Dracula's Daughter (1936)

Jeffrey Garth

Living Dangerously (1936)

Two Sinners (1935)

Henry Vane

Vanessa: Her Love Story (1935)

Ellis

Men in White (1934)

Dr. Levine

Paris Interlude (1934)

Sam [Colt]

Crime Doctor (1934)

Dan Gifford

Springtime for Henry (1934)

Treasure Island (1934)

Doctor Livesey

The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933)

Willie Ryan

Ever in My Heart (1933)

Hugo [Wilbrandt]

The Women in His Life (1933)

[Kent "Barry"] Barringer

Beauty for Sale (1933)

Sherwood

Turn Back the Clock (1933)

Ted [Wright]

Under the Red Robe (1923)

Henri de Cocheforet

A Mother's Confession (1915)

Harold Patterson

The Runaway Wife (1915)

Arthur, his son

Cast (Special)

The Judge (1963)

Chief Justice Caleb Cooke

The Desert Song (1955)

General Birabeau

Life Events

Videos

Young Philadelphians, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) I Always Used A Diagram Law student Tony, now cynical due to earlier setbacks, is spending the summer helping rich retiring lawyer Wharton (Otto Kruger) write a book, drawing all the attention of his young wife Carol (Alexis Smith), the three of them then receiving guests Carter and Joan (Fred Eisley, Barbara Rush), who was once, secretly, Tony’s fianceè, in The Young Philadelphians, 1959.

Ever In My Heart (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Two Little German Puppies Fairly newly married Mary (Barbara Stanwyck) and her German immigrant professor husband Hugo (Otto Kruger) settle on a dachshund then welcome a baby, sometime around 1910, in director Archie Mayo's semi-political melodrama Ever In My Heart, 1933.

Ever In My Heart (1933) -- (Movie Clip) United We Stand Proud wife Mary (Barbara Stanwyck) and buddy Jeff (Ralph Bellamy) remarking as all celebrate the citizenship of German immigrant Hugo (Otto Kruger), his boss Hoffman (Frank Reicher) especially pleased, everything okay so far, in Ever In My Heart, 1933, directed by Archie Mayo.

Sex And The Single Girl (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Dirty Delusions Of Grandeur First scene for Natalie Wood as "Dr. Brown," only her name inspired by author Helen Gurley Brown, with colleagues (Otto Kruger, Mel Ferrer, Edmund Glover), angry over a scandal sheet's coverage of her work, in Sex And The Single Girl, 1964.

Hitler's Children (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Die For Hitler Chilling and artfully composed opening (the German fascist speaker is not credited) from director Edward Dmytryk’s Hitler’s Children, 1943, leading to Kent Smith’s narration, playing a character loosely based on the American author of the underlying novel, Gregor Ziemer, co-stars Bonita Granville and Tim Holt briefly introduced.

Vanessa, Her Love Story (1935) -- (Movie Clip) That Wild Strain Of Blood After a prologue on family history and gypsy blood, Otto Kruger introduces those celebrating the 100th birthday of Lady Paris (May Robson), Violet Kemble Cooper, Henry Stephenson, Lewis Stone, star Helen Hayes, and leading man Robert Montgomery intruding, in MGM’s Vanessa, Her Love Story, 1935.

Vanessa, Her Love Story (1935) -- (Movie Clip) I Thought There'd Been An Accident Helen Hayes (title character) from the north country arriving London for her society debut, Lewis Stone her father, Otto Kruger her stuffy suitor and cousin Ellis, and at the event, his proposal, when her dashing and preferred other cousin Benji (Robert Montgomery) arrives, in Vanessa, Her Love Story, 1935.

Black Widow (1954) -- (Movie Clip) I Want A Bloody Mary Having flashed back to the arrival of impetuous Nanny (Peggy Ann Garner) in New York, she surprises her uncle (Otto Kruger) at home, then Claire and John (Virginia Leith, Skip Hoemeier) on the job, in writer-producer-director Nunnally Johnson's Black Widow, 1954.

Murder, My Sweet (1944) -- (Movie Clip) The Smoke Didn't Move Fake psychic and jewel thief Amthor (Otto Kruger) tricking thug Moose (Mike Mazurki) into throttling P-I Marlowe (Dick Powell), whom he earlier hired to find his girlfriend, who then enters his second semi-conscious episode, in Murder, My Sweet, 1944, directed by Edward Dmytryk, from a Raymond Chandler novel.

Saboteur (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Bullets, I'm Afraid In his reckless attempt to find the wartime saboteur, fugitive factory-worker Barry (Robert Cummings), watching the innocent grandchild, realizes too late that California gentleman rancher Tobin (Otto Kruger) is involved, the servant Adele (Belle Mitchell) conspiring, in Alfred Hitchcock’s Saboteur 1942.

Treasure Island (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Flint's Fist Jack (Jackie Cooper) and his mum (Dorothy Peterson) search the belongings of lodger Billy Bones (Lionel Barrymore), who has just died after being confronted by Blind Pew (William V. Mong), who returns with cohorts, but flees when Livesey (Otto Kruger) arrives, in MGM's Treasure Island, 1934.

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet -- (Movie Clip) Tubercule Bacillus Dr. Ehrlich (Edward G. Robinson) is hesitant, but encouraged by his friend Dr. von Behring (Otto Kruger) to attend a lecture by Dr. Koch (Albert Basserman in Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullett, 1940, directed by William Dieterle.

Payment on Demand - (Original Trailer) A bitter divorcee (Bette Davis) thinks back on the mistakes that destroyed her marriage in Payment on Demand (1951).

Ever In My Heart - (Original Trailer) During World War I, a woman (Barbara Stanwyck) suspects her husband of being a German spy in Ever In My Heart (1933).

Dispatch From Reuters, A - (Original Trailer) An entrepreneur (Edward G. Robinson) builds an international news agency.

Doctor Ehrlich's Magic Bullet - (Original Trailer) Doctor Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940) starring Edward G. Robinson, the true story of the German scientist who devoted his life to curing syphilis.

Vanessa: Her Love Story - (Original Trailer) A Victorian wife (Helen Hayes) contemplates leaving her insane husband for a romantic gypsy (Robert Montgomery) in Vanessa: Her Love Story (1935).

Young Philadelphians, The - (Original Trailer) A young lawyer (Paul Newman) from the wrong side of town tries to break into society in The Young Philadelphians (1964).

Hitler's Children - (Original Trailer) A German-American girl is forced to enter a Hitler youth program in Hitler's Children (1943), directed by Edward Dmytryk.

They Won't Forget - (Original Trailer) Bigotry flares when a Jewish businessman is accused of killing a small-town girl in the South in They Won't Forget (1937) starring Claude Rains.

Black Widow (1954) - (Original Trailer) A young stage hopeful (Peggy Ann Gardner), is murdered and suspicion falls on her mentor, a Broadway producer (Van Heflin) in Black Widow (1954).

Murder, My Sweet - (Original Trailer) Dick Powell plays detective Phillip Marlowe in Murder, My Sweet (1944) based on the Raymond Chandler novel Farewell, My Lovely.

Dracula's Daughter - (Re-issue Trailer) A Hungarian countess seeks the aid of a noted psychiatrist, in hopes of freeing herself of a mysterious evil influence in Dracula's Daughter (1936).

Men In White - (Original Trailer) Clark Gable plays a hospital intern in Sidney Kingsley's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Men In White (1934).

Family

Oom Paul Kruger

Grand-Uncle

President of South Africa.

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