Alan Dexter

Actor

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Also Known As

Alan Pershing Dexter

Birth Place

Oklahoma, USA

Born

October 21, 1918

Died

December 19, 1983

Cause of Death

Heart Attack

Biography

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Alan Dexter began acting in 1952, on an episode of the series "Racket Squad." He appeared in several small film roles before playing Captain Ben Stein on the iconic crime series "Dragnet" from 1952 to 1954. During the '50s he had small parts in dozens of television series and films. In 1957 he played Mike in the critically acclaimed "Time Limit," starring Richard Widmark. In the '60s Dex...

Filmography

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Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case (1975)

Paint Your Wagon (1969)

The Brass Bottle (1964)

Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)

Operation Petticoat (1959)

Voice in the Mirror (1958)

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Enemy Below, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Let's Go Get Him!

Enemy Below, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) I've Got A Spook

Biography

Alan Dexter began acting in 1952, on an episode of the series "Racket Squad." He appeared in several small film roles before playing Captain Ben Stein on the iconic crime series "Dragnet" from 1952 to 1954. During the '50s he had small parts in dozens of television series and films. In 1957 he played Mike in the critically acclaimed "Time Limit," starring Richard Widmark. In the '60s Dexter worked on the Western television series "Black Saddle," "Have Gun - Will Travel," and "The Slowest Gun in the West," in addition to playing recurring roles on "Gunsmoke" from 1958 to 1963. He had small film roles during this period as well, in the Dean Martin/Kim Novak film "Kiss Me, Stupid" and the Western "Paint Your Wagon." Dexter's final performance was in 1980 in "Loose Shoes." He died in December of that year.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case (1975)

Paint Your Wagon (1969)

The Brass Bottle (1964)

Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)

Operation Petticoat (1959)

Voice in the Mirror (1958)

Step Down to Terror (1958)

I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958)

The Enemy Below (1957)

Time Limit (1957)

The Unguarded Moment (1956)

Cell 2455, Death Row (1955)

Plainclothesman

The Eternal Sea (1955)

Down Three Dark Streets (1954)

Pushover (1954)

The Mississippi Gambler (1953)

Girls in the Night (1953)

Column South (1953)

Forbidden (1953)

It Came from Outer Space (1953)

City of Bad Men (1953)

Cast (Special)

Mr. and Mrs. Cop (1974)

Life Events

Videos

Enemy Below, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Let's Go Get Him! Intensely technical from producer-director Dick Powell, the U-Boat captain (Curt Jurgens), whom we know to be highly disaffected, takes the bait from U.S. destroyer captain Murrell (Robert Mitchum), who impresses his crew and orders the chase, in The Enemy Below, 1957.

Enemy Below, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) I've Got A Spook Producer-director Dick Powell exploits the cooperation of the U.S. Navy, the fictional destroyer U.S.S. Haynes in the South Atlantic, Ware (Al Hedison) at the con as the new captain (Robert Mitchum), rumored to have been seasick since he boarded, takes command, in The Enemy Below, 1957.

Paint Your Wagon -- (Movie Clip) Power Of Attorney Inebriated Rumson (Lee Marvin) wins the bidding for a spare Mormon wife (Jean Seberg), and "Pardner" (Clint Eastwood) and buddies at the gold mining camp help him through the wedding, in Joshua Logan's Paint Your Wagon, 1969.

Operation Petticoat -- (Movie Clip) Open, That's Sherman Opening credits with fish in a periscope, and the introduction of Cary Grant as "Admiral" Sherman, headed for a flashback, in the opening to Blake Edwards' hit Operation Petticoat, 1959, also starring Tony Curtis.

I Married A Monster From Outer Space -- (Movie Clip) Got the Time? Valerie Allen plays a doomed working girl as Bill (Tom Tryon) and fellow under-cover aliens (Alan Dexter, Robert Ivers) tangle with barkeep Grady (Maxie Rosenbloom) in I Married A Monster From Outer Space, 1958.

I Married A Monster From Outer Space -- (Movie Clip) Bachelor Party Bill (Tom Tryon) leaves buddies (Peter Baldwin, Alan Dexter, Robert Ivers) at his bachelor party then has something more than a traffic accident in an early sequence from I Married A Monster From Outer Space, 1958.

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