Personal Info
Birth date
1885-09-06 (139 Years)
Day of death
1974-09-06
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Toledo, Ohio, USA
Also known as
Отто Крюгер
Otto Kruger
Biography
Otto Kruger (September 6, 1885 – September 6, 1974) was an American actor who began his career in 1915. His career was most prolific during the 1930s and 1940s.
Filmography
Dr. Kildare
5.5
Overview:
The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.Lux Video Theatre
6.333
Overview:
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.Studio One
5
Overview:
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.Perry Mason
7.7
Overview:
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.Sam Benedict
6
Overview:
Sam Benedict is an American legal drama that aired on NBC from September 1962 to March 1963. The series was created and executive produced by E. Jack Neuman. Sam Benedict is based on real-life lawyer Jacob W. "Jake" Erlich, who served as technical consultant for the series.Thriller
6.417
Overview:
Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.The Rebel
5.1
Overview:
After the end of the Civil War, a former Confederate Army private roams the Wild West, and, as a rogue drifter, gets involved in helping out various settlers threatened by various bad guys... THE REBEL is a 76-episode American western television series starring Nick Adams that debuted on the ABC network from 1959 to 1961. The Rebel was one of the few Goodson-Todman Productions outside of their game show ventures. Beginning in December 2011, The Rebel reruns began to air Saturday mornings on Me-TV.Climax!
3.273
Overview:
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.Suspense
4.909
Overview:
An anthology series adapted from the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program, many scripts were adaptations of literary classics by well-known authors. Classic authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, and Charles Dickens all had stories adapted for the series, while contemporary authors such as Roald Dahl and Gore Vidal also contributed.The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen
NYR
Overview:
Make way for the reluctant detective. It's Ellery Queen, the suave, debonair and brilliant hero of the new, live, full-hour detective show. George Nader plays the stalwart writer turned investigator.Checkmate
4.1
Overview:
Checkmate is an American detective television series starring Anthony George, Sebastian Cabot, and Doug McClure. The show aired on CBS Television from 1960 to 1962 for a total of 70 episodes and was produced by Jack Benny's production company, "JaMco Productions" in co-operation with Revue Studios. Guest stars included Charles Laughton, Peter Lorre, and Lee Marvin, among many other commensurately prominent performers.Lights Out
5.3
Overview:
Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum. Versions of Lights Out aired on different networks, at various times, from January 1934 to the summer of 1947 and the series eventually made the transition to television. In 1946, NBC Television brought Lights Out to TV in a series of four specials, broadcast live and produced by Fred Coe, who also contributed three of the scripts. NBC asked Cooper to write the script for the premiere, "First Person Singular", which is told entirely from the point of view of an unseen murderer who kills his obnoxious wife and winds up being executed. Variety gave this first episode a rave review ("undoubtedly one of the best dramatic shows yet seen on a television screen"), but Lights Out did not become a regular NBC-TV series until 1949.General Electric Theater
6.25
Overview:
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.Sex and the Single Girl
6.6
Overview:
A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurley Brown.High Noon
7.673
Overview:
Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.Murder, My Sweet
7.228
Overview:
After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.Seventeen
NYR
Overview:
A high-school student in a small town becomes smitten with the sophisticated new girl who's just arrived from Chicago. Based on Booth Tarkington's story.Stage Door Canteen
5.8
Overview:
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theater and films appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romanceSaboteur
6.894
Overview:
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.Cover Girl
6.39
Overview:
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.Dracula's Daughter
5.927
Overview:
A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.Duel in the Sun
6.4
Overview:
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.The Jungle Captive
5.6
Overview:
Once again Paula the ape woman is brought back to life, this time by a mad doctor and his disfigured assistant, who also kidnaps a nurse in order to have a female blood donor.The Last Command
6.4
Overview:
During the Texas War of Independence of 1836 American frontiersman and pioneer Jim Bowie pleads for caution with the rebellious Texicans. They don't heed his advice since he's a Mexican citizen, married to the daughter of the Mexican vice-governor of the province and a friend to General Santa Anna since the days they had fought together for Mexico's independence. After serving as president for 22 years, Santa Anna has become too powerful and arrogant. He rules Mexico with an iron fist and he would not allow Texas to self-govern. Bowie sides with the Texans in their bid for independence and urges a cautious strategy, given Santa Anna's power and cunning. Despite the disagreement between the Texicans and Bowie regarding the right strategy they ask Bowie to lead them in a last-ditch stand, at Alamo, against General Santa Anna's numerically superior forces.Wonder Man
6.566
Overview:
Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson. One night, two of Jackson's thugs kill Buzzy and dump his body in the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Buzzy comes back as a ghost and summons his bookworm twin, Edwin Dingle, to Prospect Park so that he can help the police nail Jackson.Magnificent Obsession
6.8
Overview:
Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from the town’s only resuscitator while a local hero, Dr. Phillips, dies waiting for the life-saving device. Merrick then tries to right his wrongs with the doctor’s widow, Helen, falling in love with her in the process.Chained
6.8
Overview:
Richard, a millionaire in love with his secretary, Diane, is dispirited when his wife refuses to divorce him. Concerned that Diane will now lose interest, Richard offers her an all-expense-paid cruise to Argentina so that she can think it over. While traveling, however, Diane falls in love with fellow traveler Mike. She resolves to come clean to Richard, but upon return she becomes conflicted when she finds out he was able to get divorced after all.Lulu Belle
4.8
Overview:
Lulu Belle is singing in a cheap dive in Natchez, Mississippi in the early 1900's when she meets rising young attorney George Davis. He gives up his fiancée and career to marry Lulu Bell. When his money runs out, Lulu Belle goes to work in a New Orleans club run by tough gambler Mark Brady. She tries to send George back to Natchez by pretending that she has fallen for prize-fighter Butch Cooper but George, in a fit of jealousy, drives a handful of forks into Butch's face. He is sent to prison and Lulu goes to New York with millionaire Harry Randolph, who makes her the singing sensation of Broadway and asks her to marry him. She refuses when she learns that George has been released from prison, realizing that he is the only man she ever truly loved.Acting
1964Sex and the Single Girl as Dr. Anderson
1964Della as Walter Garrick
1962Sam Benedict (1 Episode) as Unknown
1962The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm as The King (segment "The Singing Bone")
1961Dr. Kildare (1 Episode) as Louis Conrad
1960Checkmate (1 Episode) as George Emery
1960Thriller (1 Episode) as Bert Farrington
1960Cash McCall as Will Atherson
1959The Rebel (1 Episode) as Ben Tully
1959The Young Philadelphians as John Marshall Wharton
1958The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen (1 Episode) as Unknown
1958The Colossus of New York as Dr. William Spensser
1957Perry Mason (1, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as J. J. Gideon, August Dalgran, Timothy Balfour Sr., Judge Norris
1955The Last Command as Stephen F. Austin
1955The Desert Song as General Birabeau
1954Black Widow as Gordon Ling
1954Climax! (1, 1 Episode) as Walter Farrington, Judge Mitchell
1954Magnificent Obsession as Edward Randolph
1953General Electric Theater (1, 1 Episode) as Charles, The Boss
1952High Noon as Judge Percy Mettrick
1951Valentino as Mark Towers
1951Payment on Demand as Ted Prescott
1950Lux Video Theatre (1, 3 Episode) as Walter Travis, Self - Host
1950711 Ocean Drive as Carl Stephans
1949Lights Out (1 Episode) as Unknown
1949Suspense (1, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Chester Crabtree
1948Studio One (1 Episode) as Spencer de Witt Roland
1948Lulu Belle as Harry Randolph
1948Romance on the High Seas as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
1948Smart Woman as D.A. Bradley Wayne
1947Love and Learn as Andrew Wyngate
1946Duel in the Sun as Mr. Langford
1946The Fabulous Suzanne as Hendrick Courtney Sr.
1945Woman Who Came Back as Rev. Jim Stevens
1945Allotment Wives as Whitey Colton
1945On Stage Everybody as James Carlton
1945The Chicago Kid as John Mitchell
1945The Jungle Captive as Dr. Stendahl
1945Wonder Man as District Attorney
1945The Great John L. as Richard Martin
1945Escape in the Fog as Paul Devon
1945Earl Carroll Vanities as Earl Carroll
1944Murder, My Sweet as Jules Amthor
1944Storm Over Lisbon as Alexis Vanderlyn
1944They Live in Fear as Matthew Van Camp
1944Cover Girl as John Coudair
1944Knickerbocker Holiday as Roosevelt
1943Tarzan's Desert Mystery as Paul Hendrix
1943Stage Door Canteen as Otto Kruger
1943Night Plane from Chungking as Albert Pasavy
1943Corregidor as Dr. Jan Stockman
1943Power of the Press as Howard Raskin
1943Hitler's Children as Colonel Henkel
1942Secrets of a Co-Ed as James Reynolds
1942Friendly Enemies as Anton Miller
1942Saboteur as Charles Tobin
1941The Men in Her Life as Victor
1941Mercy Island as Dr. Sanderson
1941The Big Boss as Jim Maloney
1940A Dispatch from Reuters as Dr. Magnus
1940The Man I Married as Heinrich Hoffman
1940Seventeen as Sylvanus Baxter, Sr.
1940Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet as Dr. Emil Von Behring
1939Another Thin Man as Van Slack
1939Scandal Sheet as Jim Stevenson
1939A Woman is the Judge as Steven Graham
1939The Zero Hour as Julian Forbes
1939Black Eyes as Ivan Ivanovich Petroff
1939The Gang's All Here as Mike Chadwick
1939Disbarred as Tyler Craden
1938Thanks for the Memory as Gil Morrell
1938Exposed as William Reardon
1938I Am the Law as Eugene Ferguson
1938Housemaster as Charles Donkin
1938Star of the Circus as Garvin
1937The Barrier as Stark
1937Counsel for Crime as William Mellon
1937They Won't Forget as Michael Gleason
1937Glamorous Night as King Stefan
1936Dracula's Daughter as Jeffrey Garth
1936Living Dangerously as Dr. David Stanley Norton
1936Lady of Secrets as David Eastman
1935Two Sinners as Henry Vane
1935Vanessa: Her Love Story as Ellis Herries
1934Chained as Richard I. Field
1934Springtime for Henry as Henry Dewlip
1934Treasure Island as Doctor Livesey
1934Paris Interlude as Sam
1934Men in White as Dr. Levine
1934The Crime Doctor as Dan Gifford
1933The Women in His Life as Kent 'Barry' Barringer
1933Gallant Lady as Phillip Lawrence
1933The Prizefighter and the Lady as Willie Ryan
1933Ever in My Heart as Hugo Wilbrandt
1933Beauty for Sale as Mr. Sherwood
1933Turn Back the Clock as Ted Wright
1930Mr. Intruder as Unknown
1928The Home Girl as Unknown
1923Under the Red Robe as Henri de Cocheforet