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GenealogyBuff.com - Brad Dexter, Actor/Producer
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Date: Sunday, 4 September 2016, at 4:42 p.m.
System Mechanic - Clean, repair, protect, and speed up your PC!Brad Dexter, Actor/Producer
, 1917 - December 12, 2002
Actor Brad Dexter (Born Boris Milanovich in Goldfield, Nev.) died Thursday December 12, 2002 in Rancho Mirage after being hospitalized with emphysema at the age of 85 years. He was a square-jawed supporting player and former lead, often cast in tough character roles. He rode with Yul Brynner as one of the Magnificent Seven and became a confidant of both Marilyn Monroe and Frank Sinatra. As early as his first film, 1950's The Asphalt Jungle, the talented Dexter found himself overshadowed by the star power of Sterling Hayden, James Whitmore, Louis Calhern and Marilyn Monroe. Occasionally, Dexter was cast in a role that stuck in the memory banks, such as Bugsy Siegel in 1960's The George Raft Story. He also gained a degree of fame as the producer of such worthwhile films as The Naked Runner (1967) and The Lawyer (1970) and Little Fauss and big Halsy (1970); reportedly, he was able to gain a foothold as a producer thanks to Frank Sinatra, whom he once saved from drowning. Brad Dexter married and divorced singer Peggy Lee.
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