Alan Dexter
{{short description|American film, stage and television actor}}
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|name = Alan Dexter
|image = Alan Dexter in Man with a Camera (Touch-Off).jpg
|caption = Dexter in Man with a Camera, 1960
|birth_name = Alan Persching Dexter{{Cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/49695%7C8740/Alan-Dexter#overview|title=Alan Dexter|work=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=January 30, 2022}}
|birth_date = {{birth date|1918|10|21}}
|birth_place = Oklahoma, U.S.
|death_date = {{death date and age|1983|12|19|1918|10|21}}
|death_place = Oxnard, California, U.S.
|occupation = Film, stage and television actor
|years_active = 1943–1978
|spouse = Betty Dexter{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/684291510/|title=It's Your Party|work=Los Angeles Evening Citizen News|location=Hollywood, California|date=January 31, 1962|access-date=January 30, 2022|page=11|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}}
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Alan Persching Dexter (October 21, 1918 – December 19, 1983){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eWVZAAAAMAAJ|title=Western and Frontier Film and Television Credits 1903-1995: Section I. Actors and actresses. Section II. Directors, producers, and writers|page=229|first=Harris|last=Lentz|publisher=McFarland|date=1996|isbn=9780786401581 |via=Google Books}} was an American film, stage and television actor.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S4pZAAAAMAAJ|title=Films and Filming|page=48|date=1984|publisher=Hansom Books|via=Google Books}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/690740047/|title=Delta Actor-Lecturer Will Have TV Role|work=The Modesto Bee|location=Modesto, California|date=April 12, 1972|access-date=January 30, 2022|page=53|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/690836597/|title=Alan Dexter Will Be in Delta Play|work=The Modesto Bee|location=Modesto, California|date=May 3, 1972|access-date=January 30, 2022|page=53|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}}
Life and career
Dexter was born in Oklahoma. He began his career in 1943, appearing in an uncredited role in the film This Is the Army.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/684261679/|title=Dexter Set|work=Los Angeles Evening Citizen News|location=Hollywood, California|date=February 5, 1962|access-date=January 30, 2022|page=6|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}} Later in his career, he guest-starred in numerous television programs including, The Andy Griffith Show, Bonanza, Shotgun Slade, The Dick Van Dyke Show, That Girl, The Virginian, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Perry Mason, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Jack Benny Program, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, Navy Log, The Twilight Zone, The Odd Couple, The Fugitive, Man with a Camera, Get Smart, Have Gun, Will Travel, The Untouchables, Ironside and Gunsmoke. Dexter also played Frank Ferguson in the soap opera television series Days of Our Lives from 1965 to 1966.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WwI5PzDiIKcC|title=Days of Our Lives: A Complete History of the Long-Running Soap Opera|page=187|first=Maureen|last=Russell|publisher=McFarland|date=June 8, 2015|isbn=9780786486519|via=Google Books}}
In his film career, Dexter appeared in films such as, Forbidden, Operation Petticoat, The Enemy Below, The Mississippi Gambler, My Man and I, Cell 2455, Death Row, The Eternal Sea, Voice in the Mirror, Down Three Dark Streets, Column South, Sailor Beware, Girls in the Night, City of Bad Men, and It Came from Outer Space. He played Roy the Photographer in the 1958 film Step Down to Terror, as well as playing the role of Bill Farrell's friend "Sam Benson" in the film I Married a Monster from Outer Space in the same year.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B7kUCwAAQBAJ|title=Keep Watching the Skies!: American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties, The 21st Century Edition|page=966|first=Bill|last=Warren|publisher=McFarland|date=January 12, 2017|isbn=9781476625058|via=Google Books}} Dexter also appeared in playing Joe in the 1964 film The Brass Bottle and as Parson in the 1969 film Paint Your Wagon.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LFRuBwAAQBAJ|title=The Clint Eastwood Westerns|page=61|first=James|last=Neibaur|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|date=March 12, 2015|isbn=9781442245044|via=Google Books}}
Death
Dexter died in December 1983 of a heart attack in Oxnard, California, at the age of 65.
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0223283}}
- {{TCMDb name|49695%7C8740}}
- [https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/alan_dreeban/ Rotten Tomatoes profile]
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Category:Male actors from Oklahoma
Category:American male film actors
Category:American male television actors