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Otto Kruger 
Kruger in Dracula's Daughter (1936)Born September 6, 1885
Toledo, OhioDied September 6, 1974 (aged 89)
Woodland Hills, CaliforniaYears active 1915–1964 Spouse Sue MacManamy (1918-?) 1 child 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.
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Career
The grandnephew of South African pioneer and president Paul Kruger, Otto Kruger was musically trained, but switched careers and went into acting. Making his Broadway debut at the age of fifteen, Kruger quickly became a matinee idol. Though he started to get noticed in the early 1920s, it was the 1930s when his career was at its height, including an appearance in the 1934 film Chained, opposite Joan Crawford and Clark Gable. Though he played the hero on occasion, for most of his career, he played the main villain or a charming or corrupt businessman. One of his best known roles was in the 1954 film Magnificent Obsession.
Among his television appearances was a 1959 role as Dr. Mumford in the episode "Experiments in Terror" on the NBC science fiction/adventure series The Man and the Challenge. In 1961, he appeared as Franklyn Malleson Ghentin in "A Fool for a Client" on James Whitmore's The Law and Mr. Jones on ABC. He retired in the 1960s.
Death
Kruger died on his 89th birthday. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Partial filmography
- The Runaway Wife (1915)
- A Mother's Confession (1915)
- The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933)
- Ever in My Heart (1933)
- Turn Back the Clock (1933)
- Beauty for Sale (1933)
- The Women in His Life (1933)
- Springtime for Henry (1934)
- Men in White (1934)
- Treasure Island (1934)
- Chained (1934)
- Dracula's Daughter (1936)
- Glamorous Night (1937)
- They Won't Forget (1937)
- Thanks for the Memory (1938)
- Disbarred (1939)
- Another Thin Man (1939)
- Black Eyes (1939)
- The Gang's All Here (1939)
- The Magic Bullet (1940)
- The Man I Married (1940)
- A Dispatch from Reuter's (1940)
- Saboteur (1942)
- Hitler's Children (1943)
- Night Plane from Chungking (1943)
- Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943)
- Corregidor (1943)
- Cover Girl (1944)
- Murder, My Sweet (1944)
- Wonder Man (1945)
- Allotment Wives (1945)
- The Woman Who Came Back (1945)
- Duel in the Sun (1946)
- 711 Ocean Drive (1950)
- Payment on Demand (1951)
- High Noon (1952)
- Magnificent Obsession (1954)
- Black Widow (1954)
- The Last Command (1955)
- The Colossus of New York (1958)
- The Young Philadelphians (1959)
- Cash McCall (1960)
- The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)
- Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
External links
- Otto Kruger at the Internet Movie Database
- Otto Kruger at the Internet Broadway Database
- Otto Kruger at Find a Grave
Categories:- 1885 births
- 1974 deaths
- American film actors
- American silent film actors
- American stage actors
- Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
- American film actor, 1880s birth stubs
- American theatre actor, 19th century birth stubs
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