Lex Barker Filmography

Born:: May 8, 1919 in Rye, NY
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Alexander Crichlow Barker, Jr
Biography:: Born to a wealthy New York family, Lex Barker took time off from being a high-profile playboy to attend Princeton University and pick up theatrical experience in a stock company. In films from 1945, Barker made little impression as a leading man until he was selected to replace Johnny Weissmuller...Read More

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The F.B.I.: Three-Way Split

Synopsis: In a plot reminiscent of such "perfect crime" films as The Asphalt Jungle and The Killing, three strangers are brought together to commit a $900,000 bank robbery. Much of the preliminary footage is devoted to establishing the personalities and motives of the three crooks. Playboy Eliot Fielding Read More

1971
Winnetou und Shatterhand Im Tal Der Toten

1/1/70
Aoom

Actors: Lex Barker, Teresa Gimpera, Luis Ciges, Julian Ugarte

Synopsis: This uneven story finds Ristel (Lex Barker) as an actor bored with life who breathes his soul into a doll. The doll is taken by a dim-witted servant, and Ristel's lover Ana (Teresa Gimpera) hires a detective to investigate his death and find the missing doll. When the doll begins to talk, the Read More

1970
Spy Today, Die Tomorrow

Synopsis: In this spy thriller, the top brass at the Central Intelligence Agency get an alarming message: a nuclear weapon is missing from the U.S. arsenal. They assign their best agent (Lex Barker) to the case to find out what happened, where it is and who has it. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More

1967
Castle of the Walking Dead

Actors: Lex Barker

Synopsis: Just the thing for spooky Halloween-night viewing, this good-looking German film from director Harald Reinl tells the story of the horrible Count Regula (Christopher Lee), who murdered a dozen virgins and drained their blood. For these heinous crimes, he was sentenced to be drawn and quartered. Read More

1967
Sette Volte Donna

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Peter Sellers, Elspeth March, Rossano Brazzi

Synopsis: Vittorio De Sica directs the 1967 episodic sex comedy Sette Volte Donna (Woman Times Seven), consisting of seven short stories each starring Shirley MacLaine. In "Funeral Possession," she plays opposite Peter Sellers as a widow at her husband's funeral. In "Amateur Night," she's a wife who's Read More

1967
24 Hours to Kill

Synopsis: 24 Hours to Kill is an all-star crime caper filmed as an apparent tax write-off in Europe and Lebanon. Mickey Rooney plays an American airline purser whose greed gets the better of him. During a 24-hour layover in Beirut he transports a cache of stolen goods, which brings him to the attention of Read More

1966
Who Killed Johnny R?

Synopsis: In this mystery, a renowned bandit is reputed to be dead. But he is very much alive and in disguise until another man is slated to die in his place. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1966
Die Hölle von Manitoba

Actors: Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Marianne Koch, Hans Nielsen, Wolfgang Lukschy, Gerard Tichy

Synopsis: In this western, the town of Glory prepares to stage its annual Founder's Day showdown on Main Street. The guest gunslingers this year are two notorious gunmen. Unfortunately, the festivities are halted when a drifter rides to town claiming that he has killed one of the gunmen. The town fathers Read More

1966
Wild Men of Kurdistan

1966
Winnetou und das Halbblut Apanatschi

Actors: Pierre Brice, Lex Barker

1966
Winnetou III

Actors: Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Rik Battaglia, Ralf Wolter, Carl Lange

Synopsis: American actor Lex Barker and Frenchman Pierre Brice are teamed once again in the Teutonic western Winnetou, Part III. The noble Indian Winnetou and his friend Old Shatterhand battle settlers who have been duped by an unscrupulous land grabber into a war with the Apaches. They team up against the Read More

1965
Durchs Wilde Kurdistan

1965
Killer's Carnival

Synopsis: Three espionage stories with drug smuggling, political assassination and secret agents set in Rome, Vienna and Brazil. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1965
Die Pyramide des Sonnengottes

Actors: Lex Barker

Synopsis: Dr. Karl Sternau (Lex Barker) is a German doctor in Mexico who is on the side of the Mexicans fighting against Emperor Maximillian and the French occupation. With the help of the clock dealer Andre (Ralf Wolter), Karl tries to stop a gang led by the villainous Captain Verjoda (Rik Battaglia) from Read More

1965
Der Schatz der Aztecen

Actors: Lex Barker, Gérard Barray

1965
Winnetou I

Actors: Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Mario Adorf, Marie Versini, Ralf Wolter

Synopsis: Apache Gold was a German/French/Yugoslav coproduction, originally titled Winnetou I. Teil (British title: Winnetou the Warrior). It was one of a series of European Technicolor westerns based on the "Winnetou" stories of German author Karl May. As in most of these films, French actor Pierre Brice Read More

11/28/64
Old Shatterhand

Actors: Pierre Brice, Lex Barker, Daliah Lavi, Guy Madison, Ralf Wolter

Synopsis: This 1963 Eurowestern begins with a dead rancher and some Indians, indicating that the Apaches have broken their peace treaty. Only a young boy knows that the killings (which include his parents) were actually done by ruthless land grabbers hoping to start a war between the Indians and the Read More

8/28/64
Il Castello dei Morti Vivi

Synopsis: A traveling circus visits the Gothic abode of the evil Count Drago (Christopher Lee), whose pastimes include experimenting on various animals with his potions and formulas. Naturally, he's no longer content to stop there, and the visitors become unwilling participants in the next horrific Read More

8/5/64
Captain Falcon

Synopsis: American film actor Lex Barker spent the bulk of his professional career hunting up jobs in Europe. In Captain Falcon, Barker plays the title character, a do-gooding high seas swashbuckler. Rossana Rory is the heroine, whose tiny country is threatened by a gang of marauders headed by Massimo Serato Read More

1964
Code 7, Victim 5

Actors: Lex Barker, Ronald Fraser, Ann Smyrner, Veronique Vendell, Walter Rilia

Synopsis: In this action film, an American detective is hired by an aging millionaire to investigate the murder of his valet. The detective journeys to South Africa and discovers that the murder is linked to Nazi POWs who never went back to Germany. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1964
Winnetou II

Actors: Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Anthony Steel, Karin Dor, Klaus Kinski

Synopsis: In this western, an entry in the "Winnetou" series based on Germany's Karl May's novels, follows the attempts of two con men to cheat the Apaches out of their oil rights. They are foiled by Old Shatterhand and Winnetou, his Apache partner. The film was made on location in Yugoslavia. ~ Sandra Read More

1964
The Shoot

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a man accused of kidnapping and arson is pursued by two determined men. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1964
Der Schut

Actors: Lex Barker, Ralf Wolter, Marie Versini, Marianne Hold, Rik Battaglia

Synopsis: Kara Ben Nemai (Lex Barker) is a German adventurer who sets out to find the villainous Yellow Devil who has been terrorizing the residents of Monte Negro. When Kara learns the mystery man is posing as a prosperous carpet merchant, he chases his adversary over the scenic mountains of Yugoslavia. Read More

1964
Kali-Yug, la Dea della Vendetta

Synopsis: Vengeance of Kali is an Italian film, obviously made with Gunga Din on the brain. Doctor Paul Guers wishes to expose Indian sect leader Sergio Fantoni. The poor, misguided Fantoni dares to demand that the British get the heck out of India. The blighter! Lex Barker and Senta Berger also appear in Read More

11/7/63
Il Boia di Venezia

Synopsis: Set in medieval Venice, this swashbuckler chronicles the courage of an executioner and his godson as they attempt to show that the Grand Inquisitor is in league with murderous pirates. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

9/20/63
La Valle dei Lunghi Coltelli

1963
Breakfast in Bed

Synopsis: In this drama, a couple seeks outside help to resolve their marital conflicts. Tired of her husband's neglect, the wife seeks solace with a yoga instructor. As a result, her husband tries to seduce a lovely writer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1963
The Return of Dr. Mabuse

Actors: Lex Barker

Synopsis: The first of the "Dr. Mabuse" films not directed by Fritz Lang, the French/German/Italian Return of Dr. Mabuse stars Wolfgang Preiss in the title role. Supposedly dead and buried, Mabuse returns to his criminal activities, once more using hypnotized flunkeys to carry out his dirty work. While the Read More

5/3/62
Der Schatz im Silbersee

Actors: Pierre Brice, Götz George, Lex Barker, Herbert Lom, Karin Dor, Eddie Arent

Synopsis: Although filmed by a joint German-Yugoslav crew, this European western is set in the Southern United States and involves an oddly-named hero, Old Shatterhand (Lex Barker of Tarzan fame). O.S. has a sidekick, Winnetou, an Apache chief played by a rather understated Pierre Brice. The fuel behind the Read More

1962
The Invisible Dr. Mabuse

Actors: Lex Barker, Karin Dor

Synopsis: Though director Fritz Lang, who started the "Dr. Mabuse" ball rolling back in 1922, had washed his hands of the series in the early 1960s, the Mabuse films kept popping up throughout the decade. This one stars Lex Barker as a New York detective investigating the criminal activities of the Read More

1962
Robin Hood e i Pirati

Actors: Jackie Lane

Synopsis: Former Tarzan Lex Barker plays Robin Hood in this Italian actioner. What's it about? Look at the title. Robin Hood takes on a gang of invading pirates-honest he does. Anything can happen in one of these here movin' pitcher shows. The lissome Jackie Lane costars as Robin's sweetie Karin (Maid Read More

12/24/60
I Pirati della costa

Synopsis: In this swashbuckler, a 15th-century Spanish naval commander becomes a pirate in order to bring justice to a tyrannical governor. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

12/1/60
La Dolce Vita

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Yvonne Furneaux, Anouk Aimée, Anita Ekberg, Alain Cuny, Lex Barker

Synopsis: In one of the most widely seen and acclaimed European movies of the 1960s, Federico Fellini featured Marcello Mastrioanni as gossip columnist Marcello Rubini. Having left his dreary provincial existence behind, Marcello wanders through an ultra-modern, ultra-sophisticated, ultra-decadent Rome. He Read More

2/3/60
Il Terrore della Maschera Rossa

Synopsis: This chilling swashbuckler set in the 16th-century follows the exploits of a daring swordsman who must brave the horrors of a strange castle to defeat his nefarious foe. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1/23/60
Le Tresor Des Hommes Bleus

Actors: Lex Barker, Marpessa Dawn, Odile Versois

1960
The Knight of 100 Faces

1960
Caravane Pour Zagora

Actors: Marpessa Dawn, Lex Barker, Odile Versois, Michele Bally

1960
La Scimitarra del Saraceno

Synopsis: In this high-seas adventure set in the 15th century, a dashing hero is released from prison and assigned to save the governor of Rhodes' kidnapped daughter from a wicked pirate. Instead, the parolee joins the pirates, but when they catch him staring at the girl, they beat him senseless and leave Read More

10/22/59
Mission to Morocco

Synopsis: Filmed inexpensively on location, Mission to Morocco (aka Mission in Morocco) stars Lex Barker, Juli Reding and Fernando Rey. Ex-Tarzan Barker is cast as a wealthy American oil man. While in Morocco on business, he is forced into a murder investigation. The key to the mystery is a microfilm Read More

1959
Mission in Morocco

Synopsis: An oil executive (Lex Barker) is forced to travel to Morocco to investigate the murder of one of his employees. While there, he tries to find a valuable microfilm (which points out the location of large oil deposits) but begins to realize that others are looking for it also. ~ John Bush, All Movie Read More

1959
Capitan Fuoco

12/22/58
Killers of the East

1958
The Strange Awakening

Actors: Lex Barker, Carole Mathews, Lisa Gastoni, Nora Swinburne, Peter Dyneley

Synopsis: In this crime drama, an American suffers a head injury while vacationing in France and finds himself victimized by a conniving female con artist. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1958
Female Fiends

Synopsis: In this French suspenser, a tourist gets entangled in an easy money scheme. The trouble begins when the tourist offers a hitchhiker a lift. He is quickly knocked-out and left by the road. When he regains consciousness, he finds that he is in a strange house and cannot remember who he is or how he Read More

1958
Il Figlio del Corsaro Rosso

Synopsis: In this exciting adventure, the son of the famous pirate returns from exile to exact vengeance upon those who killed his father. Along with his pirate band, he commandeers a galleon and sets sail to find his father's betrayer. They find him, but the guilty party tries to save himself by explaining Read More

1958
War Drums

Actors: Lex Barker, Joan Taylor, Ben Johnson, Larry Chance, Richard H. Cutting

Synopsis: War Drums manages to be pro-Indian, pro-Mexican, pro-tolerance and pro-feminist without ever resorting to speechmaking or sacrificing its entertainment value. Former Tarzan Lex Barker stars as an Apache chief who is almost ostracized by his tribe when he marries Mexican girl Joan Taylor. Read More

1957
The Deerslayer

Actors: Lex Barker, Rita Moreno, Forrest Tucker, Cathy O'Donnell, Jay C. Flippen

Synopsis: This drama is another adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's popular novel that follows the exploits of a white scout who was raised by the Mohicans. He comes to the aid of a settler's colony that is plagued by warring Indians. He becomes entangled with an old white trader and his two daughters Read More

1957
The Girl in Black Stockings

Actors: Lex Barker, Anne Bancroft, Mamie van Doren, Ron Randell, Marie Windsor

Synopsis: Anne Bancroft was several years away from her 1962 Oscar win when she starred in the compact murder mystery The Girl in Black Stockings. The scene is a posh Utah resort hotel, where several beautiful women are mysteriously killed. Suspects include lawyer David Hewson (Lex Barker), his secretary Read More

1957
Jungle Heat

Actors: Lex Barker, Mari Blanchard, Glenn Langan, James Westerfield, Rhodes Reason

Synopsis: Jungle Heat is set in pre-WW2 Hawaii. A group of pro-Japanese fifth columnists infiltrate the islands, intended to demoralize the populace long before the Pearl Harbor attacks. Specializing in sabotage, the spies target the pineapple and sugar plantations, not to mention the big-city industries. Read More

1957
The Girl in the Kremlin

Actors: Lex Barker, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Jeffrey Stone, Maurice Manson

Synopsis: Zsa Zsa Gabor plays twin sisters in this campy Red Scare espionage thriller from the late 1950s. She plays the nurse to Joseph Stalin, who didn't die in 1953 after all. The death was all a nefarious scam in which the leader faked his death, had his face surgically rearranged and then moved to Read More

1957
Away All Boats

Actors: Jeff Chandler, George Nader, Julie Adams, Lex Barker, Keith Andes

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Kenneth M. Dodson, Away All Boats stars Jeff Chandler as a tough Navy captain who takes charge of a group of raw, undisciplined sailors during World War 2. To keep his men from getting on each other's nerves, Chandler makes himself the target of their excess hatred by Read More

1956
The Price of Fear

Actors: Merle Oberon, Lex Barker, Charles Drake, Gia Scala, Warren Stevens

Synopsis: In this drama, a man is falsely accused of committing two murders, one of which is committed at the dog-track. Now he is pursued by the police and gangsters. To escape the latter, the fleeing fellow dives into a handy car, driven by the woman who really committed the hit-and-run. Mayhem ensues Read More

1956
The Man from Bitter Ridge

Actors: Lex Barker, Mara Corday, Stephen McNally, John Dehner, Trevor Bardette

Synopsis: Lex Barker is The Man From Bitter Ridge in this modest Universal western. Barker plays Pinkerton man Jeff Carr, who comes to the town of Tomahawk in search of a gang of stage robbers. The consensus of opinion is that sheepman Alec Black (Stephen McNally) is responsible for the holdups, but Carr Read More

1955
The Black Devils of Kali

Synopsis: Black Devils of Kali is the alternate English-language title for the German Mystery of the Black Jungle. Lex Barker plays the head of expeditionary forces, forging into the wilds of India. Far from civilization, Barker and company come across an idol-worshipping tribe. The object of idolatry is Read More

1955
Dawn of the Pirates

Actors: Lex Barker, Jane Maxwell, Paul Muller

Synopsis: In this adventure, set in India, along the Ganges, a hunter learns the cult secrets of a tribe of Tughs who hold a white woman hostage, honoring her as their priestess. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1955
Duel on the Mississippi

Actors: Lex Barker, Patricia Medina, Warren Stevens, Craig Stevens, John Dehner

Synopsis: 19th century Louisiana is the setting for Duel on the Mississippi. Patricia Medina stars as Lili Scarlet, a vengeful Creole girl who masterminds a series of pirate raids on the local plantations. To cover up her perfidy, Lili operates a lavish gambling ship, and it is here that aristocratic Jules Read More

1955
The Yellow Mountain

Actors: Lex Barker, Mala Powers, Howard Duff, William Demarest, John McIntire

Synopsis: Lex Barker trades his Tarzan loincloth for buckskins in the Universal western Yellow Mountain. Barker stars as gold prospector Andy Martin, who has a serious falling out with his partner Pete Menlo (Howard Duff) over the affections of pretty Nevada Wray (Mala Powers). But Andy and Pete patch up Read More

1954
Thunder over the Plains

Actors: Randolph Scott, Lex Barker, Phyllis Kirk, Charles McGraw

Synopsis: Randolph Scott is as strong and silent as ever in Thunder Over the Plains. The scene is Texas, in the years just following the Civil War. Carpetbaggers have taken hold of the Texas government and imposed a near-dictatorship, hiding behind the legal protection of the Union Army of Occupation. Read More

1953
Tarzan and the She-Devil

Actors: Lex Barker, Joyce MacKenzie, Raymond Burr, Monique Van Vooren, Tom Conway

Synopsis: The title characters of Tarzan and the She-Devil are played by Lex Barker and Monique Van Vooren. He, of course, is the loin-clothed Lord of the Jungle; she is the beautiful-but-deadly Lyra, head of a gang of ivory thieves. To expedite her crooked operation, Lyra has managed to enslave an East Read More

1953
Tarzan's Savage Fury

Actors: Lex Barker, Dorothy Hart, Patric Knowles, Charles Korvin, Tommy Carlton

Synopsis: Lex Barker plays the Lord of the Jungle in Tarzan's Savage Fury. Against his better judgment, Tarzan agrees to guide British government agents Edwards (Patric Knowles) and Rokov (Charles Korvin) into the land of the Wazuri Tribe, ostensibly to harvest uncut diamonds for national-defense purposes. Read More

1952
Battles of Chief Pontiac

Actors: Lex Barker, Helen Westcott, Lon Chaney, Jr., Berry Kroeger, Roy Roberts

Synopsis: Some sources have indicated that Battles of Chief Pontiac was originally intended as the pilot for a TV series. Erstwhile Tarzan Lex Barker stars as 18th-century frontiersman Kent McIntyre, while Lon Chaney Jr. essays the title role of Chief Pontiac. On behalf of the British, McIntyre tries to Read More

1952
Tarzan's Peril

Actors: Lex Barker, Virginia Huston, George Macready, Douglas Fowley, Glenn Anders

Synopsis: Two escaped convicts (George Macready and Glenn Anders) invade the jungle dominion of Tarzan (Lex Barker) to set up a gunrunning operation. One of the criminals has sworn to "get" Tarzan, who was responsible for his arrest, and to that end stirs up unrest between two African tribes. After narrowly Read More

1951
No Questions Asked

Actors: Barry Sullivan, Arlene Dahl, George Murphy, Jean Hagen, Richard Anderson

Synopsis: Barry Sullivan plays an eager young lawyer who is willing to sacrifice any and all scruples on the upward climb. He is put on retainer by a gangster, and soon is ankle-deep in an insurance racket. When he wants to pull out, Sullivan is framed for a gangland murder. No Questions Asked was in line Read More

1951
Kali Yug Deesse De La Vengeance

Actors: Lex Barker, Paul Guers, Senta Berger, Claudine Auger

1950
Tarzan and the Slave Girl

Actors: Lex Barker, Vanessa Brown, Robert Alda, Denise Darcel, Hurd Hatfield

Synopsis: The people of a jungle village are suffering from a strange illness that is killing off the female population. The natives resort to kidnapping women from other regions -- including Jane (Vanessa Brown), the mate of Tarzan (Lex Barker). Never one to hold a grudge, Tarzan offers to deliver a serum Read More

1950
Tarzan's Magic Fountain

Actors: Lex Barker, Brenda Joyce, Albert Dekker, Evelyn Ankers, Charles Drake

Synopsis: Lex Barker first stepped into the loincloth of the Lord of the Jungle in Tarzan's Magic Fountain. The story gets under way when Tarzan rescues a long-lost aviatrix named Gloria (Evelyn Ankers), who has been kept youthful by the magic fountain of the title. Bad guys Trask (Albert Dekker) and Dodd (Charles Drake Read More

1949
Return of the Bad Men

Actors: Robert Armstrong, Walter S. Baldwin, Lex Barker, Robert Bray, Steve Brodie

Synopsis: The success of 1947's Badman's Territory prompted RKO Radio to assemble another "outlaw rally," Return of the Badmen. Randolph Scott plays US marshal Vance, assigned to rid the Oklahoma Territory of outlaws. This proves to be quite a challenge, inasmuch as virtually every frontier bad guy has Read More

1948
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Actors: Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Louise Beavers, Melvyn Douglas, Reginald Denny, Jason Robards, Sr., Lex Barker

Synopsis: Fed up with crowded big-city living, advertising executive Mr. Blandings (Cary Grant) decides to seek out a big, roomy house in the country. Armed with more enthusiasm than common sense, Blandings causes many a headache for his lawyer/business manager Melvyn Douglas, who tries to keep the costs Read More

1948
The Velvet Touch

Actors: Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Claire Trevor, Sydney Greenstreet, Leon Ames

Synopsis: Based upon a story by William Mercer, The Velvet Touch stars Rosalind Russell as Valerie Stanton, a celebrated Broadway actress whose latest smash comedy is coming to the end of its successful run. The play's producer, Gordon Dunning, has produced all of Stanton's hits for the last decade, and Read More

1948
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome

Actors: Ralph Byrd,