Phil Decker

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Phil Decker
Jerry Cotton character
Created byJerry Cotton (various authors including Rolf Kalmuczak & Heinz Werner Höber
Portrayed by Heinz Weiss (1965-69)
Christian Ulmen (2007)
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GenderMale
Occupation FBI Agent
Affiliation Jerry Cotton
NationalityAmerican

Phil Decker is a fictional character in Heinz Werner Höber's Jerry Cotton novels. He is Cotton's sidekick and a fellow FBI agent.

Heinz Werner Höber was a very prolific pulp fiction author who produced many novels about the fictitious FBI-agent Jerry Cotton and eventually sued his publisher because he felt he had been entitled to receive royalties.

Jerry Cotton is the fictional character in a series of pulp magazine-type crime novels. The novels have been written by many different writers in German-speaking countries and in Finland over the course of several decades.

Subsequently, he appeared in the films Manhattan Night of Murder (1965), Tread Softly (1965) and six other films starring George Nader as Jerry Cotton. In all these films he was portrayed by Heinz Weiss.

<i>Manhattan Night of Murder</i> 1965 film by Harald Philipp

Manhattan Night of Murder is a 1965 German thriller film directed by Harald Philipp and starring George Nader, Heinz Weiss and Monika Grimm. It was the second of the Jerry Cotton series of films, depicting the adventures of an FBI agent.

Tready Softly/The Violin Case Murders is a 1965 German thriller film directed by Fritz Umgelter and starring George Nader, Heinz Weiss and Sylvia Pascal. It is the first in the Jerry Cotton series of films.

George Nader actor, writer

George Nader was an American film and television actor. He appeared in a variety of films from 1950 through 1974, including Sins of Jezebel (1953), Congo Crossing (1956), and The Female Animal (1958). During this period, he also did episodic television and starred in several series, including NBC's The Man and the Challenge (1959–60). In the 1960s he made several films in Germany, playing FBI agent Jerry Cotton. He is remembered for his first starring role, in the low-budget 3-D sci-fi film Robot Monster (1953), known as "one of the worst films ever made".

In 2010's ironic revival film Jerry Cotton he was played by the comedian Christian Ulmen.

Jerry Cotton is a 2010 German action comedy film directed by Philipp Stennert and Cyrill Boss and starring Christian Tramitz, Christian Ulmen and Mónica Cruz. It is a re-boot of the Jerry Cotton series of films. FBI agent Jerry Cotton fights crime in New York City. On December 17 and 26 2012 it was shown on HBO Asia in Original German language with English subtitles.

Christian Ulmen German actor

Christian Ulmen is a German entertainer and actor.


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