
Dean Jagger
Biography
Dean Jagger (November 7, 1903 – February 5, 1991) was an American film, stage, and television actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Twelve O'Clock High (1949). Other notable films in which Jagger appeared include The Robe (1953), White Christmas (1954), Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), King Creole (1958), The Nun's Story (1959), Elmer Gantry (1960), Vanishing Point (1971), Game of Death (1978), and Alligator (1980).
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Known For
Acting History
2000
'White Christmas': A Look Back with Rosemary Clooney as Major General Thomas F. Waverly (archive footage) (uncredited)
1994The World of Hammer as Self (archive footage)
1987Evil Town as Doctor Schaeffer
1982St. Elsewhere as David Domedion
1980Alligator as Slade
1980Gideon's Trumpet as 6th Supreme Court Justice
1978Game of Death as Dr. Land
1977End of the World as Ray Collins
1977Hunter
1976The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case as Koehler
1975Dr. Shagetz as Dr. Shagetz
1974Harry O
1974The Great Lester Boggs
1974The Hanged Man as Josiah Lowe
1973I Heard the Owl Call My Name as Jim Wallace
1973The Lie as Arnold Edgarton
1973The Stranger as Carl Webster
1973So Sad About Gloria as Frederick Wellman
1972Kung Fu as Henry Raphael Caine
1972Delphi Bureau as Quick
1972The Waltons as Professor Bowen
1972The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment as Matthew Keller
1972The Glass House as Warden Auerbach
1971Columbo as Walter Cannell
1971Incident in San Francisco as Sam Baldwin
1971Vanishing Point as Prospector
1971Alias Smith and Jones
1970The Partridge Family as Charlie
1970The Brotherhood of the Bell as Chad Harmon
1970The Kremlin Letter as Highwayman
1970Tiger by the Tail as Top Polk
1969The Lonely Profession as Charles Van Cleve
1969Medical Center
1969Smith! as Judge James C. Brown
1968Day of the Evil Gun as Jimmy Noble
1968Firecreek as Whittier
1967First to Fight as Colonel Baseman
1965The F.B.I. as Bishop John Atwood
1963Mr. Novak as Principal Albert Vane
1963The Fugitive as Tony Donovan
1962Billy Rose's Jumbo as John Noble
1962The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as George Davies
1961Dr. Kildare as Lt. Gen. John Sparrow
1961The Honeymoon Machine as Admiral Fitch
1961Parrish as Sala Post
1960Elmer Gantry as William L. Morgan
1960Cash McCall as Grant Austen
1959The Twilight Zone as Ed Lindsay
1959The Nun's Story as Dr. Hubert Van Der Mal
1958King Creole as Mr. Fisher
1958The Proud Rebel as Harry Burleigh
1957The Dark Side of the Earth as Anton Rojas
1957Forty Guns as Sheriff Ned Logan
1957Bernardine as J. Fullerton Weldy
1957Armored Attack! as as Rodion Pavlov
1956The Great Man as Philip Carleton
1956Three Brave Men as John W. Rogers
1956Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Bert Ensign
1956X: The Unknown as Dr. Adam Royston
1956On the Threshold of Space as Dr. Hugo Thornton
1956Red Sundown as Jade Murphy
1955It's a Dog's Life as Mr. Wyndham
1955The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955The Eternal Sea as Vice-Adm. Thomas L. Semple
1955Bad Day at Black Rock as Tim Horn
1954White Christmas as General Waverly
1954Private Hell 36 as Police Capt. Michaels
1954Executive Suite as Jesse Q. Grimm
1953Letter to Loretta as Harry Holt
1953The Robe as Justus
1953General Electric Theater as Adam 'Mister Doc' Darrow
1952Cavalcade of America
1952It Grows on Trees as Phil Baxter
1952Denver and Rio Grande as General William J. Palmer
1952My Son John as Dan Jefferson
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame as 6th Supreme Court Justice
1951Warpath as Sam Quade
1951Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Ed Gorman
1951Rawhide as Yancy
1950Dark City as Captain Garvey
1950Lux Video Theatre as John Straley
1950Sierra as Jeff Hassard
1949Twelve O'Clock High as Major / Lieutenant Colonel Harvey Stovall
1949C-Man as Cliff Holden, alias William Harrah
1948Studio One as Ben Willson
1948The Philco Television Playhouse as Charles Burnett
1947Driftwood as Dr. Steve Webster
1947Pursued as Grant
1946Sister Kenny as Kevin Connors
1945I Live in Grosvenor Square as Sgt. John Patterson
1944Alaska as John Masters
1944When Strangers Marry as Paul Baxter
1943The North Star as Rodion Pavlov
1943I Escaped from the Gestapo as Torgut Lane
1942The Omaha Trail as 'Pipestone' Ross
1942Valley of the Sun as Jim Sawyer
1941The Men in Her Life as David Gibson
1941Western Union as Edward Creighton
1940Brigham Young as Brigham Young
1938Having Wonderful Time as Charlie (uncredited)
1937Exiled to Shanghai as Charlie Sears
1937Escape by Night as James 'Capper' Regan
1937Song of the City as Paul Herrick
1937Dangerous Number as Dillman
1937Woman in Distress as Fred Stevens
1937Under Cover of Night as Alan Shaw
1936Star for a Night as Fritz Lind
1936Pepper as Bob O'Ryan
1936Revolt of the Zombies as Armand Louque
193613 Hours by Air as Hap Waller
1936Woman Trap as 'Honey' Hogan
1935It's a Great Life as Arnold
1935Wanderer of the Wasteland as Adam Larey
1935Men Without Names as Agent Jones
1935People Will Talk as Bill Trask
1935Car 99 as Trooper Jim Burton
1935Wings in the Dark as Top Harmon
1935Home on the Range as Thurman
1934Behold My Wife! as Pete
1934College Rhythm as Coach Robbins
1934You Belong to Me as Military School Instructor
1930Whoopee! as Deputy (uncredited)
1929The Woman from Hell as Jim Coakley









