Kevin Hagen
Born: 1928-04-03 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died: 2005-07-09
Known For: Acting
Biography
Kevin Hagen (April 3, 1928 – July 9, 2005) was an American actor best known for his role as Dr. Hiram Baker on NBC's TV series Little House on the Prairie. Hagen was the son of professional ballroom dancers, Haakon Olaf Hagen and Marvel Lucile Wadsworth. His father abandoned the family when Kevin was five. He was raised by his mother, grandmother, and two aunts, with some help from his uncle, a physician. The family moved to Portland, Oregon, when Kevin was a teenager. He played baseball and football at Jefferson High School. He attended Oregon State University before enlisting in the U.S. Navy after World War II; he served in San Diego. Hagen, married four times, was a single parent for two decades to his son, Christopher Hagen, a Special Education teacher and high school baseball coach in Bakersfield, California.
Filmography
1990
- The Ambulance as Cop at Stables
1988
- Bonanza: The Next Generation as Nathaniel Amsted
1985
- Amazing Stories as Rob Wellan
1984
- Little House: The Last Farewell as Dr. Hiram Baker
1983
- Little House: Bless All the Dear Children as Dr. Hiram Baker
- Little House: Look Back to Yesterday as Dr. Hiram Baker
1981
- Simon & Simon as Tommy Luna
- The Fall Guy as Colonel Andrew Stonewall Hamilton
1980
- The Hunter as Poker Player
- Power as Paul Hackett
1979
- Knots Landing as Butler
1977
- The San Pedro Bums as Mr. McClory
1976
1975
1974
- Little House on the Prairie as Hiram Baker
- Police Woman as Norris
- Honky Tonk
1973
- The Soul of Nigger Charley as Colonel Blanchard
- Prologue to Wounded Knee as Ken Shaeffer
1972
- M*A*S*H as Colonel Coner
- The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment as Luke
1971
- Monty Nash as Sheriff Mannings
- Vanished as Matthew Silkworth
- Dead Men Tell No Tales as Karl
1970
- The Bold Ones: The Senator as Jasper Lick
- Weekend of Terror as Lieutenant Papich
- A Storm in Summer as Policeman
1969
- The Bold Ones: The New Doctors as Fairchild
- The Learning Tree as Doc Tim Cravens
1968
- Land of the Giants as Insp. Dobbs Kobick
- Lancer
- The Mod Squad as Evans
- The Outcasts
1967
- Ironside
- Mannix as Alan Guthrie
- The High Chaparral as Dolph Tanner
- The Guns of Will Sonnett as Kingman
- Cimarron Strip as Dum Dum
- The Last Challenge as Frank Garrison
1966
- Mission: Impossible as David Webster
- The Time Tunnel as Sgt. Maddox
- Felony Squad
- Blue Light
1965
- The Wild Wild West as Silas Crotty
- The Big Valley as Harry Coleman
- Lost in Space as Alien
- Branded as Paul Mandell
- Shenandoah as Mule - Rebel Deserter
1964
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as Komal
- Daniel Boone as John Dobson
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Krolik
- Profiles in Courage as Sweet
- Rio Conchos as Blondebeard
1963
- Kraft Suspense Theatre as Nilsen
- The Lieutenant
- The Man from Galveston as John Dillard
1962
- The Virginian as Oscar Swenson
- The Gallant Men
- General Electric True
- Rider on a Dead Horse as Jake Fry
1961
- Cain's Hundred as Charlie Chinn
- The New Breed as Arne Halverson
- Straightaway
1959
- Bonanza as Brother Guy
- The Twilight Zone as Pete Radcliff
- Rawhide as Jess Cain
- The Untouchables as Swede Kelso
- Hawaiian Eye as Brother Love
- Laramie
- The Deputy as Kemmer
- Mr. Lucky as Jojo
- Riverboat as John Hollister
- Pork Chop Hill as Cpl. Kissell
1958
- The Rifleman
- Lawman as Kulp
- 77 Sunset Strip
- Bat Masterson as Ace Williams
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
- Yancy Derringer as John Colton
- Gunsmoke in Tucson as Clem Haney
1957
- Perry Mason as Sgt. Burke
- Maverick as Justin Radcliffe
- Wagon Train as Lansing
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- M Squad as Eddie Ferguson
- The Walter Winchell File
1954
1953
- General Electric Theater as Ghost
1951
- Dragnet
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Policeman
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Jacobi