Dean Jagger
Died: 1991-02-05
Known For: Acting
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).
Filmography
2000
- 'White Christmas': A Look Back with Rosemary Clooney as Major General Thomas F. Waverly (archive footage) (uncredited)
1994
- The World of Hammer as Self (archive footage)
1987
- Evil Town as Doctor Schaeffer
1982
- St. Elsewhere as David Domedion
1980
- Gideon's Trumpet as 6th Supreme Court Justice
- Alligator as Slade
1978
- Game of Death as Dr. Land
1977
- End of the World as Ray Collins
- Hunter
1976
- The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case as Koehler
1975
- Dr. Shagetz as Dr. Shagetz
1974
- Harry O
- The Hanged Man as Josiah Lowe
- The Great Lester Boggs
1973
- The Lie as Arnold Edgarton
- So Sad About Gloria as Frederick Wellman
- The Stranger as Carl Webster
- I Heard the Owl Call My Name as Jim Wallace
1972
- The Waltons as Professor Bowen
- The Glass House as Warden Auerbach
- The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment as Matthew Keller
- Delphi Bureau as Quick
- Kung Fu as Henry Raphael Caine
1971
- Columbo as Walter Cannell
- Vanishing Point as Prospector
- Alias Smith and Jones
- Incident in San Francisco as Sam Baldwin
1970
- The Partridge Family as Charlie
- Tiger by the Tail as Top Polk
- The Kremlin Letter as Highwayman
- The Brotherhood of the Bell as Chad Harmon
1969
- Medical Center
- Smith! as Judge James C. Brown
- The Lonely Profession as Charles Van Cleve
1968
- Day of the Evil Gun as Jimmy Noble
- Firecreek as Whittier
1967
- First to Fight as Colonel Baseman
1965
- The F.B.I. as Bishop John Atwood
1963
- The Fugitive as Tony Donovan
- Mr. Novak as Principal Albert Vane
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as George Davies
- Billy Rose's Jumbo as John Noble
1961
- Dr. Kildare as Lt. Gen. John Sparrow
- Parrish as Sala Post
- The Honeymoon Machine as Admiral Fitch
1960
- Cash McCall as Grant Austen
- Elmer Gantry as William L. Morgan
1959
- The Twilight Zone as Ed Lindsay
- The Nun's Story as Dr. Hubert Van Der Mal
1958
- King Creole as Mr. Fisher
- The Proud Rebel as Harry Burleigh
1957
- Bernardine as J. Fullerton Weldy
- Armored Attack! as as Rodion Pavlov
- Forty Guns as Sheriff Ned Logan
- The Dark Side of the Earth as Anton Rojas
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Bert Ensign
- Red Sundown as Jade Murphy
- X: The Unknown as Dr. Adam Royston
- On the Threshold of Space as Dr. Hugo Thornton
- The Great Man as Philip Carleton
- Three Brave Men as John W. Rogers
1955
- The 20th Century Fox Hour
- The Eternal Sea as Vice-Adm. Thomas L. Semple
- It's a Dog's Life as Mr. Wyndham
- Bad Day at Black Rock as Tim Horn
1954
- White Christmas as General Waverly
- Executive Suite as Jesse Q. Grimm
- Private Hell 36 as Police Capt. Michaels
1953
- The Robe as Justus
- Letter to Loretta as Harry Holt
- General Electric Theater as Adam 'Mister Doc' Darrow
1952
- Cavalcade of America
- My Son John as Dan Jefferson
- Denver and Rio Grande as General William J. Palmer
- It Grows on Trees as Phil Baxter
1951
- Warpath as Sam Quade
- Rawhide as Yancy
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as 6th Supreme Court Justice
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Ed Gorman
1950
- Lux Video Theatre as John Straley
- Dark City as Captain Garvey
- Sierra as Jeff Hassard
1949
- Twelve O'Clock High as Major / Lieutenant Colonel Harvey Stovall
- C-Man as Cliff Holden, alias William Harrah
1948
- The Philco Television Playhouse as Charles Burnett
- Studio One as Ben Willson
1946
- Sister Kenny as Kevin Connors
1945
- I Live in Grosvenor Square as Sgt. John Patterson
1944
- Alaska as John Masters
- When Strangers Marry as Paul Baxter
1943
- The North Star as Rodion Pavlov
- I Escaped from the Gestapo as Torgut Lane
1942
- Valley of the Sun as Jim Sawyer
- The Omaha Trail as 'Pipestone' Ross
1941
- Western Union as Edward Creighton
- The Men in Her Life as David Gibson
1940
- Brigham Young as Brigham Young
1938
- Having Wonderful Time as Charlie (uncredited)
1937
- Exiled to Shanghai as Charlie Sears
- Song of the City as Paul Herrick
- Under Cover of Night as Alan Shaw
- Escape by Night as James 'Capper' Regan
- Woman in Distress as Fred Stevens
- Dangerous Number as Dillman
1936
- Pepper as Bob O'Ryan
- Woman Trap as 'Honey' Hogan
- 13 Hours by Air as Hap Waller
- Star for a Night as Fritz Lind
- Revolt of the Zombies as Armand Louque
1935
- Car 99 as Trooper Jim Burton
- Men Without Names as Agent Jones
- People Will Talk as Bill Trask
- Wings in the Dark as Top Harmon
- Wanderer of the Wasteland as Adam Larey
- It's a Great Life as Arnold
- Home on the Range as Thurman
1934
- College Rhythm as Coach Robbins
- Behold My Wife! as Pete
- You Belong to Me as Military School Instructor
1930
- Whoopee! as Deputy (uncredited)
1929
- The Woman from Hell as Jim Coakley