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Dean Jagger

Dean Jagger

Actor · 1903–1991 · Columbus Grove, Ohio, USA

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Biography

Dean Jagger 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).

Acted in 122

2000s

  1. 2000

    'White Christmas': A Look Back with Rosemary Clooney

    Major General Thomas F. Waverly (archive footage) (uncredited)

1970s

  1. 1978
  2. 1977
  3. Hunter

    TV

  4. 1976

    The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

    Koehler

  5. 1975

    Dr. Shagetz

    Dr. Shagetz

  6. 1974
  7. The Great Lester Boggs

    Movie

  8. 1973

    I Heard the Owl Call My Name

    Jim Wallace

  9. The Lie

    Arnold Edgarton

  10. The Stranger

    Carl Webster

  11. So Sad About Gloria

    Frederick Wellman

  12. 1972

    Kung Fu

    Henry Raphael Caine · 1 episode

  13. Delphi Bureau

    Quick · 1 episode

  14. The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment

    Matthew Keller

  15. 1971
  16. Incident in San Francisco

    Sam Baldwin

  17. 1970
  18. The Brotherhood of the Bell

    Chad Harmon

  19. Tiger by the Tail

    Top Polk

1960s

  1. 1969

    The Lonely Profession

    Charles Van Cleve

  2. Smith!

    Judge James C. Brown

  3. 1968

    Day of the Evil Gun

    Jimmy Noble

  4. 1967

    First to Fight

    Colonel Baseman

  5. 1965
  6. 1963
  7. 1962
  8. 1961
  9. The Honeymoon Machine

    Admiral Fitch

  10. Parrish

    Sala Post

  11. 1960
  12. Cash McCall

    Grant Austen

1950s

  1. 1959
  2. 1958
  3. 1957

    The Dark Side of the Earth

    Anton Rojas

  4. Bernardine

    J. Fullerton Weldy

  5. Armored Attack!

    as Rodion Pavlov

  6. 1956

    The Great Man

    Philip Carleton

  7. Three Brave Men

    John W. Rogers

  8. On the Threshold of Space

    Dr. Hugo Thornton

  9. Red Sundown

    Jade Murphy

  10. 1955

    It's a Dog's Life

    Mr. Wyndham

  11. The Eternal Sea

    Vice-Adm. Thomas L. Semple

  12. 1954
  13. 1953
  14. General Electric Theater

    Adam 'Mister Doc' Darrow · 1 episode

  15. 1952
  16. It Grows on Trees

    Phil Baxter

  17. Denver and Rio Grande

    General William J. Palmer

  18. My Son John

    Dan Jefferson

  19. 1951

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    6th Supreme Court Justice · 1 episode

  20. Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    Ed Gorman · 1 episode

  21. 1950

    Dark City

    Captain Garvey

1940s

  1. 1949
  2. C-Man

    Cliff Holden, alias William Harrah

  3. 1948
  4. 1947

    Driftwood

    Dr. Steve Webster

  5. 1946

    Sister Kenny

    Kevin Connors

  6. 1945

    I Live in Grosvenor Square

    Sgt. John Patterson

  7. 1944
  8. When Strangers Marry

    Paul Baxter

  9. 1943
  10. I Escaped from the Gestapo

    Torgut Lane

  11. 1942

    The Omaha Trail

    'Pipestone' Ross

  12. Valley of the Sun

    Jim Sawyer

  13. 1941

    The Men in Her Life

    David Gibson

  14. 1940

    Brigham Young

    Brigham Young

1930s

  1. 1938

    Having Wonderful Time

    Charlie (uncredited)

  2. 1937

    Exiled to Shanghai

    Charlie Sears

  3. Escape by Night

    James 'Capper' Regan

  4. Song of the City

    Paul Herrick

  5. Dangerous Number

    Dillman

  6. Woman in Distress

    Fred Stevens

  7. Under Cover of Night

    Alan Shaw

  8. 1936

    Star for a Night

    Fritz Lind

  9. Pepper

    Bob O'Ryan

  10. 13 Hours by Air

    Hap Waller

  11. 1935

    It's a Great Life

    Arnold

  12. Wanderer of the Wasteland

    Adam Larey

  13. Men Without Names

    Agent Jones

  14. People Will Talk

    Bill Trask

  15. Car 99

    Trooper Jim Burton

  16. Wings in the Dark

    Top Harmon

  17. Home on the Range

    Thurman

  18. 1934

    Behold My Wife!

    Pete

  19. College Rhythm

    Coach Robbins

  20. You Belong to Me

    Military School Instructor

  21. 1930

    Whoopee!

    Deputy (uncredited)

1920s

  1. 1929

    The Woman from Hell

    Jim Coakley

Appearances2

1980s

  1. 1982

    Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady

    Self