Dean Jagger
Acting
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).
Born: November 7, 1903
Place of Birth: Columbus Grove, Ohio, USA
Known For
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.
The Twilight Zone
An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
Columbo
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
Hunter
Global espionage with an American agent and his sexy partner.
First to Fight
Jack is the sole survivor of a Japanese attack on his squad at Guadalcanal. Because of his heroism and the fact that he is still alive, he becomes a Medal of Honor hero. He returns to train new recruits for the Marines and falls for a girl named Peggy. When training and marriage leave him with an empty feeling, he decides on a transfer back to the front lines. Soon he will find that marriage and life will change his outlook on the grueling battles that lie ahead.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.
It Grows on Trees
The Baxters are a typical happy American family trying to live on too little money. Mrs. Polly Baxter acquires two mysterious trees that got into a nursery shipment by mistake. They turn out to be money trees. After initial problems, Polly decides to spend the money.
Kung Fu
The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu.
Elmer Gantry
A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based on Sinclair Lewis' novel of the same name.
Bad Day at Black Rock
One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Major General Thomas F. Waverly (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Self (archive footage)
as Doctor Schaeffer
as David Domedion
as Slade
as 6th Supreme Court Justice
as Dr. Land
as Ray Collins
as Koehler
as Dr. Shagetz
as Josiah Lowe
as Jim Wallace
as Arnold Edgarton
as Carl Webster
as Frederick Wellman
as Henry Raphael Caine
as Quick
as Professor Bowen
as Matthew Keller
as Warden Auerbach
as Walter Cannell
as Sam Baldwin
as Prospector
as Charlie
as Chad Harmon
as Highwayman
as Top Polk
as Charles Van Cleve
as Judge James C. Brown
as Jimmy Noble
as Whittier
as Colonel Baseman
as Bishop John Atwood
as Principal Albert Vane
as Tony Donovan
as John Noble
as George Davies
as Lt. Gen. John Sparrow
as Admiral Fitch
as Sala Post
as William L. Morgan
as Grant Austen
as Ed Lindsay
as Dr. Hubert Van Der Mal
as Mr. Fisher
as Harry Burleigh
as Anton Rojas
as Sheriff Ned Logan
as J. Fullerton Weldy
as as Rodion Pavlov
as John W. Rogers
as Philip Carleton
as Bert Ensign
as Dr. Adam Royston
as Dr. Hugo Thornton
as Jade Murphy
as Mr. Wyndham
as Vice-Adm. Thomas L. Semple
as Tim Horn
as General Waverly
as Police Capt. Michaels
as Jesse Q. Grimm
as Harry Holt
as Justus
as Adam 'Mister Doc' Darrow
as Phil Baxter
as General William J. Palmer
as Dan Jefferson
as 6th Supreme Court Justice
as Sam Quade
as Ed Gorman
as Yancy
as Captain Garvey
as Jeff Hassard
as Major / Lieutenant Colonel Harvey Stovall
as Cliff Holden, alias William Harrah
as Ben Willson
as Charles Burnett
as Dr. Steve Webster
as Grant
as Kevin Connors
as Sgt. John Patterson
as John Masters
as Paul Baxter
as Rodion Pavlov
as Torgut Lane
as 'Pipestone' Ross
as Jim Sawyer
as David Gibson
as Edward Creighton
as Brigham Young
as Charlie (uncredited)
as Charlie Sears
as James 'Capper' Regan
as Paul Herrick
as Dillman
as Fred Stevens
as Alan Shaw
as Fritz Lind
as Bob O'Ryan
as Armand Louque
as Hap Waller
as 'Honey' Hogan
as Arnold
as Adam Larey
as Agent Jones
as Bill Trask
as Trooper Jim Burton
as Top Harmon
as Thurman
as Pete
as Coach Robbins
as Military School Instructor
as Deputy (uncredited)
as Jim Coakley