Dean Jagger
Acting • Born 1903-11-07 – Died 1991-02-05
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).
Filmography
124 credits
End of the World
Movie • 1977
Ray Collins
Tiger by the Tail
Movie • 1970
Top Polk
Firecreek
Movie • 1968
Whittier
Armored Attack!
Movie • 1957
as Rodion Pavlov
Elmer Gantry
Movie • 1960
William L. Morgan
Revolt of the Zombies
Movie • 1936
Armand Louque
Vanishing Point
Movie • 1971
Prospector
The Nun's Story
Movie • 1959
Dr. Hubert Van Der Mal
Day of the Evil Gun
Movie • 1968
Jimmy Noble
When Strangers Marry
Movie • 1944
Paul Baxter
Pursued
Movie • 1947
Grant
Game of Death
Movie • 1978
Dr. Land
White Christmas
Movie • 1954
General Waverly
X: The Unknown
Movie • 1956
Dr. Adam Royston
The Honeymoon Machine
Movie • 1961
Admiral Fitch
Parrish
Movie • 1961
Sala Post
Private Hell 36
Movie • 1954
Police Capt. Michaels
Dark City
Movie • 1950
Captain Garvey
Bad Day at Black Rock
Movie • 1955
Tim Horn
The Robe
Movie • 1953
Justus
Forty Guns
Movie • 1957
Sheriff Ned Logan
Billy Rose's Jumbo
Movie • 1962
John Noble
The Brotherhood of the Bell
Movie • 1970
Chad Harmon
Executive Suite
Movie • 1954
Jesse Q. Grimm
Rawhide
Movie • 1951
Yancy
Western Union
Movie • 1941
Edward Creighton
Twelve O'Clock High
Movie • 1949
Major / Lieutenant Colonel Harvey Stovall
The Kremlin Letter
Movie • 1970
Highwayman
C-Man
Movie • 1949
Cliff Holden, alias William Harrah
Having Wonderful Time
Movie • 1938
Charlie (uncredited)
King Creole
Movie • 1958
Mr. Fisher
Sister Kenny
Movie • 1946
Kevin Connors
Wings in the Dark
Movie • 1935
Top Harmon
My Son John
Movie • 1952
Dan Jefferson
Brigham Young
Movie • 1940
Brigham Young
The Hanged Man
Movie • 1974
Josiah Lowe
The Proud Rebel
Movie • 1958
Harry Burleigh
I Live in Grosvenor Square
Movie • 1945
Sgt. John Patterson
The Great Man
Movie • 1956
Philip Carleton
Driftwood
Movie • 1947
Dr. Steve Webster
Wanderer of the Wasteland
Movie • 1935
Adam Larey
Sierra
Movie • 1950
Jeff Hassard
Under Cover of Night
Movie • 1937
Alan Shaw
Bernardine
Movie • 1957
J. Fullerton Weldy
Smith!
Movie • 1969
Judge James C. Brown
Red Sundown
Movie • 1956
Jade Murphy
Exiled to Shanghai
Movie • 1937
Charlie Sears
Denver and Rio Grande
Movie • 1952
General William J. Palmer
Evil Town
Movie • 1987
Doctor Schaeffer
It's a Dog's Life
Movie • 1955
Mr. Wyndham
Warpath
Movie • 1951
Sam Quade
Alaska
Movie • 1944
John Masters
Valley of the Sun
Movie • 1942
Jim Sawyer
On the Threshold of Space
Movie • 1956
Dr. Hugo Thornton
You Belong to Me
Movie • 1934
Military School Instructor
Escape by Night
Movie • 1937
James 'Capper' Regan
Three Brave Men
Movie • 1956
John W. Rogers
13 Hours by Air
Movie • 1936
Hap Waller
Car 99
Movie • 1935
Trooper Jim Burton
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Movie • 1973
Jim Wallace
The Eternal Sea
Movie • 1955
Vice-Adm. Thomas L. Semple
It Grows on Trees
Movie • 1952
Phil Baxter
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
Movie • 1976
Koehler
The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment
Movie • 1972
Matthew Keller
The North Star
Movie • 1943
Rodion Pavlov
Dangerous Number
Movie • 1937
Dillman
Song of the City
Movie • 1937
Paul Herrick
Woman in Distress
Movie • 1937
Fred Stevens
The Stranger
Movie • 1973
Carl Webster
Men Without Names
Movie • 1935
Agent Jones
First to Fight
Movie • 1967
Colonel Baseman
The Great Lester Boggs
Movie • 1974
Behold My Wife!
Movie • 1934
Pete
Cash McCall
Movie • 1960
Grant Austen
It's a Great Life
Movie • 1935
Arnold
The Glass House
Movie • 1972
Warden Auerbach
Woman Trap
Movie • 1936
'Honey' Hogan
Pepper
Movie • 1936
Bob O'Ryan
The Omaha Trail
Movie • 1942
'Pipestone' Ross
I Escaped from the Gestapo
Movie • 1943
Torgut Lane
The Men in Her Life
Movie • 1941
David Gibson
Whoopee!
Movie • 1930
Deputy (uncredited)
Dr. Shagetz
Movie • 1975
Dr. Shagetz
Star for a Night
Movie • 1936
Fritz Lind
The Dark Side of the Earth
Movie • 1957
Anton Rojas
Incident in San Francisco
Movie • 1971
Sam Baldwin
College Rhythm
Movie • 1934
Coach Robbins
So Sad About Gloria
Movie • 1973
Frederick Wellman
The Lie
Movie • 1973
Arnold Edgarton
Gideon's Trumpet
Movie • 1980
6th Supreme Court Justice
'White Christmas': A Look Back with Rosemary Clooney
Movie • 2000
Major General Thomas F. Waverly (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Lonely Profession
Movie • 1969
Charles Van Cleve
Alligator
Movie • 1980
Slade
People Will Talk
Movie • 1935
Bill Trask
Home on the Range
Movie • 1935
Thurman
The Woman from Hell
Movie • 1929
Jim Coakley
Elvis: A Life in Music
Movie • 2026
Self (archive footage)
St. Elsewhere
TV • 1982
David Domedion
Columbo
TV • 1971
Walter Cannell
Kung Fu
TV • 1972
Henry Raphael Caine
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Bishop John Atwood
Alias Smith and Jones
TV • 1971
Medical Center
TV • 1969
Studio One
TV • 1948
Ben Willson
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Adam 'Mister Doc' Darrow
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
6th Supreme Court Justice
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Ed Lindsay
The Waltons
TV • 1972
Professor Bowen
Harry O
TV • 1974
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Tony Donovan
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
John Straley
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Ed Gorman
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV • 1955
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948
Charles Burnett
Mr. Novak
TV • 1963
Principal Albert Vane
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Bert Ensign
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Lt. Gen. John Sparrow
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Harry Holt
Hunter
TV • 1977
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV • 1962
George Davies
Delphi Bureau
TV • 1972
Quick
The World of Hammer
TV • 1994
Self (archive footage)
The Partridge Family
TV • 1970
Charlie