Dean Jagger

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).

Known For

The Fugitive

Columbo

The Waltons

The Twilight Zone

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

The Philco Television Playhouse

St. Elsewhere

Dr. Kildare

All Movies (99)

• Elvis: A Life in Music2026 · as Self (archive footage)
• 'White Christmas': A Look Back with Rosemary Clooney2000 · as Major General Thomas F. Waverly (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Evil Town1987 · as Doctor Schaeffer
• Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady1982
• Alligator1980 · as Slade
• Gideon's Trumpet1980 · as 6th Supreme Court Justice
• Game of Death1978 · as Dr. Land
• End of the World1977 · as Ray Collins
• The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case1976 · as Koehler
• Dr. Shagetz1975 · as Dr. Shagetz
• The Great Lester Boggs1974
• The Hanged Man1974 · as Josiah Lowe
• I Heard the Owl Call My Name1973 · as Jim Wallace
• The Lie1973 · as Arnold Edgarton
• The Stranger1973 · as Carl Webster
• So Sad About Gloria1973 · as Frederick Wellman
• The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment1972 · as Matthew Keller
• The Glass House1972 · as Warden Auerbach
• Incident in San Francisco1971 · as Sam Baldwin
• Vanishing Point1971 · as Prospector
• The Brotherhood of the Bell1970 · as Chad Harmon
• The Kremlin Letter1970 · as Highwayman
• Tiger by the Tail1970 · as Top Polk
• The Lonely Profession1969 · as Charles Van Cleve
• Smith!1969 · as Judge James C. Brown
• Day of the Evil Gun1968 · as Jimmy Noble
• Firecreek1968 · as Whittier
• First to Fight1967 · as Colonel Baseman
• Billy Rose's Jumbo1962 · as John Noble
• The Honeymoon Machine1961 · as Admiral Fitch
• Parrish1961 · as Sala Post
• Elmer Gantry1960 · as William L. Morgan
• Cash McCall1960 · as Grant Austen
• The Nun's Story1959 · as Dr. Hubert Van Der Mal
• King Creole1958 · as Mr. Fisher
• The Proud Rebel1958 · as Harry Burleigh
• The Dark Side of the Earth1957 · as Anton Rojas
• Forty Guns1957 · as Sheriff Ned Logan
• Bernardine1957 · as J. Fullerton Weldy
• Armored Attack!1957 · as as Rodion Pavlov
• The Great Man1956 · as Philip Carleton
• Three Brave Men1956 · as John W. Rogers
• X: The Unknown1956 · as Dr. Adam Royston
• On the Threshold of Space1956 · as Dr. Hugo Thornton
• Red Sundown1956 · as Jade Murphy
• It's a Dog's Life1955 · as Mr. Wyndham
• The Eternal Sea1955 · as Vice-Adm. Thomas L. Semple
• Bad Day at Black Rock1955 · as Tim Horn
• White Christmas1954 · as General Waverly
• Private Hell 361954 · as Police Capt. Michaels
• Executive Suite1954 · as Jesse Q. Grimm
• The Robe1953 · as Justus
• It Grows on Trees1952 · as Phil Baxter
• Denver and Rio Grande1952 · as General William J. Palmer
• My Son John1952 · as Dan Jefferson
• Warpath1951 · as Sam Quade
• Rawhide1951 · as Yancy
• Dark City1950 · as Captain Garvey
• Sierra1950 · as Jeff Hassard
• Twelve O'Clock High1949 · as Major / Lieutenant Colonel Harvey Stovall
• C-Man1949 · as Cliff Holden, alias William Harrah
• Driftwood1947 · as Dr. Steve Webster
• Pursued1947 · as Grant
• Sister Kenny1946 · as Kevin Connors
• I Live in Grosvenor Square1945 · as Sgt. John Patterson
• Alaska1944 · as John Masters
• When Strangers Marry1944 · as Paul Baxter
• The North Star1943 · as Rodion Pavlov
• I Escaped from the Gestapo1943 · as Torgut Lane
• The Omaha Trail1942 · as 'Pipestone' Ross
• Valley of the Sun1942 · as Jim Sawyer
• The Men in Her Life1941 · as David Gibson
• Western Union1941 · as Edward Creighton
• Brigham Young1940 · as Brigham Young
• Having Wonderful Time1938 · as Charlie (uncredited)
• Exiled to Shanghai1937 · as Charlie Sears
• Escape by Night1937 · as James 'Capper' Regan
• Song of the City1937 · as Paul Herrick
• Dangerous Number1937 · as Dillman
• Woman in Distress1937 · as Fred Stevens
• Under Cover of Night1937 · as Alan Shaw
• Star for a Night1936 · as Fritz Lind
• Pepper1936 · as Bob O'Ryan
• Revolt of the Zombies1936 · as Armand Louque
• 13 Hours by Air1936 · as Hap Waller
• Woman Trap1936 · as 'Honey' Hogan
• It's a Great Life1935 · as Arnold
• Wanderer of the Wasteland1935 · as Adam Larey
• Men Without Names1935 · as Agent Jones
• People Will Talk1935 · as Bill Trask
• Car 991935 · as Trooper Jim Burton
• Wings in the Dark1935 · as Top Harmon
• Home on the Range1935 · as Thurman
• Behold My Wife!1934 · as Pete
• College Rhythm1934 · as Coach Robbins
• You Belong to Me1934 · as Military School Instructor
• Whoopee!1930 · as Deputy (uncredited)
• Handcuffed1929 · as Gerald Morely
• The Woman from Hell1929 · as Jim Coakley

All TV Shows (27)

• The World of Hammer1994 · as Self (archive footage)
• St. Elsewhere1982 · as David Domedion
• Hunter1977
• Harry O1974
• Kung Fu1972 · as Henry Raphael Caine
• Delphi Bureau1972 · as Quick
• The Waltons1972 · as Professor Bowen
• Columbo1971 · as Walter Cannell
• Alias Smith and Jones1971
• The Partridge Family1970 · as Charlie
• Medical Center1969
• The F.B.I.1965 · as Bishop John Atwood
• Mr. Novak1963 · as Principal Albert Vane
• The Fugitive1963 · as Tony Donovan
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour1962 · as George Davies
• Dr. Kildare1961 · as Lt. Gen. John Sparrow
• The Twilight Zone1959 · as Ed Lindsay
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre1956 · as Bert Ensign
• The 20th Century Fox Hour1955
• Letter to Loretta1953 · as Harry Holt
• General Electric Theater1953 · as Adam 'Mister Doc' Darrow
• Cavalcade of America1952
• Hallmark Hall of Fame1951 · as 6th Supreme Court Justice
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars1951 · as Ed Gorman
• Lux Video Theatre1950 · as John Straley
• Studio One1948 · as Ben Willson
• The Philco Television Playhouse1948 · as Charles Burnett