Dean Jagger

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Dean Jagger

Acting November 7, 1903

Columbus Grove, Ohio, USA

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 i…

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Columbo

Columbo

8.1 1971 TV Show
The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone

8.5 1959 TV Show
Game of Death

Game of Death

6.4 1978 Movie
Dr. Kildare

Dr. Kildare

5.7 1961 TV Show
White Christmas

White Christmas

7.2 1954 Movie
The Fugitive

The Fugitive

7.3 1963 TV Show
The Waltons

The Waltons

7.1 1972 TV Show
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

7.9 1962 TV Show
Vanishing Point

Vanishing Point

7.1 1971 Movie
St. Elsewhere

St. Elsewhere

5.7 1982 TV Show
Bad Day at Black Rock

Bad Day at Black Rock

7.3 1955 Movie
Alligator

Alligator

6.0 1980 Movie

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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

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2026
    Elvis: A Life in Music

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  2. 2000
    'White Christmas': A Look Back with Rosemary Clooney

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

  3. 1994
    The World of Hammer

    TV show Self (archive footage)

  4. 1987
    Evil Town

    Movie Doctor Schaeffer

  5. 1982
    St. Elsewhere

    TV show David Domedion

  6. 1982
    Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady

    Movie

  7. 1980
    Alligator

    Movie Slade

  8. 1980
    Gideon's Trumpet

    Movie 6th Supreme Court Justice

  9. 1978
    Game of Death

    Movie Dr. Land

  10. 1977
    End of the World

    Movie Ray Collins

  11. 1977
    Hunter

    TV show

  12. 1976
    The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

    Movie Koehler

  13. 1975
    Dr. Shagetz

    Movie Dr. Shagetz

  14. 1974
    Harry O

    TV show

  15. 1974
    The Great Lester Boggs

    Movie

  16. 1974
    The Hanged Man

    Movie Josiah Lowe

More credits
  1. 1973
    I Heard the Owl Call My Name

    Movie Jim Wallace

  2. 1973
    The Lie

    Movie Arnold Edgarton

  3. 1973
    The Stranger

    Movie Carl Webster

  4. 1973
    So Sad About Gloria

    Movie Frederick Wellman

  5. 1972
    Kung Fu

    TV show Henry Raphael Caine

  6. 1972
    Delphi Bureau

    TV show Quick

  7. 1972
    The Waltons

    TV show Professor Bowen

  8. 1972
    The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment

    Movie Matthew Keller

  9. 1972
    The Glass House

    Movie Warden Auerbach

  10. 1971
    Columbo

    TV show Walter Cannell

  11. 1971
    Incident in San Francisco

    Movie Sam Baldwin

  12. 1971
    Vanishing Point

    Movie Prospector

  13. 1971
    Alias Smith and Jones

    TV show

  14. 1970
    The Partridge Family

    TV show Charlie

  15. 1970
    The Brotherhood of the Bell

    Movie Chad Harmon

  16. 1970
    The Kremlin Letter

    Movie Highwayman

  17. 1970
    Tiger by the Tail

    Movie Top Polk

  18. 1969
    The Lonely Profession

    Movie Charles Van Cleve

  19. 1969
    Medical Center

    TV show

  20. 1969
    Smith!

    Movie Judge James C. Brown

  21. 1968
    Day of the Evil Gun

    Movie Jimmy Noble

  22. 1968
    Firecreek

    Movie Whittier

  23. 1967
    First to Fight

    Movie Colonel Baseman

  24. 1965
    The F.B.I.

    TV show Bishop John Atwood