Dean Jagger

Known for: Acting

Born: 1903-11-07 – 1991-02-05 (aged 87)

From: 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 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 (126)

MOVIE
Elvis: A Life in Music
2026
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 5.0
'White Christmas': A Look Back with Rosemary Clooney
2000
as Major General Thomas F. Waverly (archive footage) (uncredited)
TV★ 6.8
The World of Hammer
1994
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE★ 3.8
Evil Town
1987
as Doctor Schaeffer
TV★ 5.7
St. Elsewhere
1982
as David Domedion
MOVIE★ 6.0
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1982
MOVIE★ 6.0
Alligator
1980
as Slade
MOVIE★ 6.4
Gideon's Trumpet
1980
as 6th Supreme Court Justice
MOVIE★ 6.4
Game of Death
1978
as Dr. Land
MOVIE★ 3.8
End of the World
1977
as Ray Collins
TV★ 8.2
Hunter
1977
MOVIE★ 6.5
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
1976
as Koehler
MOVIE
Dr. Shagetz
1975
as Dr. Shagetz
TV★ 5.2
Harry O
1974
MOVIE★ 8.0
The Great Lester Boggs
1974
MOVIE★ 4.5
The Hanged Man
1974
as Josiah Lowe
MOVIE★ 7.0
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
1973
as Jim Wallace
MOVIE★ 6.0
The Lie
1973
as Arnold Edgarton
MOVIE★ 3.9
The Stranger
1973
as Carl Webster
MOVIE★ 4.3
So Sad About Gloria
1973
as Frederick Wellman
TV★ 7.7
Kung Fu
1972
as Henry Raphael Caine
TV★ 8.0
Delphi Bureau
1972
as Quick
TV★ 7.2
The Waltons
1972
as Professor Bowen
MOVIE★ 9.0
The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment
1972
as Matthew Keller
MOVIE★ 6.4
The Glass House
1972
as Warden Auerbach
TV★ 8.1
Columbo
1971
as Walter Cannell
MOVIE★ 5.7
Incident in San Francisco
1971
as Sam Baldwin
MOVIE★ 7.1
Vanishing Point
1971
as Prospector
TV★ 7.0
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
TV★ 6.8
The Partridge Family
1970
as Charlie
MOVIE★ 6.0
The Brotherhood of the Bell
1970
as Chad Harmon
MOVIE★ 6.0
The Kremlin Letter
1970
as Highwayman
MOVIE★ 5.3
Tiger by the Tail
1970
as Top Polk
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Lonely Profession
1969
as Charles Van Cleve
TV★ 6.4
Medical Center
1969
MOVIE★ 5.9
Smith!
1969
as Judge James C. Brown
MOVIE★ 6.2
Day of the Evil Gun
1968
as Jimmy Noble
MOVIE★ 6.3
Firecreek
1968
as Whittier
MOVIE★ 7.9
First to Fight
1967
as Colonel Baseman
TV★ 5.6
The F.B.I.
1965
as Bishop John Atwood
TV★ 7.3
Mr. Novak
1963
as Principal Albert Vane
TV★ 7.3
The Fugitive
1963
as Tony Donovan
MOVIE★ 6.0
Billy Rose's Jumbo
1962
as John Noble
TV★ 7.8
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
as George Davies
TV★ 5.7
Dr. Kildare
1961
as Lt. Gen. John Sparrow
MOVIE★ 6.5
The Honeymoon Machine
1961
as Admiral Fitch
MOVIE★ 5.0
Parrish
1961
as Sala Post
MOVIE★ 7.3
Elmer Gantry
1960
as William L. Morgan
MOVIE★ 6.3
Cash McCall
1960
as Grant Austen
TV★ 8.5
The Twilight Zone
1959
as Ed Lindsay
MOVIE★ 7.2
The Nun's Story
1959
as Dr. Hubert Van Der Mal
MOVIE★ 6.4
King Creole
1958
as Mr. Fisher
MOVIE★ 6.1
The Proud Rebel
1958
as Harry Burleigh
MOVIE
The Dark Side of the Earth
1957
as Anton Rojas
MOVIE★ 6.6
Forty Guns
1957
as Sheriff Ned Logan
MOVIE★ 7.6
Bernardine
1957
as J. Fullerton Weldy
MOVIE★ 6.2
Armored Attack!
1957
as as Rodion Pavlov
MOVIE★ 5.0
The Great Man
1956
as Philip Carleton
MOVIE★ 6.3
Three Brave Men
1956
as John W. Rogers
TV★ 6.2
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Bert Ensign
MOVIE★ 6.1
X: The Unknown
1956
as Dr. Adam Royston
MOVIE★ 6.0
On the Threshold of Space
1956
as Dr. Hugo Thornton
MOVIE★ 6.1
Red Sundown
1956
as Jade Murphy
MOVIE★ 4.3
It's a Dog's Life
1955
as Mr. Wyndham
TV★ 6.0
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
MOVIE★ 6.6
The Eternal Sea
1955
as Vice-Adm. Thomas L. Semple
MOVIE★ 7.3
Bad Day at Black Rock
1955
as Tim Horn
MOVIE★ 7.2
White Christmas
1954
as General Waverly
MOVIE★ 6.3
Private Hell 36
1954
as Police Capt. Michaels
MOVIE★ 7.1
Executive Suite
1954
as Jesse Q. Grimm
TV★ 6.6
Letter to Loretta
1953
as Harry Holt
MOVIE★ 6.9
The Robe
1953
as Justus
TV★ 6.8
General Electric Theater
1953
as Adam 'Mister Doc' Darrow
TV★ 4.6
Cavalcade of America
1952
MOVIE★ 8.4
It Grows on Trees
1952
as Phil Baxter
MOVIE★ 5.6
Denver and Rio Grande
1952
as General William J. Palmer
MOVIE★ 5.8
My Son John
1952
as Dan Jefferson
TV★ 8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as 6th Supreme Court Justice
MOVIE★ 6.0
Warpath
1951
as Sam Quade
TV★ 7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
as Ed Gorman
MOVIE★ 6.8
Rawhide
1951
as Yancy
MOVIE★ 6.5
Dark City
1950
as Captain Garvey
TV★ 6.7
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as John Straley
MOVIE★ 5.4
Sierra
1950
as Jeff Hassard
MOVIE★ 7.2
Twelve O'Clock High
1949
as Major / Lieutenant Colonel Harvey Stovall
MOVIE★ 5.3
C-Man
1949
as Cliff Holden, alias William Harrah
TV★ 5.4
Studio One
1948
as Ben Willson
TV★ 6.6
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
as Charles Burnett
MOVIE★ 6.8
Driftwood
1947
as Dr. Steve Webster
MOVIE★ 6.6
Pursued
1947
as Grant
MOVIE★ 6.9
Sister Kenny
1946
as Kevin Connors
MOVIE★ 7.3
I Live in Grosvenor Square
1945
as Sgt. John Patterson
MOVIE★ 7.0
Alaska
1944
as John Masters
MOVIE★ 6.2
When Strangers Marry
1944
as Paul Baxter
MOVIE★ 6.0
The North Star
1943
as Rodion Pavlov
MOVIE★ 6.0
I Escaped from the Gestapo
1943
as Torgut Lane
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Omaha Trail
1942
as 'Pipestone' Ross
MOVIE★ 6.3
Valley of the Sun
1942
as Jim Sawyer
MOVIE★ 6.7
The Men in Her Life
1941
as David Gibson
MOVIE★ 6.0
Western Union
1941
as Edward Creighton
MOVIE★ 4.6
Brigham Young
1940
as Brigham Young
MOVIE★ 4.9
Having Wonderful Time
1938
as Charlie (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 5.5
Exiled to Shanghai
1937
as Charlie Sears
MOVIE★ 6.0
Escape by Night
1937
as James 'Capper' Regan
MOVIE★ 8.0
Song of the City
1937
as Paul Herrick
MOVIE★ 4.9
Dangerous Number
1937
as Dillman
MOVIE★ 8.0
Woman in Distress
1937
as Fred Stevens
MOVIE★ 6.0
Under Cover of Night
1937
as Alan Shaw
MOVIE★ 7.0
Star for a Night
1936
as Fritz Lind
MOVIE★ 5.0
Pepper
1936
as Bob O'Ryan
MOVIE★ 3.4
Revolt of the Zombies
1936
as Armand Louque
MOVIE★ 5.2
13 Hours by Air
1936
as Hap Waller
MOVIE★ 8.0
Woman Trap
1936
as 'Honey' Hogan
MOVIE★ 9.0
It's a Great Life
1935
as Arnold
MOVIE★ 6.0
Wanderer of the Wasteland
1935
as Adam Larey
MOVIE★ 6.3
Men Without Names
1935
as Agent Jones
MOVIE★ 4.3
People Will Talk
1935
as Bill Trask
MOVIE★ 7.5
Car 99
1935
as Trooper Jim Burton
MOVIE★ 6.4
Wings in the Dark
1935
as Top Harmon
MOVIE★ 9.0
Home on the Range
1935
as Thurman
MOVIE★ 8.0
Behold My Wife!
1934
as Pete
MOVIE★ 5.6
College Rhythm
1934
as Coach Robbins
MOVIE★ 7.0
You Belong to Me
1934
as Military School Instructor
MOVIE★ 6.6
Whoopee!
1930
as Deputy (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 10.0
Handcuffed
1929
as Gerald Morely
MOVIE★ 8.0
The Woman from Hell
1929
as Jim Coakley