Acting · Columbus Grove, Ohio, USA · Born November 7, 1903
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).
MovieElvis: A Life in Music
2026
as Self (archive footage)
Movie'White Christmas': A Look Back with Rosemary Clooney
2000
as Major General Thomas F. Waverly (archive footage) (uncredited)
TVThe World of Hammer
1994
as Self (archive footage)
MovieEvil Town
1987
as Doctor Schaeffer
TVSt. Elsewhere
1982
as David Domedion
MovieNatalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1982
MovieAlligator
1980
as Slade
MovieGideon's Trumpet
1980
as 6th Supreme Court Justice
MovieGame of Death
1978
as Dr. Land
MovieEnd of the World
1977
as Ray Collins
TVHunter
1977
MovieThe Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
1976
as Koehler
MovieDr. Shagetz
1975
as Dr. Shagetz
TVHarry O
1974
MovieThe Great Lester Boggs
1974
MovieThe Hanged Man
1974
as Josiah Lowe
MovieI Heard the Owl Call My Name
1973
as Jim Wallace
MovieThe Lie
1973
as Arnold Edgarton
MovieThe Stranger
1973
as Carl Webster
MovieSo Sad About Gloria
1973
as Frederick Wellman
TVKung Fu
1972
as Henry Raphael Caine
TVDelphi Bureau
1972
as Quick
TVThe Waltons
1972
as Professor Bowen
MovieThe Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment
1972
as Matthew Keller
MovieThe Glass House
1972
as Warden Auerbach
TVColumbo
1971
as Walter Cannell
MovieIncident in San Francisco
1971
as Sam Baldwin
MovieVanishing Point
1971
as Prospector
TVAlias Smith and Jones
1971
TVThe Partridge Family
1970
as Charlie
MovieThe Brotherhood of the Bell
1970
as Chad Harmon
MovieThe Kremlin Letter
1970
as Highwayman
MovieTiger by the Tail
1970
as Top Polk
MovieThe Lonely Profession
1969
as Charles Van Cleve
TVMedical Center
1969
MovieSmith!
1969
as Judge James C. Brown
MovieDay of the Evil Gun
1968
as Jimmy Noble
MovieFirecreek
1968
as Whittier
MovieFirst to Fight
1967
as Colonel Baseman
TVThe F.B.I.
1965
as Bishop John Atwood
TVMr. Novak
1963
as Principal Albert Vane
TVThe Fugitive
1963
as Tony Donovan
MovieBilly Rose's Jumbo
1962
as John Noble
TVThe Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
as George Davies
TVDr. Kildare
1961
as Lt. Gen. John Sparrow
MovieThe Honeymoon Machine
1961
as Admiral Fitch
MovieParrish
1961
as Sala Post
MovieElmer Gantry
1960
as William L. Morgan
MovieCash McCall
1960
as Grant Austen
TVThe Twilight Zone
1959
as Ed Lindsay
MovieThe Nun's Story
1959
as Dr. Hubert Van Der Mal
MovieKing Creole
1958
as Mr. Fisher
MovieThe Proud Rebel
1958
as Harry Burleigh
MovieThe Dark Side of the Earth
1957
as Anton Rojas
MovieForty Guns
1957
as Sheriff Ned Logan
MovieBernardine
1957
as J. Fullerton Weldy
MovieArmored Attack!
1957
as as Rodion Pavlov
MovieThe Great Man
1956
as Philip Carleton
MovieThree Brave Men
1956
as John W. Rogers
TVDick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Bert Ensign
MovieX: The Unknown
1956
as Dr. Adam Royston
MovieOn the Threshold of Space
1956
as Dr. Hugo Thornton
MovieRed Sundown
1956
as Jade Murphy
MovieIt's a Dog's Life
1955
as Mr. Wyndham
TVThe 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
MovieThe Eternal Sea
1955
as Vice-Adm. Thomas L. Semple
MovieBad Day at Black Rock
1955
as Tim Horn
MovieWhite Christmas
1954
as General Waverly
MoviePrivate Hell 36
1954
as Police Capt. Michaels
MovieExecutive Suite
1954
as Jesse Q. Grimm
TVLetter to Loretta
1953
as Harry Holt
MovieThe Robe
1953
as Justus
TVGeneral Electric Theater
1953
as Adam 'Mister Doc' Darrow
TVCavalcade of America
1952
MovieIt Grows on Trees
1952
as Phil Baxter
MovieDenver and Rio Grande
1952
as General William J. Palmer
MovieMy Son John
1952
as Dan Jefferson
TVHallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as 6th Supreme Court Justice
MovieWarpath
1951
as Sam Quade
TVSchlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
as Ed Gorman
MovieRawhide
1951
as Yancy
MovieDark City
1950
as Captain Garvey
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as John Straley
MovieSierra
1950
as Jeff Hassard
MovieTwelve O'Clock High
1949
as Major / Lieutenant Colonel Harvey Stovall
MovieC-Man
1949
as Cliff Holden, alias William Harrah
TVStudio One
1948
as Ben Willson
TVThe Philco Television Playhouse
1948
as Charles Burnett
MovieDriftwood
1947
as Dr. Steve Webster
MoviePursued
1947
as Grant
MovieSister Kenny
1946
as Kevin Connors
MovieI Live in Grosvenor Square
1945
as Sgt. John Patterson
MovieAlaska
1944
as John Masters
MovieWhen Strangers Marry
1944
as Paul Baxter
MovieThe North Star
1943
as Rodion Pavlov
MovieI Escaped from the Gestapo
1943
as Torgut Lane
MovieThe Omaha Trail
1942
as 'Pipestone' Ross
MovieValley of the Sun
1942
as Jim Sawyer
MovieThe Men in Her Life
1941
as David Gibson
MovieWestern Union
1941
as Edward Creighton
MovieBrigham Young
1940
as Brigham Young
MovieHaving Wonderful Time
1938
as Charlie (uncredited)
MovieExiled to Shanghai
1937
as Charlie Sears
MovieEscape by Night
1937
as James 'Capper' Regan
MovieSong of the City
1937
as Paul Herrick
MovieDangerous Number
1937
as Dillman
MovieWoman in Distress
1937
as Fred Stevens
MovieUnder Cover of Night
1937
as Alan Shaw
MovieStar for a Night
1936
as Fritz Lind
MoviePepper
1936
as Bob O'Ryan
MovieRevolt of the Zombies
1936
as Armand Louque
Movie13 Hours by Air
1936
as Hap Waller
MovieWoman Trap
1936
as 'Honey' Hogan
MovieIt's a Great Life
1935
as Arnold
MovieWanderer of the Wasteland
1935
as Adam Larey
MovieMen Without Names
1935
as Agent Jones
MoviePeople Will Talk
1935
as Bill Trask
MovieCar 99
1935
as Trooper Jim Burton
MovieWings in the Dark
1935
as Top Harmon
MovieHome on the Range
1935
as Thurman
MovieBehold My Wife!
1934
as Pete
MovieCollege Rhythm
1934
as Coach Robbins
MovieYou Belong to Me
1934
as Military School Instructor
MovieWhoopee!
1930
as Deputy (uncredited)
Handcuffed
1929
as Gerald Morely
MovieThe Woman from Hell
1929
as Jim Coakley
