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Known For
Acting
Birthday
N/A
Died
February 5, 1991
Place of Birth
Columbus Grove, Ohio, USA
Also Known As
- Ira Dean Jagger
- Jeffrey Dean
Dean Jagger
3.4 Popularity
Biography
Dean Jagger (November 7, 1903 – February 5, 1991) 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
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Self (archive footage)
Elvis: A Life in Music
2026
🎬
5.0
Major General Thomas F. Waverly (archive footage) (uncredited)
'White Christmas': A Look Back with Rosemary Clooney
2000
6.5
Self (archive footage)
The World of Hammer
1994
3.8
Doctor Schaeffer
Evil Town
1987
5.6
David Domedion
St. Elsewhere
1982
6.1
Slade
Alligator
1980
6.0
6th Supreme Court Justice
Gideon's Trumpet
1980
6.4
Dr. Land
Game of Death
1978
3.6
Ray Collins
End of the World
1977
8.0
Hunter
1977
Credits
Elvis: A Life in Music
as Self (archive footage)
2026
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🎬
'White Christmas': A Look Back with Rosemary Clooney
as Major General Thomas F. Waverly (archive footage) (uncredited)
2000
5.0
The World of Hammer
as Self (archive footage)
1994
6.5
Evil Town
as Doctor Schaeffer
1987
3.8
St. Elsewhere
as David Domedion
1982
5.6
Alligator
as Slade
1980
6.1
Gideon's Trumpet
as 6th Supreme Court Justice
1980
6.0
Game of Death
as Dr. Land
1978
6.4
End of the World
as Ray Collins
1977
3.6
Hunter
1977
8.0
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
as Koehler
1976
6.4
Dr. Shagetz
as Dr. Shagetz
1975
0.0
Harry O
1974
4.6
The Great Lester Boggs
1974
0.0
The Hanged Man
as Josiah Lowe
1974
4.0
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
as Jim Wallace
1973
7.0
The Lie
as Arnold Edgarton
1973
6.0
The Stranger
as Carl Webster
1973
3.6
So Sad About Gloria
as Frederick Wellman
1973
3.9
Kung Fu
as Henry Raphael Caine
1972
7.7
Delphi Bureau
as Quick
1972
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The Waltons
as Professor Bowen
1972
7.2
The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment
as Matthew Keller
1972
0.0
The Glass House
as Warden Auerbach
1972
6.2
Columbo
as Walter Cannell
1971
8.1
Incident in San Francisco
as Sam Baldwin
1971
3.5
Vanishing Point
as Prospector
1971
7.1
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
7.0
The Partridge Family
as Charlie
1970
6.8
The Brotherhood of the Bell
as Chad Harmon
1970
5.5
The Kremlin Letter
as Highwayman
1970
6.0
Tiger by the Tail
as Top Polk
1970
5.0
The Lonely Profession
as Charles Van Cleve
1969
0.0
Medical Center
1969
6.1
Smith!
as Judge James C. Brown
1969
5.5
Day of the Evil Gun
as Jimmy Noble
1968
6.1
Firecreek
as Whittier
1968
6.3
First to Fight
as Colonel Baseman
1967
7.9
The F.B.I.
as Bishop John Atwood
1965
5.4
Mr. Novak
as Principal Albert Vane
1963
6.5
The Fugitive
as Tony Donovan
1963
7.2
Billy Rose's Jumbo
as John Noble
1962
5.8
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as George Davies
1962
7.8
Dr. Kildare
as Lt. Gen. John Sparrow
1961
5.5
The Honeymoon Machine
as Admiral Fitch
1961
6.4
Parrish
as Sala Post
1961
5.0
Elmer Gantry
as William L. Morgan
1960
7.3
Cash McCall
as Grant Austen
1960
6.2
The Twilight Zone
as Ed Lindsay
1959
8.5
The Nun's Story
as Dr. Hubert Van Der Mal
1959
7.2
King Creole
as Mr. Fisher
1958
6.3
The Proud Rebel
as Harry Burleigh
1958
6.1
The Dark Side of the Earth
as Anton Rojas
1957
0.0
Forty Guns
as Sheriff Ned Logan
1957
6.5
Bernardine
as J. Fullerton Weldy
1957
7.0
Armored Attack!
as as Rodion Pavlov
1957
6.2
Three Brave Men
as John W. Rogers
1956
4.8
The Great Man
as Philip Carleton
1956
4.6
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Bert Ensign
1956
6.0
X: The Unknown
as Dr. Adam Royston
1956
6.1
On the Threshold of Space
as Dr. Hugo Thornton
1956
4.0
Red Sundown
as Jade Murphy
1956
6.1
It's a Dog's Life
as Mr. Wyndham
1955
3.0
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
5.4
The Eternal Sea
as Vice-Adm. Thomas L. Semple
1955
6.4
Bad Day at Black Rock
as Tim Horn
1955
7.3
White Christmas
as General Waverly
1954
7.2
Private Hell 36
as Police Capt. Michaels
1954
6.2
Executive Suite
as Jesse Q. Grimm
1954
7.0
Letter to Loretta
as Harry Holt
1953
6.5
The Robe
as Justus
1953
6.8
General Electric Theater
as Adam 'Mister Doc' Darrow
1953
6.4
Cavalcade of America
1952
3.5
It Grows on Trees
as Phil Baxter
1952
7.7
Denver and Rio Grande
as General William J. Palmer
1952
5.5
My Son John
as Dan Jefferson
1952
5.3
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as 6th Supreme Court Justice
1951
8.6
Warpath
as Sam Quade
1951
5.8
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Ed Gorman
1951
7.2
Rawhide
as Yancy
1951
6.7
Dark City
as Captain Garvey
1950
6.5
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Lux Video Theatre
as John Straley
1950
6.3
Sierra
as Jeff Hassard
1950
5.3
Twelve O'Clock High
as Major / Lieutenant Colonel Harvey Stovall
1949
7.1
C-Man
as Cliff Holden, alias William Harrah
1949
5.2
Studio One
as Ben Willson
1948
5.0
The Philco Television Playhouse
as Charles Burnett
1948
6.3
Driftwood
as Dr. Steve Webster
1947
6.1
Pursued
as Grant
1947
6.6
Sister Kenny
as Kevin Connors
1946
6.8
I Live in Grosvenor Square
as Sgt. John Patterson
1945
7.1
Alaska
as John Masters
1944
5.0
When Strangers Marry
as Paul Baxter
1944
6.1
The North Star
as Rodion Pavlov
1943
6.1
I Escaped from the Gestapo
as Torgut Lane
1943
5.6
The Omaha Trail
as 'Pipestone' Ross
1942
7.0
Valley of the Sun
as Jim Sawyer
1942
5.8
The Men in Her Life
as David Gibson
1941
6.2
Western Union
as Edward Creighton
1941
6.0
Brigham Young
as Brigham Young
1940
4.4
Having Wonderful Time
as Charlie (uncredited)
1938
4.6
Exiled to Shanghai
as Charlie Sears
1937
4.9
Escape by Night
as James 'Capper' Regan
1937
5.7
Song of the City
as Paul Herrick
1937
6.0
Dangerous Number
as Dillman
1937
4.3
Woman in Distress
as Fred Stevens
1937
6.0
Under Cover of Night
as Alan Shaw
1937
5.7
Star for a Night
as Fritz Lind
1936
6.0
Pepper
as Bob O'Ryan
1936
1.0
Revolt of the Zombies
as Armand Louque
1936
3.2
13 Hours by Air
as Hap Waller
1936
4.6
Woman Trap
as 'Honey' Hogan
1936
0.0
It's a Great Life
as Arnold
1935
0.0
Wanderer of the Wasteland
as Adam Larey
1935
5.0
Men Without Names
as Agent Jones
1935
6.0
People Will Talk
as Bill Trask
1935
3.0
Car 99
as Trooper Jim Burton
1935
5.0
Home on the Range
as Thurman
1935
0.0
Wings in the Dark
as Top Harmon
1935
6.4
Behold My Wife!
as Pete
1934
7.0
College Rhythm
as Coach Robbins
1934
4.7
You Belong to Me
as Military School Instructor
1934
7.0
Whoopee!
as Deputy (uncredited)
1930
6.4
The Woman from Hell
as Jim Coakley
1929
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