
Dean Jagger
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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).
Known for
Credits

Game of Death (1978)
as Dr. Land

White Christmas (1954)
as General Waverly

The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment (1972)
as Matthew Keller

The Nun's Story (1959)
as Dr. Hubert Van Der Mal

The Robe (1953)
as Justus

Smith! (1969)
as Judge James C. Brown
Handcuffed (1929)
as Gerald Morely

Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
as Tim Horn

Vanishing Point (1971)
as Prospector

Alligator (1980)
as Slade

Brigham Young (1940)
as Brigham Young

Driftwood (1947)
as Dr. Steve Webster

Alaska (1944)
as John Masters

Woman Trap (1936)
as 'Honey' Hogan

Day of the Evil Gun (1968)
as Jimmy Noble

Denver and Rio Grande (1952)
as General William J. Palmer

King Creole (1958)
as Mr. Fisher

Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
as Major / Lieutenant Colonel Harvey Stovall

Pursued (1947)
as Grant

The Proud Rebel (1958)
as Harry Burleigh

Executive Suite (1954)
as Jesse Q. Grimm

Gideon's Trumpet (1980)
as 6th Supreme Court Justice

Western Union (1941)
as Edward Creighton

Behold My Wife! (1934)
as Pete

Elmer Gantry (1960)
as William L. Morgan

Firecreek (1968)
as Whittier

Sister Kenny (1946)
as Kevin Connors

Rawhide (1951)
as Yancy

The Kremlin Letter (1970)
as Highwayman

The Hanged Man (1974)
as Josiah Lowe

Red Sundown (1956)
as Jade Murphy

Warpath (1951)
as Sam Quade

Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)
as John Noble

The North Star (1943)
as Rodion Pavlov

Dark City (1950)
as Captain Garvey

End of the World (1977)
as Ray Collins

X: The Unknown (1956)
as Dr. Adam Royston

Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady (1982)
Actor

The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976)
as Koehler

The Woman from Hell (1929)
as Jim Coakley

When Strangers Marry (1944)
as Paul Baxter

The Glass House (1972)
as Warden Auerbach

Sierra (1950)
as Jeff Hassard

Elvis: A Life in Music (2026)
as Self (archive footage)

Escape by Night (1937)
as James 'Capper' Regan

First to Fight (1967)
as Colonel Baseman

The Great Man (1956)
as Philip Carleton

Having Wonderful Time (1938)
as Charlie (uncredited)

The Men in Her Life (1941)
as David Gibson

Wanderer of the Wasteland (1935)
as Adam Larey

Wings in the Dark (1935)
as Top Harmon

Tiger by the Tail (1970)
as Top Polk

The Stranger (1973)
as Carl Webster

I Live in Grosvenor Square (1945)
as Sgt. John Patterson

Cash McCall (1960)
as Grant Austen

Under Cover of Night (1937)
as Alan Shaw

My Son John (1952)
as Dan Jefferson

It's a Great Life (1935)
as Arnold

Exiled to Shanghai (1937)
as Charlie Sears

Parrish (1961)
as Sala Post

Evil Town (1987)
as Doctor Schaeffer

Whoopee! (1930)
as Deputy (uncredited)

It's a Dog's Life (1955)
as Mr. Wyndham

Revolt of the Zombies (1936)
as Armand Louque

The Eternal Sea (1955)
as Vice-Adm. Thomas L. Semple

Bernardine (1957)
as J. Fullerton Weldy

The Lonely Profession (1969)
as Charles Van Cleve

C-Man (1949)
as Cliff Holden, alias William Harrah

Home on the Range (1935)
as Thurman

Armored Attack! (1957)
as as Rodion Pavlov

The Omaha Trail (1942)
as 'Pipestone' Ross

Forty Guns (1957)
as Sheriff Ned Logan

Private Hell 36 (1954)
as Police Capt. Michaels

College Rhythm (1934)
as Coach Robbins

Star for a Night (1936)
as Fritz Lind

Car 99 (1935)
as Trooper Jim Burton

The Honeymoon Machine (1961)
as Admiral Fitch

On the Threshold of Space (1956)
as Dr. Hugo Thornton

Incident in San Francisco (1971)
as Sam Baldwin

Valley of the Sun (1942)
as Jim Sawyer

I Escaped from the Gestapo (1943)
as Torgut Lane

13 Hours by Air (1936)
as Hap Waller

The Lie (1973)
as Arnold Edgarton

Dangerous Number (1937)
as Dillman

Dr. Shagetz (1975)
as Dr. Shagetz

The Brotherhood of the Bell (1970)
as Chad Harmon

The Dark Side of the Earth (1957)
as Anton Rojas

So Sad About Gloria (1973)
as Frederick Wellman

Men Without Names (1935)
as Agent Jones

It Grows on Trees (1952)
as Phil Baxter

Three Brave Men (1956)
as John W. Rogers

Woman in Distress (1937)
as Fred Stevens

You Belong to Me (1934)
as Military School Instructor

People Will Talk (1935)
as Bill Trask

Pepper (1936)
as Bob O'Ryan

I Heard the Owl Call My Name (1973)
as Jim Wallace

Song of the City (1937)
as Paul Herrick

The Great Lester Boggs (1974)
Actor

'White Christmas': A Look Back with Rosemary Clooney (2000)
as Major General Thomas F. Waverly (archive footage) (uncredited)





