Biography
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).
Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1950
- Daytime Emmy Award
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1950 · nominated
Filmography50+ titles
The Twilight Zone
Columbo
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Kung Fu
The Fugitive
Elmer Gantry
Bad Day at Black Rock
The Waltons
The Nun's Story
White Christmas
Executive Suite
Twelve O'Clock High
Alaska
The Partridge Family
The Robe
Driftwood
Lux Video Theatre
Forty Guns
The Eternal Sea
Pursued
Whoopee!
Letter to Loretta
Dark City
Gideon's Trumpet
Game of Death
The Glass House
King Creole
Firecreek
Cash McCall
Private Hell 36
Day of the Evil Gun
When Strangers Marry
Valley of the Sun
Alligator
The Proud Rebel
The Kremlin Letter
Billy Rose's Jumbo
Warpath
The North Star
I Escaped from the Gestapo
Western Union
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Smith!
St. Elsewhere
The F.B.I.
Denver and Rio Grande
Sierra
Parrish
C-Man
Cavalcade of America