Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 7, 1903
Place of Birth
Columbus Grove, Ohio, USA
Also Known As
- Ira Dean Jagger
- Jeffrey Dean
Dean Jagger
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).
Known For - Movies
Game of Death
as Dr. Land
The Robe
as Justus
White Christmas
as General Waverly
Alligator
as Slade
Bad Day at Black Rock
as Tim Horn
X: The Unknown
as Dr. Adam Royston
Vanishing Point
as Prospector
Twelve O'Clock High
as Major / Lieutenant Colonel Harvey Stovall
Pursued
as Grant
Elmer Gantry
as William L. Morgan
Known For - TV Shows
Columbo
as Walter Cannell
The Twilight Zone
as Ed Lindsay
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as George Davies
The Fugitive
as Tony Donovan
St. Elsewhere
as David Domedion
The Waltons
as Professor Bowen
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Bert Ensign
The F.B.I.
as Bishop John Atwood
Dr. Kildare
as Lt. Gen. John Sparrow
