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Dean Jagger
American actor

Dean Jagger

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American actor
Gender
Male
Place of birth
Columbus Grove
Place of death
Santa Monica
Age
87 years
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1.8796 m
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Biography

Dean Jeffries Jagger (November 7, 1903 – February 5, 1991) was an American film, stage and television actor who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Henry King's Twelve O'Clock High (1949).

Early life

Born Dean Jeffries, or Dean Jeffries Jagger (sources disagree), in Columbus Grove or Lima, Ohio, he dropped out of school several times before finally attending Wabash College. While at Wabash, he was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity and played football. He dropped out in his sophomore year, realizing he was not suited to an academic life. For a few semesters, he taught all eight grades in an elementary school, before heading to Chicago.

Career

Jagger studied acting at Chicago's Lyceum Arts Conservatory. He joined a stock company as Spencer Tracy's replacement. He performed in vaudeville, on the radio and on stage, making his Broadway debut in 1925 in a bit part in a George M. Cohan production. Through the '30s and '40s, he performed in a number of Broadway plays, including the original production of Tobacco Road.

Jagger made his film debut in The Woman from Hell (1929) with Mary Astor. He became a successful character actor and appeared in almost 100 films in a career that lasted until shortly before his death. Jagger made his breakthrough with his portrayal of Brigham Young in Brigham Young (1940). According to George D. Pyper, a technical consultant on the film who had personally known Brigham Young, Jagger not only resembled Young, he also spoke like him and had many of his mannerisms. Thirty-two years later, in 1972 he was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

He received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Twelve O'Clock High (1949). In the film, he played the retread World War I veteran, middle-aged adjutant Major/Lt. Col. Harvey Stovall, who acts as an advisor to the commander, General Savage (Gregory Peck). He appeared in the biblical epic The Robe (1953) as the weaver Justus of Cana. He played the retired Army major general Tom Waverly honored by Bob Wallace (Bing Crosby) and Phil Davis (Danny Kaye) in the musical White Christmas (1954), and an impotent local sheriff in the modern Western Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), starring Spencer Tracy. Jagger also portrayed the father of Elvis Presley's character in 1958's King Creole. He was the traveling manager for an evangelist played by Jean Simmons in the acclaimed 1960 drama Elmer Gantry.

For the 1956 British science-fiction film X the Unknown, Jagger refused to work with director Joseph Losey because Losey was on the Hollywood blacklist. Losey was removed from the project after a few days of shooting and replaced with Leslie Norman.

Jagger also achieved success in the television series Mr. Novak, receiving Emmy Award nominations for his role in 1964 and 1965, as well as the California Teachers Association's Communications Award, along with star James Franciscus, in 1963 for his portrayal of high school principal Albert Vane. However, even before he left the show to have a major medical operation, he was less than happy with the series, clashing repeatedly with the writers and directors and describing "the Mr. Novak company" afterwards as "a mishmash of unbelievable amateurishness."

In 1971, Jagger appeared on The Partridge Family. He played a prospector named Charlie in the Christmas episode "Don't Bring Your Guns to Town, Santa". He won a Daytime Emmy award for a guest appearance in the religious series This Is the Life. He played dozens of TV dramatic roles, including an episode of The Twilight Zone called "Static." In an early episode of the television series Kung Fu, Jagger appeared as Caine's grandfather, who wants little to do with him, but starts Caine on his series-long search for his half-brother Danny.

Dean Jagger has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1523 Vine Street for his contribution to motion pictures.

Personal life and death

When Jagger tried to marry his second wife, Gloria Ling, in 1947, they were denied a marriage license in California due to a state law "forbidding unions between Caucasians and Mongolians [sic]"; Ling's father was born in China.

In later life, Dean Jagger suffered from heart disease and died in his sleep in Santa Monica, California. He was 87, and was buried in the small town of Hughson, California, at Lakewood Memorial Park. He was survived by his third wife, Etta, a daughter and two stepsons.

Complete filmography

  • The Woman from Hell (1929)
  • Handcuffed (1929)
  • Whoopee! (1930) (uncredited)
  • You Belong to Me (1934)
  • College Rhythm (1934)
  • Behold My Wife! (1934)
  • Wings in the Dark (1935)
  • Home on the Range (1935)
  • Car 99 (1935)
  • People Will Talk (1935)
  • Men Without Names (1935)
  • Wanderer of the Wasteland (1935)
  • It's a Great Life (1935)
  • Woman Trap (1936)
  • Thirteen Hours by Air (1936)
  • Revolt of the Zombies (1936)
  • Pepper (1936)
  • Star for a Night (1936)
  • Under Cover of Night (1937)
  • Woman in Distress (1937)
  • Dangerous Number (1937)
  • Song of the City (1937)
  • Escape by Night (1937)
  • Exiled to Shanghai (1937)
  • Having Wonderful Time (1938) (uncredited)
  • Brigham Young (1940)
  • Western Union (1941)
  • The Men in Her Life (1941)
  • Valley of the Sun (1942)
  • The Omaha Trail (1942)
  • I Escaped from the Gestapo (1943)
  • The North Star (1943)
  • When Strangers Marry (1944)
  • Alaska (1944)
  • I Live in Grosvenor Square (1945) (US title: A Yank in London)
  • Sister Kenny (1946)
  • Pursued (1947)
  • Driftwood (1947)
  • C-Man (1949)
  • Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
  • Sierra (1950)
  • Dark City (1950)
  • Rawhide (1951)
  • Warpath (1951)
  • My Son John (1952)
  • Denver and Rio Grande (1952)
  • It Grows on Trees (1952)
  • The Robe (1953)
  • Executive Suite (1954)
  • Private Hell 36 (1954)
  • White Christmas (1954)
  • Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
  • The Eternal Sea (1955)
  • It's a Dog's Life (1955)
  • Red Sundown (1955)
  • On the Threshold of Space (1956)
  • X the Unknown (1956)
  • Three Brave Men (1956)
  • The Great Man (1956)
  • Bernardine (1957)
  • Forty Guns (1957)
  • The Proud Rebel (1958)
  • King Creole (1958)
  • Smoke Jumpers (1958)
  • The Nun's Story (1959)
  • The House on K-Street (1959 TV movie)
  • Cash McCall (1960)
  • Elmer Gantry (1960)
  • Jarrett of K Street (1960 TV movie)
  • Parrish (1961)
  • The Honeymoon Machine (1961)
  • Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)
  • First to Fight (1967)
  • Firecreek (1968)
  • Day of the Evil Gun (1968)
  • Smith! (1969)
  • The Lonely Profession (1969 TV movie)
  • Tiger by the Tail (1970)
  • The Kremlin Letter (1970)
  • The Brotherhood of the Bell (1970 TV movie)
  • Vanishing Point (1971)
  • Incident In San Francisco (1971 TV movie)
  • The Glass House (1972 TV movie)
  • The Stranger (1973 TV movie)
  • The Lie (1973 TV movie)
  • I Heard the Owl Call My Name (1973 TV movie)
  • The Hanged Man (1974 TV movie)
  • The Great Lester Boggs (1974 TV movie)
  • So Sad About Gloria (1975)
  • The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976 TV movie)
  • End of the World (1977)
  • Game of Death (1978)
  • Gideon's Trumpet (1980 TV movie)
  • Alligator (1980)
  • Evil Town (1987)

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