Acting credits
124
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Dean Jagger
Acting
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Movies: 98Series: 26
TMDB ID: 29313
IMDb ID: nm0415591
Known for: Acting
Born: November 7, 1903
Died: February 5, 1991
Age: 87
Place of birth: Columbus Grove, Ohio, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1929 - 2026
Years active: 98
Average TMDB rating: 6.44
Wikidata: Q471309
Also known as
Ira Dean Jagger • Jeffrey Dean
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).
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Dean Jagger.
as Self (archive footage)
Elvis: A Life in Music
2026 • Movie
as Major General Thomas F. Waverly (archive footage) (uncredited)
'White Christmas': A Look Back with Rosemary Clooney
2000 • Movie
as Doctor Schaeffer
Evil Town
1987 • Movie
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1982 • Movie
as Slade
Alligator
1980 • Movie
as 6th Supreme Court Justice
Gideon's Trumpet
1980 • Movie
as Dr. Land
Game of Death
1978 • Movie
as Ray Collins
End of the World
1977 • Movie
as Koehler
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
1976 • Movie
as Dr. Shagetz
Dr. Shagetz
1975 • Movie
The Great Lester Boggs
1974 • Movie
as Josiah Lowe
The Hanged Man
1974 • Movie
as Jim Wallace
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
1973 • Movie
as Arnold Edgarton
The Lie
1973 • Movie
as Carl Webster
The Stranger
1973 • Movie
as Frederick Wellman
So Sad About Gloria
1973 • Movie
as Matthew Keller
The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment
1972 • Movie
as Warden Auerbach
The Glass House
1972 • Movie
as Sam Baldwin
Incident in San Francisco
1971 • Movie
as Prospector
Vanishing Point
1971 • Movie
as Chad Harmon
The Brotherhood of the Bell
1970 • Movie
as Highwayman
The Kremlin Letter
1970 • Movie
as Top Polk
Tiger by the Tail
1970 • Movie
as Charles Van Cleve
The Lonely Profession
1969 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Dean Jagger.
as Self (archive footage) • 1 eps
The World of Hammer
1994 • Series
as David Domedion • 1 eps
St. Elsewhere
1982 • Series
2 eps
Hunter
1977 • Series
1 eps
Harry O
1974 • Series
as Henry Raphael Caine • 1 eps
Kung Fu
1972 • Series
as Quick • 1 eps
Delphi Bureau
1972 • Series
as Professor Bowen • 1 eps
The Waltons
1972 • Series
as Walter Cannell • 1 eps
Columbo
1971 • Series
1 eps
Alias Smith and Jones
1971 • Series
as Charlie • 1 eps
The Partridge Family
1970 • Series
1 eps
Medical Center
1969 • Series
as Bishop John Atwood • 1 eps
The F.B.I.
1965 • Series
as Principal Albert Vane • 60 eps
Mr. Novak
1963 • Series
as Tony Donovan • 1 eps
The Fugitive
1963 • Series
as George Davies • 1 eps
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962 • Series
as Lt. Gen. John Sparrow • 1 eps
Dr. Kildare
1961 • Series
as Ed Lindsay • 1 eps
The Twilight Zone
1959 • Series
as Bert Ensign • 1 eps
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 • Series
1 eps
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955 • Series
as Harry Holt • 1 eps
Letter to Loretta
1953 • Series
as Adam 'Mister Doc' Darrow • 1 eps
General Electric Theater
1953 • Series
1 eps
Cavalcade of America
1952 • Series
as 6th Supreme Court Justice • 1 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 • Series
as Ed Gorman • 1 eps
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 • Series