Jagger, who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor of 1949 for his superb performance as Gregory Peck's right-hand-man Major/Lt. Col. Harvey Stovall in the WWII classic 12 O'CLOCK HIGH, died on February 5th, 1991. He was 87.
Jagger was one of the most respected and busiest character men from the 1940's all the way to the early 1980's.
With Jon Walmsley on THE WALTONS 1979
He studied acting at Chicago's Lyceum Arts Conservatory, later performing on stage, in vaudeville and on the radio, even being a replacement for Spencer Tracy in a stock company.
In 1933 he made his official Broadway debut as Lov Bensey in the long-running adaptation of Erskine Caldwell's TOBACCO ROAD. Jagger continued to appear on the Great White Way until 1948 in such other plays as THEY SHALL NOT DIE, FARM OF THREE ECHOES, DOCTOR SOCIAL & more.
In 1929, Jagger appeared in his first movie with Mary Astor, THE WOMAN FROM HELL
He began working steady in films in 1934 and his breakout on the big screen came in 1940 when he was cast in the title role of BRIGHAM YOUNG for 20th Century Fox, in which he was reunited with Mary Astor, who played his wife.
George D. Pyper of The Church Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who was technical consultant for the Fox film and personally knew Young, said that not only did Jagger look like the Mormon leader, but also spoke like him and nailed his mannerisms. The role changed Jagger's life forever. He became a student of the religion and was baptized a member of the church in 1972. After his death, he willed his personal papers & movie memorabilia to the Harold B. Lee Library of Brigham Young University.
After YOUNG, Jagger kept working non-stop, appearing in over 100 films (and since 1948) TV shows.
Jagger was cast as many a doctor, military officer, policeman, educator, scientist, businessman, politician, father, grandpa and more.
More Jagger career highlights:
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This just in!
Chuck Harter's new in-depth book, Mr. Novak: An Acclaimed Television Series, is a must have for fans of Dean Jagger, the show and lovers of 1960's classic TV. From it's super-cool layout (great pics, vintage ads, etc.!) to Harter's comprehensive & detailed look at the one of the best (it won Peabody & WGA Awards and was nominated for 3 Emmys during it's 2 season run on NBC) and most forgotten shows of it's decade, is a great addition to any TV history library.
Mr. Novak: An Acclaimed Television Series (hardback): Chuck Harter, Walter Koenig, Martin Landau: 9781629331645: Amazon.com: Books
Jagger and Astor in BRIGHAM YOUNG
After YOUNG, Jagger kept working non-stop, appearing in over 100 films (and since 1948) TV shows.
Jagger was cast as many a doctor, military officer, policeman, educator, scientist, businessman, politician, father, grandpa and more.
More Jagger career highlights:
Major General Thomas F. Waverly, the beloved commanding officer of
Danny Kaye & Bing Crosby in the 1954 holiday favorite WHITE CHRISTMAS
The Prospector in the 1971 cult car chase classic VANISHING POINT
Jagger shows Barry Newman his snake in VP
Kevin Connors, the love interest of Rosalind Russell in SISTER KENNY
His run as Principal Albert Vane on MR. NOVAK (NBC 1963-65)
with James Franciscus as the cool teacher--the role nabbed Jagger back--to-back Emmy nods--though Jagger left the series in late 1964 to have a medical operation (he was replaced with Burgess Meredith), though he was also quite unhappy with the MR. NOVAK production team, saying later that the company was a ''a mishmash of unbelievable amateurishness''.
Dr. Adam Royston in the 1956 Hammer sci-fi horror film X: THE UNKNOWN
Jagger, Leo McKern and Edward Champion in X
Bill Morgan, the manager of Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons), in
ELMER GANTRY
Yancy, the not-to-bright, childlike member of Hugh Marlowe's
vicious outlaw gang in Henry Hathaway's 1951 RAWHIDE
Alcoholic town sheriff Tim Horn, who like doctor Walter Brennan, fearfully lives under the thumb of evil town boss Robert Ryan in BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK
starring Spencer Tracy
With Lee Marvin & Ryan in BLACK ROCK
Veteran Vice President of Manufacturing for furniture making Treadway Corporation in the 1954 corporate boardroom drama EXECUTIVE SUITE
Director Robert Wise gathered together one of the 1950's most-star studded casts
for SUITE--Paul Douglas, Shelley Winters, William Holden, June Allyson, Walter Pidgeon, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March, Louis Calhern, Nina Foch & Jagger
Police Capt. Micheals, the boss of crooked cops Steve Cochran & Howard Duff in
Don Siegel's terse film-noir PRIVATE HELL 36
Mr. Fisher, the grieving and out-of-work father of Elvis Presley in
KING CREOLE
Director Micheal Curtiz goes over a scene with The King and Jagger on the set of KING as producer Hal Wallis looks on
Telegraph engineer Edward Creighton in the 1941 Fritz Lang oater
WESTERN UNION with Robert Young & Randolph Scott
Famous surgeon Dr. Hubert Van Der Mal, father of Audrey Hepburn in
THE NUN'S STORY
Mysterious Paul Baxter, a lead role in the 1944 suspense film WHEN STRANGERS MARRY opposite Kim Hunter and ''Bob'' Mitchum
Dr. John Thornton in the 1956 drama ON THE THRESHOLD OF SPACE
with Martin Milner & Guy Madison
Connecticut tobacco plantation owner Sala Post in the 1961 soap
PARRISH with Troy Donahue & in her last film, Claudette Colbert
The weaver Justus in the 1953 Biblical epic THE ROBE with Richard Burton
Phil Baxter, the husband of Irene Dunne (in her final film), both owners of money-making backyard timbers in the fantasy comedy IT GROWS ON TREES
Secretary of the Navy John W. Rogers in the fact-based 1956 drama
THREE BRAVE MEN
Grant Austen, owner of Austen Plastics and Natalie Wood's
father in CASH McCALL (James Garner)
Another lead, undercover U.S. Customs Agent Cliff Holden in
1949's C-MAN with John Carradine
Chad Harmon, ''Senior'' nefarious member of the secret society of THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE BELL with Glenn Ford (they worked together on several occasions)
The old spy ''The Highwayman'' in John Huston's THE KREMLIN LETTER
And of course, his best screen role (it won him the Oscar):
WWI pilot/attorney Harvey Stovall, who is stuck flying a desk during WWII
in Henry King's 1949 war drama classic 12 O'CLOCK HIGH with
Gregory Peck
Giving a buss to fellow Oscar Winner Mercedes ALL THE KING'S MEN McCambridge
Other notable Jagger film & TV roles include:
Dr. Land in GAME OF DEATH, the crook Capper in ESCAPE BY NIGHT, David Gibson in THE MEN IN HER LIFE with Loretta Young, Jim Sawyer in VALLEY IN THE SUN with Lucille Ball, Pavlov in THE NORTH STAR, Slade in ALLIGATOR, Josiah Lowe in THE HANGED MAN, David Carradine's not-so-nice paternal grandfather on KUNG FU, J. Fulerton Weldy in BERNADINE with Pat Boone, evil Harry Burleigh in THE PROUD REBEL, Robert Walker's dad in MY SON JOHN, Capt. Garvey in DARK CITY with Charlton Heston, Staff Sgt. John Patterson in A YANK IN LONDON aka I LIVED IN GROSVENOR SQUARE, Vice-Admiral Thomas L. Semple in THE ETERNAL SEA, millionaire recluse Charles Van Cleave in THE LONELY PROFESSION with Harry Guardino, the cowardly storekeeper Whittier in FIRECREEK, Dr. Steve Webster in DRIFTWOOD with a young Natalie Wood, Indian trader Jimmy Noble in DAY OF THE EVIL GUN, Circus magnate John Noble, trying to take Jimmy Durante's big top in BILLY ROSE'S JUMBO, Steve McQueen's stern C.O. Admiral Fitch in THE HONEYMOON MACHINE, U.S. Govt. expert on wood Arthur Koehler, who tracked the ladder used in THE LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING CASE to the lumberyard Bruno Hauptman worked at, The Bishop in I HEARD THE OWL CALL MY NAME with Tom Courtney, Supreme Court Justice # 6 in GIDEON'S TRUMPET with Henry Fonda, Walter Cunnell, the attorney of murdered football team owner Dean Stockwell in the COLUMBO episode The Most Crucial Game, The Warden in the unrelenting Emmy-Winning 1972 prison drama THE GLASS HOUSE with Alan Alda, radio loving Ed Lindsay in the Static episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE, and his last role, Dr. David Domedion, the dementia-riddled mentor of William Daniels in one of TV's oddest yet fascinating crossovers: the ST. ELSEWHERE Cheers episode.
Getting Static in THE TWILIGHT ZONE
The stars of DARK CITY:
Heston, Lizbeth Scott, Viveca Lindfors & Jagger
With Hugh O'Brian in GAME OF DEATH
FIRECREEK
With Steverino in THE HONEYMOON MACHINE
With Ruth Warwick and little Natalie in DRIFTWOOD
His other film & TV credits include:
PURSUED, COLLEGE RHYTHM, WINGS IN THE DARK, EVIL TOWN, THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY, REVOLT OF THE ZOMBIES, HOME ON THE RANGE, WARPATH, SIERRA, THE GREAT MAN, THE OMAHA TRAIL, ALASKA, INCIDENT IN SAN FRANCISCO,
THE GREAT LESTER BOGGS, SO SAD ABOUT GLORIA, RED SUNDOWN, FORTY GUNS, SMITH!, END OF THE WORLD, FIRST TO FIGHT, THE WALTONS, HUNTER (1977), HARRY O, THE STRANGER, MEDICAL CENTER, ALIAS SMITH AND JONES, BONANZA, MATT LINCOLN (as star Vince Edwards father), TIGER BY THE TAIL, THE FUGITIVE, THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR, DR. KILDARE, SUNDAY SHOWCASE, PLAYHOUSE 90, THE LORETTA YOUNG SHOW, STUDIO 57, DENVER AND RIO GRANDE, THE PHILCO-GOODYEAR TELEVISION PLAYHOUSE, STUDIO ONE IN HOLLYWOOD, I ESCAPED FROM THE GESTAPO, SONG OF THE CITY, DANGEROUS NUMBER, WOMAN IN DISTRESS, HANDCUFFED, BEHOLD MY WIFE, IT'S A GREAT LIFE, 13 HOURS BY AIR, CAR 99, PEPPER, STAR FOR A NIGHT, and more.
With Judith Anderson in PURSUED
With Susan Dey on THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY
With Barbara Stanwyck and Barry Sullivan in FORTY GUNS
Did you know...?
He was born Ira Dean Jagger in Columbus Grove, Ohio on November 7th, 1903.
Jagger was at one time an elementary school teacher.
Married 3 times, Jagger had one daughter and two stepsons.
He got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.
Jagger won a Daytime Emmy Award for his work on THIS IS THE LIFE's 1980 presentation of Independence and '76.
Jagger at work:
12 O'CLOCK HIGH clip
WHITE CHRISTMAS Trailer
10 mins. of the MR. NOVAK episode Moonlighting
C-MAN
RAWHIDE
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK trailer
ELMER GANTRY Trailer
ESCAPE BY NIGHT
IT GROWS ON TREES clip
THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE BELL
GAME OF DEATH
15 mins. of ALLIGATOR
CASH McCALL trailer
WESTERN UNION
Spoiler Alert! The end of EXECUTIVE SCENE
REVOLT OF THE ZOMBIES clip
THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY episode
Don't Bring Your Guns to Town Santa
THE HANGED MAN
THE LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING CASE
RED SUNDOWN
Jagger's RED SUNDOWN co-stars Martha Hyer & Rory Calhoun help him
celebrate 30 years in show biz
This just in!
Chuck Harter's new in-depth book, Mr. Novak: An Acclaimed Television Series, is a must have for fans of Dean Jagger, the show and lovers of 1960's classic TV. From it's super-cool layout (great pics, vintage ads, etc.!) to Harter's comprehensive & detailed look at the one of the best (it won Peabody & WGA Awards and was nominated for 3 Emmys during it's 2 season run on NBC) and most forgotten shows of it's decade, is a great addition to any TV history library.
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