Kevin Hagen

Acting

Born April 3, 1928, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Kevin Hagen (April 3, 1928 – July 9, 2005) was an American actor best known for his role as Dr. Hiram Baker on NBC's TV series Little House on the Prairie. Hagen was the son of professional ballroom dancers, Haakon Olaf Hagen and Marvel Lucile Wadsworth. His father abandoned the family when Kevin was five. He was raised by his mother, grandmother, and two aunts, with some help from his uncle, a physician. The family moved to Portland, Oregon, when Kevin was a teenager. He played baseball and football at Jefferson High School. He attended Oregon State University before enlisting in the U.S. Navy after World War II; he served in San Diego. Hagen, married four times, was a single parent for two decades to his son, Christopher Hagen, a Special Education teacher and high school baseball coach in Bakersfield, California.

Filmography

• 1990The Ambulance — Cop at Stables
• 1988Bonanza: The Next Generation — Nathaniel Amsted
• Matlock — Dr. Halvern
• 1986Power — Cop
• Amazing Stories — Rob Wellan
• 1984Little House: The Last Farewell — Dr. Hiram Baker
• 1983Little House: Bless All the Dear Children — Dr. Hiram Baker
• 1983Little House: Look Back to Yesterday — Dr. Hiram Baker
• Simon & Simon — Tommy Luna
• The Fall Guy — Colonel Andrew Stonewall Hamilton
• Power — Paul Hackett
• 1980The Hunter — Poker Player
• Knots Landing — Butler
• 1977The San Pedro Bums — Mr. McClory
• Quincy, M.E.
• Bronk
• Joe Forrester
• 1974Honky Tonk
• Little House on the Prairie — Hiram Baker
• Police Woman — Norris
• 1973Prologue to Wounded Knee — Ken Shaeffer
• 1973The Soul of Nigger Charley — Colonel Blanchard
• M*A*S*H — Colonel Coner
• 1972The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment — Luke
• 1971Dead Men Tell No Tales — Karl
• Monty Nash — Sheriff Mannings
• Vanished — Matthew Silkworth
• 1970A Storm in Summer — Policeman
• The Bold Ones: The Senator — Jasper Lick
• 1970Weekend of Terror — Lieutenant Papich
• The Bold Ones: The New Doctors — Fairchild
• 1969The Learning Tree — Doc Tim Cravens
• Lancer
• Land of the Giants — Insp. Dobbs Kobick
• The Mod Squad — Evans
• The Outcasts
• Cimarron Strip — Dum Dum
• Ironside
• Mannix — Alan Guthrie, Jackson
• The Guns of Will Sonnett — Kingman
• The High Chaparral — Dolph Tanner
• 1967The Last Challenge — Frank Garrison
• 1967The Ride to Hangman's Tree — Prisoner (Uncredited)
• Blue Light
• Felony Squad
• Mission: Impossible — David Webster, Kurt Lom, Dave Klinger
• The Time Tunnel — Sgt. Maddox, McDonnell, Greek Sword Leader, Alien Planet Leader
• Branded — Paul Mandell
• Lost in Space — Alien
• 1965Shenandoah — Mule - Rebel Deserter
• The Big Valley — Harry Coleman, Charlie, Amos Farrell, Sheriff Zack Fain, Barney, Zack Case
• The Wild Wild West — Silas Crotty
• Daniel Boone — John Dobson, Alex Stokes, Bart Wallace
• Profiles in Courage — Sweet
• 1964Rio Conchos — Blondebeard
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. — Krolik, Darien Dawson
• Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea — Komal
• Kraft Suspense Theatre — Nilsen
• The Lieutenant — Lt. Col. Harris Farrell
• 1963The Man from Galveston — John Dillard
• General Electric True
• 1962Rider on a Dead Horse — Jake Fry
• The Gallant Men
• The Virginian — Oscar Swenson, Albert Morgan
• Cain's Hundred — Charlie Chinn
• Straightaway
• The New Breed — Arne Halverson
• Outlaws
• Thriller — Sgt. Spivak, Arno Lunt
• Bonanza — Brother Guy, Sheriff King, Hobie Klinderman
• Hawaiian Eye — Brother Love
• Laramie
• Mr. Lucky — Jojo
• 1959Pork Chop Hill — Cpl. Kissell
• Rawhide — Jess Cain
• Riverboat — John Hollister
• The Deputy — Kemmer
• The Twilight Zone — Pete Radcliff, James Webber
• The Untouchables — Swede Kelso, Jan Tobek
• 77 Sunset Strip
• Bat Masterson — Ace Williams
• 1958Gunsmoke in Tucson — Clem Haney
• Lawman — Kulp
• The Rifleman
• Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
• Yancy Derringer — John Colton
• Have Gun, Will Travel — Judd Bowman, Jory - Townsman
• M Squad — Eddie Ferguson
• Maverick — Justin Radcliffe
• Perry Mason — Sgt. Burke, Jacob Leonard, Samuel Carleton
• The Walter Winchell File
• Wagon Train — Lansing, Claymore
• Cheyenne — Joseph Moran
• Gunsmoke — Bill Jennings, Coney, Nate, Bowman, Hobie, Emmett, Judge Josh Pike
• Lassie
• General Electric Theater — Ghost, Pete, Harry Pell
• Dragnet
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Policeman
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars — Jacobi