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).

Filmography

• 2000'White Christmas': A Look Back with Rosemary Clooney — Major General Thomas F. Waverly (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1987Evil Town — Doctor Schaeffer
• St. Elsewhere — David Domedion
• 1980Alligator — Slade
• 1980Gideon's Trumpet — 6th Supreme Court Justice
• 1978Game of Death — Dr. Land
• 1977End of the World — Ray Collins
• Hunter
• 1976The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case — Koehler
• 1975Dr. Shagetz — Dr. Shagetz
• Harry O
• 1974The Great Lester Boggs
• 1974The Hanged Man — Josiah Lowe
• 1973I Heard the Owl Call My Name — Jim Wallace
• 1973So Sad About Gloria — Frederick Wellman
• 1973The Lie — Arnold Edgarton
• 1973The Stranger — Carl Webster
• Delphi Bureau — Quick
• Kung Fu — Henry Raphael Caine
• 1972The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment — Matthew Keller
• 1972The Glass House — Warden Auerbach
• The Waltons — Professor Bowen
• Alias Smith and Jones
• Columbo — Walter Cannell
• 1971Incident in San Francisco — Sam Baldwin
• 1971Vanishing Point — Prospector
• 1970The Brotherhood of the Bell — Chad Harmon
• 1970The Kremlin Letter — Highwayman
• The Partridge Family — Charlie
• 1970Tiger by the Tail — Top Polk
• Medical Center
• 1969Smith! — Judge James C. Brown
• 1969The Lonely Profession — Charles Van Cleve
• 1968Day of the Evil Gun — Jimmy Noble
• 1968Firecreek — Whittier
• 1967First to Fight — Colonel Baseman
• The F.B.I. — Bishop John Atwood
• Mr. Novak — Principal Albert Vane
• The Fugitive — Tony Donovan
• 1962Billy Rose's Jumbo — John Noble
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour — George Davies
• Dr. Kildare — Lt. Gen. John Sparrow
• 1961Parrish — Sala Post
• 1961The Honeymoon Machine — Admiral Fitch
• 1960Cash McCall — Grant Austen
• 1960Elmer Gantry — William L. Morgan
• 1959The Nun's Story — Dr. Hubert Van Der Mal
• The Twilight Zone — Ed Lindsay
• 1958King Creole — Mr. Fisher
• 1958The Proud Rebel — Harry Burleigh
• 1957Armored Attack! — as Rodion Pavlov
• 1957Bernardine — J. Fullerton Weldy
• 1957Forty Guns — Sheriff Ned Logan
• 1957The Dark Side of the Earth — Anton Rojas
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre — Bert Ensign
• 1956On the Threshold of Space — Dr. Hugo Thornton
• 1956Red Sundown — Jade Murphy
• 1956The Great Man — Philip Carleton
• 1956Three Brave Men — John W. Rogers
• 1956X: The Unknown — Dr. Adam Royston
• 1955Bad Day at Black Rock — Tim Horn
• 1955It's a Dog's Life — Mr. Wyndham
• The 20th Century Fox Hour
• 1955The Eternal Sea — Vice-Adm. Thomas L. Semple
• 1954Executive Suite — Jesse Q. Grimm
• 1954Private Hell 36 — Police Capt. Michaels
• 1954White Christmas — General Waverly
• General Electric Theater — Adam 'Mister Doc' Darrow
• Letter to Loretta — Harry Holt
• 1953The Robe — Justus
• Cavalcade of America
• 1952Denver and Rio Grande — General William J. Palmer
• 1952It Grows on Trees — Phil Baxter
• 1952My Son John — Dan Jefferson
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — 6th Supreme Court Justice
• 1951Rawhide — Yancy
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars — Ed Gorman
• 1951Warpath — Sam Quade
• 1950Dark City — Captain Garvey
• Lux Video Theatre — John Straley
• 1950Sierra — Jeff Hassard
• 1949C-Man — Cliff Holden, alias William Harrah
• 1949Twelve O'Clock High — Major / Lieutenant Colonel Harvey Stovall
• Studio One — Ben Willson
• The Philco Television Playhouse — Charles Burnett
• 1947Driftwood — Dr. Steve Webster
• 1947Pursued — Grant
• 1946Sister Kenny — Kevin Connors
• 1945I Live in Grosvenor Square — Sgt. John Patterson
• 1944Alaska — John Masters
• 1944When Strangers Marry — Paul Baxter
• 1943I Escaped from the Gestapo — Torgut Lane
• 1943The North Star — Rodion Pavlov
• 1942The Omaha Trail — 'Pipestone' Ross
• 1942Valley of the Sun — Jim Sawyer
• 1941The Men in Her Life — David Gibson
• 1941Western Union — Edward Creighton
• 1940Brigham Young — Brigham Young
• 1938Having Wonderful Time — Charlie (uncredited)
• 1937Dangerous Number — Dillman
• 1937Escape by Night — James 'Capper' Regan
• 1937Exiled to Shanghai — Charlie Sears
• 1937Song of the City — Paul Herrick
• 1937Under Cover of Night — Alan Shaw
• 1937Woman in Distress — Fred Stevens
• 193613 Hours by Air — Hap Waller
• 1936Pepper — Bob O'Ryan
• 1936Revolt of the Zombies — Armand Louque
• 1936Star for a Night — Fritz Lind
• 1936Woman Trap — 'Honey' Hogan
• 1935Car 99 — Trooper Jim Burton
• 1935Home on the Range — Thurman
• 1935It's a Great Life — Arnold
• 1935Men Without Names — Agent Jones
• 1935People Will Talk — Bill Trask
• 1935Wanderer of the Wasteland — Adam Larey
• 1935Wings in the Dark — Top Harmon
• 1934Behold My Wife! — Pete
• 1934College Rhythm — Coach Robbins
• 1934You Belong to Me — Military School Instructor
• 1930Whoopee! — Deputy (uncredited)
• 1929Handcuffed — Gerald Morely
• 1929The Woman from Hell — Jim Coakley

Appearances as themselves (2)

• The World of Hammer — Self (archive footage)
• 1982Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady — Self