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Acting

Dean Jagger

Career: Active from 1929 to 2000, with a break from 1981 to 1999, busiest in 1935 and 1937 with 6 main titles each.

Leading roles: 42
top three billing

Average score: 61/100

Highest rated: Bad Day at Black Rock
87/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 65 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Dean Jagger Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.0, average 5.4
Cringe Humor
1.1, average 2.2
Fantasy
0.7, average 1.7
Absurdist Humor
1.0, average 2.0

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Classic Western 8
Character Study 6
Classic Hollywood 6
Moral Dilemma 5
Moral Ambiguity 5
Historical Drama 5
Historical Setting 3
Psychological Thriller 3
Crime Thriller 3
Psychological Drama 3
Lighthearted 3
Character-Driven 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

122

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2000s

1 title

'White Christmas': A Look Back with Rosemary Clooney

as Major General Thomas F. Waverly (archive footage) (uncredited)

1980s

4 titles · average score 61

Evil Town

38

as Doctor Schaeffer

St. Elsewhere

77

TV show · as David Domedion

Alligator

66

as Slade

Gideon's Trumpet

64

as 6th Supreme Court Justice

1970s

24 titles · average score 57

Game of Death

48

as Dr. Land

The Hanged Man

51

as Josiah Lowe

I Heard the Owl Call My Name

63

as Jim Wallace

So Sad About Gloria

45

as Frederick Wellman

The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment

as Matthew Keller

The Waltons

65

TV show · as Professor Bowen

Vanishing Point

68

as Prospector

Columbo

83

TV show · as Walter Cannell

Incident in San Francisco

as Sam Baldwin

The Brotherhood of the Bell

58

as Chad Harmon

Tiger by the Tail

54

as Top Polk

The Kremlin Letter

60

as Highwayman

1960s

16 titles · average score 64

Smith!

57

as Judge James C. Brown

The Lonely Profession

as Charles Van Cleve

Day of the Evil Gun

56

as Jimmy Noble

Firecreek

55

as Whittier

First to Fight

68

as Colonel Baseman

Mr. Novak

73

TV show · as Principal Albert Vane

The Fugitive

84

TV show · as Tony Donovan

Billy Rose's Jumbo

58

as John Noble

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

54

TV show · as George Davies

Parrish

57

as Sala Post

Elmer Gantry

86

as William L. Morgan

Cash McCall

58

as Grant Austen

1950s

35 titles · average score 67

The Nun's Story

77

as Dr. Hubert Van Der Mal

The Proud Rebel

65

as Harry Burleigh

Forty Guns

76

as Sheriff Ned Logan

X: The Unknown

63

as Dr. Adam Royston

Red Sundown

63

as Jade Murphy

On the Threshold of Space

62

as Dr. Hugo Thornton

Bad Day at Black Rock

87

as Tim Horn

White Christmas

71

as General Waverly

The Robe

70

as Justus

Denver and Rio Grande

52

as General William J. Palmer

My Son John

42

as Dan Jefferson

Warpath

59

as Sam Quade

1940s

17 titles · average score 63

Twelve O'Clock High

87

as Major / Lieutenant Colonel Harvey Stovall

C-Man

40

as Cliff Holden, alias William Harrah

Driftwood

68

as Dr. Steve Webster

Pursued

86

as Grant

Sister Kenny

71

as Kevin Connors

I Live in Grosvenor Square

67

as Sgt. John Patterson

When Strangers Marry

55

as Paul Baxter

I Escaped from the Gestapo

57

as Torgut Lane

The Omaha Trail

as 'Pipestone' Ross

Western Union

68

as Edward Creighton

The Men in Her Life

63

as David Gibson

Brigham Young

54

as Brigham Young

1930s

23 titles · average score 55

Escape by Night

60

as James 'Capper' Regan

Song of the City

as Paul Herrick

Exiled to Shanghai

as Charlie Sears

Woman in Distress

as Fred Stevens

Under Cover of Night

as Alan Shaw

Dangerous Number

49

as Dillman

Revolt of the Zombies

12

as Armand Louque

Woman Trap

as 'Honey' Hogan

Wanderer of the Wasteland

as Adam Larey

Wings in the Dark

57

as Top Harmon

It's a Great Life

as Arnold

Home on the Range

as Thurman

1920s

2 titles

The Woman from Hell

as Jim Coakley

as Gerald Morely