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Dean Jagger is a Actor American born on 7 november 1903 at Columbus Grove (USA)
Dean Jeffries Jagger (November 7, 1903 – February 5, 1991) was an American film, stage and television actor who received an Academy Award for his role in Henry King's Twelve O'Clock High (1949).
Vie personnelle
Il abandonne l'école à plusieurs reprises avant d'entrer finalement au Wabash College. Dans cette université, il est membre de la fraternité Lambda Chi Alpha et joue au football. Dans sa deuxième année, il arrête ses études, se rendant compte que l'université ne lui convenait pas. Durant quelques semestres, il travaille comme enseignant dans une école élémentaire, avant d'intégrer le Conservatoire des Arts de Chicago (Art Lyceum Conservatoire). Avant de tourner son premier film en 1929, Jagger travailla à la radio.
Jagger a été baptisé comme membre de l'Église de Jésus-Christ des saints des derniers jours en 1972.
Il meurt d'une maladie cardiaque à Santa Monica, Californie.
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Birth name Ira Dean Jagger
Nationality USA
Birth 7 november 1903 at Columbus Grove (USA)
Death 5 february 1991 (at 87 years) at Santa Monica (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Daytime Emmy Award
Nationality USA
Birth 7 november 1903 at Columbus Grove (USA)
Death 5 february 1991 (at 87 years) at Santa Monica (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Daytime Emmy Award
Biography
Ira Dean Jagger naît à Columbus Grove en Ohio. Il fait ses débuts au cinéma dans The Woman from Hell (1929) avec Mary Astor. Il devient un acteur à succès, sans devenir une grande star et apparaît dans près de cent films dans une carrière qui se prolonge jusque peu de temps avant sa mort.Vie personnelle
Il abandonne l'école à plusieurs reprises avant d'entrer finalement au Wabash College. Dans cette université, il est membre de la fraternité Lambda Chi Alpha et joue au football. Dans sa deuxième année, il arrête ses études, se rendant compte que l'université ne lui convenait pas. Durant quelques semestres, il travaille comme enseignant dans une école élémentaire, avant d'intégrer le Conservatoire des Arts de Chicago (Art Lyceum Conservatoire). Avant de tourner son premier film en 1929, Jagger travailla à la radio.
Jagger a été baptisé comme membre de l'Église de Jésus-Christ des saints des derniers jours en 1972.
Il meurt d'une maladie cardiaque à Santa Monica, Californie.
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X the Unknown (1956)
, 1h21Directed by Joseph Losey, Leslie Norman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Dean Jagger, Leo McKern, Edward Chapman, Anthony Newley, Jameson Clark, William Lucas
Roles Dr. Adam Royston
Rating61%
The film takes place in the Lochmouth region of Scotland, near Glasgow. A group of soldiers are taking turns using a Geiger counter to find a small and harmless hidden source of radioactivity in a wide pit area. Private Lansing (Kenneth Cope) finds another mysterious source of radiation where ground water starts to boil. As the other soldiers begin to run, there is an explosion. Lansing, who was closest to the explosion, dies of radiation burns while another soldier has bad radiation burns to his back. At the site of the explosion, there is a Y-shaped crack in the ground with no apparent bottom. Dr. Royston (Dean Jagger), from a nearby Atomic Energy Laboratory at Lochmouth, is called in to investigate, along with Inspector McGill (Leo McKern), who runs security at the UK Atomic Energy Commission.
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
, 1h21Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Western
Themes Films about racism
Actors Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, Ernest Borgnine
Roles Tim Horn
Rating76%
In late 1945, one-armed John J. Macreedy (Spencer Tracy) gets off a passenger train at the isolated desert hamlet of Black Rock. It is the first time in 4 years that the train has stopped there. Macreedy is looking for a man named Komoko, but the few residents are inexplicably hostile. The young hotel desk clerk, Pete Wirth (John Ericson), claims he has no vacant rooms. Macreedy is threatened by Hector David (Lee Marvin). Later, Reno Smith (Robert Ryan) informs Macreedy that Komoko, a Japanese-American, was interned during World War II.
The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
, 1h22Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Jack Warner, Richard Wordsworth, Dame Thora Hird, Lionel Jeffries
Rating65%
The British Rocket Group, headed by the taciturn Professor Bernard Quatermass, launches its first manned rocket into space. Shortly thereafter, all contact is lost with the rocket and its three crew: Carroon, Reichenheim, and Green. The large rocket later returns to Earth, crashing into an English country field.
It's a Dog's Life (1955)
Directed by Herman Hoffman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Jeff Richards, Dean Jagger, Edmund Gwenn, Eve McVeagh, Vic Morrow, J. M. Kerrigan
Roles Mr. Wyndham
Rating65%
The Eternal Sea (1955)
, 1h43Directed by John H. Auer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, Political films
Actors Sterling Hayden, Alexis Smith, Ben Cooper, Dean Jagger, Virginia Grey, Hayden Rorke
Roles Vice-Adm. Thomas L. Semple
Rating61%
Histoire vécue du contre-amiral américain John M. Hoskins, chargé de former les pilotes de l'aéronavale, puis de commander un porte-avions qui sera coulé et lui coûtera une jambe. Au lieu d'arrêter, il repartira dans l'aviation de marine à réaction, en Corée, dans laquelle il accomplira des prouesses....
White Christmas (1954)
, 2hDirected by Michael Curtiz, Robert Alton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Christmas films, Musical films
Actors Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen, Dean Jagger, Mary Wickes
Roles General Waverly
Rating75%
On Christmas Eve, 1944, somewhere in Europe, two World War II U.S. Army soldiers, one a Broadway entertainer, Captain Bob Wallace (Bing Crosby), the other an aspiring entertainer, Private Phil Davis (Danny Kaye), perform for the 151st Division. But word has come down that their beloved commanding officer, Major General Thomas F. Waverly (Dean Jagger), is being relieved of command. He arrives for the end of the show and delivers an emotional farewell. The men give him a rousing send-off ("The Old Man").
Executive Suite (1954)
, 1h44Directed by Robert Wise
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March, Walter Pidgeon, June Allyson, Louis Calhern
Roles Jesse Q. Grimm
Rating73%
While in New York City to meet with investment bankers, 56-year-old Avery Bullard, president and driving force of the Tredway Corporation, a major furniture manufacturing company in the town of Millburgh, Pennsylvania, drops dead in the street. As he collapses in the street he drops his wallet which is picked up by a bystander, emptied of its cash, and shoved into a wastebasket. Without the wallet, there's no way to immediately identify the body as Bullard.
Private Hell 36 (1954)
, 1h21Directed by Don Siegel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Steve Cochran, Howard Duff, Ida Lupino, Dean Jagger, Dorothy Malone, James Anderson
Roles Police Capt. Michaels
Rating66%
L.A. police detectives Cal Bruner (Steve Cochran) and Jack Farnham (Howard Duff) get in over their heads when they decide to split up thousands of dollars they found on a recently killed counterfeiter. To make matters worse, they are assigned by their police captain to look for the missing cash.
The Robe (1953)
, 2h15Directed by Henry Koster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Peplum
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Films based on the Bible, Portrayals of Jesus in film, Children's films
Actors Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Michael Rennie, Jay Robinson, Dean Jagger
Roles Justus
Rating67%
The action takes place in Ancient Rome, Judaea, Capri, and Galilee in a time period stretching from A.D. 32 to A.D. 38
It Grows on Trees (1952)
, 1h24Directed by Arthur Lubin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Irene Dunne, Dean Jagger, Richard Crenna, Joan Evans, Les Tremayne, Sandy Descher
Roles Phil Baxter
Rating65%
The story is about a couple who discover two trees in their backyard that grow money. One morning a few days after Polly Baxter (Dunne) purchased a couple of trees and planted them in her backyard, a $5 bill floats in through an open window, spurring a curious turn of luck to her family's ongoing financial concerns.
Denver and Rio Grande (1952)
, 1h29Directed by Byron Haskin
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Edmond O'Brien, Sterling Hayden, Dean Jagger, Kasey Rogers, Lyle Bettger, J. Carrol Naish
Roles General William J. Palmer
Rating57%
In the late 1870s, chief engineer Gil Harkness (J. Carrol Naish) and construction foreman Jim Vesser (Edmond O'Brien) are surveying a new route for the D&RG through the Royal Gorge in Colorado. Vesser learns that a crew from the competing Cañon City & San Juan Railroad is also in the gorge and confronts former friend Bob Nelson and his unscrupulous boss, McCabe (Sterling Hayden). McCabe shoots Nelson in the back during a fight but he and crony Johnny Buff (Lyle Bettger) blame Vesser, who thinks he accidentally shot Nelson. Linda Prescott (Kasey Rogers), the secretary of D&RG president General William J. Palmer (Dean Jagger), believes that Vesser to be a cowardly killer. An injunction stops work by the D&RG in the gorge and Vesser suggests they run the CC&SJ men "out on a pole." Linda, who is actually Nelson's sister and is spying for McCabe after being told by him that Vesser murdered her brother, angrily accuses him of acting above the law.
It Grows on Trees (1952)
, 1h24Directed by Arthur Lubin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Irene Dunne, Dean Jagger, Joan Evans, Richard Crenna, Les Tremayne, Forrest Lewis
Roles Phil Baxter
Rating65%
My Son John (1952)
, 2h2Directed by Leo McCarey, Ray McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Helen Hayes, Van Heflin, Dean Jagger, Robert Walker, Minor Watson, Frank McHugh
Roles Dan Jefferson
Rating55%
In uniform, John and Ben Jefferson, strapping blonds who played high school football, attend Sunday Mass with their parents before leaving for army service in Korea. Their older brother, John sends regrets that he can not join their farewell dinner because of his work for the federal government in Washington.
Rawhide (1951)
, 1h29Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Edgar Buchanan, Hugh Marlowe, Jack Elam, George Tobias
Roles Yancy
Rating70%
Tom Owens (Tyrone Power) is the clean-cut and sophisticated gentlemen son of the Eastern Division Manager of the Overland Mail Company, J. C. Owens. His father decides he needs to learn the business from the ground up so sends Tom out west to a remote relay station, Rawhide Pass, to take lessons from the stationmaster, Sam Todd (Edgar Buchanan), whom he has known for over forty years. Owens has received his "pardon" from his father, however, and is scheduled to return to civilization in one week. He can't wait.
Warpath (1951)
, 1h35Directed by Byron Haskin
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Edmond O'Brien, Dean Jagger, Polly Bergen, Robert Bray, Forrest Tucker, Harry Carey, Jr.
Roles Sam Quade
Rating60%
John Vickers has spent eight years hunting for the three men who murdered the woman he loved. He finds one, Woodson, and kills him in a gunfight, but not before learning that the other two men have joined the U.S. Cavalry.