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Dean Jagger is a Actor American born on 7 november 1903 at Columbus Grove (USA)

Dean Jagger

Dean Jagger
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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

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).

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.

Best films

Elmer Gantry
Elmer Gantry
(1960)
(Actor) Twelve O'Clock High
Twelve O'Clock High
(1949)
(Actor) Game of Death
Game of Death
(1978)
(Actor)

Usually with

Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee
(2 films)
Robert Clouse
Robert Clouse
(2 films)
Edith Head
Edith Head
(5 films)
Sammo Hung
Sammo Hung
(2 films)
Ann Sheridan
Ann Sheridan
(5 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Dean Jagger (81 films)

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Actor

Brigham Young
Brigham Young (1940)
, 1h53
Directed by Otto Brower, Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Romance, Western
Themes Films about religion, Children's films
Actors Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Dean Jagger, Brian Donlevy, Jane Darwell, John Carradine
Roles Brigham Young
Rating62% 3.140973.140973.140973.140973.14097
The story begins in frontier-town Nauvoo, Illinois in 1844. It follows the main body of the Church as they are forced to leave Illinois, choosing to settle temporarily in Nebraska and then to travel by wagon train to the Great Basin. Much of the story's plot revolves around two of the group, Jonathan Kent and Zina Webb.
Having Wonderful Time
Having Wonderful Time (1938)
, 1h10
Directed by Robert Parrish, Alfred Santell, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Transport films, Films based on plays, Road movies
Actors Ginger Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Lucille Ball, Eve Arden, Red Skelton, Lee Bowman
Roles Charlie (uncredited)
Rating59% 2.9964452.9964452.9964452.9964452.996445
Bored New York office girl Teddy (Ginger Rogers), goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains called Camp Kare Free, for rest and to get away from the noisy, busy, city life and avoid advances from Emil. She meets and at first does not like waiter Chick, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. She also meets friend Faye, her roommate Miriam, and Buzzy. Miriam has eyes for Buzzy, who seems to have eyes for everyone. Within her two-week stay, Teddy and Chick fall in love and spend every day together.
Escape by Night
Escape by Night (1937)
, 1h4
Directed by Hamilton MacFadden
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors William Hall, Anne Nagel, Dean Jagger, Steffi Duna, Ward Bond, Murray Alper
Roles James 'Capper' Regan
Rating59% 2.953282.953282.953282.953282.95328
Des escrocs runyonesques sur le lam se cachent dans la ferme pastorale des aveugles et décident d'aller tout droit.
Dangerous Number
Dangerous Number (1937)
, 1h11
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Robert Young, Ann Sothern, Spencer Charters, Reginald Owen, Cora Witherspoon, Dean Jagger
Roles Dillman
Rating51% 2.5712652.5712652.5712652.5712652.571265
A clothing manufacturer, Hank (Robert Young) returns from a year in Japan, learning about a new formula for synthetic silk, to discover that his girlfriend Eleanor (Ann Sothern) is engaged to marry another man. Hank persuades her to jilt the new man at the altar.
Revolt of the Zombies
Revolt of the Zombies (1936)
, 1h5
Directed by Victor Halperin, Jean Yarbrough
Origin USA
Genres Action, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Actors Dean Jagger, Roy D'Arcy, George Cleveland, Carl Stockdale, E. Alyn Warren, John Archer
Roles Armand Louque
Rating34% 1.7108451.7108451.7108451.7108451.710845
On the Franco-Austrian Frontier during World War I, an Oriental priest, chaplain of a French colonial regiment, is condemned to life imprisonment because he possesses the power to turn men into zombies. In his prison cell, the priest prepares to burn a parchment containing the location of the secret formula. Gen. Mazovia (Roy D'Arcy) kills the priest and takes the partially burned parchment. After the war, an expedition of representatives from the Allied countries with colonial interests are sent to Cambodia to find and destroy forever the so-called "Secret of the Zombies". The group includes Colonel Mazovia; a student of dead languages, Armand Louque (Dean Jagger); Englishman Clifford Grayson (Robert Noland); General Duval (George Cleveland); and his daughter Claire (Dorothy Stone).
13 Hours by Air
13 Hours by Air (1936)
, 1h17
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett, Zasu Pitts, Brian Donlevy, Alan Baxter, John Howard
Roles Hap Waller
Rating62% 3.1340153.1340153.1340153.1340153.134015
Airline pilot Jack Gordon (Fred MacMurray) on a flight from New York to San Francisco, is immediately attracted to beautiful passenger Felice Rollins (Joan Bennett). Known as a "lady's man", he betting stewardess Vi Johnson (Ruth Donnelly) that he will take Felice out to dinner that evening. A jewel robbery is in the news and a beautiful blonde is implicated, with Jack suspecting that Felice may be the culprit. On a stop over in Chicago, Jack learns instead that his passenger is a wealthy socialite at odds with another passenger, Count Stephani (Fred Keating). Jack worries that he may have a crisis involving the Count when he finds Stephani has a gun aboard. Other passengers include Dr. Evarts (Brian Donlevy) and Curtis Palmer (Alan Baxter, both of whom seem to be harboring a secret.
Wings in the Dark
Wings in the Dark (1935)
, 1h15
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Transport films, Aviation films, Films about disabilities, La cécité
Actors Myrna Loy, Cary Grant, Roscoe Karns, Hobart Cavanaugh, Dean Jagger, Russell Hopton
Roles Top Harmon
Rating63% 3.1964853.1964853.1964853.1964853.196485
Skywriter and stunt pilot Sheila Mason (Myrna Loy) who has to work as a barnstormer because women were not allowed to be active in other aviation fields, is attracted to ace pilot Ken Gordon (Cary Grant). Ken is trying to perfect instrument flying (flying "blind"), with his own design of an autopilot. He has devoted four years to perfecting the system and even mortgaged his aircraft to get funds to finance his experiments. Before being able to prove his invention works, while Sheila Mason helps him prepare for the decisive flight, cooking him coffee, the stove has problems to get the flame. He tries to help her, but the gas around inflames right in his eyes. He is blinded at least temporarily, but the doctors can't say how long.
Men Without Names
Men Without Names (1935)
, 1h6
Directed by Ralph Murphy, Hal Walker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime, Romance
Actors Fred MacMurray, Madge Evans, David Jack Holt, Lynne Overman, Elizabeth Patterson, Grant Mitchell
Roles Jones
Rating64% 3.215583.215583.215583.215583.21558
Il met en scène le Ministère de la Justice des États-Unis et ses agents. Un gang impitoyable vole audacieusement un camion postal et s'enfuit vers l'ouest des États-Unis. Quand l'argent du vol arrive dans une petite ville du Kansas, le département envoie l'agent Dick Grant pour enquêter, se faisant passer pour un homme d'affaires. Il est gêné dans sa tâche par une journaliste locale, Helen Sherwood, et quand il tombe amoureux d'elle, il est incapable de lui révéler qui il est vraiment et pourquoi il est là.
Car 99
Car 99 (1935)
, 1h7
Directed by Charles Barton
Origin USA
Genres Action, Crime
Actors Fred MacMurray, Ann Sheridan, Guy Standing, Dean Jagger, William Frawley, Frank Craven
Roles Trooper Jim Burton
Rating63% 3.1832453.1832453.1832453.1832453.183245