Dean Jagger: movies and TV shows
Dean Jagger has 126 credits in the archive: 99 films and 27 TV series, from 1929 to 2026. Highest rated: Hallmark Hall of Fame (8.8/10).
Career timeline
1929 – 2026 · busiest year: 1935 (7 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Elvis: A Life in Music | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 122 |
| 2000 | 'White Christmas': A Look Back with Rosemary Clooney | Major General Thomas F. Waverly (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 5.0 | 96 |
| 1994 | The World of Hammer | Self (archive footage) | TV | 6.8 | 90 |
| 1987 | Evil Town | Doctor Schaeffer | Film | 3.8 | 83 |
| 1982 | St. Elsewhere | David Domedion | TV | 5.7 | 78 |
| 1982 | Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady | Film | 6.0 | 78 | |
| 1980 | Alligator | Slade | Film | 6.1 | 76 |
| 1980 | Gideon's Trumpet | 6th Supreme Court Justice | Film | 6.4 | 76 |
| 1978 | Game of Death | Dr. Land | Film | 6.4 | 74 |
| 1977 | Hunter | TV | 8.2 | 73 | |
| 1977 | End of the World | Ray Collins | Film | 3.8 | 73 |
| 1976 | The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case | Koehler | Film | 6.5 | 72 |
| 1975 | Dr. Shagetz | Dr. Shagetz | Film | — | 71 |
| 1974 | Harry O | TV | 5.2 | 70 | |
| 1974 | The Hanged Man | Josiah Lowe | Film | 4.5 | 70 |
| 1974 | The Great Lester Boggs | Film | 8.0 | 70 | |
| 1973 | The Stranger | Carl Webster | Film | 3.9 | 69 |
| 1973 | The Lie | Arnold Edgarton | Film | 6.0 | 69 |
| 1973 | So Sad About Gloria | Frederick Wellman | Film | 4.3 | 69 |
| 1973 | I Heard the Owl Call My Name | Jim Wallace | Film | 7.0 | 69 |
| 1972 | The Waltons | Professor Bowen | TV | 7.2 | 68 |
| 1972 | The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment | Matthew Keller | Film | 9.0 | 68 |
| 1972 | Delphi Bureau | Quick | TV | 8.0 | 68 |
| 1972 | Kung Fu | Henry Raphael Caine | TV | 7.7 | 68 |
| 1972 | The Glass House | Warden Auerbach | Film | 6.4 | 68 |
| 1971 | Columbo | Walter Cannell | TV | 8.1 | 67 |
| 1971 | Alias Smith and Jones | TV | 7.0 | 67 | |
| 1971 | Vanishing Point | Prospector | Film | 7.1 | 67 |
| 1971 | Incident in San Francisco | Sam Baldwin | Film | 5.7 | 67 |
| 1970 | The Partridge Family | Charlie | TV | 6.8 | 66 |
| 1970 | The Kremlin Letter | Highwayman | Film | 5.9 | 66 |
| 1970 | Tiger by the Tail | Top Polk | Film | 5.3 | 66 |
| 1970 | The Brotherhood of the Bell | Chad Harmon | Film | 6.0 | 66 |
| 1969 | Medical Center | TV | 6.4 | 65 | |
| 1969 | Smith! | Judge James C. Brown | Film | 5.9 | 65 |
| 1969 | The Lonely Profession | Charles Van Cleve | Film | 7.0 | 65 |
| 1968 | Day of the Evil Gun | Jimmy Noble | Film | 6.2 | 64 |
| 1968 | Firecreek | Whittier | Film | 6.3 | 64 |
| 1967 | First to Fight | Colonel Baseman | Film | 7.9 | 63 |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. | Bishop John Atwood | TV | 5.6 | 61 |
| 1963 | The Fugitive | Tony Donovan | TV | 7.3 | 59 |
| 1963 | Mr. Novak | Principal Albert Vane | TV | 7.3 | 59 |
| 1962 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | George Davies | TV | 7.8 | 58 |
| 1962 | Billy Rose's Jumbo | John Noble | Film | 6.0 | 58 |
| 1961 | Dr. Kildare | Lt. Gen. John Sparrow | TV | 5.7 | 57 |
| 1961 | Parrish | Sala Post | Film | 5.3 | 57 |
| 1961 | The Honeymoon Machine | Admiral Fitch | Film | 6.5 | 57 |
| 1960 | Elmer Gantry | William L. Morgan | Film | 7.3 | 56 |
| 1960 | Cash McCall | Grant Austen | Film | 6.3 | 56 |
| 1959 | The Twilight Zone | Ed Lindsay | TV | 8.5 | 55 |
| 1959 | The Nun's Story | Dr. Hubert Van Der Mal | Film | 7.2 | 55 |
| 1958 | King Creole | Mr. Fisher | Film | 6.4 | 54 |
| 1958 | The Proud Rebel | Harry Burleigh | Film | 6.1 | 54 |
| 1957 | Bernardine | J. Fullerton Weldy | Film | 7.6 | 53 |
| 1957 | Armored Attack! | as Rodion Pavlov | Film | 6.2 | 53 |
| 1957 | Forty Guns | Sheriff Ned Logan | Film | 6.6 | 53 |
| 1957 | The Dark Side of the Earth | Anton Rojas | Film | — | 53 |
| 1956 | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Bert Ensign | TV | 6.2 | 52 |
| 1956 | Red Sundown | Jade Murphy | Film | 6.1 | 52 |
| 1956 | X: The Unknown | Dr. Adam Royston | Film | 6.1 | 52 |
| 1956 | The Great Man | Philip Carleton | Film | 5.0 | 52 |
| 1956 | On the Threshold of Space | Dr. Hugo Thornton | Film | 6.0 | 52 |
| 1956 | Three Brave Men | John W. Rogers | Film | 6.3 | 52 |
| 1955 | The 20th Century Fox Hour | TV | 6.0 | 51 | |
| 1955 | Bad Day at Black Rock | Tim Horn | Film | 7.3 | 51 |
| 1955 | It's a Dog's Life | Mr. Wyndham | Film | 4.3 | 51 |
| 1955 | The Eternal Sea | Vice-Adm. Thomas L. Semple | Film | 6.6 | 51 |
| 1954 | White Christmas | General Waverly | Film | 7.2 | 50 |
| 1954 | Executive Suite | Jesse Q. Grimm | Film | 7.1 | 50 |
| 1954 | Private Hell 36 | Police Capt. Michaels | Film | 6.3 | 50 |
| 1953 | Letter to Loretta | Harry Holt | TV | 6.6 | 49 |
| 1953 | The Robe | Justus | Film | 6.9 | 49 |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater | Adam 'Mister Doc' Darrow | TV | 6.8 | 49 |
| 1952 | Cavalcade of America | TV | 4.6 | 48 | |
| 1952 | Denver and Rio Grande | General William J. Palmer | Film | 5.6 | 48 |
| 1952 | My Son John | Dan Jefferson | Film | 5.8 | 48 |
| 1952 | It Grows on Trees | Phil Baxter | Film | 8.4 | 48 |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | 6th Supreme Court Justice | TV | 8.8 | 47 |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | Ed Gorman | TV | 7.2 | 47 |
| 1951 | Rawhide | Yancy | Film | 6.8 | 47 |
| 1951 | Warpath | Sam Quade | Film | 6.0 | 47 |
| 1950 | Lux Video Theatre | John Straley | TV | 6.7 | 46 |
| 1950 | Dark City | Captain Garvey | Film | 6.5 | 46 |
| 1950 | Sierra | Jeff Hassard | Film | 5.4 | 46 |
| 1949 | Twelve O'Clock High | Major / Lieutenant Colonel Harvey Stovall | Film | 7.2 | 45 |
| 1949 | C-Man | Cliff Holden, alias William Harrah | Film | 5.3 | 45 |
| 1948 | Studio One | Ben Willson | TV | 5.4 | 44 |
| 1948 | The Philco Television Playhouse | Charles Burnett | TV | 6.6 | 44 |
| 1947 | Driftwood | Dr. Steve Webster | Film | 6.8 | 43 |
| 1947 | Pursued | Grant | Film | 6.6 | 43 |
| 1946 | Sister Kenny | Kevin Connors | Film | 6.9 | 42 |
| 1945 | I Live in Grosvenor Square | Sgt. John Patterson | Film | 7.3 | 41 |
| 1944 | Alaska | John Masters | Film | 7.0 | 40 |
| 1944 | When Strangers Marry | Paul Baxter | Film | 6.2 | 40 |
| 1943 | The North Star | Rodion Pavlov | Film | 6.0 | 39 |
| 1943 | I Escaped from the Gestapo | Torgut Lane | Film | 6.0 | 39 |
| 1942 | The Omaha Trail | 'Pipestone' Ross | Film | 7.0 | 38 |
| 1942 | Valley of the Sun | Jim Sawyer | Film | 6.3 | 38 |
| 1941 | Western Union | Edward Creighton | Film | 6.0 | 37 |
| 1941 | The Men in Her Life | David Gibson | Film | 6.7 | 37 |
| 1940 | Brigham Young | Brigham Young | Film | 4.6 | 36 |
| 1938 | Having Wonderful Time | Charlie (uncredited) | Film | 4.9 | 34 |
| 1937 | Escape by Night | James 'Capper' Regan | Film | 6.0 | 33 |
| 1937 | Under Cover of Night | Alan Shaw | Film | 6.0 | 33 |
| 1937 | Exiled to Shanghai | Charlie Sears | Film | 5.5 | 33 |
| 1937 | Dangerous Number | Dillman | Film | 4.9 | 33 |
| 1937 | Woman in Distress | Fred Stevens | Film | 8.0 | 33 |
| 1937 | Song of the City | Paul Herrick | Film | 8.0 | 33 |
| 1936 | Woman Trap | 'Honey' Hogan | Film | 8.0 | 32 |
| 1936 | Revolt of the Zombies | Armand Louque | Film | 3.4 | 32 |
| 1936 | Star for a Night | Fritz Lind | Film | 7.0 | 32 |
| 1936 | 13 Hours by Air | Hap Waller | Film | 5.2 | 32 |
| 1936 | Pepper | Bob O'Ryan | Film | 5.0 | 32 |
| 1935 | Wanderer of the Wasteland | Adam Larey | Film | 6.0 | 31 |
| 1935 | Wings in the Dark | Top Harmon | Film | 6.4 | 31 |
| 1935 | It's a Great Life | Arnold | Film | 9.0 | 31 |
| 1935 | Home on the Range | Thurman | Film | 9.0 | 31 |
| 1935 | Car 99 | Trooper Jim Burton | Film | 7.5 | 31 |
| 1935 | Men Without Names | Agent Jones | Film | 6.3 | 31 |
| 1935 | People Will Talk | Bill Trask | Film | 4.3 | 31 |
| 1934 | Behold My Wife! | Pete | Film | 8.0 | 30 |
| 1934 | College Rhythm | Coach Robbins | Film | 5.6 | 30 |
| 1934 | You Belong to Me | Military School Instructor | Film | 7.0 | 30 |
| 1930 | Whoopee! | Deputy (uncredited) | Film | 6.5 | 26 |
| 1929 | Handcuffed | Gerald Morely | Film | 10.0 | 25 |
| 1929 | The Woman from Hell | Jim Coakley | Film | 8.0 | 25 |