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Dean Jagger (1903-1991) was an Oscar® winning American actor. Jagger was a elementary teacher before turning towards a career in acting. Jagger made his screen debut in 1929’s The Woman From Hell. Jagger would become a “good to character” actor. He appeared in movies in 8 different decades. His IMDb page shows 132 acting credits from 1929 to 1985. In the table below, Ultimate Movie Rankings ranks 54 of his movies in 6 different sortable columns. Television roles, his early Paramount projects and many of his low budget movies were not included in the rankings on the table.
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Possibly Interesting Facts About Dean Jagger
1. Dean Ira Jagger was born in Columbus Grove, Ohio in 1903.
2. Dean Jagger was raised on farms. He would practice his oratory skills on cows while working on the farm
3. Dean Jagger was able to join a stock company in Grand Rapids, Michigan when one of the actors moved on. That actor?….Mr. Spencer Tracy.
4. Dean Jagger spoke with a pronounced “lisp” in real life, every -day speech. This speech characteristic only disappeared in front of the camera.
5. Dean Jagger won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar® for 1949’s Twelve O’Clock High.
6. Dean Jagger and Laraine Day were the first Mormon actors to receive stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Their induction was on February 8, 1960.
7. Dean Jagger was married three times….he had one child.
8. Dean Jagger starred in four Oscar® Best Picture nominees: Twelve O’Clock High (1949), The Robe (1953), The Nun’s Story (1959) and Elmer Gantry (1960).
9. Dean Jagger and James Franciscus starred in the popular television show, Mr. Novak from 1963 to 1965.
10. Check out Dean Jagger’s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
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I have always considered Dean Jagger one of the most respected character actors of the classic era of movies. I most enjoyed him in White Christmas, Firecreek [the wild west “town of Losers” in the movie] and the two Edmond O’Brien early 1950s westerns mentioned above, Warpath and Denver and Rio Grande.
Miserly ole you gives Edmond credit for only one of those even though he was the star of both, with Sterling Hayden in just an early but effective supporting role as the “heavy” in Denver and Rio Grande, his most famous supporting roles being decades later in Dr Strangelove and of course as the brutal cop in Godpop.
Coached on-set by Bogie, Edmond [a great actor in my opinion – read The Master’s rave review of him in the fabled 1983 Book of Terror] went on to win as a supporting actor an Oscar and Golden Globe for the 1954 Barefoot Contessa.
In 1964 Ed was Oscar nominated for 7 Days in May and won a Golden Globe for that movie. Again he was just in the supporting actor category but as The Master shrewdly observed Ed often stole movies from bigger stars – this time Lancaster, Douglas, Freddie March and Ava Gardner. Where The Great Hirsch treads we rarely fail to follow so – who knows? – possibly Ed will have his own Cogerson page one day.
I actually last saw Dean Jagger in the chief supporting role in a late career TV movie top-starring Glenn Ford [aka Charlie Bill Stuart] – 1970’s The Brotherhood of the Bell.
IMDB credits Dean with just 4 acting awards and 2 nominations but something tells me that as Dean was a teacher in a pre-acting career [which I didn’t know before this page came out] and as this is a COGERSON site some bonus grosses could be thrown Dean’s way if the opportunity arises! Meanwhile “Vote Up!”
BRUCE
Your edit button doesn’t seem to be operating again so maybe you would change the date of Barefoot Contessa in my previous post to 1954 instead of 1964. Many thanks.
Hey Bob….fixed that year issue for The Barefoot Contessa. Hmmm….not sure why the edit button is not working on your end….will do some research…as it is working on my end. Thanks for the headsup.
HI BRUCE
I appreciate the correction – so many thanks.
Let me just say that his #1 movie The Nun’s Story I can’t stand. I think it would deter any woman that was interested in becoming a nun in the first place (nothing to do with Dean).
Dean was once on The Oracle of Bacon top 1000 Center of the Hollywood Universe list but alas not in nearly 20 years. These are the people on the December 15, 2018 list he has appeared with.
1 CHRISTOPHER LEE End of the World (1977)
12 MAX VON SYDOW The Kremlin Letter (1970)
14 ERNEST BORGNINE Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
14 ERNEST BORGNINE Three Brave Men (1956)
35 HARRY DEAN STANTON Day of the Evil Gun (1968)
35 HARRY DEAN STANTON The Proud Rebel (1958)
48 JOHN CARRADINE Alaska (1944)
48 JOHN CARRADINE Brigham Young (1940)
48 JOHN CARRADINE C-Man (1949)
48 JOHN CARRADINE I Escaped from the Gestapo (1943)
48 JOHN CARRADINE The Proud Rebel (1958)
48 JOHN CARRADINE Western Union (1941)
57 ORSON WELLES The Kremlin Letter (1970)
74 GENE HACKMAN First to Fight (1967)
92 CHARLTON HESTON Dark City (1950)
105 ROBERT MITCHUM Pursued (1947)
105 ROBERT MITCHUM When Strangers Marry (1944)
114 CHARLOTTE RAMPLING Vanishing Point (1971)
127 BURT LANCASTER Elmer Gantry (1960)
137 SHELLEY WINTERS Executive Suite (1954)
142 MARC LAWRENCE Brigham Young (1940)
142 MARC LAWRENCE The Kremlin Letter (1970)
153 ROBERT FORSTER Alligator (1980)
155 ROBERT MORLEY A YANK IN LONDON (1945)
193 WILLIAM HOLDEN Executive Suite (1954)
227 KEENAN WYNN Smith! (1969)
227 KEENAN WYNN The Great Man (1956)
228 JOSE FERRER The Great Man (1956)
230 JEFF COREY Rawhide (1951)
264 JAMES GARNER Cash McCall (1960)
294 MELANIE GRIFFITH Smith! (1969)
297 HENRY FONDA Firecreek (1968)
299 RICHARD BURTON The Robe (1953)
302 GREGORY PECK Twelve O’Clock High (1949)
308 GLENN FORD Day of the Evil Gun (1968)
308 GLENN FORD Smith! (1969)
321 GEORGE SANDERS The Kremlin Letter (1970)
431 HENRY SILVA Alligator (1980)
452 JOHN HUSTON The Kremlin Letter (1970)
467 PAUL FIX Day of the Evil Gun (1968)
467 PAUL FIX Denver and Rio Grande (1952)
467 PAUL FIX Men Without Names (1935)
467 PAUL FIX Warpath (1951)
467 PAUL FIX Woman in Distress (1937)
469 VINCENT PRICE Brigham Young (1940)
474 TONY CURTIS Sierra (1950)
479 VIVECA LINDFORS Dark City (1950)
496 ARTHUR KENNEDY Day of the Evil Gun (1968)
496 ARTHUR KENNEDY Elmer Gantry (1960)
501 RAY MILLAND Three Brave Men (1956)
521 ROYAL DANO Day of the Evil Gun (1968)
524 JACK ELAM Firecreek (1968)
524 JACK ELAM Rawhide (1951)
555 WALTER MATTHAU King Creole (1958)
639 ALEXANDER KNOX Sister Kenny (1946)
656 CAMERON MITCHELL The Robe (1953)
672 WALTER PIDGEON Executive Suite (1954)
682 JOHN HOWARD Car 99 (1935)
682 JOHN HOWARD Thirteen Hours by Air (1936)
691 DUB TAYLOR Parrish (1961)
702 REX HARRISON A YANK IN LONDON (1945)
708 JOHN DEHNER Tiger by the Tail (1970)
717 ROBERT RYAN Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
725 BARRY SULLIVAN Forty Guns (1957)
745 HARRY SHEARER The Robe (1953)
760 LEE MARVIN Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
781 EDWARD ANDREWS ELMER GANTRY (1960)
781 EDWARD ANDREWS THREE BRAVE MEN (1956)
808 RICHARD JAECKEL My Son John (1952)
811 WARREN OATES Smith! (1969)
815 DANA ANDREWS The North Star (1943)
831 COLLEEN CAMP The Game of Death (1978) (While Camp is still around Bruce Lee was dead for a few years already and so was Gig Young who was also in it)
849 RICHARD CRENNA It Grows on Trees (1952)
851 E.G. MARSHALL Cash McCall (1960)
869 RICHARD ANDERSON It’s a Dog’s Life (1955)
869 RICHARD ANDERSON Three Brave Men (1956)
909 JAMES STEWART Firecreek (1968)
932 LIONEL JEFFRIES THE NUN’S STORY (1959)
935 STERLING HAYDEN Denver and Rio Grande (1952)
935 STERLING HAYDEN The Eternal Sea (1955)
955 RAF VALLONE The Kremlin Letter (1970)
959 PETER FINCH The Nun’s Story (1959)
964 STEPHEN BOYD Billy Rose’s Jumbo (1962)
966 JIM BACKUS The Great Man (1956)
993 NINA FOCH Cash McCall (1960)
993 NINA FOCH Executive Suite (1954)
993 NINA FOCH Three Brave Men (1956)
HM (863) EDMOND O’BRIEN Denver and Rio Grande (1952)
HM (863) EDMOND O’BRIEN Warpath (1951)
Dean actually appeared with 45 Oscar winners.
ANNE BAXTER The North Star (1943)
AUDREY HEPBURN The Nun’s Story (1959)
BING CROSBY White Christmas (1954)
BURL IVES Sierra (1950)
BURT LANCASTER Elmer Gantry (1960)
CHARLTON HESTON Dark City (1950)
CLAUDETTE COLBERT Parrish (1961)
DOROTHY MALONE Private Hell 36 (1954)
EDMOND O’BRIEN Denver and Rio Grande (1952)
EDMOND O’BRIEN Warpath (1951)
EDMUND GWENN It’s a Dog’s Life (1955)
ERNEST BORGNINE Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
ERNEST BORGNINE Three Brave Men (1956)
FREDRIC MARCH Executive Suite (1954)
GENE HACKMAN First to Fight (1967)
GEORGE SANDERS The Kremlin Letter (1970)
GIG YOUNG The Game of Death (1978)
GINGER ROGERS Having Wonderful Time (1938)
GREGORY PECK Twelve O’Clock High (1949)
HATTIE MCDANIEL Star for a Night (1936)
HELEN HAYES My Son John (1952)
HENRY FONDA Firecreek (1968)
JAMES STEWART Firecreek (1968)
JANE DARWELL A Yank in London (1945)
JANE DARWELL Brigham Young (1940)
JANE WYMAN College Rhythm (1934)
JANET GAYNOR Bernardine (1957)
JOSE FERRER The Great Man (1956)
KARL MALDEN Parrish (1961)
KIM HUNTER When Strangers Marry (1944)
LEE MARVIN Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
LORETTA YOUNG The Men in Her Life (1941)
MARY ASTOR Brigham Young (1940)
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND The Proud Rebel (1958)
PEGGY ASHCROFT The Nun’s Story (1959)
PETER FINCH The Nun’s Story (1959)
RAY MILLAND Three Brave Men (1956)
REX HARRISON A YANK IN LONDON (1945)
SHELLEY WINTERS Executive Suite (1954)
SHIRLEY JONES Elmer Gantry (1960)
SPENCER TRACY Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
SUSAN HAYWARD Rawhide (1951)
TERESA WRIGHT Pursued (1947)
VAN HEFLIN My Son John (1952)
WALTER BRENNAN Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
WALTER BRENNAN Driftwood (1947)
WALTER BRENNAN The North Star (1943)
WALTER HUSTON The North Star (1943)
WALTER MATTHAU King Creole (1958)
WILLIAM HOLDEN Executive Suite (1954)
Hey Dan. Thanks for these massive trivia lists on Mr. Dean Jagger. I can see that The Nun’s Story would not be some people’s favorite movies. I have seen it once….and that will be the only time I ever watch it. I love Audrey Hepburn…but the movie is so slowly paced….I kept falling asleep and had to keep going back…it made it seem that the movie was 12 hours long.
First list. I have not seen The Proud Rebel….but seeing Harry Dean Stanton as a young man in the trailer was strange indeed. Lost of Oscar winnng co-stars…anytime you almost get to 50…that means he was around some serious Hollywood history. I can only imagine the stories he collected over the 7 decades he worked. Good lists as always.
As I transfer files from the older computers I came across a number of people I copied all their IMDB credits from (all had 5 votes or more from IMDB users). This is the way it used to look in the IMDB in the old days. I would copy the info and import it in my list minus the vote totals and the TV shows. This is Dean Jagger’s page. It’s labeled 2274 – 744 Dean Jagger. 2274 was the number people at the time he was credited as working with per the Oracle of Bacon and 744 was his ranking at the time. I kept pages for a number of people on the list who were on the list but didn’t work with that many people. I also kept people who were not on the list that I discovered worked with a lot of people. The pictures are listed in descending order of how many people rated them on the IMDB.
13,002
Vanishing Point (1971)
10,409
White Christmas (1954)
9,001
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
7,223
The Game of Death (1978)
6,346
Twelve O’Clock High (1949)
5,046
Elmer Gantry (1960)
4,539
Alligator (1980)
4,290
The Nun’s Story (1959)
3,649
The Robe (1953)
2,078
King Creole (1958)
1,706
Forty Guns (1957)
1,687
Executive Suite (1954)
1,323
Firecreek (1968)
1,260
Pursued (1947)
1,010
Western Union (1941)
880
X: The Unknown (1956)
834
Revolt of the Zombies (1936)
806
The Kremlin Letter (1970)
724
Rawhide (1951)
678
“Columbo: The Most Crucial Game (#2.3)” (1972)
655
Whoopee! (1930)
622
Dark City (1950)
604
Billy Rose’s Jumbo (1962)
565
Gideon’s Trumpet (1980) (TV)
537
Day of the Evil Gun (1968)
531
The Honeymoon Machine (1961)
468
Cash McCall (1960)
460
Brigham Young (1940)
457
The North Star (1943)
450
Parrish (1961)
408
Sister Kenny (1946)
358
Private Hell 36 (1954)
346
End of the World (1977)
333
Having Wonderful Time (1938)
325
The Proud Rebel (1958)
307
“Twilight Zone: Static (#2.20)” (1961)
285
The Glass House (1972) (TV)
280
The Brotherhood of the Bell (1970) (TV)
277
My Son John (1952)
273
When Strangers Marry (1944)
244
The Stranger (1973) (TV)
243
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976) (TV)
226
Wings in the Dark (1935)
183
It’s a Dog’s Life (1955)
145
It Grows on Trees (1952)
139
Sierra (1950)
132
Bernardine (1957)
129
Denver and Rio Grande (1952)
119
The Great Man (1956)
119
The Hanged Man (1974) (TV)
116
First to Fight (1967)
107
Valley of the Sun (1942)
105
Warpath (1951)
105
I Heard the Owl Call My Name (1973) (TV)
97
Smith! (1969)
88
On the Threshold of Space (1956)
86
Driftwood (1947)
74
Three Brave Men (1956)
71
Red Sundown (1956)
71
Evil Town (1987)
64
The Eternal Sea (1955)
62
Dangerous Number (1937)
62
A Yank in London (1945)
59
Escape by Night (1937)
56
C-Man (1949)
56
“The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Star Juror (#1.24)” (1963)
54
“The Delphi Bureau: Pilot (#1.0)” (1972)
49
“Kung Fu: Dark Angel (#1.2)” (1972)
41
Thirteen Hours by Air (1936)
35
So Sad About Gloria (1975)
34
Under Cover of Night (1937)
29
The Omaha Trail (1942)
28
College Rhythm (1934)
27
Incident in San Francisco (1971) (TV)
26
Song of the City (1937)
24
Car 99 (1935)
23
The Men in Her Life (1941)
23
The Great Lester Boggs (1974)
22
Tiger by the Tail (1970)
21
Behold My Wife (1934)
18
People Will Talk (1935)
18
I Escaped from the Gestapo (1943)
17
Woman in Distress (1937)
17
The Lonely Profession (1969) (TV)
16
You Belong to Me (1934)
16
Exiled to Shanghai (1937)
15
The Lie (1973) (TV)
14
Home on the Range (1935)
13
“The Fugitive: Right in the Middle of the Season (#4.11)” (1966)
9
Men Without Names (1935)
9
“Bonanza: Shadow of a Hero (#12.21)” (1971)
8
Alaska (1944)
6
“Shaft: The Enforcers (#1.1)” (1973)
5
Star for a Night (1936)
5
“Alias Smith and Jones: Only Three to a Bed (#3.12)” (1973)
5
“The Partridge Family: Don’t Bring Your Guns to Town, Santa (#2.13)” (1971)
5
“The Waltons: Founder’s Day (#7.23)” (19
Wow he was on the Partridge Family
Hey Dan. This is very interesting information. Not sure if I remember IMDb being this way. But….seeing it this way is interesting. I imagine, you are finding lots of nuggets of information as you transition to a new computer. As always…thanks for sharing this information. You are the man!
I have seen 16 of these Dean Jagger movies, including 8 of the top 10. Jagger is one of my favourite character actors.
The HIGHEST rated movie I have seen is The Nun’s Story.
The highest rated movie I have NOT seen is Pursued.
The LOWEST rated movie I have seen is Firecreek.
Favourite Jean Dagger movies:
Twelve O’ Clock High
Bad Day at Black Rock
The Nun’s Story
Firecreek
Executive Suite
White Christmas
Elmer Gantry
Western Union
Billy Rose’s Jumbo
The Proud Rebel
Other Dean Jagger Movies I’ve Seen:
The Robe
The North Star
King Creole
Cash McCall
A Yank in London
The Honeymoon Machine
Hey Flora….thanks for checking out our latest classic page. Good ole Dean Jagger. Having watched 12 O’Clock High so many times with my dad…..it actually feels like I have seen more of his movies than I actually did. Tally count…you 16, me 13 and Steve 12……all pretty close. Pursued is my first miss as well. I have seen 8 of your favorite 10…with The Proud Rebel and Western Union being the two that I have missed seeing.
Surprised Smith! with Glenn Ford is not on your “watched list”. Bad Day At Black Rock is along with Twelve O’Clock High my favorite Dean movies…..but he seemed to make any movie he appeared to be better when he showed up in the movie. Well….maybe not for Alligator….lol. Good stuff…..thanks again.
Mick Jagger’s old man finally gets his UMR page, yay!
I’ve seen 12 of the 54 movies on the chart, probably more but those I know for sure.
Favorites are – The Robe, X The Unknown, 12 O’Clock High, White Christmas, Black Day at Bad Rock, Firecreek, King Creole (as Elvis’ dad) and Bruce Lee’s Game of Death (as the chief villain).
I haven’t seen top rated Elmer Gantry or The Nun’s Story.
Looking at the box office… The Robe and White Christmas were huge blockbusters.
Good stuff Bruce. Vote Up.
Hey Steve….I figured with Mick having some heart issues…I had better get an UMR page done on his dad pretty quickly….lol. I barely edge you in the tally contest….as I have seen 13 of his movies. According to my notes from decades ago….I have seen The Honeymoon Machine with Steve McQueen….but I can not remember the movie….even with studying the attached trailer. ….so I did not include that one in my tally.
I have seen all of your favorites except for X The Unknown. It sounds like that movie had some serious legal battles when it was getting made…..I will have to check that one out in the near future. Glad you listed Twelve O’Clock as one of your favorites….that was one of the movies my father referenced all the time…. I watch that with my older sons….as a way to remember my dad and their granddad….added bonus is the fact that it is a damn good movie!
I think King Creole is a very good movie….with Elvis’ best performance? I leave the answer to that question in the hands of Elvis experts like yourself. As for his good movies you missed….The Nun’s Story was a challenge to finish….well made….but very slowly paced. Elmer Gantry is worth checking out for Lancaster’s performance…..he deserved the Oscar he got.
The Robe and White Christmas were two of the biggest hits of the 1950s….neither, however, has aged very well. Good feedback as always.
“Actors who play leaders on the big screen tend to seem pompous and one-dimensional. Dean Jagger had enough warmth to make his cardboard figures credible and even moving.” – Joel H.
Rating the Movie Stars 4 Star Dean Jagger Performances
1940’s Brigham Young
1943’s The North Star
1944’s When Strangers Marry
1949’s Twelve O’Clock High
1952’s My Son John
1954’s Bad Day At Black Rock
1958’s The Proud Rebel
1961’s Parrish
Good stuff from Rating The Movie Stars book.