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Dean Jagger 1903 - 1991

Dean Jagger of Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA was born on November 7, 1903 in Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio United States, and died at age 87 years old on February 5, 1991 in Hughson, Stanislaus County, CA. Dean Jagger was buried at Lakewood Memorial Park in Hughson.

Dean Jagger

Ira Dean Jagger.

Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA 90403

November 7, 1903

Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio, 45830, United States

February 5, 1991

Hughson, Stanislaus County, California, 95326, United States

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11/7

1903

Birthday

November 7, 1903

Birthdate

Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio 45830, United States

Birthplace

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Ethnicity & Family History

Dean was the son of Lillian/Lilly Lenora (Mayberry) and Albert Wilson Jagger. He was married to Etta Mae Norton, until his death. He had a daughter with his former wife, Gloria Ling. Dean’s paternal grandfather was Wilson Naomi Jagger (the son of Elias Jagger and Mariah Conkle). Elias was the son of Silas Foster Jagger and Sarah Jagger Meeker. Mariah was the daughter of Jacob Conkle and Elizabeth Weaver. Dean’s paternal grandmother was Eliza/Liza Jane Kidd (the daughter of Nathaniel Guy Kidd and Rhoda Jennings). Nathaniel was the son of William Kidd and Anna Kaywood. Dean’s maternal grandfather was Mitchell H. Mayberry (the son of Wells Mayberry and Rebecca Close). Wells was the son of John Mayberry and Catharine Denerson. Rebecca was the daughter of John Close and Nancy Swalley. Dean’s maternal grandmother was Cora Jane Leath/Leith (the daughter of Vincent Crawford Leith and Elizabeth Scott). Elizabeth was the daughter of William Scott and Jane Lippincott. Source: Genealogy of Dean Jagger (focusing on his father’s side) –
Professional Career

Complete filmography The Woman from Hell (1929) as Jim Coakley Handcuffed (1929) as Gerald Morely Whoopee! (1930) as Deputy (uncredited) You Belong to Me (1934) as Military School Instructor College Rhythm (1934) as Coach Robbins Behold My Wife! (1934) as Pete Home on the Range (1935) as Thurman Wings in the Dark (1935) as Top Harmon Car 99 (1935) as Trooper Jim Burton People Will Talk (1935) as Bill Trask Men Without Names (1935) as Jones Wanderer of the Wasteland (1935) as Adam Larey It's a Great Life (1935) as Arnold Woman Trap (1936) as 'Honey' Hogan Thirteen Hours by Air (1936) as Hap Waller Revolt of the Zombies (1936) as Armand Louque Pepper (1936) as Bob O'Ryan Star for a Night (1936) as Fritz Lind Under Cover of Night (1937) as Alan Shaw Woman in Distress (1937) as Fred Stevens Dangerous Number (1937) as Vance Dillman Song of the City (1937) as Paul Herrick Escape by Night (1937) as James 'Capper' Regan Exiled to Shanghai (1937) as Charlie Sears Having Wonderful Time (1938) as Charlie - Emma's Husband (uncredited) Brigham Young (1940) as Brigham Young Western Union (1941) as Edward Creighton The Men in Her Life (1941) as David Gibson Valley of the Sun (1942) as Jim Sawyer The Omaha Trail (1942) as 'Pipestone' Ross I Escaped from the Gestapo (1943) as Torgut Lane The North Star (1943) as Rodion Pavlov When Strangers Marry (1944) as Paul Baxter Alaska (1944) as U.S. Marshal John Masters I Live in Grosvenor Square (1945) (US title: A Yank in London) as Sgt. John Patterson Sister Kenny (1946) as Kevin Connors Pursued (1947) as Grant Callum Driftwood (1947) as Dr. Steve Webster C-Man (1949) as Cliff Holden - alias William Harrah Twelve O'Clock High (1949) as Major Stovall Sierra (1950) as Jeff Hassard Dark City (1950) as Capt. Garvey Rawhide (1951) as Yancy Warpath (1951) as Sam Quade My Son John (1952) as Dan Jefferson Denver and Rio Grande (1952) as Gen. William J. Palmer It Grows on Trees (1952) as Phil Baxter The Robe (1953) as Justus Executive Suite (1954) as Jesse Q. Grimm Private Hell 36 (1954) as Capt. Michaels White Christmas (1954) as Major General Thomas F. Waverly Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) as Tim Horn The Eternal Sea (1955) as Vice-Adm. Thomas L. Semple It's a Dog's Life (1955) as Mr. Wyndham Red Sundown (1956) as Sheriff Jade Murphy On the Threshold of Space (1956) as Dr. Hugo Thornton X the Unknown (1956) as Dr. Adam Royston Three Brave Men (1956) as John W. Rogers - Secretary of the Navy The Great Man (1956) as Philip Carleton Bernardine (1957) as J. Fullerton Weldy Forty Guns (1957) as Sheriff Ned Logan The Proud Rebel (1958) as Harry Burleigh King Creole (1958) as Mr. Fisher Smoke Jumpers (1958) The Nun's Story (1959) as Dr. Van Der Mal The House on K-Street (1959 TV movie) as Dr. Morgan Jarrett Cash McCall (1960) as Grant Austen Elmer Gantry (1960) as William L. Morgan Jarrett of K Street (1960 TV movie) as Dr. Morgan Jarrett Static (The Twilight Zone) (1961) as Ed Lindsay Parrish (1961) as Sala Post The Honeymoon Machine (1961) as Admiral Fitch Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962) as John Noble First to Fight (1967) as Lt. Col. E.J. Baseman Firecreek (1968) as Whittier Day of the Evil Gun (1968) as Jimmy Noble Smith! (1969) as Judge James C. Brown The Lonely Profession (1969 TV movie) as Charles Van Cleve Tiger by the Tail (1970) as Top Polk The Kremlin Letter (1970) as Highwayman The Brotherhood of the Bell (1970 TV movie) as Chad Harmon Vanishing Point (1971) as Prospector Incident in San Francisco (1971 TV movie) as Sam Baldwin The Glass House (1972 TV movie) as Warden Auerbach The Stranger (1973 TV movie) as Carl Webster The Lie (1973 TV movie) So Sad About Gloria (1973) as Frederick Wellman I Heard the Owl Call My Name (1973 TV movie) as Bishop The Hanged Man (1974 TV movie) as Josiah Lowe The Great Lester Boggs (1974) as Grandfather Vandiver The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976 TV movie) as Koehler Evil Town (1977) as Doctor Schaeffer End of the World (1977) as Collins Game of Death (1978) as Dr. Land Gideon's Trumpet (1980 TV movie) as Sixth Supreme Court Justice Alligator (1980) as Slade
Personal Life & Family

Personal life and death When Jagger tried to marry his second wife, Gloria Ling, in 1947, they were denied a marriage license in California due to a state law "forbidding unions between Caucasians and Mongolians [sic]"; Ling's father had been born in China.[26] Within two days, the couple had flown to Albuquerque, New Mexico, and were married under "New Mexico's more liberal statute". In later life, Jagger suffered from heart disease. He died in his sleep in Santa Monica, California. He was 87, and was buried in the small town of Hughson, California, at Lakewood Memorial Park. He was survived by his third wife, Etta, a daughter and two stepsons. Jagger joined The Church of Jesus Christ
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1991

Death

February 5, 1991

Death date

Heart Disease.

Cause of death

Hughson, Stanislaus County, California 95326, United States
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Lakewood Memorial Park in Hughson, Stanislaus County, California 95326, United States
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Obituary

Dean Jagger, a robust and sympathetic character actor who appeared in more than 120 films over half a century, died yesterday at his home in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 87 years old. He had been suffering from heart disease, a family spokesman said. The bald, firm-jawed Mr. Jagger won an Academy Award as best supporting actor in 1950 for his stirring performance as a wartime Air Force officer in "Twelve O'Clock High." In the movie's celebrated opening, he ventures out to a field of eerily waving grass that, in flashback, is transformed into a World War II airfield in Britain. He poignantly recalls the unit's leader (Gregory Peck), whose seeming rigidity generated requests en masse for transfers until he proved his valor in a bombing raid. Men of Thought and Action Mr. Jagger adeptly played a stunning variety of roles, including men of thought and men of action, usually personable authority figures. He was sometimes a heavy and occasionally a hero, as in the title role of "Brigham Young -- Frontiersman," a 1940 recounting of the Mormons' trek to Utah, but he was always a durable trouper. He was also a familiar figure on television, particularly as the wise high school principal in the mid-1960's dramatic series "Mr. Novak," co-starring James Franciscus. Mr. Jagger also appeared in many television plays, and in 1980 he won an Emmy for acting in a religous program, "Independence and '76, This Is the Life." He made his screen debut in 1929 in a forgettable melodrama called "The Woman From Hell," about which he later remarked, "It's a shame she ever left." But his films soon improved. They included "Western Union" (1941), "The North Star" (1943), "Sister Kenny" (1946), "The Robe" (1953), "Executive Suite" (1954), "Bad Day at Black Rock" (1955), "The Nun's Story" (1959) and "Elmer Gantry" (1960). One of his last films, "Alligator," a stylish 1981 comic thriller, gave him a chance to act outrageously against type as a demonic industrialist rapaciously deforming animals and spewing toxic wastes. First, a Teacher Dean Jagger was born into a farm family in Columbus Grove, Ohio, on Nov. 7, 1903, and grew up there and in rural Indiana. He attended Wabash College. He taught all eight grades in an elementary school for several semesters before giving up teaching for an acting career. He studied at the Lyceum Arts Conservatory in Chicago and joined a stock company in Grand Rapids, Mich., replacing Spencer Tracy. He appeared in vaudeville and radio and on Broadway, getting bit parts and a supporting role in 1933 in "Tobacco Road," the long-running comedy-melodrama. He appeared in half a dozen more Broadway plays, then focused on films and later television. Surviving is his third wife, Etta, a retired ballerina; a daughter, Diane Pearson of Downey, Calif.; two stepsons, Tom and Lee Winger, both of Santa Monica; a sister, Marie Deeter, of Columbia City, Ind., and six grandchildren.

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