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TV Show List
The Three Outlaws

as Pinkerton

1956
Jaguar

as Dr. Powell

1956
Duffy of San Quentin

as Boyd

1954
The Flaming Urge

as Mr. Chalmers

1953
Scandal Sheet

as Frank Madison

1952
Strangers on a Train

as Mr. Antony

1951
Three Husbands

as Edward Wurdeman - Attorney at Law

1950
Insurance Investigator

as Russell James

1951
The Baron of Arizona

as Governor

1950
Short Grass

as Charlie Bissel

1950
Stampede

as Varick

1949
Silver River

as Major Spencer

1948
The Ghost Goes Wild

as Max Atterbury

1947
Her Husband's Affairs

as Gov. Fox

1947
The Vigilantes Return

as Judge Holden

1947
The Walls Came Tumbling Down

as Captain Griffin

1946
Wife Wanted

as Philip Conway

1946
Allotment Wives

as Brig. Gen. H.N. Gilbert

1945
The Phantom Speaks

as Owen McAllister

1945
Dead Man's Eyes

as Dr. Sam Welles

1944
The Black Parachute

as King Stephen

1944
My Buddy

as Senator Henry

1944
Jack London

as Kerwin Maxwell

1943
The Rear Gunner

as Commanding Officer

1943
Joe Smith, American

as Blake McKettrick

1942
Strange Alibi

as Police Chief Sprague

1941
The Saint In Palm Springs

as Inspector Henry Fernack

1941
Flight from Destiny

as Dist. Atty. Johnson

1941
The Pittsburgh Kid

as Max Ellison

1941
The Saint's Double Trouble

as Inspector Henry Fernack

1940
Jonathan Hale Jonathan Hale

Birthday

1891-03-21

Place of Birth

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jonathan Hale (born Jonathan Hatley, March 21, 1891 – February 28, 1966) was a Canadian-born film and television actor. Hale was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Before his acting career, Hale worked in the Diplomatic Corps. Hale is most well known as Dagwood Bumstead's boss, Julius Caesar Dithers, in the Blondie film series in the 1940s. He is also notable for playing Inspector Fernack in various The Saint films by RKO Pictures. In 1950 he made two appearances in The Cisco Kid as Barry Owens. He also appeared in two different episodes of Adventures of Superman: "The Evil Three", in which he played a murderous "Southern Colonel"-type character, and "Panic in the Sky", one of the most famous episodes, in which he played the lead astronomer at the Metropolis Observatory, actually a California observatory. Among the relatively few television programs on which Hale appeared are the religion anthology series Crossroads, The Loretta Young Show, Brave Eagle, Schlitz Playhouse, The Joey Bishop Show, and Walt Disney Presents: "A Tribute to Joel Chandler Harris". Hale committed suicide on February 28, 1966. He was found dead that evening in his room at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. Hale had taken his own life with a .38 caliber pistol, which was found near his body. He was 74. Hale was interred at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood, California. Sadly, Hale's grave went unmarked for more than four decades, until a proper headstone was erected by donations from the "Dearly Departed" fan-based group in 2013; he is now honored with the inscription, "We Remembered You".
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