Biographies: Dean Jagger - Actor

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Dean Jagger was an American actor who was born in Lima, Ohio, on November 7, 1903, as Ira Dean Jagger. Before finally graduating from Wabash College, he dropped out of school several times. At first, he worked as a teacher, but then he joined the Lyceum Art Conservatory in Chicago. His 1949 movie Twelve O’clock High won him an Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Moreover, he won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Religious Programming in 1980 and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. He married three times and had one child. Jagger performed in vaudeville, on the radio, and on stage, and made his Broadway debut in 1925, while his film debut was in The Woman from Hell (1929). He is known for White Christmas (1954), Vanishing Point (1971), and Game of Death (1978). He passed away in Santa Monica, California, on February 5, 1991, of heart disease.

• 13 July 2017
• Hussein Nadim