Jonathan Hale
Biography
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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".
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1891-03-20
Place of birth
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Images
Cast
Blondie
1938
7.10
Blondie in Society
1941
7.40
Blondie Plays Cupid
1940
6.70
Blondie Has Servant Trouble
1940
7.20
Blondie Brings Up Baby
1939
6.50
Blondie Meets the Boss
1939
5.80
Blondie Goes to College
1942
6.40
Footlight Glamour
1943
7.70
Blondie's Blessed Event
1942
7.30
It's a Great Life
1943
7.50
Blondie Goes Latin
1941
6.20
Blondie for Victory
1942
7.30
Blondie Knows Best
1946
6.40
Leave It to Blondie
1945
6.00
Blondie's Lucky Day
1946
6.40
Life with Blondie
1945
6.00
Strangers on a Train
1951
7.66
Hangmen Also Die!
1943
6.93
Jack London
1943
5.90
The Steel Trap
1952
6.40
Nobody's Darling
1943
0.00
Charlie Chan at the Olympics
1937
6.70
Scandal Sheet
1952
6.98
Charlie Chan's Secret
1936
6.80
Charlie Chan at the Race Track
1936
7.10
Triple Trouble
1950
6.20
High Wall
1947
6.20
The Great Swindle
1941
0.00
Boys Town
1938
6.74
The Strange Mr. Gregory
1945
5.10
The Baron of Arizona
1950
6.70
End of the Road
1944
5.20
The Night Holds Terror
1955
5.50
36 Hours to Kill
1936
5.30
Alice Adams
1935
6.70
Dead Man's Eyes
1944
6.50
The Saint's Double Trouble
1940
5.60
Saratoga
1937
6.22
Disaster
1948
5.00
The Judge
1949
5.70
The Saint Strikes Back
1939
5.60
The Saint in New York
1938
6.20
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943
6.38
The Ghost Goes Wild
1947
5.00
Strange Alibi
1941
6.60
The Saint Takes Over
1940
6.30
The Saint In Palm Springs
1941
5.70
The Beginning or the End
1947
6.50
Flight Lieutenant
1942
6.00
The Walls Came Tumbling Down
1946
5.90
Cattle Queen of Montana
1954
5.60
The Rear Gunner
1943
5.20
Wife Wanted
1946
6.50
Sea Devils
1937
5.70
State Department: File 649
1949
4.33
Arsène Lupin Returns
1938
5.80
The Accusing Finger
1936
4.70
Hit-and-Run Driver
1935
6.00
Over the Wall
1938
5.00
Insurance Investigator
1951
5.00
Danger – Love at Work
1937
7.30
Let's Go Navy!
1951
7.00
Racketeers in Exile
1937
6.00
Flight from Destiny
1941
5.20
Divorce
1945
5.00
The Duke of West Point
1938
3.80
Miss Annie Rooney
1942
6.30
Too Many Parents
1936
5.00
Lightning Strikes Twice
1934
4.70
Duffy of San Quentin
1954
6.00
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
1936
4.00
The Flaming Urge
1953
0.00
Happy Go Lucky
1936
5.00
Tarnished Angel
1938
5.30
A Lost Lady
1934
6.10
In Old Monterey
1939
5.30
Man Alive
1945
5.10
She's Dangerous
1937
5.00
Barricade
1939
5.00
Rolling Home
1946
5.00
John Meade's Woman
1937
0.00
Her Jungle Love
1938
6.20
Judge Hardy's Children
1938
6.50
Exiled to Shanghai
1937
4.90
Son of Paleface
1952
6.30
Letter of Introduction
1938
5.67
Breaking the Ice
1938
5.38
Let 'em Have It
1935
7.00
Gangs of New York
1938
4.89
The First Hundred Years
1938
6.00
Wives Under Suspicion
1938
5.40
Riverboat Rhythm
1946
5.00
Rose of the Yukon
1949
0.00
Fugitives for a Night
1938
6.00
The Phantom Speaks
1945
5.40
Sunny Side of the Street
1951
6.00
Madame X
1937
6.20
Taxi
1953
6.40
One New York Night
1935
0.00
Road Demon
1938
0.00
The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939
5.80
Man Of The People
1937
7.00
In Name Only
1939
7.00
The Man Who Found Himself
1937
7.00
Spendthrift
1936
5.00
Sutter's Gold
1936
0.00
The Devil Is a Sissy
1936
6.90
There's That Woman Again
1938
6.50
Rocky
1948
0.00
Gentlemen Are Born
1934
6.50
Men with Wings
1938
5.00
The Black Parachute
1944
5.50
Stand Up and Fight
1939
5.80
Wings of the Navy
1939
6.00
Tail Spin
1939
5.80
Thunder Afloat
1939
5.90
Kansas Pacific
1953
4.80
Outcast
1937
0.00
Fury
1936
7.43
You Can't Buy Luck
1937
4.50
Behind Southern Lines
1952
0.00
Wings Over Honolulu
1937
5.50
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
1943
6.00
Jaguar
1956
7.00
Dakota
1945
5.10
Her Husband's Affairs
1947
5.40
Too Tough to Kill
1935
0.00
Big Town Girl
1937
6.00
The Pittsburgh Kid
1941
0.00
Johnny Apollo
1940
6.80
Joe Smith, American
1942
5.75
The Three Outlaws
1956
5.50
My Buddy
1944
0.00
G.I. Honeymoon
1945
0.00
We Who Are Young
1940
5.80
This Is My Affair
1937
7.30
Rodeo King and the Senorita
1951
0.00
Three Live Ghosts
1936
5.00
The Singing Kid
1936
4.00
Stampede
1949
5.50
Black Gold
1947
6.00
Easy to Wed
1946
6.20
Gay Blades
1946
0.00
Sinner Take All
1936
4.80
Short Grass
1950
6.00
Lone Star Ranger
1942
3.00
Silver River
1948
5.91
Calling Dr. Gillespie
1942
6.50
Call Northside 777
1948
6.60
Dulcy
1940
5.80
A Night at the Opera
1935
7.44
A Star Is Born
1937
7.12
A Night at the Ritz
1935
3.00
Watchtower Over Tomorrow
1945
5.00
Housewife
1934
7.70
The Vigilantes Return
1947
2.20
Yellow Jack
1938
5.60
Midnight Madonna
1937
0.00
Navy Wife
1935
5.00
She Couldn't Say No
1954
5.60
This Is the Life
1944
5.00
Flying Hostess
1936
0.00
The Bugle Sounds
1942
6.00
Crime Ring
1938
4.70
The Cat Creeps
1946
4.80
Federal Agent at Large
1950
4.80
Her First Beau
1941
5.00
Melody and Moonlight
1940
5.00
3 Kids and a Queen
1935
6.00
Panic on the Air
1936
5.50
You Only Live Once
1937
7.13
Ringside Maisie
1941
7.00
The Case of the Howling Dog
1934
6.50
'G' Men
1935
6.54
Public Hero Number 1
1935
6.20
The Calling of Dan Matthews
1935
3.00
If You Could Only Cook
1935
7.40
Page Miss Glory
1935
6.30
The Voice of Bugle Ann
1936
5.80
You May Be Next!
1936
2.50
The Raven
1935
6.56
Hollywood Canteen
1944
7.30
Johnny Belinda
1948
6.83
Educating Father
1936
0.00
Angel on My Shoulder
1946
6.40
The Fountainhead
1949
6.86
Young Man with Ideas
1952
4.70
The Tall Target
1951
6.80
China Clipper
1936
5.60
Allotment Wives
1945
6.00
Private Affairs
1940
0.00
Three Husbands
1950
5.00
Tap Roots
1948
6.40
One Against the World
1939
0.00
The Big Guy
1939
0.00
A Dangerous Profession
1949
5.60
The League of Frightened Men
1937
6.00