Jonathan Hale
Jonathan Hale | |
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North Hollywood , California | |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1934–1965 |
Jonathan Hale (born Jonathan Hatley;[1] March 21, 1891 – February 28, 1966) was a Canadian-born film and television actor.
Life and career
Hale was born in
The Saint films by RKO Pictures
.
In 1950 he made two appearances in 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
Walt Disney Presents: "A Tribute to Joel Chandler Harris".[4]
Death
Hale committed
North Hollywood, California. His 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".[7]
Selected filmography
- Housewife (1934) as Doctor (uncredited)
- The Case of the Howling Dog (1934) as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
- A Lost Lady (1934) (uncredited)
- Gentlemen Are Born (1934) as Second Broker (uncredited)
- Lightning Strikes Twice (1934) as Capt. Hobart Nelson
- A Night at the Ritz (1935) as Director (uncredited)
- One New York Night (1935) as Mr. Stokes (uncredited)
- G Men (1935) as Congressman (uncredited)
- Let 'Em Have It (1935) as Microscopic Expert (uncredited)
- Public Hero No. 1(1935) as Prison Board Member (uncredited)
- The Raven (1935) as Bedside Dr. at Jerry's Right (uncredited)
- Alice Adams (1935) as Mr. Palmer
- Page Miss Glory (1935) as Husband at Train Station (uncredited)
- Navy Wife (1935) as Norton (uncredited)
- Three Kids and a Queen (1935) as Gangster (uncredited)
- A Night at the Opera (1935) as Stage Manager in Opera Box Who Announces Gottlieb's Disappearance (uncredited)
- The Calling of Dan Matthews (1935) as Club Owner (uncredited)
- Too Tough to Kill (1935) as Chairman of the Board (uncredited)
- If You Could Only Cook (1935) as Henry Brown - Member of Board of Directors (uncredited)
- Three Live Ghosts (1936) as Detective Bolton
- Charlie Chan's Secret (1936) as Warren T. Phelps
- You May Be Next (1936) as Army Officer (uncredited)
- The Voice of Bugle Ann (1936) as District Attorney
- Sutter's Gold (1936) as Prosecuting Attorney (uncredited)
- Too Many Parents (1936) as Judge
- The Singing Kid (1936) as Dr. Brown (uncredited)
- Panic on the Air (1936) as Johnson (uncredited)
- The Case Against Mrs. Ames (1936) as Judge at First Trial
- Educating Father (1936) as Fred Humphrey
- Fury (1936) as Defense Attorney
- Parole! (1936) as Parole Board Member (uncredited)
- Spendthrift (1936) as Attorney (uncredited)
- 36 Hours to Kill (1936) as Conductor
- Charlie Chan at the Race Track (1936) as Warren Fenton
- China Clipper(1936) as State Department Official (uncredited)
- Down the Stretch (1936) as Secretary M.L. Lyon (uncredited)
- The Devil Is a Sissy (1936) as Judge Holmes
- The Magnificent Brute (1936) as Official (uncredited)
- Easy to Take (1936) as Mr. Hardy (uncredited)
- The Plainsman (1936) as Major (uncredited)
- The Accusing Finger (1936) as Special Prosecutor
- Born to Dance (1936) as Hector the Columnist (uncredited)
- Flying Hostess (1936) as Kendall
- Happy Go Lucky (1936) as J. Lansing Bennett
- Sinner Take All (1936) as Dr. Harrison (uncredited)
- Mysterious Crossing (1936) as Garland - Banker (uncredited)
- You Only Live Once (1937) as District Attorney (uncredited)
- She's Dangerous (1937) as Charles Fitzgerald
- Man of the People (1937) as Carter Spetner
- Outcast (1937) as Judge (uncredited)
- A Doctor's Diary (1937) as Mr. Williams (uncredited)
- Sea Devils (1937) as Court-Martial President (uncredited)
- John Meade's Woman (1937) as Mr. Melton
- Racketeers in Exile (1937) as Alden Parker
- The Man Who Found Himself (1937) as Dr. Tom Smythe (uncredited)
- A Star Is Born (1937) as Judge George J. Parris (uncredited)
- You Can't Buy Luck (1937) as Prosecutor (uncredited)
- Wings Over Honolulu(1937) as Judge Advocate (uncredited)
- Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937) as Hopkins
- The League of Frightened Men(1937) as Alexander Drummond
- This Is My Affair (1937) as Judge
- Midnight Madonna (1937) as Stuart Kirkland
- Saratoga (1937) as Frank Clayton
- Danger – Love at Work (1937) as Parsons
- Madame X (1937) as Hugh Fariman Sr
- Carnival Queen (1937) as Robert Jacoby
- Big Town Girl (1937) as Hershell
- Exiled to Shanghai (1937) as J.B. Willet
- Arsène Lupin Returns (1938) as F.B.I. Special Agent
- Mad About Music (1938) as Prosecutor, Film Within a Film (uncredited)
- The First Hundred Years (1938) as Judge Parker
- Her Jungle Love (1938) as J.C. Martin
- Judge Hardy's Children (1938) as John Lee
- Over the Wall (1938) as Governor
- Island in the Sky (1938) as Prison Warden Matthews (uncredited)
- Yellow Jack (1938) as Major General Leonard Wood
- Gangs of New York (1938) as Warden
- The Saint in New York (1938) as Inspector Henry Fernack
- Wives Under Suspicion (1938) as Allison
- Crime Ring(1938) as Bank President (uncredited)
- Men with Wings (1938) as Long (uncredited)
- Letter of Introduction(1938) as Lou Woodstock
- Boys Town (1938) as John Hargraves
- Fugitives for a Night (1938) as Police Captain
- Breaking the Ice(1938) as Kane
- Tarnished Angel (1938) as Detective Sgt. Edward Cramer
- Blondie (1938) as J.C. Dithers
- Road Demon (1938) as Anderson
- The Duke of West Point (1938) as Colonel Early
- There's That Woman Again (1938) as Rolfe Davis
- Stand Up and Fight (1939) as Colonel Webb
- Wings of the Navy (1939) as Commandant
- Tail Spin (1939) as Racing Official Starter (uncredited)
- Blondie Meets the Boss (1939) as Dithers
- The Saint Strikes Back (1939) as Inspector Henry Fernack
- The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939) as President of Western Union
- In Name Only (1939) as Dr. Ned Gateson
- In Old Monterey (1939) as Stevenson
- Fugitive at Large (1939) as Prison Warden (uncredited)
- Thunder Afloat (1939) as Admiral Girard
- Blondie Brings Up Baby (1939) as J.C. Dithers
- The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939) as Mayor
- Barricade (1939) as Assistant Secretary of State
- The Big Guy (1939) as Jack Lang
- The Saint's Double Trouble (1940) as Inspector Henry Fernack
- Johnny Apollo (1940) as Dr. Brown
- The Saint Takes Over (1940) as Inspector Henry Fernack
- Private Affairs (1940) as George Gilkin
- We Who Are Young (1940) as Braddock
- Blondie Has Servant Trouble (1940) as J.C. Dithers
- Dulcy (1940) as Homer Patterson
- Melody and Moonlight (1940) as Otis Barnett
- Blondie Plays Cupid (1940) as J.C. Dithers
- The Saint in Palm Springs (1941) as Inspector Henry Fernack
- Flight from Destiny (1941) as District Attorney
- Blondie Goes Latin (1941) as Mr. J.C. Dithers
- The Great Swindle (1941) as Swann
- Strange Alibi (1941) as Police Chief Sprague
- Her First Beau (1941) as Mr. Harris
- Blondie in Society (1941) as J.C. Dithers
- Ringside Maisie (1941) as Dr. Kramer
- The Pittsburgh Kid (1941) as Max Ellison
- The Bugle Sounds (1942) as Brigadier-General
- Blondie Goes to College (1942) as J.C. Dithers
- Joe Smith, American (1942) as Blake McKettrick
- The Lone Star Ranger(1942) as Judge [John] Longstreth
- Blondie's Blessed Event (1942) as J.C. Dithers
- Miss Annie Rooney (1942) as Mr. White
- Flight Lieutenant (1942) as Joseph Sanford
- Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942) as Frank Marshall Todwell
- Blondie for Victory (1942) as J.C. Dithers
- The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943) as Ferguson
- Hangmen Also Die! (1943) as Dedic
- It's a Great Life (1943) as J.C. Dithers
- Nobody's Darling (1943) as Jason Rhodes
- Footlight Glamour (1943) as J.C. Dithers
- Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943) as Mr. Fox
- Jack London (1943) as Kerwin Maxwell
- There's Something About a Soldier (1943) as General Sommerton
- This Is the Life (1944) as Dr. Plum
- The Black Parachute (1944) as King Stephen
- Since You Went Away (1944) as Second Train Conductor (uncredited)
- My Buddy (1944) as Senator Henry
- End of the Road (1944) as Gregory McCune
- Dead Man's Eyes (1944) as Dr. Welles
- And Now Tomorrow (1944) as Dr. Sloane (uncredited)
- Hollywood Canteen (1944) as Mr. Brodel (uncredited)
- Leave It to Blondie (1945) as J.C. Dithers
- G. I. Honeymoon (1945) as Colonel Hammerhead Smith
- The Phantom Speaks (1945) as Owen McAllister
- Divorce (1945) as Judge Conlon
- Allotment Wives (1945) as Brig. General H. N. Gilbert
- Man Alive (1945) as Osborne
- Dakota (1945) as Col. Wordin
- The Strange Mr. Gregory (1945) as Defense Attorney Blair
- Life with Blondie (1945) as J.C. Dithers
- Gay Blades (1946) as Whittlesey
- Riverboat Rhythm (1946) as Colonel Edward Beeler
- Blondie's Lucky Day (1946) as J.C. Dithers
- The Cat Creeps (1946) as Walter Elliot
- The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946) as Captain Griffin
- Easy to Wed (1946) as Hector Boswell
- Angel on My Shoulder (1946) as Citizens for Better Government Chairman (uncredited)
- Blondie Knows Best (1946) as J.C. Dithers
- Rolling Home (1946) as Henry Kane
- Wife Wanted (1946) as Philip Conway
- The Strange Mr. Gregory (1946) as Blair
- The Beginning or the End (1947) as Dr. Vannevar Bush
- The Ghost Goes Wild (1947) as Max Atterbury
- The Vigilantes Return (1947) as Judge Holden
- Black Gold (1947) as Senator Watkins
- Her Husband's Affairs (1947) as Gov. Fox
- High Wall (1947) as Emory Garrison
- Rocky (1948) as Kenneth Forrester
- Call Northside 777 (1948) as Robert Winston - Governor's Aide (uncredited)
- King of the Gamblers (1948) as Sam Hyland
- Silver River (1948) as Major Spencer
- Tap Roots (1948) as General Johnston (uncredited)
- Michael O'Halloran (1948) as Judge Schaffner
- Johnny Belinda (1948) as Dr. Horace M. Gray (uncredited)
- Disaster (1948) as Police Commissioner Jerome
- Rose of the Yukon (1949) as Gen. Butler
- Tell It to the Judge (1949) as Judge Allan J. Brooks
- State Department: File 649 (1949) as Director-General
- Stampede (1949) as Varick
- The Fountainhead (1949) as Guy Francon (uncredited)
- A Dangerous Profession (1949) as Roger Lennert, Lucy's Attorney (uncredited)
- The Baron of Arizona (1950) as Governor
- Federal Agent at Large (1950) as James Goodwin
- Triple Trouble (1950) as Judge
- Three Husbands (1950) as Edward Wurdeman, Attorney at Law
- Short Grass (1950) as Charlie Bissel
- Insurance Investigator (1951) as Russell James
- Strangers on a Train (1951) as Mr. Antony
- Rodeo King and the Senorita (1951) as Dr. Sands
- Let's Go Navy! (1951) as Captain
- The Tall Target (1951) as Passenger from Carolina (uncredited)
- Sunny Side of the Street (1951) as Cyrus Pelley
- She Couldn't Say No (1952) as John Bentley (uncredited)
- Scandal Sheet (1952) as Frank Madison
- Carbine Williams (1952) as Judge Henry P. Lane (uncredited)
- Young Man with Ideas (1952) as Stanley Rickson (uncredited)
- Son of Paleface (1952) as Gov. Freeman (uncredited)
- The Steel Trap (1952) as Tom Bowers
- Taxi (1953) as Mr. Barker (uncredited)
- Kansas Pacific (1953) as Sherman Johnson
- The Flaming Urge (1953) as Mr. Chalmers
- Duffy of San Quentin (1954) as Boyd
- She Couldn't Say No (1954) as John Bentley (uncredited)
- Men of the Fighting Lady (1954) as Home Movie Commentator (uncredited)
- Cattle Queen of Montana (1954) (uncredited)
- The Night Holds Terror (1955) as Bob Henderson
- Jaguar (1956) as Dr. Powell
- The Three Outlaws (1956) as Pinkerton
References
- ISBN 9780786409839. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
- ISBN 9781365421051. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
- ^ "Polar Blair's Den- Jonathan Hale". www.polarblairsden.com.
- Internet Movie Database. Retrieved February 16, 2013.
- ^ "Veteran Actor Jonathan Hale Is Found Dead". The Day. March 1, 1966.
- Newspapers.com.
- ^ Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Locations 25047-25048). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jonathan Hale.
- Jonathan Hale at IMDb
- Jonathan Hale at Find a Grave
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