Jonathan Hale

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Jonathan Hale
Born Jonathan Hatley
March 21, 1891(1891-03-21)
Ontario, Canada
Died February 28, 1966(1966-02-28) (aged 74)
Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Cause of death Suicide
Resting place Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
Occupation Actor

Jonathan Hale (March 21, 1891 – February 28, 1966) was a Canadian-born film and television actor.

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[edit] Career

Born Jonathan Hatley in Ontario, Canada, Hale was 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 Farnack in various The Saint films by RKO Pictures. He also appeared in two different episodes of Adventures of Superman "The Evil Three", in which a 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 one of the California observatories).

[edit] Death

Hale committed suicide on February 28, 1966.[1] He was interred in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood, California.

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