Jonathan Hale
| Jonathan Hale |
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| Born | Jonathan Hatley March 21, 1891 Ontario, Canada |
| Died | February 28, 1966 (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.
[edit] Selected filmography
- Alice Adams (1935)
- A Night at the Opera (1935) (uncredited)
- Charlie Chan's Secret (1936)
- Fury (1936)
- The Devil is a Sissy (1936)
- A Star is Born (1937) (uncredited)
- The League of Frightened Men (1937)
- Saratoga (1937)
- Madame X (1937)
- The Saint in New York (1938)
- Boys Town (1938)
- Blondie (1938)
- Stand Up and Fight (1939)
- The Saint Strikes Back (1939)
- The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
- In Name Only (1939)
- The Saint's Double Trouble (1940)
- Johnny Apollo (1940)
- The Saint Takes Over (1940)
- The Saint in Palm Springs (1941)
- Miss Annie Rooney (1942)
- Blondie for Victory (1942)
- The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943)
- Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
- Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943)
- Dead Man's Eyes (1944)
- This Is the Life (1944)
- Divorce (1945)
- Allotment Wives (1945)
- Dakota (1945)
- The Beginning or the End (1947)
- High Wall (1947)
- Stampede (1949)
- The Baron of Arizona (1950)
- Strangers on a Train (1951)
- Let's Go Navy! (1951)
- Scandal Sheet (1952)
- Carbine Williams (1952)
- The Steel Trap (1952)
- Kansas Pacific (1953)
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