Highest rated movie: Strangers on a Train (1951)
Lowest rated movie: Her Husband's Affairs (1947)
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Movies starring Jonathan Hale have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 62%.
Strangers on a Train - released in 1951 - is Jonathan Hale's highest rated movie, with a score of 84% based on 662 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Jonathan Hale is Her Husband's Affairs - released in 1947 - with a score of 42% based on 1 reviews.
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".
Jonathan Hale has acted in films with James Flavin, Lee Phelps, Bess Flowers and Irving Bacon.
Jonathan Hale has worked with these film directors: Frank R. Strayer, Sam Wood, Jack Hively and Fritz Lang.
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