Cast
Jonathan Hale
Acting
Cast
Jonathan Hale
Known for
Acting
Born
1891-03-20
From
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Died
1966-02-28
Also known as Jonathan Hale Jr., John Hale, Jonathan Hatley
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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".
★7.7
MOVIE1951
Strangers on a Train
as Mr. Antony
★5.6
MOVIE1941
Ringside Maisie
as Dr. Kramer
★7.5
MOVIE1935
If You Could Only Cook
as Henry Brown - Member of Board of Directors (uncredited)
★7.3
MOVIE1934
Housewife
as Doctor
★7.2
MOVIE1937
A Star Is Born
as Judge Parris (uncredited)
★6.9
MOVIE1948
Tap Roots
as Gen. Johnston (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1938
Boys Town
as John Hargraves
★5.8
MOVIE1934
A Lost Lady
as (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1949
The Fountainhead
as Guy Francon (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1937
Outcast
★7.0
MOVIE1938
Blondie
as Mr. Dithers
★5.3
MOVIE1938
Wives Under Suspicion
as Allison
★8.0
MOVIE1948
Rocky
as Kenneth Forrester
★6.6
MOVIE1935
'G' Men
as Congressman (uncredited)
★6.1
MOVIE1948
Silver River
as Major Spencer
★7.8
MOVIE1946
Wife Wanted
as Philip Conway
★5.7
MOVIE1949
A Dangerous Profession
★5.3
MOVIE1938
Tarnished Angel
as Detective Sgt. Cramer
★6.9
MOVIE1943
Hangmen Also Die!
as Dedic
★6.7
MOVIE1948
Call Northside 777
as Governor's Aide Robert Winston (uncredited)
★7.3
MOVIE1934
Gentlemen Are Born
as Second Broker
★7.0
MOVIE1939
In Name Only
as Dr. Gateson
★8.0
MOVIE1951
Let's Go Navy!
as Captain
★6.8
MOVIE1948
Johnny Belinda
as Dr. Gray (uncredited)
★5.2
MOVIE1945
Dakota
as Colonel Wordin
★6.3
MOVIE1939
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
as President of Western Union
★7.1
MOVIE1937
You Only Live Once
as District Attorney (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1950
Triple Trouble
as The Judge
★6.0
MOVIE1938
Letter of Introduction
as Lou Woodstock (uncredited)
★6.7
MOVIE1935
Alice Adams
as Mr. Palmer
★7.0
MOVIE1937
Danger – Love at Work
as Parsons, an attorney
★7.5
MOVIE1956
Jaguar
as Dr. Powell
★5.7
MOVIE1954
Cattle Queen of Montana
as Politician (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1942
Joe Smith, American
as Blake McKettrick
★7.3
MOVIE1944
Hollywood Canteen
as Mr. Brodel (uncredited)
★5.6
MOVIE1947
Her Husband's Affairs
as Gov. Fox
★6.8
MOVIE1940
Johnny Apollo
as Dr. Brown
★7.0
MOVIE1937
She's Dangerous
as Charles Fitzgerald
★6.7
MOVIE1950
The Baron of Arizona
as Governor
★6.4
MOVIE1946
Blondie's Lucky Day
as J.C. Dithers
★7.0
MOVIE1940
Blondie Has Servant Trouble
as J.C. Dithers
★6.5
MOVIE1946
Angel on My Shoulder
as Citizens for Better Government Chairman (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1946
Gay Blades
as Whittlesey
★5.7
MOVIE1938
Over the Wall
as Governor James McDonald
★6.9
MOVIE1951
The Tall Target
as Passenger from Carolina (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1943
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
as Mr. Fox
★7.5
MOVIE1936
Fury
as Defense Attorney
★6.4
MOVIE1941
Blondie in Society
as J.C. Dithers
★7.3
MOVIE1938
Fugitives for a Night
as Police Captain
★6.2
MOVIE1939
Wings of the Navy
as Commandant
★6.8
MOVIE1938
Judge Hardy's Children
as John Lee
★5.9
MOVIE1936
China Clipper
as State Department Official (uncredited)
★6.6
MOVIE1935
The Raven
as Bedside Dr. at Jerry's Right (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1937
Saratoga
as Frank Clayton
★7.4
MOVIE1935
A Night at the Opera
as The Stage Manager (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1948
King of the Gamblers
as Sam Hyland
★5.2
MOVIE1952
Young Man with Ideas
as Stanley Rickson (uncredited)
★6.7
MOVIE1945
Life with Blondie
as J.C. Dithers
★5.8
MOVIE1936
The Accusing Finger
as Special Prosecutor
★7.5
MOVIE1940
Melody and Moonlight
as Otis Barnett
★6.4
MOVIE1947
The Beginning or the End
as Dr. Vannevar Bush
★6.5
MOVIE1941
Her First Beau
as Mr. Harris
★6.3
MOVIE1942
Flight Lieutenant
as Joseph Sanford
★7.0
MOVIE1936
The Devil Is a Sissy
as Judge Holmes
★7.3
MOVIE1937
This Is My Affair
as Judge
★6.4
MOVIE1952
Son of Paleface
as Governor Freeman (uncredited)
★7.6
MOVIE1942
Blondie for Victory
as J.C. Dithers
★7.1
MOVIE1936
Charlie Chan at the Race Track
as Warren Fenton
★6.0
MOVIE1939
Stand Up and Fight
as Colonel Webb
★6.7
MOVIE1943
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
★6.3
MOVIE1938
Arsène Lupin Returns
as F.B.I. Special Agent
★6.1
MOVIE1938
Breaking the Ice
as Mr. Kane
★5.5
MOVIE1955
The Night Holds Terror
as Bob Henderson
★6.4
MOVIE1947
High Wall
as Emory Garrison
★6.1
MOVIE1941
The Saint In Palm Springs
as Inspector Henry Fernack
★6.3
MOVIE1940
We Who Are Young
as Braddock
★5.5
MOVIE1945
The Strange Mr. Gregory
as Defense Attorney Blair
★7.0
MOVIE1942
Calling Dr. Gillespie
as Frank M. Todwell
★8.5
MOVIE1937
The Man Who Found Himself
as Dr. Tom Smythe
★6.8
MOVIE1942
The Bugle Sounds
as Brigadier-General
★6.6
MOVIE1952
The Steel Trap
as Tom Bowers
★8.0
MOVIE1941
The Great Swindle
as Swann
★6.6
MOVIE1944
Dead Man's Eyes
as Dr. Sam Welles
★6.9
MOVIE1946
Blondie Knows Best
as J.C. Dithers
★5.7
MOVIE1954
She Couldn't Say No
as John Bentley
★6.1
MOVIE1937
Madame X
as Hugh Fariman Sr.
★6.1
MOVIE1939
Thunder Afloat
as Admiral Girard
★6.3
MOVIE1935
Public Hero Number 1
as Prison Board Member (uncredited)
★5.4
MOVIE1938
Men with Wings
as Long
★6.0
MOVIE1939
The Amazing Mr. Williams
as Mayor
★6.3
MOVIE1934
The Case of the Howling Dog
as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
★6.7
MOVIE1940
The Saint Takes Over
as Inspector Henry Fernack
★7.0
MOVIE1953
The Flaming Urge
as Mr. Chalmers
★6.3
MOVIE1939
Tail Spin
as Racing Official Starter (Uncredited)
★5.0
MOVIE1953
Kansas Pacific
as Sherman Johnson
★6.6
MOVIE1942
Blondie Goes to College
as J.C. Dithers
★5.8
MOVIE1941
Flight from Destiny
as Dist. Atty. Johnson
★6.8
MOVIE1937
Charlie Chan at the Olympics
as Mr. Hopkins
★5.8
MOVIE1950
Federal Agent at Large
as James Goodwin
★6.5
MOVIE1950
Short Grass
as Charlie Bissel
★6.1
MOVIE1943
Jack London
as Kerwin Maxwell
★5.5
MOVIE1937
Exiled to Shanghai
as J.B. Willet
★5.5
MOVIE1936
The Voice of Bugle Ann
as District Attorney
★6.0
MOVIE1945
Divorce
as Judge
★7.3
MOVIE1938
The First Hundred Years
as Judge Parker
★7.0
MOVIE1936
Charlie Chan's Secret
as Warren T. Phelps
★5.8
MOVIE1938
Crime Ring
as Bank President
★7.5
MOVIE1937
Racketeers in Exile
as Alden Parker
★5.4
MOVIE1950
Three Husbands
as Edward Wurdeman
★6.6
MOVIE1938
The Saint in New York
as Inspector Henry Fernack
★7.6
MOVIE1935
Let 'em Have It
as Microscopic Expert
★6.6
MOVIE1941
Blondie Goes Latin
as J.C. Dithers
★5.0
MOVIE1949
State Department: File 649
as Director-General
★6.4
MOVIE1943
The Rear Gunner
as Commanding Officer
★6.3
MOVIE1939
In Old Monterey
as Stevenson
★10.0
MOVIE1938
Road Demon
as Anderson
★6.0
MOVIE1944
This Is the Life
as Dr. Plum
★5.8
MOVIE1944
End of the Road
as Gregory McCune
★6.0
MOVIE1956
The Three Outlaws
as Pinkerton
★5.9
MOVIE1938
Yellow Jack
as Major General Leonard Wood
★5.4
MOVIE1945
Watchtower Over Tomorrow
as Security Council Chair
★5.8
MOVIE1939
The Saint Strikes Back
as Inspector Henry Fernack
★6.2
MOVIE1946
The Walls Came Tumbling Down
as Captain Griffin
★7.0
MOVIE1936
Happy Go Lucky
as J. Lansing Bennett
★6.0
MOVIE1947
The Ghost Goes Wild
as Max Atterbury
★7.0
MOVIE1942
Blondie's Blessed Event
as J.C. Dithers
★6.4
MOVIE1937
Wings Over Honolulu
as Judge Advocate
★6.4
MOVIE1946
Easy to Wed
as Hector Boswell
★6.2
MOVIE1937
The League of Frightened Men
as Alexander Drummond
★5.8
MOVIE1939
Blondie Meets the Boss
as J.C. Dithars
★6.8
MOVIE1940
Blondie Plays Cupid
as J.C. Dithers
★6.0
MOVIE1940
The Saint's Double Trouble
as Inspector Henry Fernack
★6.3
MOVIE1946
Riverboat Rhythm
as Col. Edward Beeler
★7.0
MOVIE1936
The Singing Kid
as Dr. Brown (uncredited)
★5.0
MOVIE1946
The Cat Creeps
as Walter Elliott
★6.2
MOVIE1938
There's That Woman Again
as Rolfe Davis
★8.0
MOVIE1943
Footlight Glamour
as J.C. Dithers
★7.7
MOVIE1943
It's a Great Life
as J.C. Dithers
★5.3
MOVIE1938
Gangs of New York
as Warden
★6.3
MOVIE1949
Stampede
as Varick
★6.7
MOVIE1945
Allotment Wives
as Brig. Gen. H.N. Gilbert
★5.7
MOVIE1951
Insurance Investigator
as Russell James
★7.0
MOVIE1947
Black Gold
as Senator Watkins
★5.7
MOVIE1946
Rolling Home
as Henry Kane
★7.2
MOVIE1941
Strange Alibi
as Police Chief Sprague
★7.0
MOVIE1936
Sutter's Gold
as Prosecuting Attorney
★5.3
MOVIE1934
Lightning Strikes Twice
as Capt. Nelson
★5.4
MOVIE1943
There's Something About a Soldier
as Gen. Sommerton
★5.0
MOVIE1936
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
as First trial judge
★6.8
MOVIE1954
Duffy of San Quentin
as Boyd
★7.0
MOVIE1940
Private Affairs
as George Gilkin
★3.8
MOVIE1947
The Vigilantes Return
as Judge Holden
★4.9
MOVIE1936
Sinner Take All
as Dr. Harrison (uncredited)
★6.9
MOVIE1939
Blondie Brings Up Baby
as J.C. Dithers
★6.7
MOVIE1935
Page Miss Glory
as Husband at Train Station (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1937
Man Of The People
as Carter Spetner
★9.0
MOVIE1944
My Buddy
as Senator Henry
★7.0
MOVIE1952
Scandal Sheet
as Frank Madison
★7.5
MOVIE1935
One New York Night
as Mr. Stokes
★6.8
MOVIE1935
3 Kids and a Queen
as Gangster
★5.2
MOVIE1936
Too Many Parents
as Judge
★6.2
MOVIE1935
Hit-and-Run Driver
as Captain James (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1952
Behind Southern Lines
as General
★7.0
MOVIE1937
Big Town Girl
as Hershell
★6.0
MOVIE1936
Three Live Ghosts
as Detective Bolton
★5.8
MOVIE1936
Panic on the Air
as Johnson (uncredited)
★4.5
MOVIE1938
The Duke of West Point
as Colonel Early
★6.5
MOVIE1939
Barricade
as Assistant Secretary of State
★6.8
MOVIE1944
The Black Parachute
as King Stephen
★5.5
MOVIE1949
The Judge
as Judge Allan J. Brooks
★6.8
MOVIE1953
Taxi
as Mr. Barker (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1939
The Big Guy
as Jack Lane
★6.3
MOVIE1942
Miss Annie Rooney
as Mr. Martin White
★7.0
MOVIE1951
Rodeo King and the Senorita
as Dr. Sands
★9.0
MOVIE1936
Educating Father
as Fred Humphrey
★7.5
MOVIE1938
Her Jungle Love
as J.C. Martin
★6.4
MOVIE1940
Dulcy
as Homer Patterson
★5.7
MOVIE1945
The Phantom Speaks
as Owen McAllister
★5.6
MOVIE1945
Man Alive
as Osborne
★6.0
MOVIE1937
Sea Devils
as Court-Martial President (uncredited)
★8.0
MOVIE1937
Midnight Madonna
as Stuart Kirkland
★8.0
MOVIE1943
Nobody's Darling
as Jason Rhodes
★6.8
MOVIE1945
Leave It to Blondie
as J.C. Dithers
★10.0
MOVIE1936
Flying Hostess
as Kendall
★4.7
MOVIE1937
You Can't Buy Luck
as Prosecutor (uncredited)
★4.7
MOVIE1935
The Calling of Dan Matthews
as Club Owner (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1949
Rose of the Yukon
as Gen. Butler
★8.0
MOVIE1945
G.I. Honeymoon
as Colonel Hammerhead Smith
★7.5
MOVIE1935
Too Tough to Kill
as Chairman of the Board
★8.0
MOVIE1951
Sunny Side of the Street
as Cyrus Pelley
★4.8
MOVIE1936
You May Be Next!
as Army Officer (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1935
A Night at the Ritz
as Director (uncredited)
★6.1
MOVIE1936
36 Hours to Kill
as Mac - Train Conductor
★6.0
MOVIE1935
Navy Wife
as Norton
★6.0
MOVIE1936
Spendthrift
as Attorney
★5.3
MOVIE1942
Lone Star Ranger
as Judge Longstreth
★7.0
MOVIE1941
The Pittsburgh Kid
as Max Ellison
★7.0
MOVIE1937
John Meade's Woman
as Mr. Melton
★6.0
MOVIE1948
Disaster
as Police Commissioner Jerome
★8.0
MOVIE1939
One Against the World
as Dr. Ephraim McDowell