Strangers on a Train1951
As Mr. Antony
TMDb 7.7 / 10
Jonathan Hale
Born
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".
Filmography (200)
A Night at the Opera1935
As The Stage Manager (uncredited)
TMDb 7.4 / 10
You Only Live Once1937
As District Attorney (uncredited)
TMDb 7.1 / 10
The Fountainhead1949
As Guy Francon (uncredited)
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Fury1936
As Defense Attorney
TMDb 7.5 / 10
A Star Is Born1937
As Judge Parris (uncredited)
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Hangmen Also Die!1943
As Dedic
TMDb 6.9 / 10
'G' Men1935
As Congressman (uncredited)
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Boys Town1938
As John Hargraves
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Call Northside 7771948
As Governor's Aide Robert Winston (uncredited)
TMDb 6.7 / 10
The Raven1935
As Bedside Dr. at Jerry's Right (uncredited)
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Cattle Queen of Montana1954
As Politician (uncredited)
TMDb 5.7 / 10
In Name Only1939
As Dr. Gateson
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell1939
As President of Western Union
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Tap Roots1948
As Gen. Johnston (uncredited)
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Johnny Belinda1948
As Dr. Gray (uncredited)
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Silver River1948
As Major Spencer
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Son of Paleface1952
As Governor Freeman (uncredited)
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Johnny Apollo1940
As Dr. Brown
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Angel on My Shoulder1946
As Citizens for Better Government Chairman (uncredited)
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Dakota1945
As Colonel Wordin
TMDb 5.2 / 10
The Tall Target1951
As Passenger from Carolina (uncredited)
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Housewife1934
As Doctor
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Triple Trouble1950
As The Judge
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Ringside Maisie1941
As Dr. Kramer
TMDb 5.6 / 10
The Saint Strikes Back1939
As Inspector Henry Fernack
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The Beginning or the End1947
As Dr. Vannevar Bush
TMDb 6.4 / 10
She Couldn't Say No1954
As John Bentley
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Saratoga1937
As Frank Clayton
TMDb 6.5 / 10
If You Could Only Cook1935
As Henry Brown - Member of Board of Directors (uncredited)
TMDb 7.4 / 10
Charlie Chan at the Race Track1936
As Warren Fenton
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Wings of the Navy1939
As Commandant
TMDb 6.2 / 10
The Baron of Arizona1950
As Governor
TMDb 6.7 / 10
We Who Are Young1940
As Braddock
TMDb 6.3 / 10
36 Hours to Kill1936
As Mac - Train Conductor
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Charlie Chan at the Olympics1937
As Mr. Hopkins
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Scandal Sheet1952
As Frank Madison
TMDb 7.0 / 10
High Wall1947
As Emory Garrison
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Young Man with Ideas1952
As Stanley Rickson (uncredited)
TMDb 5.2 / 10
One New York Night1935
As Mr. Stokes
TMDb 7.5 / 10
The Devil Is a Sissy1936
As Judge Holmes
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday1943
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Alice Adams1935
As Mr. Palmer
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Charlie Chan's Secret1936
As Warren T. Phelps
TMDb 7.0 / 10
A Dangerous Profession1949
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Gentlemen Are Born1934
As Second Broker
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Let's Go Navy!1951
As Captain
TMDb 8.0 / 10
The Saint in New York1938
As Inspector Henry Fernack
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Blondie1938
As Mr. Dithers
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Saint's Double Trouble1940
As Inspector Henry Fernack
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Stand Up and Fight1939
As Colonel Webb
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Steel Trap1952
As Tom Bowers
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Danger – Love at Work1937
As Parsons, an attorney
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Blondie Brings Up Baby1939
As J.C. Dithers
TMDb 6.9 / 10
3 Kids and a Queen1935
As Gangster
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Sweet Rosie O'Grady1943
As Mr. Fox
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Easy to Wed1946
As Hector Boswell
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Tarnished Angel1938
As Detective Sgt. Cramer
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Rocky1948
As Kenneth Forrester
TMDb 8.0 / 10
The Amazing Mr. Williams1939
As Mayor
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Duffy of San Quentin1954
As Boyd
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Men with Wings1938
As Long
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Blondie's Blessed Event1942
As J.C. Dithers
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Night Holds Terror1955
As Bob Henderson
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Kansas Pacific1953
As Sherman Johnson
TMDb 5.0 / 10
The Duke of West Point1938
As Colonel Early
TMDb 4.5 / 10
Hollywood Canteen1944
As Mr. Brodel (uncredited)
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Judge Hardy's Children1938
As John Lee
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Her Husband's Affairs1947
As Gov. Fox
TMDb 5.6 / 10
There's That Woman Again1938
As Rolfe Davis
TMDb 6.2 / 10
The Case Against Mrs. Ames1936
As First trial judge
TMDb 5.0 / 10
A Lost Lady1934
As (uncredited)
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The Case of the Howling Dog1934
As Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
TMDb 6.3 / 10
This Is My Affair1937
As Judge
TMDb 7.3 / 10
The Man Who Found Himself1937
As Dr. Tom Smythe
TMDb 8.5 / 10
Blondie Goes to College1942
As J.C. Dithers
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Let 'em Have It1935
As Microscopic Expert
TMDb 7.6 / 10
The Flaming Urge1953
As Mr. Chalmers
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Wife Wanted1946
As Philip Conway
TMDb 7.8 / 10
Miss Annie Rooney1942
As Mr. Martin White
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Dead Man's Eyes1944
As Dr. Sam Welles
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Public Hero Number 11935
As Prison Board Member (uncredited)
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Taxi1953
As Mr. Barker (uncredited)
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Short Grass1950
As Charlie Bissel
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Accusing Finger1936
As Special Prosecutor
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Arsène Lupin Returns1938
As F.B.I. Special Agent
TMDb 6.3 / 10
The Walls Came Tumbling Down1946
As Captain Griffin
TMDb 6.2 / 10
State Department: File 6491949
As Director-General
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Fugitives for a Night1938
As Police Captain
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Tail Spin1939
As Racing Official Starter (Uncredited)
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Jaguar1956
As Dr. Powell
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Outcast1937
TMDb 8.0 / 10
The Vigilantes Return1947
As Judge Holden
TMDb 3.8 / 10
It's a Great Life1943
As J.C. Dithers
TMDb 7.7 / 10
Gay Blades1946
As Whittlesey
TMDb 8.0 / 10
The Voice of Bugle Ann1936
As District Attorney
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Rose of the Yukon1949
As Gen. Butler
TMDb 7.0 / 10
China Clipper1936
As State Department Official (uncredited)
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The League of Frightened Men1937
As Alexander Drummond
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Federal Agent at Large1950
As James Goodwin
TMDb 5.8 / 10
She's Dangerous1937
As Charles Fitzgerald
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Blondie Has Servant Trouble1940
As J.C. Dithers
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Man Of The People1937
As Carter Spetner
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The First Hundred Years1938
As Judge Parker
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Flight Lieutenant1942
As Joseph Sanford
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Gangs of New York1938
As Warden
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Calling Dr. Gillespie1942
As Frank M. Todwell
TMDb 7.0 / 10
You May Be Next!1936
As Army Officer (uncredited)
TMDb 4.8 / 10
Blondie Meets the Boss1939
As J.C. Dithars
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The Saint In Palm Springs1941
As Inspector Henry Fernack
TMDb 6.1 / 10
You Can't Buy Luck1937
As Prosecutor (uncredited)
TMDb 4.7 / 10
Leave It to Blondie1945
As J.C. Dithers
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Black Gold1947
As Senator Watkins
TMDb 7.0 / 10
John Meade's Woman1937
As Mr. Melton
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Rodeo King and the Senorita1951
As Dr. Sands
TMDb 7.0 / 10
One Against the World1939
As Dr. Ephraim McDowell
TMDb 8.0 / 10
There's Something About a Soldier1943
As Gen. Sommerton
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Blondie's Lucky Day1946
As J.C. Dithers
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Thunder Afloat1939
As Admiral Girard
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Calling of Dan Matthews1935
As Club Owner (uncredited)
TMDb 4.7 / 10
Life with Blondie1945
As J.C. Dithers
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Blondie in Society1941
As J.C. Dithers
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Wives Under Suspicion1938
As Allison
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Three Husbands1950
As Edward Wurdeman
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Sunny Side of the Street1951
As Cyrus Pelley
TMDb 8.0 / 10
The Cat Creeps1946
As Walter Elliott
TMDb 5.0 / 10
The Saint Takes Over1940
As Inspector Henry Fernack
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Madame X1937
As Hugh Fariman Sr.
TMDb 6.1 / 10
This Is the Life1944
As Dr. Plum
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Big Town Girl1937
As Hershell
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Strange Mr. Gregory1945
As Defense Attorney Blair
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Sinner Take All1936
As Dr. Harrison (uncredited)
TMDb 4.9 / 10
Dulcy1940
As Homer Patterson
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Jack London1943
As Kerwin Maxwell
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Joe Smith, American1942
As Blake McKettrick
TMDb 6.5 / 10
End of the Road1944
As Gregory McCune
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Page Miss Glory1935
As Husband at Train Station (uncredited)
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Stampede1949
As Varick
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Too Tough to Kill1935
As Chairman of the Board
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Barricade1939
As Assistant Secretary of State
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Ghost Goes Wild1947
As Max Atterbury
TMDb 6.0 / 10
A Night at the Ritz1935
As Director (uncredited)
TMDb 6.5 / 10
King of the Gamblers1948
As Sam Hyland
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Her First Beau1941
As Mr. Harris
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Blondie for Victory1942
As J.C. Dithers
TMDb 7.6 / 10
Spendthrift1936
As Attorney
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Judge1949
As Judge Allan J. Brooks
TMDb 5.5 / 10
The Singing Kid1936
As Dr. Brown (uncredited)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Panic on the Air1936
As Johnson (uncredited)
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Breaking the Ice1938
As Mr. Kane
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Flight from Destiny1941
As Dist. Atty. Johnson
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Letter of Introduction1938
As Lou Woodstock (uncredited)
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Yellow Jack1938
As Major General Leonard Wood
TMDb 5.9 / 10
The Bugle Sounds1942
As Brigadier-General
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Man Alive1945
As Osborne
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Melody and Moonlight1940
As Otis Barnett
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Blondie Goes Latin1941
As J.C. Dithers
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Lone Star Ranger1942
As Judge Longstreth
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Strange Alibi1941
As Police Chief Sprague
TMDb 7.2 / 10
The Black Parachute1944
As King Stephen
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Pittsburgh Kid1941
As Max Ellison
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Over the Wall1938
As Governor James McDonald
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Hit-and-Run Driver1935
As Captain James (uncredited)
TMDb 6.2 / 10
The Big Guy1939
As Jack Lane
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Navy Wife1935
As Norton
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Nobody's Darling1943
As Jason Rhodes
TMDb 8.0 / 10
The Great Swindle1941
As Swann
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Her Jungle Love1938
As J.C. Martin
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Divorce1945
As Judge
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Private Affairs1940
As George Gilkin
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Watchtower Over Tomorrow1945
As Security Council Chair
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Sea Devils1937
As Court-Martial President (uncredited)
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Exiled to Shanghai1937
As J.B. Willet
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Disaster1948
As Police Commissioner Jerome
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Crime Ring1938
As Bank President
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Racketeers in Exile1937
As Alden Parker
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Allotment Wives1945
As Brig. Gen. H.N. Gilbert
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Blondie Plays Cupid1940
As J.C. Dithers
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Blondie Knows Best1946
As J.C. Dithers
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Wings Over Honolulu1937
As Judge Advocate
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Insurance Investigator1951
As Russell James
TMDb 5.7 / 10
The Phantom Speaks1945
As Owen McAllister
TMDb 5.7 / 10
My Buddy1944
As Senator Henry
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Footlight Glamour1943
As J.C. Dithers
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Rolling Home1946
As Henry Kane
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Midnight Madonna1937
As Stuart Kirkland
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Educating Father1936
As Fred Humphrey
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Happy Go Lucky1936
As J. Lansing Bennett
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Lightning Strikes Twice1934
As Capt. Nelson
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Flying Hostess1936
As Kendall
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Riverboat Rhythm1946
As Col. Edward Beeler
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Three Live Ghosts1936
As Detective Bolton
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Three Outlaws1956
As Pinkerton
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Behind Southern Lines1952
As General
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Sutter's Gold1936
As Prosecuting Attorney
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Rear Gunner1943
As Commanding Officer
TMDb 6.4 / 10
In Old Monterey1939
As Stevenson
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Too Many Parents
Too Many Parents1936
As Judge
TMDb 5.2 / 10
Road Demon
Road Demon1938
As Anderson
TMDb 10.0 / 10
G.I. Honeymoon1945
As Colonel Hammerhead Smith
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Filmography and biography: TMDb