Jack Teagarden
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Jack Teagarden was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Teagarden found his beginnings in film with roles in "Birth of the Blues" (1941) and the drama "Glory Alley" (1952) with Ralph Meeker. Teagarden also appeared in "The Glass Wall" with Vittorio Gassman (1953), "Jazz on a Summer's Day" with Louis Armstrong (1959) and the Tobey Maguire and Jeff Bridges blockbuster "Seab...
Biography
Jack Teagarden was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Teagarden found his beginnings in film with roles in "Birth of the Blues" (1941) and the drama "Glory Alley" (1952) with Ralph Meeker. Teagarden also appeared in "The Glass Wall" with Vittorio Gassman (1953), "Jazz on a Summer's Day" with Louis Armstrong (1959) and the Tobey Maguire and Jeff Bridges blockbuster "Seabiscuit" (2003). Teagarden's music was most recently featured in the Michael Peña dramatic biopic "Cesar Chavez" (2014).
Filmography
Cast (Feature Film)
Jazz on a Summer's Day
(1960)
The Glass Wall
(1953)
Himself
Glory Alley
(1952)
Himself
The Strip
(1951)
Himself
Twilight on the Prairie
(1944)
Jackson
Hi, Good Lookin'!
(1944)
So's Your Uncle
(1943)
Birth of the Blues
(1941)
Pepper
Music (Feature Film)
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
(1971)
Composer
Twilight on the Prairie
(1944)
Composer
Life Events
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