Jonathan Hale

Actor

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Also Known As

Jonathan Hatley

Birth Place

Ontario, CA

Born

March 21, 1891

Died

February 28, 1966

Cause of Death

Suicide

Biography

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Jonathan Hale was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Hale's earliest roles were in film, including the dramatic adaptation "Alice Adams" (1935) with Katharine Hepburn, the Richard Arlen adaptation "Three Live Ghosts" (1935) and the Lionel Barrymore drama "The Voice of Bugle Ann" (1936). He also appeared in "Educating Father" (1936), the mystery "Charlie Chan at the Race ...

Filmography

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The Million Dollar Duck (1971)

Dr. Henry Powell

The Three Outlaws (1956)

Headline Hunters (1955)

The Night Holds Terror (1955)

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Boys Town (1938) -- (Movie Clip) No Such Thing As A Bad Boy

Beginning Or The End, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Just Another Bomb

Biography

Jonathan Hale was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Hale's earliest roles were in film, including the dramatic adaptation "Alice Adams" (1935) with Katharine Hepburn, the Richard Arlen adaptation "Three Live Ghosts" (1935) and the Lionel Barrymore drama "The Voice of Bugle Ann" (1936). He also appeared in "Educating Father" (1936), the mystery "Charlie Chan at the Race Track" (1936) with Warner Oland and the mystery "Charlie Chan's Secret" (1936) with Warner Oland. He continued to work steadily in film throughout the thirties, appearing in "In Name Only" (1939), "The Saint Strikes Back" (1939) and the Gene Autry western "In Old Monterey" (1939). He also appeared in the action picture "Wings of the Navy" (1939) with George Brent. Nearing the end of his career, he continued to act in "G.I. Honeymoon" (1945), the western "Dakota" (1945) with John Wayne and "Angel on My Shoulder" (1946). He also appeared in "The Cat Creeps" (1946) and "Easy to Wed" (1946) with Van Johnson. Hale was most recently credited in "Toddlers & Tiaras" (TLC, 2008-2013). Hale passed away in February 1966 at the age of 75.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Million Dollar Duck (1971)

Dr. Henry Powell

The Three Outlaws (1956)

Headline Hunters (1955)

The Night Holds Terror (1955)

She Couldn't Say No (1954)

Duffy of San Quentin (1954)

The Glory Brigade (1953)

Kansas Pacific (1953)

Sherman Johnson

The Flaming Urge (1953)

Son of Paleface (1952)

Governor Freedman

Carbine Williams (1952)

Scandal Sheet (1952)

The Steel Trap (1952)

Young Man With Ideas (1952)

Behind Southern Lines (1952)

The Tall Target (1951)

Professional Southerner

Insurance Investigator (1951)

Strangers on a Train (1951)

Sunny Side of the Street (1951)

Rodeo King and the Senorita (1951)

Let's Go Navy (1951)

Three Husbands (1950)

The Lawyer [Wurdeman]

The Baron of Arizona (1950)

Federal Agent at Large (1950)

Short Grass (1950)

Charlie Bissell

Triple Trouble (1950)

Stampede (1949)

The Judge (1949)

The Judge [Allan J. Brooks]

A Dangerous Profession (1949)

State Department File 649 (1949)

Director-General

Rose of the Yukon (1949)

Brig. Gen. Craig Butler

The Fountainhead (1949)

Call Northside 777 (1948)

High Wall (1948)

King of the Gamblers (1948)

Silver River (1948)

Disaster (1948)

Police commissioner

Michael O'Halloran (1948)

Judge [Chaffner]

Tap Roots (1948)

General Johnston

Johnny Belinda (1948)

The Beginning or the End (1947)

Dr. Vannevar Bush

The Ghost Goes Wild (1947)

Black Gold (1947)

Her Husband's Affairs (1947)

The Vigilantes Return (1947)

Angel on My Shoulder (1946)

Gay Blades (1946)

Wife Wanted (1946)

Blondie's Lucky Day (1946)

Rolling Home (1946)

Blondie Knows Best (1946)

The Cat Creeps (1946)

The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946)

The Strange Mr. Gregory (1946)

Riverboat Rhythm (1946)

Colonel Edward Beeler

Easy to Wed (1946)

Allotment Wives (1945)

Brig. General H. N. Gilbert

Leave It to Blondie (1945)

Man Alive (1945)

The Phantom Speaks (1945)

Owen McAllister

Life with Blondie (1945)

G. I. Honeymoon (1945)

Col. Hammerhead Smith

Hollywood Canteen (1944)

Joan Leslie's father

And Now Tomorrow (1944)

My Buddy (1944)

Senator Bill Henry

This Is the Life (1944)

Dead Man's Eyes (1944)

Dr. [Sam] Welles

End of the Road (1944)

The Black Parachute (1944)

Since You Went Away (1944)

Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943)

Nobody's Darling (1943)

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943)

There's Something About a Soldier (1943)

General Sommerton

Jack London (1943)

It's a Great Life (1943)

Footlight Glamour (1943)

Hangmen Also Die! (1943)

Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942)

Frank Marshall Todwell

Miss Annie Rooney (1942)

Blondie for Victory (1942)

Blondie Goes to College (1942)

The Lone Star Ranger (1942)

Judge [John] Longstreth

Flight Lieutenant (1942)

Blondie's Blessed Event (1942)

Mr. J. C. Dithers

The Bugle Sounds (1942)

Brigadier-General

Joe Smith, American (1942)

Blake McKettrick

Her First Beau (1941)

Blondie Goes Latin (1941)

Mr. J. C. Dithers

Blondie in Society (1941)

Flight from Destiny (1941)

District Attorney

The Pittsburgh Kid (1941)

Ringside Maisie (1941)

The Great Swindle (1941)

Strange Alibi (1941)

The Saint in Palm Springs (1941)

Inspector Henry Fernack

Homer Patterson

Melody and Moonlight (1940)

Otis J. Barnett

Johnny Apollo (1940)

We Who Are Young (1940)

Private Affairs (1940)

[George] Gilkin

Blondie Plays Cupid (1940)

Blondie Has Servant Trouble (1940)

The Saint Takes Over (1940)

Inspector Henry Fernack

The Saint's Double Trouble (1940)

Inspector Henry Fernack

Barricade (1939)

Assistant. Secretary of State

In Old Monterey (1939)

Fugitive at Large (1939)

The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939)

In Name Only (1939)

The Big Guy (1939)

Blondie Brings Up Baby (1939)

Blondie Meets the Boss (1939)

The Saint Strikes Back (1939)

Inspector [Henry] Fernack

Wings of the Navy (1939)

Thunder Afloat (1939)

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)

President of Western Union

Stand Up and Fight (1939)

Tail Spin (1939)

Men with Wings (1938)

Breaking the Ice (1938)

Gangs of New York (1938)

Judge Hardy's Children (1938)

Wives Under Suspicion (1938)

Letter of Introduction (1938)

The First Hundred Years (1938)

Over the Wall (1938)

Boys Town (1938)

There's That Woman Again (1938)

Fugitives for a Night (1938)

Road Demon (1938)

Tarnished Angel (1938)

Detective Edward Cramer

Her Jungle Love (1938)

The Saint in New York (1938)

Inspector Fernack

Arsene Lupin Returns (1938)

F.B.I. special agent

Yellow Jack (1938)

Major General Leonard Wood

The Duke of West Point (1938)

Island in the Sky (1938)

A Star Is Born (1937)

Racketeers in Exile (1937)

[Alden] Parker [previously known as Gordini]

Big Town Girl (1937)

Carnival Queen (1937)

Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937)

John Meade's Woman (1937)

Saratoga (1937)

Midnight Madonna (1937)

Stuart Kirkland

Man of the People (1937)

She's Dangerous (1937)

Charles Fitzgerald

Exiled to Shanghai (1937)

A Doctor's Diary (1937)

Wings over Honolulu (1937)

You Only Live Once (1937)

District Attorney

Madame X (1937)

Hugh Fariman, Sr.

The League of Frightened Men (1937)

Alexander Drummond

This Is My Affair (1937)

Danger - Love at Work (1937)

[J. B.] Parsons

After the Thin Man (1936)

Night city editor

The Magnificent Brute (1936)

Born to Dance (1936)

Panic on the Air (1936)

Flying Hostess (1936)

[Jack] Driscoll

The Accusing Finger (1936)

Special prosecutor

The Voice of Bugle Ann (1936)

District Attorney

36 Hours to Kill (1936)

Mysterious Crossing (1936)

The Devil Is a Sissy (1936)

Charlie Chan at the Race Track (1936)

Charlie Chan's Secret (1936)

Warren T. Phelps

Three Live Ghosts (1936)

Happy Go Lucky (1936)

J. Lansing Bennett

Easy to Take (1936)

Sinner Take All (1936)

Too Many Parents (1936)

Educating Father (1936)

Defense attorney

The Case Against Mrs. Ames (1936)

Alice Adams (1935)

Navy Wife (1935)

Three Kids and a Queen (1935)

A Night at the Opera (1935)

If You Could Only Cook (1935)

Too Tough to Kill (1935)

Cast (Special)

Man of the Comstock (1953)

Cast (Short)

The Rear Gunner (1943)

One Against the World (1939)

Hit and Run Driver (1935)

Life Events

Videos

Boys Town (1938) -- (Movie Clip) No Such Thing As A Bad Boy Father Flanagan (Spencer Tracy) lobbies Nebraska newspaper magnate Hargraves (Jonathan Hale), a montage creates the buildings, and financier Dave (Henry Hull) frets, in MGM's Boys Town, 1938.

Beginning Or The End, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Just Another Bomb Jonathan Hale resembles Vannevar Bush, whom he plays, consulting FDR (Godfrey Tearle) about the need for atomic research, whose call across the pond causes fictional Brits Chisolm (Richard Haydn) and Wyatt (Hurd Hatfield) to proceed to Chicago, in The Beginning Or The End, 1947.

Scandal Sheet (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Disgusting Tabloid! Echoes from the original novel by Samuel Fuller as editor Chapman (Broderick Crawford) dresses down the stodgy board (represented by Kathryn Card) in director Phil Karlson's Scandal Sheet, 1952.

Johnny Belinda (1948) -- (Movie Clip) It Can't Be Hereditary Robert (Lew Ayres), with Belinda (Jane Wyman, in her Academy Award-winning role) in town to meet hearing specialist Dr. Gray (Jonathan Hale), is stunned when he makes a passing reference to her being pregnant, in Johnny Belinda, 1948.

Saint In New York, The -- (Movie Clip) We All Die Sometime There's a nun on the scene as a thug (Lester Dorr) gets offed, Inspector Fernack (Jonathan Hale) baffled, then Templar (Louis Hayward) consults with employer Valcross (Frederick Burton), in The Saint In New York, 1938.

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