
Jonathan Hale
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".
Filmography

The Three Outlaws

Jaguar

The Night Holds Terror

Cattle Queen of Montana

Duffy of San Quentin

She Couldn't Say No

The Flaming Urge

Kansas Pacific

Taxi

The Steel Trap

Behind Southern Lines

Son of Paleface

Young Man with Ideas

Scandal Sheet

Sunny Side of the Street

The Tall Target

Let's Go Navy!

Rodeo King and the Senorita

Strangers on a Train

Insurance Investigator

Short Grass

Three Husbands

Triple Trouble

Federal Agent at Large

The Baron of Arizona

A Dangerous Profession

The Fountainhead

Stampede

State Department: File 649

The Judge

Rose of the Yukon

Disaster

Johnny Belinda

Tap Roots

Silver River

Call Northside 777

Rocky

High Wall

Her Husband's Affairs

Black Gold

The Ghost Goes Wild

The Vigilantes Return

The Beginning or the End

Wife Wanted

Rolling Home

Blondie Knows Best

Angel on My Shoulder

Easy to Wed

The Walls Came Tumbling Down

The Cat Creeps

Blondie's Lucky Day

Riverboat Rhythm

Gay Blades

Dakota

Life with Blondie

Man Alive

Allotment Wives

Divorce

The Phantom Speaks

G.I. Honeymoon

Watchtower Over Tomorrow

Leave It to Blondie

The Strange Mr. Gregory

Hollywood Canteen

End of the Road

Dead Man's Eyes

My Buddy

This Is the Life

The Black Parachute

Jack London

There's Something About a Soldier

Sweet Rosie O'Grady

Footlight Glamour

Nobody's Darling

It's a Great Life

Hangmen Also Die!

The Rear Gunner

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

Blondie for Victory

Calling Dr. Gillespie

Flight Lieutenant

Miss Annie Rooney

Blondie's Blessed Event

Lone Star Ranger

Joe Smith, American

The Bugle Sounds

Blondie Goes to College

The Pittsburgh Kid

Ringside Maisie

Blondie in Society

Her First Beau

Strange Alibi

The Great Swindle

Blondie Goes Latin

Flight from Destiny

The Saint In Palm Springs

Blondie Plays Cupid

Melody and Moonlight

Dulcy

Blondie Has Servant Trouble

We Who Are Young

Private Affairs

The Saint Takes Over

Johnny Apollo

The Saint's Double Trouble

The Big Guy

Barricade

The Amazing Mr. Williams

Blondie Brings Up Baby

Thunder Afloat

One Against the World

In Name Only

In Old Monterey

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

Blondie Meets the Boss

The Saint Strikes Back

Tail Spin

Wings of the Navy

Stand Up and Fight

The Duke of West Point

There's That Woman Again

Road Demon

Blondie

Tarnished Angel

Fugitives for a Night

Breaking the Ice

Boys Town

Letter of Introduction

Men with Wings

Crime Ring

Wives Under Suspicion

The Saint in New York

Gangs of New York

Yellow Jack

Her Jungle Love

Over the Wall

Judge Hardy's Children

The First Hundred Years

Arsène Lupin Returns

Exiled to Shanghai

Big Town Girl

Madame X

Danger – Love at Work

Saratoga

Midnight Madonna

This Is My Affair

The League of Frightened Men

Charlie Chan at the Olympics

Wings Over Honolulu

You Can't Buy Luck

A Star Is Born

The Man Who Found Himself

Racketeers in Exile

John Meade's Woman

Sea Devils

Outcast

Man Of The People

She's Dangerous

You Only Live Once

Sinner Take All

Happy Go Lucky

Flying Hostess

The Accusing Finger

The Devil Is a Sissy

China Clipper

Charlie Chan at the Race Track

36 Hours to Kill

Spendthrift

Fury

Educating Father

The Case Against Mrs. Ames

The Singing Kid

Panic on the Air

Too Many Parents

Sutter's Gold

The Voice of Bugle Ann

You May Be Next!

Charlie Chan's Secret

Three Live Ghosts

If You Could Only Cook

Hit-and-Run Driver

Too Tough to Kill

The Calling of Dan Matthews

A Night at the Opera

3 Kids and a Queen

Navy Wife

Page Miss Glory

Alice Adams

The Raven

Public Hero Number 1

Let 'em Have It

'G' Men

A Night at the Ritz

One New York Night

Lightning Strikes Twice

Gentlemen Are Born

A Lost Lady

The Case of the Howling Dog
