Jonathan Hale

Jonathan Hale (21 March 1891 – 28 February 1966) was a Canadian-born film and television actor. He committed suicide in 1966.

Contents 1 Career 2 Selected filmography 3 References 4 External links

Career

He was 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 Farnack in various The Saint films by RKO Pictures.

Fans of the TV series Adventures of Superman remember Hale for key roles in two different episodes:

• "The Evil Three", in which a he played a murderous "Southern Colonel"-type character
• "Panic in the Sky", one of the most famous episodes, in which he played the lead astronomer at the Metropolis Observatory (actually one of the California observatories).

Hale is buried in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood, California.

Also, non related to the Jonathan Hale of film, another Jonathan Hale is a classic game player, Born 8th October 1973 in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, aged 35 (at time of writing) who holds several world records at Twin Galaxies, the official site for gaming world records [1]

Selected filmography

• Miss Annie Rooney (1942)
• The Saint in Palm Springs (1941)
• The Saint Takes Over (1940)
• The Saint's Double Trouble (1940)
• The Saint Strikes Back (1939)
• Blondie (1938)
• The Saint in New York (1938)
• Madame X (1937)
• Saratoga (1937)
• The League of Frightened Men (1937)
• Charlie Chan's Secret (1936)
• Alice Adams (1935)

References

External links

• Jonathan Hale at the Internet Movie Database
• Jonathan Hale at Find A Grave

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