Jonathan Hale

Jonathan Hale
Jonathan Hale in Charlie Chan's Secret (1936)
Born	Jonathan Hatley (1891-03-21)March 21, 1891 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Died	February 28, 1966(1966-02-28) (aged 74) Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
Cause of death	Suicide
Resting place	Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood, California
Citizenship	Canadian
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1934-1965

For the American actor similarly named, see Jonathan Hole.

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

Career

Born Jonathan Hatley in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Hale 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.

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 a 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".^[1]

Death

Hale committed suicide on February 28, 1966.^[2] He was interred at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood, California.

Partial filmography

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jonathan Hale.

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