Jonathan Hale
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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".
Known for
Credits
Strangers on a Train (1951)
as Mr. Antony
The Fountainhead (1949)
as Guy Francon (uncredited)
Boys Town (1938)
as John Hargraves
The Raven (1935)
as Bedside Dr. at Jerry's Right (uncredited)
Tap Roots (1948)
as Gen. Johnston (uncredited)
Call Northside 777 (1948)
as Governor's Aide Robert Winston (uncredited)
A Star Is Born (1937)
as Judge Parris (uncredited)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
as The Stage Manager (uncredited)
'G' Men (1935)
as Congressman (uncredited)
Fury (1936)
as Defense Attorney
Housewife (1934)
as Doctor
Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
as Dedic
Silver River (1948)
as Major Spencer
You Only Live Once (1937)
as District Attorney (uncredited)
Blondie (1938)
as Mr. Dithers
Johnny Belinda (1948)
as Dr. Gray (uncredited)
In Name Only (1939)
as Dr. Gateson
Tarnished Angel (1938)
as Detective Sgt. Cramer
Johnny Apollo (1940)
as Dr. Brown
The Tall Target (1951)
as Passenger from Carolina (uncredited)
Ringside Maisie (1941)
as Dr. Kramer
Son of Paleface (1952)
as Governor Freeman (uncredited)
Dakota (1945)
as Colonel Wordin
Outcast (1937)
Actor
Saratoga (1937)
as Frank Clayton
The Baron of Arizona (1950)
as Governor
High Wall (1947)
as Emory Garrison
Cattle Queen of Montana (1954)
as Politician (uncredited)
Triple Trouble (1950)
as The Judge
Scandal Sheet (1952)
as Frank Madison
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
as President of Western Union
Kansas Pacific (1953)
as Sherman Johnson
A Dangerous Profession (1949)
Actor
Alice Adams (1935)
as Mr. Palmer
Hollywood Canteen (1944)
as Mr. Brodel (uncredited)
Gentlemen Are Born (1934)
as Second Broker
Angel on My Shoulder (1946)
as Citizens for Better Government Chairman (uncredited)
Wife Wanted (1946)
as Philip Conway
Gay Blades (1946)
as Whittlesey
China Clipper (1936)
as State Department Official (uncredited)
Stand Up and Fight (1939)
as Colonel Webb
Young Man with Ideas (1952)
as Stanley Rickson (uncredited)
The Steel Trap (1952)
as Tom Bowers
She Couldn't Say No (1954)
as John Bentley
Thunder Afloat (1939)
as Admiral Girard
The Beginning or the End (1947)
as Dr. Vannevar Bush
The Saint in New York (1938)
as Inspector Henry Fernack
Madame X (1937)
as Hugh Fariman Sr.
Breaking the Ice (1938)
as Mr. Kane
Tail Spin (1939)
as Racing Official Starter (Uncredited)
Letter of Introduction (1938)
as Lou Woodstock (uncredited)
A Lost Lady (1934)
as (uncredited)
Wives Under Suspicion (1938)
as Allison
Blondie Has Servant Trouble (1940)
as J.C. Dithers
Page Miss Glory (1935)
as Husband at Train Station (uncredited)
The Devil Is a Sissy (1936)
as Judge Holmes
If You Could Only Cook (1935)
as Henry Brown - Member of Board of Directors (uncredited)
Spendthrift (1936)
as Attorney
The Accusing Finger (1936)
as Special Prosecutor
Big Town Girl (1937)
as Hershell
The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939)
as Mayor
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943)
Actor
The Saint Strikes Back (1939)
as Inspector Henry Fernack
Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937)
as Mr. Hopkins
Three Husbands (1950)
as Edward Wurdeman
Blondie Brings Up Baby (1939)
as J.C. Dithers
Let's Go Navy! (1951)
as Captain
The Man Who Found Himself (1937)
as Dr. Tom Smythe
She's Dangerous (1937)
as Charles Fitzgerald
This Is My Affair (1937)
as Judge
Blondie for Victory (1942)
as J.C. Dithers
Wings of the Navy (1939)
as Commandant
The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)
as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Rocky (1948)
as Kenneth Forrester
Blondie Goes to College (1942)
as J.C. Dithers
Her Jungle Love (1938)
as J.C. Martin
Blondie's Lucky Day (1946)
as J.C. Dithers
Life with Blondie (1945)
as J.C. Dithers
Sutter's Gold (1936)
as Prosecuting Attorney
Danger – Love at Work (1937)
as Parsons, an attorney
Her Husband's Affairs (1947)
as Gov. Fox
Judge Hardy's Children (1938)
as John Lee
Charlie Chan's Secret (1936)
as Warren T. Phelps
Her First Beau (1941)
as Mr. Harris
Blondie Knows Best (1946)
as J.C. Dithers
There's That Woman Again (1938)
as Rolfe Davis
Black Gold (1947)
as Senator Watkins
Blondie's Blessed Event (1942)
as J.C. Dithers
We Who Are Young (1940)
as Braddock
Yellow Jack (1938)
as Major General Leonard Wood
Joe Smith, American (1942)
as Blake McKettrick
The Bugle Sounds (1942)
as Brigadier-General
The Singing Kid (1936)
as Dr. Brown (uncredited)
Charlie Chan at the Race Track (1936)
as Warren Fenton
King of the Gamblers (1948)
as Sam Hyland
Flight Lieutenant (1942)
as Joseph Sanford
The Saint In Palm Springs (1941)
as Inspector Henry Fernack
The Cat Creeps (1946)
as Walter Elliott
Blondie Goes Latin (1941)
as J.C. Dithers
Strange Alibi (1941)
as Police Chief Sprague
The Black Parachute (1944)
as King Stephen
Watchtower Over Tomorrow (1945)
as Security Council Chair
Miss Annie Rooney (1942)
as Mr. Martin White
Public Hero Number 1 (1935)
as Prison Board Member (uncredited)
Easy to Wed (1946)
as Hector Boswell
Blondie Meets the Boss (1939)
as J.C. Dithars
Jaguar (1956)
as Dr. Powell
36 Hours to Kill (1936)
as Mac - Train Conductor
The Night Holds Terror (1955)
as Bob Henderson
Arsène Lupin Returns (1938)
as F.B.I. Special Agent
The Great Swindle (1941)
as Swann
Men with Wings (1938)
as Long
Duffy of San Quentin (1954)
as Boyd
There's Something About a Soldier (1943)
as Gen. Sommerton
Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942)
as Frank M. Todwell
Over the Wall (1938)
as Governor James McDonald
Sinner Take All (1936)
as Dr. Harrison (uncredited)
Happy Go Lucky (1936)
as J. Lansing Bennett
Man Of The People (1937)
as Carter Spetner
Fugitives for a Night (1938)
as Police Captain
Short Grass (1950)
as Charlie Bissel
Blondie in Society (1941)
as J.C. Dithers
John Meade's Woman (1937)
as Mr. Melton
The Saint Takes Over (1940)
as Inspector Henry Fernack
In Old Monterey (1939)
as Stevenson
Blondie Plays Cupid (1940)
as J.C. Dithers
Nobody's Darling (1943)
as Jason Rhodes
Educating Father (1936)
as Fred Humphrey
The Rear Gunner (1943)
as Commanding Officer
Too Tough to Kill (1935)
as Chairman of the Board
One New York Night (1935)
as Mr. Stokes
Allotment Wives (1945)
as Brig. Gen. H.N. Gilbert
You Can't Buy Luck (1937)
as Prosecutor (uncredited)
Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943)
as Mr. Fox
Rolling Home (1946)
as Henry Kane
The Judge (1949)
as Judge Allan J. Brooks
Jack London (1943)
as Kerwin Maxwell
State Department: File 649 (1949)
as Director-General
The Flaming Urge (1953)
as Mr. Chalmers
You May Be Next! (1936)
as Army Officer (uncredited)
The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946)
as Captain Griffin
The First Hundred Years (1938)
as Judge Parker
3 Kids and a Queen (1935)
as Gangster
Flight from Destiny (1941)
as Dist. Atty. Johnson
The Case Against Mrs. Ames (1936)
as First trial judge
Sea Devils (1937)
as Court-Martial President (uncredited)
The Voice of Bugle Ann (1936)
as District Attorney
Insurance Investigator (1951)
as Russell James
The Ghost Goes Wild (1947)
as Max Atterbury
Lightning Strikes Twice (1934)
as Capt. Nelson
Wings Over Honolulu (1937)
as Judge Advocate
Melody and Moonlight (1940)
as Otis Barnett
Federal Agent at Large (1950)
as James Goodwin
Private Affairs (1940)
as George Gilkin
Sunny Side of the Street (1951)
as Cyrus Pelley
Crime Ring (1938)
as Bank President
Racketeers in Exile (1937)
as Alden Parker
The Saint's Double Trouble (1940)
as Inspector Henry Fernack
The Duke of West Point (1938)
as Colonel Early
Taxi (1953)
as Mr. Barker (uncredited)
The Big Guy (1939)
as Jack Lane
A Night at the Ritz (1935)
as Director (uncredited)
Divorce (1945)
as Judge
The Three Outlaws (1956)
as Pinkerton
Disaster (1948)
as Police Commissioner Jerome
Too Many Parents (1936)
as Judge
Dead Man's Eyes (1944)
as Dr. Sam Welles
Exiled to Shanghai (1937)
as J.B. Willet
Midnight Madonna (1937)
as Stuart Kirkland
Footlight Glamour (1943)
as J.C. Dithers
Dulcy (1940)
as Homer Patterson
The Phantom Speaks (1945)
as Owen McAllister
Rodeo King and the Senorita (1951)
as Dr. Sands
The Vigilantes Return (1947)
as Judge Holden
One Against the World (1939)
as Dr. Ephraim McDowell
Lone Star Ranger (1942)
as Judge Longstreth
Navy Wife (1935)
as Norton
The Calling of Dan Matthews (1935)
as Club Owner (uncredited)
Gangs of New York (1938)
as Warden
Behind Southern Lines (1952)
as General
My Buddy (1944)
as Senator Henry
Stampede (1949)
as Varick
It's a Great Life (1943)
as J.C. Dithers
Barricade (1939)
as Assistant Secretary of State
Man Alive (1945)
as Osborne
The Strange Mr. Gregory (1945)
as Defense Attorney Blair
The Pittsburgh Kid (1941)
as Max Ellison
Leave It to Blondie (1945)
as J.C. Dithers
Rose of the Yukon (1949)
as Gen. Butler
Let 'em Have It (1935)
as Microscopic Expert
End of the Road (1944)
as Gregory McCune
Three Live Ghosts (1936)
as Detective Bolton
Flying Hostess (1936)
as Kendall
Riverboat Rhythm (1946)
as Col. Edward Beeler
Panic on the Air (1936)
as Johnson (uncredited)
This Is the Life (1944)
as Dr. Plum
The League of Frightened Men (1937)
as Alexander Drummond
Road Demon (1938)
as Anderson
G.I. Honeymoon (1945)
as Colonel Hammerhead Smith
Hit-and-Run Driver (1935)
as Captain James (uncredited)