FrameThrower · Actors · Dean Jagger
Dean Jagger
4 films · 234 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1953–1971
Born 7 November 1903 · Columbus Grove, Ohio, USA · died 5 February 1991
Dean Jagger was an American film, stage, and television actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Twelve O'Clock High (1949). Other notable films in which Jagger appeared include The Robe (1953), White Christmas (1954), Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), King Creole (1958), The Nun's Story (1959), Elmer Gantry (1960), Vanishing Point (1971), Game of Death (1978), and Alligator (1980).
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 234 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1953–1971
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor1950
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Daytime Emmy Award
How their films are shot
Measured across 234 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Dean takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 59% of their frames are day, 60% natural — the look of the work Dean takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 234 frames from Dean Jagger's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.