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Jonathan Hale (21 March 1891, Ontario, Canada – 28 February 1966, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California) was a film and television actor.

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. He appeared three times in the role of Dr. Stetson of the ABC religious anthology series, Crossroads (1955-1956).

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 committed suicide in 1966. He was interred in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood, California.

Selected filmography

References

External links

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

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