Jonathan Hale
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Jonathan Hale (March 21, 1891 – February 28, 1966) was a Canadian-born film and television actor. He committed suicide in 1966.
He was well known as Dagwood Bumstead's boss, Julius Caesar Dithers, in the Blondie film series in the 1940s.
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).