Frederick Jaeger


Manfred Frederick Jaeger was a German-born British film, television, theatre and radio character actor.

Biography

Jaeger was born in Berlin, Germany; his family moved to England following Adolf Hitler's rise to power. He was educated at Lord Weymouth's Grammar School, Warminster, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, from which he graduated in 1948, becoming a British subject two years later. He made his first theatre appearance in 1949, and his film debut, The Black Tent, in 1956. He went on to make further film, television and radio appearances until retiring in 1996. He died in June 2004 aged 76.
He is well remembered by fans of the science fiction series Doctor Who for his roles in three serials. He appeared as Jano in The Savages in 1966, and as Sorenson in Planet of Evil in 1975. In 1977's The Invisible Enemy, he appeared as Professor Marius, creator of the robot dog K-9; his performance was described by reviewer John Peel as "superb".

Filmography

Film

  • The Iron Petticoat as Officers' Club Bartender
  • Private's Progress as German Sentry
  • The Black Tent as Koch – Junior Nazi Officer
  • The Battle of the River Plate as Crewman on Graf Spee
  • The One That Got Away as German Prisoner
  • Ice Cold in Alex as 2nd German Officer
  • I Was Monty's Double as Junior German Officer
  • Play It Cool as Male Receptionist
  • The War Lover as Air Crewman
  • Mystery Submarine as Lt. Hence
  • Farewell Performance as Paul Warner
  • The Limbo Line as Alex
  • The Looking Glass War as The Pilot
  • Song of Norway as Henrik Ibsen
  • One of Those Things as Melchoir
  • Scorpio as Novins
  • Situation as Klaus
  • One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing as German Radio Newscaster
  • The Seven-Per-Cent Solution as Marker
  • Voyage of the Damned as Werner Mannheim
  • The Passage as German Major
  • Winterspelt as Major Robert Wheeler
  • Nijinsky as Gabriel Astruc
  • At the Fountainhead as Kurt Langsdorf
  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade as World War I Ace

    Television

  • Big Guns as Ni Ni Blascoe
  • Deadline Midnight as Martin Maxwell
  • The Avengers as Benson / Getz
  • Z-Cars as George Eames / Sid Phipps / Eric Beazley
  • Doctor Who: ''The Savages as Jano
  • The Inside Man as Dr James Austen
  • Callan as Colonel Max Belukov
  • Department S as Major Harwood
  • Special Branch as Commander Fletcher / Otto Pohl
  • Dixon of Dock Green as John Charles Walton
  • Jason King as Dacre
  • The Persuaders! as Luther
  • Pretenders as Joachim
  • Doomwatch as Richard Massingham
  • Warship as the foreign agent
  • Fall of Eagles as Holstein
  • The Sweeney as Goldman
  • Doctor Who: Planet of Evil as Sorenson
  • The New Avengers as Jones
  • One-Upmanship as Cogg-Willoughby
  • Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy as Professor Marius
  • The Standard as Adams
  • Return of the Saint as Inspector Grant
  • The Professionals as Schuman
  • Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em as Mr. Barker
  • The Omega Factor as Raglan
  • Yes Minister as Godfrey Finch
  • Take the High Road as Max Langemann
  • Shoestring as Doctor Neil Stirling
  • The Onedin Line as Max Van Der Rheede
  • Minder as Inspector Klingmann
  • The Gentle Touch as Herr Inspektor Ritter in episode "Dany"
  • Miss Marple as Chief Constable Colonel Melchett
  • I Woke Up One Morning as Derek
  • Mathspy as Hurst
  • Keeping Up Appearances'' as Millburn