Frederick Jaeger

Actor May 29 (died age 76) Berlin, Germany 1950–2025 (75 year career)

6.4 avg rating

Biography

Frederick was educated in Germany and France. He came to England in 1939 and took up acting at the suggestion of his English headmaster. He attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London between 1946 and 1948 and started his stage career at preston Rep in 1949. Many rep seasons in provinces before West End appearances including 'The Comedy of Errors', 'Lock Up Your Daughters', 'The Potsdam Quartet', 'Big Fish, Little Fish', 'For Adults Only', 'A Patriot For Me', 'Mrs. Gibson's Boys' …

Known For

Film

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

World War One Ace

Film

Ice Cold in Alex

2nd German Officer

Film

Cold Comfort Farm

Doctor Adolph Müdel

Film

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

Marker

Film

Scorpio

Novins

Film

The One That Got Away

German Prisoner

Film

Miss Marple: The Body in the Library

Colonel Melchett

Film

Voyage of the Damned

Werner Mannheim

Filmography

Acting (87)

Movies (32)

Doctor Who: The Savages

2025

as Jano (voice)

Cold Comfort Farm

1995

as Doctor Adolph Müdel

6.8

Selling Hitler

1993

as Fritz Stiefel

7.0

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

1989

as World War One Ace

7.8

St. Ursula's in Danger

1983

as Mr. Forson

The Potsdam Quartet

1981

as Douglas Smedley

Nijinsky

1980

as Gabriel Astruc

4.8

At the Fountainhead (Of German Strength)

1980

as Kurt Langsdorf

Der Abschlußtag

1979

as Harry Day

Home-Movies

1979

as Keith Sayle

The Passage

1979

as German Major (uncredited)

6.1

Winterspelt 1944

1978

as Major Robert Wheeler

Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy

as Professor Marius

Voyage of the Damned

as Werner Mannheim

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

1976

as Marker

6.2

Doctor Who: Planet of Evil

as Sorenson

Scorpio

as Novins

Slaughter Day

as Klaus

One of Those Things

1971

as Melchior

The Looking Glass War

1970

as Pilot

5.5

Pakbo

1970

as Jim

Song of Norway

1970

as Henrik Ibsen

4.6

The Naked Sun

1969

as Leebig

The Limbo Line

1969

4.0

Doctor Who: The Savages

1966

as Jano

7.2

Farewell Performance

1963

as Paul Warner

Play It Cool

1962

as Male Receptionist

5.9

Ice Cold in Alex

1958

as 2nd German Officer

7.3

I Was Monty's Double

1958

as Junior German Officer

6.9

The One That Got Away

as German Prisoner

The Black Tent

as Koch

Probation Officer

as Norman Warren

Television (55)

Keeping Up Appearances

1990

as Millburn

7.7

The Chief

1990

as Major Selwyn Davis

6.0

I Woke Up One Morning

1985

Miss Marple: The Body in the Library

as Colonel Melchett

Miss Marple

as Colonel Melchett

Remington Steele

as Edvard Jensen

The Kenny Everett Television Show

as Self

Yes Minister

Minder

as Inspector Klingmann

Shoestring

Return of the Saint

as Inspector Grant

The Doombolt Chase

The Professionals

as Schuman

The New Avengers

as Jones

One-Upmanship

N.U.T.S.

The Sweeney

as Goldman

Angels

The Hanged Man

as Hans Deiter

Playhouse

as Keith Sayle

Churchill's People

as Caradoc

Fall of Eagles

as Holstein

Warship

Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

as Mr Barker

The Protectors

as Bergen

Pretenders

as Joachim

The Persuaders!

as Luther

Jason King

Justice

as Wilkinson

Doomwatch

as Richard Massingham

6.0

Little Women

1970

as Professor Friedrich Bhaer

Department S

as Major Harwood

The Main Chance

as Peter Jarratt

The Jazz Age

as Alan Cooper

Callan

1967

7.0

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre

1967

as Sir Adam

6.1

The Spies

1966

as Cooper

The Liars

1966

as Ohisson

Out of the Unknown

as Leebig

Theatre 625

as Tostig

Detective

Doctor Who

as Sorenson

Festival

as Kinesias

Z-Cars

Suspense

as Forsch

The Avengers

as Benson

Sir Francis Drake

as Vicary

Amelia

The Small House at Allington

1960

as Adolphus Crosbie

One Step Beyond

as Johann

Interpol Calling

as Bernarde

Boy Meets Girls

The Adventures of Sir Lancelot

1956

as Sir Christopher

6.5

Dixon of Dock Green

1955

as John Charles Walton

5.3

ITV Play of the Week

1955

as Bequeville

4.0