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Jake Dengel

Actor

Jake Dengel

Born June 19, 1933 in Wisconsin, USADied November 14, 199412 films

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Ragtime posterFirst watchRagtime19817.0as Fireman No. 2A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York…View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
At Close Range poster6.8At Close Range1986Something Wicked This Way Comes poster6.5Something Wicked This Way Comes1983Ironweed poster6.3Ironweed1987The Best of Times poster5.7The Best of Times1986Best Defense poster4.3Best Defense1984

Filmography

12 films as actor
  1. 1992Four Eyes and Six-GunsKid O'Banion
  2. 1991Diary of a HitmanCooley
  3. 1991Bloodsucking Pharaohs in PittsburghSweeney Birdwell
  4. 1991Prayer of the RollerboysTyler
  5. 1989Manhunt: Search for the Night StalkerJessie
  6. 1988The TrackerEthan
  7. 1987IronweedPee Wee
  8. 1986At Close RangeLester Perowski
  9. 1986The Best of TimesCaribou #4
  10. 1984Best DefenseHotel Doorman
  11. 1983Something Wicked This Way ComesMr. Tetley
  12. 1981RagtimeFireman No. 2