- Dean Jagger, King Creole, 1957. Elvis Presley’s fourth movie – and one of his finest. However, producer Hal B Wallis was alarmed by the high salary of Jagger as Presley’s father (!). And started checking other veterans: Sidney Blackmer and John McIntire. Often a villain, Blackmer also played Teddy Roosevelt seven times. That’s more often than Robin Williams… NB Blackmer was born in Salisbury, North Carolina; I began in journalism on the Salisbury Journal, in Wiltshire. UK.
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