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Home Town Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
Last Address Grants Pass Josephine County Oregon, USA
Donald N. Hagen, USNR
aka Kevin Hagen, Actor
Doc Baker in "Little House" TV series
Kevin Hagen, born Donald N. Hagen, 1928 to 2005.
After his freshman year at Oregon State, Kevin Hagen enlisted in the navy with a couple of his high school buddies for a two year hitch, and never went to sea. He played football and baseball at the Naval Training Center and North Island Naval Air Station in San Diego, and was sports editor of the air base's weekly newspaper. However those two years of service bought him four years of college under the G.I. Bill, and he spent them at Lewis and Clark College in Portland and the University of Southern California. He graduated with a B.A. degree in International Relations.
Actor:
He was popular character performer, best remembered for his portrayal of the kindly old Dr. Hiram Baker in "Little House on the Prairie," which ran from 1974 to 1983. He was a law student at UCLA before deciding to try acting at the age of 27. After a few stage performances, he was given a guest role on the 1950s TV series "Dragnet". He went to work on countless TV series such as "Wagon Train", "The Twilight Zone", "Have Gun Will Travel", "Perry Mason", "Bonanza", "M*A*S*H" and "Knots Landing". For feature films, he appeared in "The Light in the Forest" (1958), "Pork Chop Hill" (1959), "Shenandoah" (1965), "The Learning Tree" (1969), "Gentle Savage" (1973) and "Power" (1986).
1946-1948, Naval Air Station (NAS) North Island, CA
Other Memories After his freshman year there Kevin Hagen enlisted in the navy with a couple of his high school buddies for a two year hitch, and never went to sea. He played football and baseball at the Naval Training Center and North Island Naval Air Station in San Diego, and was sports editor of the air base's weekly newspaper.
