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Kevin Hagen
Kevin Hagen (April 3, 1928 – July 9, 2005) was an American actor best known for his role as Dr. Hiram Baker on NBC's TV series Little House on the Prairie.
Hagen was the son of professional ballroom dancers, Haakon Olaf Hagen and Marvel Lucile Wadsworth. His father abandoned the family when Kevin was five. He was raised by his mother, grandmother, and two aunts, with some help from his uncle, a physician. The family moved to Portland, Oregon, when Kevin was a teenager. He played baseball and football at Jefferson High School. He attended Oregon State University before enlisting in the U.S. Navy after World War II; he served in San Diego.
Hagen, married four times, was a single parent for two decades to his son, Christopher Hagen, a Special Education teacher and high school baseball coach in Bakersfield, California.
As actor
The Ambulance
Bonanza: The Next Generation
Power
Little House: The Last Farewell
Little House: Look Back to Yesterday
Little House: Bless All the Dear Children
The Hunter
The San Pedro Bums
Honky Tonk
The Soul of Nigger Charley
Prologue to Wounded Knee
The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment
Dead Men Tell No Tales
Weekend of Terror
A Storm in Summer
The Learning Tree
The Last Challenge
The Ride to Hangman's Tree
Shenandoah
Rio Conchos
The Man from Galveston
Rider on a Dead Horse
Pork Chop Hill
Gunsmoke in Tucson