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- Birth nameDonald Norman Hagen
- Height6′ 2″ (1.88 m)
- Kevin Hagen is 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.
- IMDb mini biography by: S. Wolfsberger/R.M. Sieger
- SpousesJanet Louise Naslund Funderburg(July 1, 1995 - July 9, 2005) (his death)Dorali Dossantos(October 3, 1969 - February 20, 1980) (divorced, 1 child)Susanne Cramer(January 28, 1967 - January 7, 1969) (her death)Adaline Whigam Sohns(April 2, 1960 - ?) (divorced)
- ChildrenKristopher Hagen
- ParentsHaakon Olav Kristoffer HagenMarvel Lucile Wadsworth
- He performed and toured in a one-man show he wrote based on the Doc Baker character called, "A Playful Dose of Prairie Wisdom." While performing that show he met his fourth wife, Jan. They were married in 1993.
- Did not start acting until he was 27, by which time he had worked for the U.S. State Department in Germany, earning a degree in international relations from the University of Southern California,
- He attended Oregon State University before enlisting in the U.S. Navy after World War II, serving in San Diego.
- Craggy-faced, veteran Chicago-born film and television character whose initial career started off in the late 1950s and early 1960s playing western bad guys. He later put his indelible print on kindly doctor types on scores of TV programs, notably his Dr. Hiram Baker on Little House on the Prairie (1974).
- One time considered being a lawyer, attending law school at UCLA before deciding to drop out and trying his luck at acting.
- When asked in an interview by an Oregonian newspaper if he liked playing heavies roles in films and TV: "It was fun, you could be as mean as you wanted to be. There's a heavy in all of us."
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