Jack Barlow — Big Wednesday Character Profile

About Jack Barlow

The calm and responsible friend. He serves in the Vietnam War and later reunites with the group for the Great Swell of '74, marking a transition to adulthood.

Jack Barlow — Character Profile

Character Facts

Played by

William Katt

Appears in

Big Wednesday (1978)

Role

Protagonist

Relationships (2)

• Jack Barlow — Social Best Friends — Leroy "The Masochist" Smith (Gary Busey)

  Core lifelong bond between the two protagonists.

• Jack Barlow — Social Best Friends — Matt Johnson (Jan-Michael Vincent)

  Core lifelong bond between the two protagonists.

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