Jack Warden

Biography

Jack Warden (born John Warden Lebzelter Jr.; September 18, 1920 – July 19, 2006) was an American actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Shampoo (1975) and Heaven Can Wait (1978). He received a BAFTA nomination for the former, and won a Primetime Emmy Award for his performance in Brian's Song (1971).

Career Overview

Jack Warden has 115 screen credits in a career dating back to 1948. Their work spans 5 cinematic universes — most prominently Problem Child with 3 titles. Signature works include 12 Angry Men, While You Were Sleeping, All the President's Men. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Acting

Gender

male

Known Credits

115

Birth Date

1920-09-18 00:00:00

Birth Place

Newark, New Jersey, USA

Known For

• 

  12 Angry Men
• 

  While You Were Sleeping
• 

  All the President's Men
• 

  Problem Child
• 

  The Bad News Bears
• 

  Problem Child 2

Associated Universes

Universe traveler — spans 5 universes

• Problem Child (3 titles)
• Muppets Classic (1 titles)
• The Poseidon Adventure Collection (1 titles)
• Agatha Christie Poirot Film Series (1 titles)
• Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov) Collection (1 titles)

Frequent Collaborators

• Martin Balsam (2 collaborations)
• John Ritter (2 collaborations)
• Michael J. Oliver (2 collaborations)
• Gilbert Gottfried (2 collaborations)
• Amy Yasbeck (2 collaborations)
• Dennis Redfield (2 collaborations)
• John Fiedler (1 collaborations)
• Lee J. Cobb (1 collaborations)
• E.G. Marshall (1 collaborations)
• Jack Klugman (1 collaborations)

Credits

• actors (115 credits)

  • The Replacements

    Edward O'Neil

    actor

    actors
    2000
  • A Dog of Flanders

    Jehan

    actor

    actors
    1999
  • Dirty Work

    Pops

    actor

    actors
    1998
  • Bulworth

    Eddie Davers

    actor

    actors
    1998
  • Chairman of the Board

    Armand McMillan

    actor

    actors
    1998
  • The Island on Bird Street

    Boruch

    actor

    actors
    1997
  • Ed

    Chubb

    actor

    actors
    1996
  • Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead

    Joe Heff

    actor

    actors
    1995
  • Mighty Aphrodite

    Tiresias

    actor

    actors
    1995
  • Problem Child 3

    Big Ben

    actor

    actors
    1995
  • While You Were Sleeping

    Saul

    actor

    actors
    1995
  • Bullets Over Broadway

    Julian Marx

    actor

    actors
    1994
  • La Classe américaine

    A Journalist (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    1993
  • Guilty as Sin

    Moe

    actor

    actors
    1993
  • Toys

    Old General Zevo

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • Night and the City

    Al Grossman

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • Passed Away

    Jack Scanlan

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • Problem Child 2

    Big Ben Healy

    actor

    actors
    1991
  • Judgment

    Claude Fortier

    actor

    actors
    1990
  • Problem Child

    Big Ben

    actor

    actors
    1990
  • Everybody Wins

    Judge Harry Murdoch

    actor

    actors
    1990
  • Dead Solid Perfect

    Hubert 'Bad Hair' Wimberly

    actor

    actors
    1988
  • Police Story: The Watch Commander

    Joe Wilson

    actor

    actors
    1988
  • The Presidio

    Sgt. Maj. Ross Maclure

    actor

    actors
    1988
  • September

    Lloyd

    actor

    actors
    1987
  • The Three Kings

    David

    actor

    actors
    1987
  • Hoover vs. the Kennedys: The Second Civil War

    J. Edgar Hoover

    actor

    actors
    1987
  • Still Crazy Like a Fox

    Harry Fox

    actor

    actors
    1987
  • Three Wishes for Jamie

    Owen Tavish

    actor

    actors
    1987
  • The Cosmic Eye

    Rocko (voice)

    actor

    actors
    1986
  • The Aviator

    Moravia

    actor

    actors
    1985
  • Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues

    Mark Twain

    actor

    actors
    1984
  • Crackers

    Garvey

    actor

    actors
    1984
  • Hobson's Choice

    Henry Horatio Hobson

    actor

    actors
    1983
  • The Verdict

    Mickey Morrissey

    actor

    actors
    1982
  • Night of 100 Stars

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1982
  • So Fine

    Jack

    actor

    actors
    1981
  • Chu Chu and the Philly Flash

    The Commander

    actor

    actors
    1981
  • Carbon Copy

    Nelson Longhurst

    actor

    actors
    1981
  • The Great Muppet Caper

    Mike Tarkenian

    actor

    actors
    1981
  • A Private Battle

    Cornelius Ryan

    actor

    actors
    1980
  • Used Cars

    Roy L. Fuchs / Luke Fuchs

    actor

    actors
    1980
  • Being There

    President 'Bobby'

    actor

    actors
    1979
  • Topper

    Cosmo Topper

    actor

    actors
    1979
  • ...And Justice for All

    Judge Francis Rayford

    actor

    actors
    1979
  • The Champ

    Jackie

    actor

    actors
    1979
  • Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

    Harold Meredith

    actor

    actors
    1979
  • Dreamer

    Harry

    actor

    actors
    1979
  • The Bad News Bears

    Morris Buttermaker

    actor

    actors

    - The Headless Ghost of MacKintosh Manor () ... Morris Buttermaker actor actors

    - The Pride of the Bears () ... Morris Buttermaker actor actors

    - The Good Life () ... Morris Buttermaker actor actors

    - Double Play (1980) ... Morris Buttermaker actor actors

    - Scrambled Eggs (1980) ... Morris Buttermaker actor actors
    1979
  • Death on the Nile

    Ludwig Bessner

    actor

    actors
    1978
  • Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette

    Dr. Ludwig Bessner

    actor

    actors
    1978
  • Heaven Can Wait

    Max Corkle

    actor

    actors
    1978
  • The White Buffalo

    Charlie Zane

    actor

    actors
    1977
  • Raid on Entebbe

    Lt. Gen. Mordechai Gur

    actor

    actors
    1976
  • All the President's Men

    Harry Rosenfeld

    actor

    actors
    1976
  • They Only Come Out at Night

    John "Jigsaw" St. John

    actor

    actors
    1975
  • Journey from Darkness

    Fred Hartman

    actor

    actors
    1975
  • Shampoo

    Lester Karpf

    actor

    actors
    1975
  • The Godchild

    Sgt. Dobbs

    actor

    actors
    1974
  • The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

    Max

    actor

    actors
    1974
  • Remember When

    Joe Hodges

    actor

    actors
    1974
  • Billy Two Hats

    Sheriff Henry Gifford

    actor

    actors
    1974
  • The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing

    Dawes

    actor

    actors
    1973
  • Lieutenant Schuster's Wife

    Capt. Patrick Lonergan

    actor

    actors
    1972
  • Dig: A Journey Into Earth

    Rocco (voice)

    actor

    actors
    1972
  • Man on a String

    Jake Moniker

    actor

    actors
    1972
  • What's a Nice Girl Like You...?

    Lt. Joe Burton

    actor

    actors
    1971
  • Brian's Song

    Coach Halas

    actor

    actors
    1971
  • The Face of Fear

    Lieutenant George Coy

    actor

    actors
    1971
  • Welcome to the Club

    actor

    actors
    1971
  • Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?

    Dr. Solomon F. Moses

    actor

    actors
    1971
  • Summertree

    Herb

    actor

    actors
    1971
  • The Sporting Club

    Earl Olive

    actor

    actors
    1971
  • A Memory of Two Mondays

    Gus

    actor

    actors
    1971
  • Bye Bye Braverman

    Barnet Weinstein

    actor

    actors
    1968
  • The Invaders

    - The Ivy Curtain (1967) ... Barney Cahill actor actors
    1967
  • Blindfold

    General George Pratt

    actor

    actors
    1966
  • The Adventures of Gallegher

    Lt. Fergus

    actor

    actors
    1965
  • The Thin Red Line

    First Sgt. Welsh

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • Bewitched

    - It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog (1964) ... Rex Barker actor actors
    1964
  • Donovan's Reef

    William Dedham

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • The Fugitive

    - Concrete Evidence (1967) ... Alex 'Pat' Patton actor actors
    1963
  • Flashing Spikes

    Comissioner

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • Escape from Zahrain

    Huston

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • The Virginian

    - Shadows of the Past (1965) ... John Conway actor actors

    - Throw a Long Rope (1962) ... Jubal Tatum actor actors
    1962
  • The Lawbreakers

    Matthew Gower

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • The Asphalt Jungle

    D. P. C. Matthew Gower

    actor

    actors

    - The Scott Machine (1961) ... D. P. C. Matthew Gower actor actors

    - The Dark Night (1961) ... D. P. C. Matthew Gower actor actors

    - The Kidnapping (1961) ... D. P. C. Matthew Gower actor actors

    - The Fighter (1961) ... D. P. C. Matthew Gower actor actors

    - The Professor (1961) ... D. P. C. Matthew Gower actor actors
    1961
  • The Mike Douglas Show

    - Episode 49 (1979) ... Self actor actors
    1961
  • Dr. Kildare

    - No Mother To Giude Them (1965) ... Ernie Duffy actor actors
    1961
  • Ben Casey

    - I Hear America Singing (1962) ... actor actors

    - The Big Trouble with Charlie (1962) ... actor actors
    1961
  • Wake Me When It's Over

    Dave 'Doc' Farrington

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • Route 66

    - Two Strangers and an Old Enemy (1963) ... Adam actor actors

    - A Feat of Strength (1962) ... Adam actor actors

    - The Clover Throne (1961) ... Adam actor actors
    1960
  • That Kind of Woman

    George Kelly

    actor

    actors
    1959
  • The Sound and the Fury

    Ben Compson

    actor

    actors
    1959
  • The Twilight Zone

    - The Mighty Casey (1960) ... Mouth McGarry actor actors

    - The Lonely (1959) ... James A. Corry actor actors
    1959
  • Bonanza

    - The Paiute War (1959) ... Mike Wilson actor actors
    1959
  • Nightmare at Ground Zero

    Long

    actor

    actors
    1958
  • Run Silent, Run Deep

    Yeoman 1st Class Mueller

    actor

    actors
    1958
  • Darby's Rangers

    Saul Rosen / Narrator

    actor

    actors
    1958
  • Naked City

    - Spectre of the Rose Street Gang (1962) ... Sam Langan actor actors

    - The King of Venus Will Take Care of You (1962) ... Steve Lollo actor actors

    - The Face of the Enemy (1962) ... Neil Daggett actor actors
    1958
  • 12 Angry Men

    Juror 7

    actor

    actors
    1957
  • The Bachelor Party

    The Bachelor [Eddie Watkins]

    actor

    actors
    1957
  • The Lark

    Robert de Beaudricourt

    actor

    actors
    1957
  • Edge of the City

    Charles Malik

    actor

    actors
    1957
  • Tragedy in a Temporary Town

    Frank Doran

    actor

    actors
    1956
  • The Petrified Forest

    Boze

    actor

    actors
    1955
  • The Challenge

    Bill Whitman

    actor

    actors
    1955
  • Climax!

    - Flame-Out on T-6 (1956) ... Lt. Ravenna actor actors
    1954
  • From Here to Eternity

    Cpl. Buckley

    actor

    actors
    1953
  • The Man with My Face

    Walt Davis

    actor

    actors
    1951
  • You're in the Navy Now

    Tommy Morse

    actor

    actors
    1951
  • The Frogmen

    Crew Member

    actor

    actors
    1951
  • Sunset Boulevard

    Party Guest (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    1950
  • The Asphalt Jungle

    Man (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    1950
  • Studio One

    - A Stranger May Die (1955) ... Lt. Brown actor actors

    - U.F.O. (1954) ... Mike actor actors

    - Screwball (1954) ... Russ Adams actor actors
    1948