Jack Warden
Actor
Actor
Jack Warden was an American television and film character actor, born John Warden Lebzelter in Newark, New Jersey. He was twice nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Shampoo (1975) and Heaven Can Wait (1978). He also received a BAFTA nomination for the former movie and won an Emmy for his performance in Brian's Song (1971).
Expelled from high school for fighting, Warden eventually fought as a professional boxer under the name Johnny Costello winning 13 welterweight bouts to little financial success. Warden worked a number of odd jobs before joining the United States military in 1938, rotating through numerous branches of the US armed forces, finishing his career as a Master Sergeant with the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division.
Following his military service, Warden studied theatre, performing on stage for five years, before making his television debut in 1948 on The Philco Television Playhouse and Studio ... Show more...
Jack Warden was an American television and film character actor, born John Warden Lebzelter in Newark, New Jersey. He was twice nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Shampoo (1975) and Heaven Can Wait (1978). He also received a BAFTA nomination for the former movie and won an Emmy for his performance in Brian's Song (1971).
Expelled from high school for fighting, Warden eventually fought as a professional boxer under the name Johnny Costello winning 13 welterweight bouts to little financial success. Warden worked a number of odd jobs before joining the United States military in 1938, rotating through numerous branches of the US armed forces, finishing his career as a Master Sergeant with the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division.
Following his military service, Warden studied theatre, performing on stage for five years, before making his television debut in 1948 on The Philco Television Playhouse and Studio One. He earned his first credited film role with The Man with My Face in 1952, just prior to his breakout performance as Juror No. 7 in 12 Angry Men. Warden continued to appear in many television series and films over the years. He received a supporting actor Emmy Award for his performance as Chicago Bears coach George Halas in the television movie Brian's Song, and was twice nominated for his starring role in the 1980s comedy/drama series, Crazy Like a Fox. Appearing in more than one hundred movies, Wardon typically played gruff cops, sports coaches, trusted friends or similar roles over his six decade career. His final film was The Replacements in 2000, after which he suffered from declining health and retired from acting before passing of heart and kidney failure in a New York hospital at the age of 85. Show less...
As: Edward O'Neil
Maverick old-guard coach Jimmy McGinty is hired in the wake of a players' strike to help the Washington Sentinels advance to the playoffs. But that impossible dream hinges on whether his replacements can hunker down and do the job. So, McGinty dusts off his secret dossier of ex-players who never got a chance (or screwed up the one they were given) and knits together a bad-dream team of guys who ...
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Howard Deutch
Stars: Keanu Reeves | Faizon Love | Orlando Jones | Brooke Langton | Gene Hackman
As: Jehan
Poor but happy, young Nello and his grandfather live alone, delivering milk as a livelihood, in the outskirts of Antwerp, a city in Flanders (the Flemish or Dutch-speaking part of modern-day Belgium). They discover a beaten dog (a Bouvier, a large sturdy dog native to Flanders) and adopt it and nurse it back to health, naming it Patrasche, the middle name of Nello's mother Mary, who died when Nello was ...
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Kevin Brodie
Stars: Jack Warden | Cheryl Ladd | Jon Voight | Jesse James | Jeremy James Kissner
As: 'Pops' McKenna
Unemployed and recently dumped, Mitch and his buddy Sam start a revenge-for-hire business to raise the $50,000 that Sam's father needs to get a heart transplant. The dirty duo brings down a movie theater manager and hires hookers to pose as dead bodies during a live TV ad. When a wealthy developer hires the guys to trash a building (so that he can have it condemned), problems arise and a feud ensues.
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: Bob Saget
Stars: Don Rickles | Jack Warden | Artie Lange | Traylor Howard | Norm Macdonald
As: Eddie Davers
A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Warren Beatty
Stars: Sean Astin | Oliver Platt | Don Cheadle | Warren Beatty | Halle Berry
As: Armand McMillan
A surfer becomes the head of a major company.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Alex Zamm
Stars: Larry Miller | Raquel Welch | Scott 'Carrot Top' Thompson | Courtney Thorne-Smith | Mystro Clark
As: Boruch
Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all the relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
Stars: Michael Byrne | Jack Warden | Patrick Bergin | Stefan Sauk | James Bolam
As: Chubb
Jack Cooper (Matt LeBlanc) could be a world-class baseball pitcher if he didn't keep buckling under the pressure. He tries to keep his spirits up after he's traded to a minor league team but loses all hope when he discovers that Ed, one of his teammates, is a chimp. Ed used to be the team mascot, but was promoted to third base when the owners realized he had a talent for baseball. As Jack struggles ...
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Bill Couturié
Stars: Matt LeBlanc | Paul Hewitt | Stan Ivar | Gene Ross | Sage Allen
As: Joe Heff
A mafia film in Tarantino style with a star-studded cast. Jimmy’s “The Saint” gangster career has finally ended. Yet now he finds him self doing favors for a wise godfather known as “The Man with the Plan.”
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Gary Fleder
Stars: William Forsythe | Treat Williams | Christopher Lloyd | Bill Nunn | Andy García
As: Tiresias
When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother in hopes that she will be brilliant too. But when he learns that Max's mother is Linda Ash, a kindhearted prostitute and porn star, Lenny is determined to reform her immoral lifestyle. A Greek chorus chimes in to relate the plot to Greek mythology in ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Woody Allen
Stars: Helena Bonham Carter | Mira Sorvino | Woody Allen | F. Murray Abraham | Donald Symington
As: Big Ben
Chapter 3 of the Problem Child trilogy features pre-teened Junior in love with a classmate that won't even notice him, but does notice three other boys who are rivals to Junior. This means war!
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Greg Beeman
Stars: William Katt | Gilbert Gottfried | Sherman Howard | Carolyn Lowery | Justin Chapman
As: Saul
A love story built on a misunderstanding. A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off the tracks after he's mugged. But while he's in a coma, his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancée, and she doesn't correct them. Things get more complicated when she falls for his brother, who's not quite sure that she's who she claims to be.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Jon Turteltaub
Stars: Bill Pullman | Peter Gallagher | Sandra Bullock | Jack Warden | Peter Boyle
As: Julian Marx
Set in 1920's New York City, this movie tells the story of idealistic young playwright David Shayne. Producer Julian Marx finally finds funding for the project from gangster Nick Valenti. The catch is that Nick's girl friend Olive Neal gets the part of a psychiatrist, and Olive is a bimbo who could never pass for a psychiatrist as well as being a dreadful actress. Agreeing to this first compromise is the ...
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Woody Allen
Stars: Jennifer Tilly | Dianne Wiest | Mary-Louise Parker | John Cusack | Chazz Palminteri
As: A Journalist (archive footage)
George Abitbol, "the Most Classy Man on Earth", dies sputtering his famous last words: "Crappy world!" What the heck did he mean? Reporters Steven, Peter and Dave investigate. La Classe Américaine is a montage of scenes taken from the Warner Bros. catalog and dubbed to fit the narration of what is arguably the greatest story ever told.
Runtime: 70 min.
Directed by: Michel Hazanavicius | Dominique Mezerette
Stars: Marc Cassot | Christine Delaroche | Patrick Guillemin | Evelyne Grandjean | Raymond Loyer
As: Moe
Before a criminal lawyer knows what has happened, she is forced to defend a wife killer she knows is guilty.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Don Johnson | Rebecca De Mornay | Stephen Lang | Jack Warden | Dana Ivey
As: Old General Zevo
Leslie Zevo is a fun-loving inventor who must save his late father's toy factory from his evil uncle, Leland, a war-mongering general who rules the operation with an iron fist and builds weapons disguised as toys.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Barry Levinson
Stars: Robin Wright | Michael Gambon | Joan Cusack | Jack Warden | Robin Williams
As: Al Grossman
Looking to get rich quick, an unsuccessful lawyer uses dishonest means to try to become a boxing promoter.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Irwin Winkler
Stars: Robert De Niro | Jack Warden | Jessica Lange | Cliff Gorman | Alan King
As: Jack Scanlan
A bunch of eccentric relatives gather for their patriarch's funeral.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Charlie Peters
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Tim Curry | Frances McDormand | William Petersen | Blair Brown
As: 'Big' Ben Healy
Junior and his father, Ben, move from Cold River to Mortville. Junior becomes threatened by Ben's desire to date again and find a new mother for Junior, and sabotages each of his dates.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Brian Levant
Stars: Laraine Newman | Jack Warden | John Ritter | Amy Yasbeck | Michael Oliver
As: Big Ben
Ben Healy (John Ritter) and his social climbing wife Flo adopt Junior a fun-loving seven year old. But they soon discover he's a little monster as he turns a camping trip, a birthday party and even a baseball game into comic nightmares. But is he really just a little angel trying to get out? Find out in this hilarious satire on modern-day family life.
Runtime: 81 min.
Directed by: Dennis Dugan
Stars: Jack Warden | Michael Richards | Gilbert Gottfried | John Ritter | Michael Oliver
As: Judge Harry Murdoch
A seemingly good Samaritan hires a private detective to prove a teen sitting in prison on a murder charge is innocent. His investigation discovers deep corruption in a Connecticut town and finds the woman isn't everything she is pretending to be either.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Karel Reisz
Stars: Kathleen Wilhoite | Will Patton | Nick Nolte | Debra Winger | Judith Ivey
As: Hubert 'Bad Hair' Wimberly
A second-string pro golfer desperate for his shot at success tours the country.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Bobby Roth
Stars: Brett Cullen | Randy Quaid | Jack Warden | Corinne Bohrer | Kathryn Harrold
As: Sgt. Maj. Ross Maclure
Jay Austin is now a civilian police detective. Colonel Caldwell was his commanding officer years before when he left the military police over a disagreement over the handling of a drunk driver. Now a series of murders that cross jurisdictions force them to work together again. That Austin is now dating Caldwell's daughter is not helping the relationship at all.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Peter Hyams
Stars: Sean Connery | Jack Warden | Meg Ryan | Mark Harmon | Jenette Goldstein
As: David
The made-for-TV Three Kings stars Jack Warden, Lou Diamond Phillips and Stan Shaw as three patients in a Los Angeles-area mental institution. Dressed as the Three Wise Men for a Christmas pageant, the trio is suddenly struck with the delusion that they are really their Biblical counterparts. As TV cameras grind away, the three ersatz Kings ride out of the Pageant--on camels--and into the mean streets ...
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Mel Damski
Stars: Art LaFleur | Lou Diamond Phillips | Tiana Alexandra | Jane Kaczmarek | Richard Partlow
As: Harry Fox
Jack Warden is back as quirky detective Harry Fox, who becomes a suspect in a murder case while on holiday in England.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Paul Krasny
Stars: Jack Warden | Michael Jayston | John Rubinstein | Penny Peyser | Graham Chapman
As: Lloyd
At a summer house in Vermont, neighbor Howard falls in love with Lane, who's in a relationship with Peter, who's falling for Stephanie, who's married with children.
Runtime: 83 min.
Directed by: Woody Allen
Stars: Dianne Wiest | Mia Farrow | Jack Warden | Sam Waterston | Elaine Stritch
As: Rocko (voice)
Earth is visited by a race of aliens, who issue an ultimatum: either peace or complete destruction.
Runtime: 71 min.
Directed by: Faith Hubley
Stars: Jack Warden | Maureen Stapleton | Dizzy Gillespie
As: Moravia
A 1920s mail pilot and a rich man's daughter crash-land on a mountain full of hungry wolves.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: George T. Miller
Stars: Scott Wilson | Rosanna Arquette | Jack Warden | Christopher Reeve | Sam Wanamaker
As: Mark Twain
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Alan Gibson
Stars: Blythe Danner | Mare Winningham | Jack Warden | Perry King | Vera Miles
As: Garvey
Garvey is a San Francisco pawnshop operator. His unemployed and criminal friends Dillard, Turtle, and Weslake, team up with Boardwalk, a local pimp, to burgle Garvey's shop while the owner is out of town. During the elaborate planning process, Dillard falls for a Hispanic woman, the sister of a friend. Also, Boardwalk is assigned to case a local apartment, where he meets and falls for the maid. ...
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Louis Malle
Stars: Donald Sutherland | Wallace Shawn | Jack Warden | Sean Penn | Larry Riley
As: Henry Horatio Hobson
Daughter of the owner of a shoe store rebels against her father by marrying one of his employees.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Gilbert Cates
Stars: Sharon Gless | Jack Warden | Bert Remsen | Lillian Gish | Richard Thomas
As: Mickey Morrissey
Frank Galvin is a down-on-his luck lawyer, reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing. Former associate Mickey Morrissey reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit that he himself served to Galvin on a silver platter: all parties willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, he suddenly realizes that perhaps after all the case should go to court; to punish ...
Runtime: 129 min.
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Charlotte Rampling | Jack Warden | Paul Newman | James Mason | Milo O'Shea
As: Jack
While trying to get his father out of a financial jam, a man comes up with an idea that turns into an unexpected overnight financial fashion success - the bottomless pants.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Andrew Bergman
Stars: Richard Kiel | Jack Warden | Mariangela Melato | Fred Gwynne | Ryan O'Neal
As: The Commander
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash is a 1981 comedy film starring Alan Arkin, Carol Burnett, Jack Warden, Ruth Buzzi, and Danny Aiello. It was released in 1981 by 20th Century Fox. Arkin plays a down-his-luck former baseball player and Burnett plays a Carmen Miranda-style performer. The film was panned by critics and was not a box office success. Many of the scenes, particularly the exterior scenes of "Chu ...
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: David Lowell Rich
Stars: Danny Aiello | Adam Arkin | Carol Burnett | Alan Arkin | Jack Warden
As: Nelson Longhurst
A white corporate executive is surprised to discover that he has a black teen-age son who can't wait to be adopted into the, almost-exclusively-white community of, San Marino, California.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Michael Schultz
Stars: George Segal | Denzel Washington | Jack Warden | Paul Winfield | Susan Saint James
As: Mike Tarkenian
Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace is stolen. Kermit meets and falls in love with her secretary, Miss Piggy. The jewel thieves strike again, and this time frame Miss Piggy. It's up to Kermit and Muppets to bring the real culprits to justice.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Jim Henson
Stars: Frank Oz | Dave Goelz | Jerry Nelson | Jim Henson | Richard Hunt
As: Cornelius Ryan
The story of journalist and author Cornelius Ryan's struggle with prostate cancer.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Robert Michael Lewis
Stars: Rebecca Schull | Jack Warden | Anne Jackson | Rachael Kelly | Peter Jeffries
As: Roy L. Fuchs / Luke Fuchs
When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Stars: Kurt Russell | Jack Warden | Frank McRae | Gerrit Graham | Deborah Harmon
As: President 'Bobby'
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
Runtime: 130 min.
Directed by: Hal Ashby
Stars: Shirley MacLaine | Jack Warden | Richard Dysart | Peter Sellers | Melvyn Douglas
As: Cosmo Topper
A deceased couple affectionately haunt a living friend, while trying to get into heaven, in this made-for-tv remake of the 1937 film.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Charles S. Dubin
Stars: James Karen | Jack Warden | Andrew Stevens | Rue McClanahan | Kate Jackson
As: Judge Francis Rayford
An ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal corruption is asked to defend a judge he despises in a rape trial. But if he doesn't do it, the judge will have him disbarred.
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Norman Jewison
Stars: Jeffrey Tambor | Jack Warden | Al Pacino | Lee Strasberg | John Forsythe
As: Jackie
The more you love, the harder you fight.The world looks at Billy Flynn and sees a has-been who seemingly never was, an ex-boxing champion slammed to the mat years ago by booze and gambling. But Billy's son TJ sees what the world doesn't. He knows his flawed but loving father is, was and always will be The Champ.
Runtime: 121 min.
Directed by: Franco Zeffirelli
Stars: Faye Dunaway | Jack Warden | Ricky Schroder | Arthur Hill | Jon Voight
As: Harold Meredith
After "The Poseidon Adventure", in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While the passengers are still on board waiting to be rescued, two rivaling salvage parties enter the ship on search for money, gold and a small amount of plutonium.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Irwin Allen
Stars: Michael Caine | Sally Field | Jack Warden | Peter Boyle | Telly Savalas
As: Harry
The dream began 20 years ago, when a young pinsetter watched a star bowler win a championship. Now, Harold (Dreamer) Nuttingham has a chance to attain his dream — to win the Tournament of Champions and buy his own lanes. But what price will he pay? The woman he loves sees only that his dream re-locates her to second place in his life; Harry White, his friend and mentor pushes him to become the champion ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Noel Nosseck
Stars: Susan Blakely | Jack Warden | Richard B. Shull | Tim Matheson | Barbara Stuart
As: Ludwig Bessner
As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the ship reaches the end of its journey?
Runtime: 140 min.
Directed by: John Guillermin
Stars: Simon MacCorkindale | Mia Farrow | Lois Chiles | Peter Ustinov | Angela Lansbury
As: Max Corkle
Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant, the murderers, are confused by this development, as he ...
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Warren Beatty | Buck Henry
Stars: Charles Grodin | Jack Warden | Warren Beatty | Julie Christie | James Mason
As: Dr. Ludwig Bessner
Featurette documenting the making of the film "Death On The Nile".
Runtime: 22 min.
Directed by: John Guillermin
Stars: Jane Birkin | Mia Farrow | Jon Finch | Bette Davis | Lois Chiles
As: Charlie Zane
In this strange western version of JAWS, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in a dream. Hickok moves through a variety of uniquely authentic western locations - dim, filthy, makeshift taverns; freezing, slaughterhouse-like frontier towns and beautifully desolate high country - before improbably teaming up with a young Crazy Horse to pursue the creature.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: J. Lee Thompson
Stars: Charles Bronson | Jack Warden | Kim Novak | Clint Walker | Will Sampson
As: Harry M. Rosenfeld
In the run-up to the 1972 elections, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward covers what seems to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party National headquarters. He is surprised to find top lawyers already on the defense case, and the discovery of names and addresses of Republican fund organizers on the accused further arouses his suspicions. The editor of the Post is prepared to run ...
Runtime: 138 min.
Directed by: Alan J. Pakula
Stars: Robert Redford | Jack Warden | Martin Balsam | Dustin Hoffman | Hal Holbrook
As: Lt. Gen. Mordechai Gur
Based on a true Military operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the PFLP. The plane has about 100 Jewish passengers. The plane is grounded in Uganda. Israelis would not negotiate. The movie then shows how less than 500 soldiers actually flew so far and rescued the passengers in one of the most successful Military operations in history. The only casualty for Israeli soldiers was ...
Runtime: 145 min.
Directed by: Irvin Kershner
Stars: Charles Bronson | Yaphet Kotto | Martin Balsam | Horst Buchholz | Peter Finch
As: John "Jigsaw" St. John
Jack Warden plays real-life Los Angeles detective John St. John in this pilot for the Jigsaw John television series. He and his Native American partner track a pervert serial killer of elderly women.
Runtime: 73 min.
Directed by: Daryl Duke
Stars: Jack Warden
As: Lester
George Roundy is a Beverly Hills hairstylist whose uncontrolled libido stands between him and his ambitions. He wants the security of a relationship. He wants to be a hairdressing "star" and open his own salon. But the fact that he beds down with the wife, daughter and mistress of a potential backer doesn't help. It also does little for his relationship with his current girlfriend.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Hal Ashby
Stars: Jack Warden | Warren Beatty | Julie Christie | Goldie Hawn | Lee Grant
As: Sgt. Dobbs
Three Union POWs fleeing across the desert to escape both their Confederate pursuers and rampaging Apaches come across a dying woman and her infant child. They promise the woman that they will take care of the child and get it to safety, even though none of them knows anything whatsoever about children or babies.
Runtime: 78 min.
Directed by: John Badham
Stars: Keith Carradine | Ed Lauter | Jack Palance | Jack Warden | José Pérez
As: Max
The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well as his changing relationships with family and friends. Along the way the film explores the themes of anti-semitism and the responsibilities which come with adulthood.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Ted Kotcheff
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss | Joseph Wiseman | Henry Ramer | Alan Rosenthal | Susan Friedman
As: Sheriff Henry Gifford
An aging outlaw helps a young half-breed learn the ropes.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Ted Kotcheff
Stars: Jack Warden | David Huddleston | Gregory Peck | Desi Arnaz Jr. | Sian Barbara Allen
As: Dawes
Western based on the novel by Marilyn Durham. A defiant wife who leaves her husband to take up riding with outlaws.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Richard C. Sarafian
Stars: George Hamilton | Jack Warden | Burt Reynolds | Lee J. Cobb | Sarah Miles
As: Capt. Patrick Lonergan
After a policeman is murdered in an ambush, rumors surface that he was on the take. His widow sets out to catch the killers and clear her husband's name.
Runtime: 73 min.
Directed by: David Lowell Rich
Stars: Jack Warden | Eartha Kitt | Lee Grant
As: Jake Moniker
A government agent, out to destroy a crime ring, finds himself in the middle of a mob war.
Runtime: 73 min.
Directed by: Joseph Sargent
Stars: Keith Carradine | William Schallert | Joel Grey | Christopher George | Michael Baseleon
As: Lieutenant Joe Burton
Working girl who is dead ringer for wealthy socialite is kidnapped by extortionists and forced to impersonate her.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Jerry Paris
Stars: Jack Warden | Roddy McDowall | Brenda Vaccaro | Edmond O'Brien | Jo Anne Worley
As: Coach George Halas
Based on the real-life relationship between teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and the bond established when Piccolo discovers that he is dying.
Runtime: 73 min.
Directed by: Buzz Kulik
Stars: James Caan | Jack Warden | Bernie Casey | Billy Dee Williams | Shelley Fabares
As: Lieutenant George Coy
A young Iowa schoolteacher, thinking she is dying of leukemia, goes to San Francisco, where she hires a mob killer to take her life. However, she soon changes her mind, and with the help of the local police, tries to find the killer before he fulfills his part of the bargain.
Runtime: 75 min.
Directed by: George McCowan
Stars: Jack Warden | Elizabeth Ashley | Ricardo Montalban | Dane Clark | Burr DeBenning
An Army morale officer hits racism when he tries to put singers in an officers club in 1945 Hiroshima.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Walter Shenson
Stars: Jack Warden | Brian Foley
As: Dr. Solomon F. Moses
Georgie Soloway, a pop hit love song writer who cannot love, himself, or others. He spends his days with various women flying his plane, and dropping in to the world around him.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Ulu Grosbard
Stars: Jack Warden | Gabriel Dell | Barbara Harris | Dustin Hoffman | David Burns
As: Herb McAdams
Jerry, not a member of the 'protest generation' but is instead, an 'All American boy,' is drafted into the Army, just as things begin to go well for him. He decision to flee to Canada sparks off conflict with his parents, ending in the film's conclusion - in Vietnam.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Anthony Newley
Stars: Michael Douglas | Jack Warden | Brenda Vaccaro | Kirk Calloway | Barbara Bel Geddes
As: Earl Olive
This exploitative melodrama is set in northern Michigan where an exclusive private hunting club is located. There some of the country's richest, most powerful men come to relax and get closer to nature. Unfortunately, that means that they become engaged in debauchery and become brutal, amoral killers.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Larry Peerce
Stars: Jack Warden | Richard Dysart | Robert Fields | Margaret Blye | Nicolas Coster
As: Barnet Weinstein
Friends gather for the funeral of a friend. Sub-plots unfold as the group attempts to link-up to attend the funeral of their friend, Braverman.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Stars: George Segal | Jack Warden | Phyllis Newman | Jessica Walter | Godfrey Cambridge
As: General George Pratt
A patient being psychoanalyzed by Dr. Snow is a government scientist. General Pratt hides him in a secret place known as "Base X," forcing Dr. Snow to wear a blindfold whenever he is taken there ...
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Philip Dunne
Stars: Claudia Cardinale | Jack Warden | Guy Stockwell | Rock Hudson | Anne Seymour
As: First Sgt. Welsh
Set during the Allied invasion of the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater during WWII, this film is based on the novel by James Jones. Keir Dullea is Private Doll, who dreads the invasion and steals a pistol to help him protect himself. Sergeant Welsh (Jack Warden), a caustic, battle-scarred veteran, hates Doll, whom he considers a coward. In battle, Doll kills a Japanese soldier and is filled ...
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Andrew Marton
Stars: Jack Warden | James Philbrook | Keir Dullea | Ray Daley | Bob Kanter
As: William Dedham
'Guns' Donovan prefers carousing with his pals Doc Dedham and 'Boats' Gilhooley, until Dedham's high-society daughter Amelia shows up in their South Seas paradise.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: John Ford
Stars: John Wayne | Cesar Romero | Lee Marvin | Mike Mazurki | Elizabeth Allen
As: Huston
Yul Brynner plays political leader Sharif who is sprung from a police van on his way to a firing squad by young loyalists led by Sal Mineo. Yul and the other prisoners kidnap an ambulance and head into the Arabian desert with the police in hot pursuit. All the performances are magnificent: Sal Mineo showing his acting talents, Jack Warden in a wiseguy performance as an employee of Zahrain oil who was ...
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Ronald Neame
Stars: Jack Warden | Yul Brynner | James Mason | Sal Mineo | Madlyn Rhue
As: Matthew Gower
The story of a scheme to double-cross the syndicate and steal its money, and of a police commissioner 's efforts to investigate homicides that take place as the scheme unfolds while also fighting corruption in the city government and police department.
Runtime: 79 min.
Directed by: Joseph M. Newman
Stars: Jack Warden | Arch Johnson | Vera Miles | Robert Douglas | Douglas Odney
As: Captain Dave 'Doc' Farrington
The war may be over, but that doesn't keep the hapless Gus Brubaker from being drafted and posted on a forgotten little Japanese Island...and that's just the beginning of this wacky Air Force adventure!
Runtime: 126 min.
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Jack Warden | Nobu McCarthy | Dick Shawn | Margo Moore | Ernie Kovacs
As: George Kelly
A young GI (Tab Hunter) falls in love with a kept woman (Sophia Loren) on a train to New York.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Jack Warden | Sophia Loren | Keenan Wynn | Barbara Nichols | Tab Hunter
As: Ben Compson
Passions divide a declining Southern family.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Martin Ritt
Stars: Stuart Whitman | Yul Brynner | Joanne Woodward | Margaret Leighton | Ethel Waters
As: Yeoman 1st Class Mueller
The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper another sub after a year of working a desk job. His singleminded determination for revenge against the destroyer that sunk his previous vessel puts his new crew in unneccessary danger.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Robert Wise
Stars: Don Rickles | Jack Warden | Brad Dexter | Burt Lancaster | Clark Gable
As: Saul Rosen / Narrator
Highly fictionalized account of the formation of the US Army's First Ranger Battalion in World War II and their first commanding officer Major (later, Lieutenant-Colonel) Orlando Darby. The idea was to create a US unit along the lines of the British commandos. In this account, which focuses on several fictional characters, the story is initially on their training in Scotland and the lives and loves their ...
Runtime: 121 min.
Directed by: William A. Wellman
Stars: Jack Warden | James Garner | Etchika Choureau | Venetia Stevenson | Edd Byrnes
As: Charles Malik
An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt union official.
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Martin Ritt
Stars: Jack Warden | Ruby Dee | Sidney Poitier | John Cassavetes | Kathleen Maguire
As: Eddie Watkins
Five office friends meet up for a night on the town to celebrate the forthcoming marriage of one of them. As the night wears on and the drink starts to tell, they become more confidential in expressing their concerns and hopes.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Delbert Mann
Stars: Jack Warden | E.G. Marshall | Don Murray | Larry Blyden | Philip Abbott
As: Juror 7
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Martin Balsam | John Fiedler | Lee J. Cobb | E.G. Marshall | Jack Klugman
As: Cpl. Buckley
In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Fred Zinnemann
Stars: Burt Lancaster | Deborah Kerr | Montgomery Clift | Donna Reed | Frank Sinatra
As: Walt Davis
A man discovers that an evil twin has taken over his life.
Runtime: 79 min.
Directed by: Edward Montagne
Stars: Jim Boles | Carole Mathews | Lynn Ainley | Barry Nelson | John Harvey
As: Tommy Morse (uncredited)
When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an experimental steam engine, he hopes that the U.S.S. Teakettle's veterans will afford him enough help to accomplish the ship's goals. Unfortunately, he finds the crew and its officers share his novice status or only have experience in diesel engines.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Henry Hathaway
Stars: John McIntire | Eddie Albert | Millard Mitchell | Gary Cooper | Jane Greer