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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Warden, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Complete Filmography

Dirty Work: Dirtier Cut
2025
as "Pops" McKenna
The "dirtier cut" is an extended, uncensored version of the 1998 film Dirty Work, starring Norm Macdonald. This cut was the original vision of the fil...

The Replacements
2000
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 im...

A Dog of Flanders
1999
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 Flem...

Dirty Work
1998
as Pops
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 ...

Bulworth
1998
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 affecti...

Chairman of the Board
1998
as Armand McMillan
Surfer Edison isn't able to make ends meet with his inventions or his lifestyle. But then he meets billionaire Armand McMillian, who takes a shine to ...

The Island on Bird Street
1997
as Boruch
Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. T...

Ed
1996
as Chubb
Jack Cooper 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 t...

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
1995
as Joe Heff
Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.

Mighty Aphrodite
1995
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 i...

Problem Child 3
1995
as Big Ben
Now a pre-teen, Junior has fallen head over heels for a classmate who doesn't even notice him, but does notice three other boys – a child star, a hock...

While You Were Sleeping
1995
as Saul
A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off railway tracks after he's mugged, but—while he's in a coma—his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancé...

Bullets Over Broadway
1994
as Julian Marx
After young playwright, David Shayne obtains funding for his play from gangster Nick Valenti, Nick's girlfriend Olive miraculously lands the role of a...

La Classe américaine
1993
as A Journalist (archive footage)
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of...

Guilty as Sin
1993
as Moe
Before a criminal lawyer knows what has happened, she is forced to defend a wife killer she knows is guilty.

Toys
1992
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 op...

Night and the City
1992
as Al Grossman
Looking to get rich quick, an unsuccessful lawyer uses dishonest means to try to become a boxing promoter.

Passed Away
1992
as Jack Scanlan
Thrown for a loop by the unexpected news that Dad has suddenly gone to his reward, the grieving eccentric Scanian clan are drawn together in a test of...

Problem Child 2
1991
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 Junio...

Judgment
1990
as Claude Fortier
Fact-based story of a Louisiana priest accused of molesting young parishioners, and of the family of one of his victims, caught between their loyalty ...

Problem Child
1990
as Big Ben
Ben Healy and his social climbing wife Flo adopt fun-loving seven year old Junior. But they soon discover he's a little monster as he turns a camping ...

Everybody Wins
1990
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 dee...

Dead Solid Perfect
1988
as Hubert 'Bad Hair' Wimberly
A second-string pro golfer desperate for his shot at success tours the country.

Police Story: The Watch Commander
1988
as Joe Wilson
This is the story of policeman who has been on the job for over forty years. And one of his duties is to look out for all of the officers under him ca...

The Presidio
1988
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 disagr...

September
1987
as Lloyd
After a suicide attempt, Lane has moved into her country house to recuperate. Her best friend, Stephanie, has come to join her for the summer. Lane's ...

The Three Kings
1987
as David
The made-for-TV film stars Jack Warden, Lou Diamond Phillips and Stan Shaw as three patients in a Los Angeles-area mental institution. Dressed as the ...

Hoover vs. the Kennedys: The Second Civil War
1987
as J. Edgar Hoover
This is the story of the feud between FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and the Kennedys. It shows how much Hoover hated them and how they tried to stand u...
Still Crazy Like a Fox
1987
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.

Three Wishes for Jamie
1987
as Owen Tavish
Adapted from Charles O'Neal's 1949 book, this follows the lighthearted adventures of a late 19th Century young man named Jamie McGrew, the three wishe...

The Cosmic Eye
1986
as Rocko (voice)
Earth is visited by a race of aliens, who issue an ultimatum: either peace or complete destruction.

The Aviator
1985
as Moravia
A 1920s mail pilot and a rich man's daughter crash-land on a mountain full of hungry wolves.
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
1984
as Mark Twain

Crackers
1984
as Garvey
In San Francisco, a group of down-and-out friends and a local pimp concoct a convoluted burglary plan on their pawnshop operator friend, all while nav...

Hobson's Choice
1983
as Henry Horatio Hobson
Daughter of the owner of a shoe store rebels against her father by marrying one of his employees.

The Verdict
1982
as Mickey Morrissey
Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a m...

Night of 100 Stars
1982
as Self
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City ...

So Fine
1981
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 -...

Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
1981
as The Commander
Flash used to be a talented baseball player, but he took to drinking and now he sells stolen watches in the streets. One day he meets Chu Chu, who, be...

Carbon Copy
1981
as Nelson Longhurst
A middle-aged married wealthy white corporate executive is surprised to discover that he has a working-class black teen-age son who wants to be adopte...

The Great Muppet Caper
1981
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 sto...

A Private Battle
1980
as Cornelius Ryan
A dramatization of the story of noted writer/journalist Cornelius Ryan, author of "The Longest Day," and the valiant battle against terminal cancer th...

Used Cars
1980
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 ...

Being There
1979
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 s...

Topper
1979
as Cosmo Topper
A deceased couple affectionately haunt a living friend while trying to get into heaven.

...And Justice for All
1979
as Judge Francis Rayford
An ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal corruption is forced to defend a judge he despises in a rape trial under the threat o...

The Champ
1979
as Jackie
Billy used to be a great boxer, but he's settled into a hardscrabble life that revolves around drinking, training horses, and the one bright spot in h...

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
1979
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 sti...

Dreamer
1979
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...

Death on the Nile
1978
as Ludwig Bessner
As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board and every elegant passenger becomes a prime s...

Heaven Can Wait
1978
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...

The White Buffalo
1977
as Charlie Zane
In this strange western version of Moby Dick, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in a dream. Hickok moves through a variety of uniquel...

Raid on Entebbe
1976
as Lt. Gen. Mordechai Gur
Based on a true operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The airplane la...

All the President's Men
1976
as Harry Rosenfeld
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from...

They Only Come Out at Night
1975
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 partne...

Journey from Darkness
1975
as Fred Hartman
A brilliant blind student fights a seemingly hopeless battle to gain acceptance into medical school.

Shampoo
1975
as Lester Karpf
A Beverly Hills hairdresser runs around town on the eve of the 1968 presidential election trying to make heads or tails of his financial and romantic ...

The Godchild
1974
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 ch...

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1974
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 sho...

Remember When
1974
as Joe Hodges
An uncle's (Jack Warden) memories give strength to a New England family with four sons fighting in World War II.

Billy Two Hats
1974
as Sheriff Henry Gifford
After a bank robbery, runaway Scottish outlaw Arch Deans and his young half-breed Kiowa partner Billy Two Hats develop a father-son relationship, but ...

The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
1973
as Dawes
On the run from her violent husband, Catherine Crocker witnesses a train robbery and is taken prisoner by a frontier outlaw gang, led by a bandit who’...

Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
1972
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 na...

Dig: A Journey Into Earth
1972
as Rocco (voice)
A boy and his dog take a wondrous trip under the earth's crust and through the geological eras of time, introducing children to geology in the form of...

Man On A String
1972
as Jake Moniker
A government agent, out to destroy a crime ring, finds himself in the middle of a mob war.

What's a Nice Girl Like You...?
1971
as Lt. Joe Burton
A Bronx working girl is drawn into an elaborate extortion plot after being kidnapped by a gang of sophisticated con men who force her, because of her ...

Brian's Song
1971
as Coach 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.
The Face of Fear
1971
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...

Welcome to the Club
1971
An Army morale officer hits racism when he tries to put singers in an officers club in 1945 Hiroshima.

Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
1971
as Dr. Solomon F. Moses
Hugely successful but impossibly neurotic songwriter Georgie Soloway is sliding into a mid-life crisis. He believes that all of his past romantic rela...

Summertree
1971
as Herb
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 h...

The Sporting Club
1971
as Earl Olive
The wealthy members of an exclusive backwoods retreat face an existential threat from both a disgruntled former manager as well as a subversive, anarc...

A Memory of Two Mondays
1971
as Gus
Workers in an auto parts warehouse in 1933 New York City inhabit a bleak, dead-end world in the depths of the Depression where, at least, they have jo...

Bye Bye Braverman
1968
as Barnet Weinstein
One day, Morroe Rieff learns that his friend and fellow writer, Leslie Braverman, has died. After meeting Leslie's widow, Inez, who is more flirtatiou...

Blindfold
1966
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...

The Adventures of Gallegher
1965
as Lt. Fergus
An energetic newspaper copyboy in 1889 wants to become a reporter, and he is soon more deeply involved in his stories than he had expected. When he di...

The Thin Red Line
1964
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 D...

Donovan's Reef
1963
as William Dedham
After her great aunt's death, a high-society woman arrives on a Hawaiian island in search of the heir - the father she has never met.

Flashing Spikes
1962
as Comissioner
An old ballplayer, thrown out of baseball due to a bribery scandal, becomes friends with a young phenom. The younger player is at first tainted by his...

Escape from Zahrain
1962
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 th...

The Lawbreakers
1961
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 p...

Wake Me When It's Over
1960
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 j...

That Kind of Woman
1959
as George Kelly
A young G.I. falls in love with a kept woman on a train to New York.

The Sound and the Fury
1959
as Ben Compson
Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith, fo...
Nightmare at Ground Zero
1958
as Long
After the first atom bomb test, scientists realize the bomb was more powerful than they expected - which may have terrible results.

Run Silent, Run Deep
1958
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 s...

Darby's Rangers
1958
as Saul Rosen / Narrator
Stationed in Scotland, Maj. William Darby and the men under his command are trained by British commandos, becoming the U.S. Army's 1st Ranger Battalio...

12 Angry Men
1957
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 m...

The Bachelor Party
1957
as The Bachelor [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 t...
The Lark
1957
as Robert de Beaudricourt
Adaptation of Jean Anouilh's 1952 play about Joan of Arc, the young girl who led the French to victory against the English in the Hundred Years' War.

Edge of the City
1957
as Charles Malik
An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager.

Tragedy in a Temporary Town
1956
as Frank Doran
Fifteen-year-old girl Dotty Fisher is assaulted at a construction camp. In the wake of this incident, the construction workers form a vigilante group ...

The Petrified Forest
1955
as Boze
Gabrielle Maple works in a dusty desert gas station-café, but yearns for the life of an artist in France, knowing there must be something finer than t...

The Challenge
1955
as Bill Whitman
A school bus driver (Jack Warden) is fired by the local school board when he refuses to sign a loyalty oath. This was a pilot for a proposed anthology...

From Here to Eternity
1953
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.

The Man with My Face
1951
as Walt Davis
A man discovers that an evil twin has taken over his life.

You're in the Navy Now
1951
as Tommy Morse
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. Teake...

The Frogmen
1951
as Crew Member
The new commander of a Navy Underwater Demolition Team--nicknamed "Frogmen"--must earn the respect of the men in his unit, who are still grieving over...

Sunset Boulevard
1950
as Party Guest (uncredited)
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

The Asphalt Jungle
1950
as Man (uncredited)
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of v...