Jack Warden

Jack Warden

1920-09-18 Newark, New Jersey, USA 100 Credits

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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Dirty Work: Dirtier Cut

Dirty Work: Dirtier Cut

2025

as "Pops" McKenna

Acting

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

The Replacements

2000

as Edward O'Neil

6.7
Acting

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

A Dog of Flanders

1999

as Jehan

6.3
Acting

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

Dirty Work

1998

as Pops

6.2
Acting

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

Bulworth

1998

as Eddie Davers

6.3
Acting

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

Chairman of the Board

1998

as Armand McMillan

3.6
Acting

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

The Island on Bird Street

1997

as Boruch

7.2
Acting

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

Ed

1996

as Chubb

4.1
Acting

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

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead

1995

as Joe Heff

6.4
Acting

Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.

Mighty Aphrodite

Mighty Aphrodite

1995

as Tiresias

6.7
Acting

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

Problem Child 3

1995

as Big Ben

4.7
Acting

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

While You Were Sleeping

1995

as Saul

7.0
Acting

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

Bullets Over Broadway

1994

as Julian Marx

7.1
Acting

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

La Classe américaine

1993

as A Journalist (archive footage)

7.6
Acting

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

Guilty as Sin

1993

as Moe

5.7
Acting

Before a criminal lawyer knows what has happened, she is forced to defend a wife killer she knows is guilty.

Toys

Toys

1992

as Old General Zevo

5.3
Acting

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

Night and the City

1992

as Al Grossman

5.7
Acting

Looking to get rich quick, an unsuccessful lawyer uses dishonest means to try to become a boxing promoter.

Passed Away

Passed Away

1992

as Jack Scanlan

5.1
Acting

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

Problem Child 2

1991

as Big Ben Healy

5.9
Acting

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

Judgment

1990

as Claude Fortier

5.7
Acting

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

Problem Child

1990

as Big Ben

6.1
Acting

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

Everybody Wins

1990

as Judge Harry Murdoch

3.9
Acting

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

Dead Solid Perfect

1988

as Hubert 'Bad Hair' Wimberly

6.6
Acting

A second-string pro golfer desperate for his shot at success tours the country.

Police Story: The Watch Commander

Police Story: The Watch Commander

1988

as Joe Wilson

Acting

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

The Presidio

1988

as Sgt. Maj. Ross Maclure

5.9
Acting

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

September

1987

as Lloyd

6.2
Acting

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

The Three Kings

1987

as David

2.8
Acting

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

Hoover vs. the Kennedys: The Second Civil War

1987

as J. Edgar Hoover

2.0
Acting

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

7.7
Acting

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

Three Wishes for Jamie

1987

as Owen Tavish

6.0
Acting

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

The Cosmic Eye

1986

as Rocko (voice)

5.8
Acting

Earth is visited by a race of aliens, who issue an ultimatum: either peace or complete destruction.

The Aviator

The Aviator

1985

as Moravia

5.6
Acting

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

6.5
Acting
Crackers

Crackers

1984

as Garvey

4.7
Acting

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

Hobson's Choice

1983

as Henry Horatio Hobson

Acting

Daughter of the owner of a shoe store rebels against her father by marrying one of his employees.

The Verdict

The Verdict

1982

as Mickey Morrissey

7.4
Acting

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

Night of 100 Stars

1982

as Self

6.7
Acting

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

So Fine

1981

as Jack

4.8
Acting

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

Chu Chu and the Philly Flash

1981

as The Commander

4.6
Acting

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

Carbon Copy

1981

as Nelson Longhurst

5.7
Acting

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

The Great Muppet Caper

1981

as Mike Tarkenian

6.9
Acting

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

A Private Battle

1980

as Cornelius Ryan

Acting

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

Used Cars

1980

as Roy L. Fuchs / Luke Fuchs

6.4
Acting

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

Being There

1979

as President 'Bobby'

7.6
Acting

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

Topper

1979

as Cosmo Topper

5.0
Acting

A deceased couple affectionately haunt a living friend while trying to get into heaven.

...And Justice for All

...And Justice for All

1979

as Judge Francis Rayford

7.1
Acting

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

The Champ

1979

as Jackie

7.0
Acting

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

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

1979

as Harold Meredith

5.1
Acting

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

Dreamer

1979

as Harry

5.3
Acting

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

Death on the Nile

1978

as Ludwig Bessner

7.1
Acting

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

Heaven Can Wait

1978

as Max Corkle

6.6
Acting

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

The White Buffalo

1977

as Charlie Zane

5.9
Acting

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

Raid on Entebbe

1976

as Lt. Gen. Mordechai Gur

6.0
Acting

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

All the President's Men

1976

as Harry Rosenfeld

7.6
Acting

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

They Only Come Out at Night

1975

as John "Jigsaw" St. John

Acting

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

Journey from Darkness

1975

as Fred Hartman

6.0
Acting

A brilliant blind student fights a seemingly hopeless battle to gain acceptance into medical school.

Shampoo

Shampoo

1975

as Lester Karpf

6.0
Acting

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

The Godchild

1974

as Sgt. Dobbs

2.0
Acting

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

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

1974

as Max

5.9
Acting

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

Remember When

1974

as Joe Hodges

Acting

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

Billy Two Hats

Billy Two Hats

1974

as Sheriff Henry Gifford

5.7
Acting

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

The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing

1973

as Dawes

5.8
Acting

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

Lieutenant Schuster's Wife

1972

as Capt. Patrick Lonergan

Acting

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

Dig: A Journey Into Earth

1972

as Rocco (voice)

Acting

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

Man On A String

1972

as Jake Moniker

7.0
Acting

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...?

What's a Nice Girl Like You...?

1971

as Lt. Joe Burton

5.3
Acting

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

Brian's Song

1971

as Coach Halas

7.2
Acting

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

5.7
Acting

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

Welcome to the Club

1971

Acting

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?

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

1971

as Dr. Solomon F. Moses

4.6
Acting

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

Summertree

1971

as Herb

5.7
Acting

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

The Sporting Club

1971

as Earl Olive

3.9
Acting

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

A Memory of Two Mondays

1971

as Gus

Acting

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

Bye Bye Braverman

1968

as Barnet Weinstein

6.7
Acting

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

Blindfold

1966

as General George Pratt

6.3
Acting

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

The Adventures of Gallegher

1965

as Lt. Fergus

Acting

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

The Thin Red Line

1964

as First Sgt. Welsh

5.9
Acting

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

Donovan's Reef

1963

as William Dedham

6.2
Acting

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

Flashing Spikes

1962

as Comissioner

5.3
Acting

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

Escape from Zahrain

1962

as Huston

6.2
Acting

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

The Lawbreakers

1961

as Matthew Gower

5.5
Acting

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

Wake Me When It's Over

1960

as Captain Dave 'Doc' Farrington

6.0
Acting

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

That Kind of Woman

1959

as George Kelly

5.9
Acting

A young G.I. falls in love with a kept woman on a train to New York.

The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury

1959

as Ben Compson

6.6
Acting

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

Acting

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

Run Silent, Run Deep

1958

as Yeoman 1st Class Mueller

6.9
Acting

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

Darby's Rangers

1958

as Saul Rosen / Narrator

5.9
Acting

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

12 Angry Men

1957

as Juror 7

8.5
Acting

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

The Bachelor Party

1957

as The Bachelor [Eddie Watkins]

6.6
Acting

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

Acting

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

Edge of the City

1957

as Charles Malik

7.1
Acting

An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager.

Tragedy in a Temporary Town

Tragedy in a Temporary Town

1956

as Frank Doran

6.2
Acting

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

The Petrified Forest

1955

as Boze

6.8
Acting

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

The Challenge

1955

as Bill Whitman

4.5
Acting

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

From Here to Eternity

1953

as Cpl. Buckley

7.3
Acting

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

The Man with My Face

1951

as Walt Davis

5.1
Acting

A man discovers that an evil twin has taken over his life.

You're in the Navy Now

You're in the Navy Now

1951

as Tommy Morse

4.4
Acting

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

The Frogmen

1951

as Crew Member

5.9
Acting

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

Sunset Boulevard

1950

as Party Guest (uncredited)

8.3
Acting

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

The Asphalt Jungle

The Asphalt Jungle

1950

as Man (uncredited)

7.5
Acting

Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of v...