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Jack L. Warner(1892-1978)

  • Producer
  • Production Manager
  • Additional Crew
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Jack L. Warner
With his brothers Harry M. Warner, Albert Warner, and Sam Warner, he founded Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. in 1923. They released the first motion picture with synchronized sound, The Jazz Singer (1927) with Al Jolson. In the 1930s they gave employment to a parade of stars, including Bette Davis, Errol Flynn and Paul Muni, as well as James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, and a man whose star would eventually rise in the 1940s, Humphrey Bogart. Decades later, the firm's successor, Warner Communications Inc., merged with Time Inc. to become Time Warner Inc., the world's largest media and entertainment company.
BornAugust 2, 1892
DiedSeptember 9, 1978(86)
BornAugust 2, 1892
DiedSeptember 9, 1978(86)
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  • Won 1 Oscar

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Natalie Wood and Jack L. Warner in Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind (2020)
Albert Warner, Harry M. Warner, Jack L. Warner, and Sam Warner in American Masters (1985)
Albert Warner, Harry M. Warner, Jack L. Warner, and Sam Warner in American Masters (1985)
Marion Davies, Mervyn LeRoy, Hal B. Wallis, and Jack L. Warner in Page Miss Glory (1935)
Jack L. Warner
"Harper" Director Jack Smight, Jack Warner, Paul Newman
Karen Sharpe and Jack L. Warner celebrate the premiere of The High and the Mighty
Mike Coolidge, Jack Warner, Allan Sherman and Mike Maitland circa mid 1960s
"My Fair Lady" (Premiere) Jack L. Warner and George Cukor
Director George Cukor introducing Jack Warner at the end-of-film party for "My Fair Lady" 1963 Warner Brothers
Director George Cukor, Audrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer and Jack Warner at the end-of-film party for "My Fair Lady" 1963 Warner Brothers
Edward G. Robinson with Jack Warner and Alan Ladd, c. 1955.

Known for

My Fair Lady (1964)
My Fair Lady
7.8
  • Producer
  • 1964
Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in To Have and Have Not (1944)
To Have and Have Not
7.8
  • Producer
  • 1944
Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep (1946)
The Big Sleep
7.9
  • Producer
  • 1946
Cary Grant and Priscilla Lane in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Arsenic and Old Lace
7.9
  • Producer
  • 1944

Credits

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Producer

  • 1776 (1972)
    1776
  • Dirty Little Billy (1972)
    Dirty Little Billy
  • Camelot (1967)
    Camelot
  • My Fair Lady (1964)
    My Fair Lady
  • Temple Houston (1963)
    Temple Houston
  • PT 109 (1963)
    PT 109
  • About Time (1962)
    About Time
  • Tab Hunter, Anne Francis, Dorothy Malone, Nancy Olson, and Aldo Ray in Battle Cry (1955)
    Battle Cry
    • (uncredited)
  • Judy Garland and James Mason in A Star Is Born (1954)
    A Star Is Born
    • (uncredited)
  • Beyond the Forest (1949)
    Beyond the Forest
  • Ronald Reagan and Viveca Lindfors in Night Unto Night (1949)
    Night Unto Night
  • The Friendship Train
    • (uncredited)
  • Dane Clark and Alexis Smith in Whiplash (1948)
    Whiplash
  • June Bride (1948)
    June Bride
    • (uncredited)
  • Errol Flynn and Ann Sheridan in Silver River (1948)
    Silver River

Production Manager

  • The John Glenn Story (1962)
    The John Glenn Story
  • The Thread of Life
  • Constance Bennett and Jeffrey Lynn in Law of the Tropics (1941)
    Law of the Tropics
    • (uncredited)
  • Humphrey Bogart and Ida Lupino in High Sierra (1941)
    High Sierra
  • George Brent and Ann Sheridan in Honeymoon for Three (1941)
    Honeymoon for Three
  • Four Mothers (1941)
    Four Mothers
  • Olivia de Havilland, Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, and Raymond Massey in Santa Fe Trail (1940)
    Santa Fe Trail
  • South of Suez (1940)
    South of Suez
  • Bette Davis in The Letter (1940)
    The Letter
  • John Garfield, William Lundigan, Brenda Marshall, and Marjorie Rambeau in East of the River (1940)
    East of the River
  • Edward G. Robinson in A Dispatch from Reuters (1940)
    A Dispatch from Reuters
  • Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale, Marjorie Rambeau, and Jane Wyman in Tugboat Annie Sails Again (1940)
    Tugboat Annie Sails Again
  • Pat O'Brien in Knute Rockne All American (1940)
    Knute Rockne All American
  • James Cagney and Ann Sheridan in City for Conquest (1940)
    City for Conquest
  • Frances Farmer, John Garfield, and Pat O'Brien in Flowing Gold (1940)
    Flowing Gold

Additional Crew

  • Seapower (1964)
    Seapower
    • (as Colonel Jack L. Warner USAFR)
  • Red Nightmare (1962)
    Red Nightmare
  • Gateways to the Mind (1958)
    Gateways to the Mind
  • Errol Flynn and Ann Sheridan in Silver River (1948)
    Silver River
  • Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, and Alexis Smith in The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
    The Two Mrs. Carrolls
  • Errol Flynn, Patti Brady, Eleanor Parker, S.Z. Sakall, and Lucile Watson in Never Say Goodbye (1946)
    Never Say Goodbye
  • Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, and Joan Lorring in The Verdict (1946)
    The Verdict
  • Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Faye Emerson, and Zachary Scott in The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
    The Mask of Dimitrios
  • Uncertain Glory (1944)
    Uncertain Glory
  • Paul Henreid and Ida Lupino in In Our Time (1944)
    In Our Time
  • Errol Flynn and Julie Bishop in Northern Pursuit (1943)
    Northern Pursuit
  • Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Errol Flynn, John Garfield, Jack Carson, Eddie Cantor, Joan Leslie, Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan, Ann Sheridan, Dinah Shore, and Alexis Smith in Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
    Thank Your Lucky Stars
    • (uncredited)
  • Joan Leslie, Ida Lupino, and Dennis Morgan in The Hard Way (1943)
    The Hard Way

Personal details

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    • August 2, 1892
    • London, Ontario, Canada
    • September 9, 1978
    • Los Angeles, California, USA(pulmonary edema and a heart inflammation)
    • January 10, 1936 - September 9, 1978 (his death, 1 child)
    • Jack Warner Jr.
    • Harry M. Warner(Sibling)
  • Publicity listings
    • 2 Biographical Movies
    • 2 Print Biographies
    • 15 Portrayals
    • 16 Articles

Did you know

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  • Trivia
    At the 16th Academy Awards ceremony, when Casablanca (1942) was named Best Picture, Hal B. Wallis, the film's producer, was on his way to the stage to accept the Oscar when Warner cut him off and accepted on behalf of the studio. At the time the Oscar for Best Picture customarily went to the studio, but Warner's public rudeness had two consequences: first, Wallis resigned from Warner Brothers in protest; second, producers began exerting more power with the Academy. Within eight years, starting with An American in Paris (1951), the Oscar for Best Picture would go to the film's producer(s) instead of the studio.
  • Quotes
    [to an assistant on being introduced to Madame Chiang, the wife of Chinese president Kai-Shek Chiang] That reminds me, I need to pick up my laundry.

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