Jack L. Warner(1892-1978)

Producer
Production Manager
Additional Crew

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.

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Won 1 Oscar
- 8 wins & 1 nomination total

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Known for

My Fair Lady

7.7

Producer

1964

To Have and Have Not

7.8

Producer

1944

The Big Sleep

7.9

Producer

1946

Arsenic and Old Lace

7.9

Producer

1944

Credits

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Producer

1776
7.6
- producer
- 1972
Dirty Little Billy
6.3
- producer
- 1972
Camelot
6.6
- producer
- 1967
My Fair Lady
7.7
- producer
- 1964
Temple Houston
7.8
TV Series
- produced under the personal supervision of
- 1963–1964
PT 109
6.6
- produced under the personal supervision of
- 1963
About Time
7.8
TV Movie
- executive producer
- 1962
Battle Cry
6.4
- producer (uncredited)
- 1955
A Star Is Born
7.5
- executive producer (uncredited)
- 1954
Beyond the Forest
6.8
- executive producer
- 1949
Night Unto Night
5.8
- executive producer
- 1949
The Friendship Train
6.0
Short
- executive producer (uncredited)
- 1948
Whiplash
6.4
- executive producer
- 1948
June Bride
6.8
- executive producer (uncredited)
- 1948
Silver River
6.5
- executive producer
- 1948

Production Manager

The John Glenn Story
6.3
Short
- (produced under the personal supervision of
- 1962
The Thread of Life
7.2
TV Movie
- executive in charge of production: Warner Bros. Pictures
- 1960
Law of the Tropics
5.9
- executive in charge of production (uncredited)
- 1941
High Sierra
7.5
- in charge of production
- 1941
Honeymoon for Three
6.0
- in charge of production
- 1941
Four Mothers
6.2
- in charge of production
- 1941
Santa Fe Trail
6.2
- in charge of production
- 1940
South of Suez
6.3
- executive in charge of production
- 1940
The Letter
7.5
- in charge of production
- 1940
East of the River
6.3
- in charge of production
- 1940
A Dispatch from Reuters
6.9
- in charge of production
- 1940
Tugboat Annie Sails Again
5.6
- in charge of production
- 1940
Knute Rockne All American
6.7
- in charge of production
- 1940
City for Conquest
7.2
- in charge of production
- 1940
Flowing Gold
6.5
- in charge of production
- 1940

Additional Crew

Seapower
Short
- produced under the personal supervsion of (as Colonel Jack L. Warner USAFR)
- 1964
Red Nightmare
5.6
Short
- supervisor
- 1962
Gateways to the Mind
7.5
TV Movie
- produced under the personal supervision of
- 1958
Silver River
6.5
- presenter
- 1948
The Two Mrs. Carrolls
6.8
- presenter
- 1947
Never Say Goodbye
6.7
- presenter
- 1946
The Mask of Dimitrios
7.2
- presenter
- 1944
Uncertain Glory
7.1
- presenter
- 1944
In Our Time
6.6
- presenter
- 1944
Northern Pursuit
6.6
- presenter
- 1943
Thank Your Lucky Stars
6.7
- presenter (uncredited)
- 1943
The Hard Way
7.1
- presenter
- 1943

Personal details

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Alternative names
- Jack Warner Snr.
Born
- August 2, 1892
- London, Ontario, Canada
Died
- September 9, 1978
- Los Angeles, California, USA(pulmonary edema and a heart inflammation)
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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.