Warden was born in Newark, New Jersey and was raised in Louisville, Kentucky; his early jobs included lifeguard and nightclub bouncer.
Warden has appeared in over one hundred movies during a career which is now in its sixth decade.
Warden received an Emmy Award for his performance as George Halas in Brian's Song (1971), and was nominated for Academy Awards as Best Supporting Actor for his performances in Shampoo (1975) and Heaven Can Wait (1978).
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JackWarden was born John H. Lebzelter (German for "honey-cake baker") on September 18, 1920 in Newark, New Jersey to JackWarden Lebzelter and his wife, Laura M Lebzelter.
Warden made his television debut in 1948, though he continued to perform on stage (he appeared in a stage production in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (1966) (TV).
Warden's wife is French stage actress Vanda Dupre, best known for her role as the object of Joe Besser's object desire in the 'Three Stooges' short "Fifi Blows Her Top (1958)", whom he married in 1958.
JackWarden was a raspy-voiced longtime character actor in Hollywood films and on television, who usually played gruff, non-nonsense types who were comfortable barking orders.
With Warden, the toughness was not an act.
Warden's last film was The Replacements with Keanu Reeves and Gene Hackman, in 2000.
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Warden's first professional engagement was with the Margo Jones repertory troupe in 1947.
Extensive though his stage and screen credits may be, Warden has been just as busy on television, winning an Emmy for his portrayal of George Halas in Brian's Song (1969) and playing such other historical personages as Cornelius Ryan (1981's A Private Battle) and Mark Twain (1984's Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues).
Though this was not to be for Warden, the gruff actor's age and affectionately sour demeanor found him essaying frequent albiet minor feature roles through the new millennium.
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Gruff, engaging character actor whose craggy-face and distinctive bass voice are known to two generations for his ubiquitous presence as a supporting character in a number of memorable film and TV roles.
Before embarking on acting, Warden was by age 17 a ranked professional middleweight prizefighter.
He served in World War II as a paratrooper and it was while recovering from an injury suffered in a jump that Warden began reading plays and decided to try acting....
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JackWarden was originally cast just to play one of the brothers, but Robert Zimeckis and producer Bob Gale convinced him to play both roles.
Warden agreed to do the role because it allowed him to do two of the three things that every actor dreams of doing: play two roles, play drunk, and play dead.
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Football and Warren Beatty were very good to JackWarden.
The character actor, who became an in-demand character actors of the 1970s and 1980s on the strength of the gridiron tearjerker Brian's Song and the...
This first attempt, lensed in 1964, offers glimpses of what may have attracted Malick to the project.
Jones's story focuses on two American soldiers during the Guadalcanal campaign, the newlywed draftee Private Doll (Keir Dullea) and Sergeant Welch (JackWarden), the hardened veteran.
Doll is determined to survive whatever the cost, disobeying orders if it will improve his chances; Welch is dutiful yet calculating, resorting to deliberate acts of madness to toughen up his troops by showing them war's own absurdity by example.
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