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  Jack Warner (actor)
Jack Warner (October 24, 1896 - May 24, 1981) was a popular British film and television actor.
Like them, Jack Warner made his name in music hall and radio, but he became known to cinema audiences as the father of the Huggett family in a series of popular films.
It was in 1950 that Warner first played the role with which he would forever after be associated, that of PC George Dixon in the film, The Blue Lamp[?].
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  Jack Warner (actor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jack Warner (October 24, 1896 – May 24, 1981) was a popular British film and television actor.
Like them, Jack Warner made his name in music hall and radio, but he became known to cinema audiences as the father of the Huggett family in a series of popular films.
It was in 1950 that Warner first played the role with which he would forever after be associated, that of PC George Dixon in the film, The Blue Lamp.
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 Jack Warner
Jack Warner (August 2, 1892 - September 9, 1978) born, Jack Leonard Eichelbaum in London, Ontario, Canada, was the President and driving force behind the highly successful development of Warner Brothers Studios in Hollywood, California.
The the youngest of 12 children of Jewish immigrants from Poland, the rest of the Warner children were born in the United States.
Jack Warner died on September 9, 1978 in Los Angeles, California and is buried in the The Home of Peace Cemetery[?] in East Los Angeles, California.
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 Jack Warner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jack Warner (J.L. for short) (August 2, 1892 – September 9, 1978), born Jacob Leonard Warner in London, Ontario, Canada, was the president and driving force behind the highly successful development of Warner Brothers Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.
In 1936, Jack Warner married Ann Boyar, the former wife of actor Don Alvarado and mother of actress Joy Page.
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Jack Warner has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6541 Hollywood Blvd. He also has a star on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto, which honors outstanding Canadians from all fields.
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 Jack Warner Summary
Born on August 2, 1892, in London, Ontario, Canada, Warner was the ninth of twelve children born to Benjamin and Pearl Leah Eichelbaum, and the youngest son of the seven children to survive into adulthood.
Jack continued to exercise his desire to entertain by singing between movies as a "chaser" to rid the theater of its audience between films.
Warner's importance in the studio grew throughout the 1920s as his responsibilities increased and he was making day-to-day decisions about who would work on what pictures.
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 Jack Warner (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Austin "Jack" Warner (1944-) - Trinidadian football adminsitrator and businessmen and FIFA Vice President.
Jack Warner (1892-1878)- former head of Warner Brothers studio.
Jack Warner (actor) (1896-1981) - a British film and television actor.
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 Boxoffice Magazine Cover: WARNER BROS. @ 75   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
As it was for many immigrants of their generation, for the Warners the voyage to America was in part a trail of tears: Four additional children were left behind in the Polish soil, each of whom had died in infancy.
Jack, who would be described in later life by more than one of his business associates as a frustrated performer, provided in-house entertainment in the form of songs and dramatic sketches that legend has it performed the useful function of clearing the house between each screening program.
Jack reportedly succeeded in getting Gloria Swanson locked up for the then-staggering sum of $2,000 a week, but she canceled at the last minute, which was just as well, given that the Warners allegedly didn't have the assets to pay her for the first seven days of her employment.
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 The religion of producer Jack Warner
Americanism to the Warners, and especially to the foreign-born Harry and Jack, became a religion, something to be duly honored and devoutly proclaimed.
Jack Warner's separation from Irma and his liaison with Don Alvarado's wife had been topics of Hollywood gossip since the Warners parted in 1933.
Warner was smitten with Ann and was proud of her regal presence at their parties...
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 The Studios >> Warner Brothers
The rest of the Warner brothers (and two sisters) were born in the US, except for Jacob (later Jack), who was born in London, Ontario, Canada in 1892.
The day of the movie czar—Jack Warner being the last of that breed—was long gone when Warner Brothers was taken over by Seven Arts Productions Ltd. of Canada in 1967.
Warner Brothers/Seven Arts, as the new company was known, was just the beginning of Warners' metamorphosis into just one more corporate film company.
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 Jack Warner at AllExperts
Jack Warner (J.L. for short) (August 2, 1892 – September 9, 1978), born Jacob Leonard Warner in London, Ontario, Canada, was the president and driving force behind the highly successful development of Warner Brothers Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.
In 1936, Jack Warner married Ann Boyar, the former wife of actor Don Alvarado and mother of actress Joy Page.
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Jack Warner has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6541 Hollywood Blvd. He also has a star on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto, which honors outstanding Canadians from all fields.
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Arnie Warner is a municipal councillor in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada.
Harry Warner (1881-1958), one of the founders of Warner Bros.
Warner Bros., one of the world's largest producers of film and television entertainment founded in 1923 by four brothers; Albert Warner, Harold Warner, Jack Warner, and Sam Warner
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 screenonline: Warner, Jack (1896-1981) Biography
An avuncular character actor, usually in sympathetic roles, who represented the average, decent 'man on the Clapham omnibus', who became a film star of the
It presented a reassuring, nostalgic world where young thugs see the error of their ways after a homily from fatherly PC Dixon, who matured into the oldest serving constable in the country.
Fast-paced thriller with Jack Warner and George Cole as fugitive convicts
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 "Tales of the Warner Brothers", an article at Holistic Junction
Jack was thrilled by the film's success, but crushed by his brother's death.
Jack Warner treated all of his employees with derision, but none worse than the writers.
Where the actors were free to leave the studio at lunch the writers had to be "chained" to their typewriter.
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 Dixon of Dock Green
Yet the writer of the series maintained to the end of the program's time on air that the stories in the episodes were based on fact and that Dixon was an accurate reflection of what goes on in an ordinary police station.
The figures of both Dixon and Warner were already well known to the British public when the series was launched.
In Dixon Of Dock Green, Jack Warner as Dixon is a "bobby" on the beat--an ordinary, lowest-ranking policeman on foot patrol.
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 Jack Warner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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Jack Warner died on September 9, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
Sam Warner (Sam warner (august 10, 1887 - october 5, 1927) was a co-founder and chief executive officer of...)
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Jack has done a lot for TT football, but that does not give him the right to be corrupt as the charges imply.
Warner is a son of the soil who is the prime motivator for the Soca Warriors being in the World Cup.
Jack Warner's "cave man-like" behaviour is a disgrace to Trinidad and Tobago He Should apologize to Mr.
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 Jack Warner Biography
British actor born Horace John Waters in Bow, East London, whose career on both film and television made him an icon of responsible post-war ordinariness.
Despite his role as an embittered and heartless killer in My Brother's Keeper (1948), Warner's role as PC George Dixon in The Blue Lamp (1950) established him as the image of benevolent community policing.
Translated to television in 1955 as Dixon of Dock Green, his Saturday night homilies on order, justice and the British way of life ran until 1976, by which time both Jack Warner and the image of the police which he represented were ready for retirement.
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 Jack L. Warner
One of the longest lived of the legendary Hollywood moguls, Canadian-born Jack Warner (of Polish-Jewish extraction) was the youngest of the four Warner brothers (there were 12 children in all) to venture into the movie business in 1905.
In 1912 they went into actual film production, and the studio called Warner Bros. was established in the mid 1920s; its initial success was assured two years later with The Jazz Singer, the first talking picture.
Warner Bros. was also responsible for several more ambitious films, including the controversial social drama I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) and the Shakespearean adaptation A Midsummer Night's Dream (1934).
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 Tales Of The Warner Brothers
The silent days were a struggle for Warner Bros. Rin Tin Tin, a German shepherd that according to his publicity was born in a foxhole in World War I, was their biggest star.
Jack Warner took the dog on a publicity tour.
But the Warners lead by the ambitious Sam, decided to push the envelope and try to save their sinking studio by experimenting with movie sound.
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 Jack Warner - AOL Music
Like them, Jack Warner made his name in music hall and radio, but he became known to cinema audiences as the father of the Huggett family in a series of...
Jack Warner Jr.: "He existed behind a self-made wall.
Download, listen and watch Jack Warner music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
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 50 Years: SAG Remembers the Blacklist
This would seem to imply that any number of individual actors could be destroyed without injuring the industry&emdash;and that the employers, having been guaranteed that they would not be personally involved, have given the Committee carte blanche to attack individuals to their own purpose.
Screen Actors Guild's participation in tonight's event must stand as our testament to all those who suffered that, in the future, we will strongly support our members and work with them to assure their rights as defined and guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.
To stage actors in New York, SAG wasn't much of a concern at that time, but I learned in later years as I began to work in feature films how really frightened SAG members in Hollywood were during that period.
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 Jack Warner (actor): biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
He was born in London (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center)
Jack Warner made his name in music hall (A theater in which vaudeville is staged)
It was in 1950 that Warner first played the role with which he would forever after be associated, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
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 Paul Muni >> German-Hollywood Connection
He became a trademark at Warner Bros., particularly in a series of biographical films (“biopics“), winning an Academy Award for his role as Louis Pasteur in The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) and a New York Film Critics Award for The Life of Emile Zola (1937).
The actor is buried in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles.
Directed by William Dieterle, the film was made over the objections of Jack Warner (“Who wants to see a picture about bugs?”).
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 the members of the company of teatro la fragua   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Edy is the most accomplished actor of la fragua; his history (along with that of Jack Warner) is the history of the teatro.
Rigo is one of the few actors of la fragua who has managed to finish secondary school; he entered the National University of Honduras, but abandoned that attempt disillusioned by the constant teacher strikes and the deficient level of teaching.
In his many years with the teatro Rigo has reached a highly professional level as an actor; he proclaims his hate for ballet classes, although paradoxically he is the finest dancer among teatro la fragua's present members.
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 Jack Warner - Moviefone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
British character actor Jack Warner began his film career in the early '40s.
He is usually cast as a sympathetic fellow and occasionally played...
Jack Warner - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Jack Warner Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
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 BBC - Radio 4 - Arts and Drama - Jack Of All Trades   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The story of actor Jack Warner, who played the nation's favourite bobby (George Dixon) for over 20 years, presented by Peter Byrne who starred alongside him as Andy Crawford.
Warner might be best remembered as Dixon of Dock Green, but he was also a hugely successful variety entertainer and film star.
By 1950, he was already attracting more people to the pictures than any other actor.
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 TAP: Vol 11, Iss. 16. Duel in the Sun. Leslie Epstein.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
What Jack Warner and the other moguls knew was that the American dream they were in the process of creating was not going to be a Jewish one.
Now and then Warner would persist, demanding that the writers show up at their offices by the stipulated hour and making sure that the studio cop noted their arrival.
Phil died in 1952 and Jack Warner in 1978.
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 Delta Music Museum Hall of Fame - Ann Boyar Warner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In 1932, she met the Hollywood mogul, Jack L. Warner, of Warner Brothers Studios.
Ann Boyar Warner soon became known as a legendary Hollywood hostess, entertaining movie stars and friends in the Warners' Beverly Hills home at 1801 Angelo Drive.
Ann Boyar Warner died in 1990 and is buried beside her husband in Los Angeles,California.
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 Volume 1 -- A Cards to Avery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Veteran actor who played many roles in movies and TV, though he is most closely identified with his title role in The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939).
Actor best known as a supporting character on the Jack Benny radio program, as his valet.
It is unclear how much pressure Schlesinger received from Jack Warner to cut the last bit, but Leon and Tex got into an argument over the cut, and Avery was suspended, and then fired.
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 Wan - Real Names of Famous Folk - Way
Sam Wanamaker, Actor and director; Samuel Watenmaker (Chicago, Illinois 14 June 1919 - 18 December 1993).
HB Warner, Actor; Henry Byron Charles Stewart Warner-Lickford (London 26 October 1876 - 21 December 1958).
Jack Warner, Co-founder and president of Warner Brothers; Jack Leonard Eichelbaum (London, Ontario, Canada 2 August 1892 - 9 September 1978).
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