Actor Jack Warden Dead at 85

[Andykev]

Emmy-Winning Actor Jack Warden Dead at 85
Friday July 21 4:28 PM ET

Jack Warden, an Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated actor who played gruff cops, coaches and soldiers in a career that spanned five decades, has died. He was 85.

Warden, who lived in Manhattan, died Wednesday at a hospital in New York, Sidney Pazoff, his longtime business manager, said here Friday.

"Everything gave out. Old age," Pazoff said. "He really had turned downhill in the past month; heart and then kidney and then all kinds of stuff."

Warden was nominated twice for best supporting actor Oscars for the 1975 movie "Shampoo" and in 1978's "Heaven Can Wait."

He won a supporting actor Emmy for his role as a coach in the 1971 TV movie "Brian's Song" and was twice nominated in the 1980s for best leading actor in a comedy for his show "Crazy Like a Fox".

 

[jake_fink]

He was one of the great character actors. Wonderful in Shampoo.

 

[Clyde R.]

Wow, he was always good. I really liked him in "Twelve Angry Men" and "From Here to Eternity" also. He starred in a Twilight Zone episode that was a classic, too. Forget the episode title, but in it he was marooned on a desolate planet as a punishment for murder and is given a robot female companion by a sympathetic visiting spaceship captain.

 

[Hondo]

Jack Warden films

"Heaven Can Wait" for sure, and just to name a few more how about: The Frogmen (1951) Richard Widmark, Dana Andrews, and Gary Merrill, Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) Clark Gable, & Burt Lancaster, and another favorite of mine Donovan's Reef (1961) with John Wayne, Jack was a natural, we'll miss ya Jack, RIP.

 

[Solid Citizen]

The Warden Got Around

Jack Warden, was an actor directors sought out, testament to the 100 or so movies he was in. He will be missed!!!

SC

 

[Nathan Dodge]

I'd pay real money to see his 1967 police drama N.Y.P.D..

R.I.P. Jack.

 

[Lincsong]

Wasn't that a pork pie hat he wore in 12 Angry Men? One of my favorite actors. Will be missed.

 

[Feraud]

It is always sad reading about actors that pass away. Jack Warden has a face that makes you recall so many fine films.
R.I.P. J.W.

 

[FedoraGent]

My gosh, these last couple of weeks! How many have we lost?

Jon

P.S. RIP Jack...you were great.

 

[MrBern]

501st regiment

Did anyone note that he was a sargeant in the paratroops but broke his leg jsut before Dday?

go to this link, then scroll down a bit for a picture of him in uniform & some of his story:
http://www.101airborneww2.com/souvenirs2.html

 

[Pilgrim]

I remember Jack Warden for many roles, including that of Major Simon Butcher in one of my favorite (but short-lived) TV shows, 1965's "The Wackiest Ship in the Army". This was my dad's and my favorite show in the single season it aired.

And I remember Warden very fondly for a hilarious dule role he played in an obscure movie which is outrageous, crude and screamingly funny: "Used Cars", which starred Kurt Russell and included a wonderful cameo role for Al Lewis (Grandpa Munster) as a hanging judge who plays with miniature guillotines on his desk. Warden played both Luke Fuchs, owner of a down-on-its-luck used car lot, and Roy L. Fuchs, his scheming brother who owns a glitzy used car lot across the street.

The Internet Movie Database says about "Used Cars": Estimated Laugh Count: 287 City, 410 Highway. Use these numbers only for comparison. Your actual laughs may vary depending on how you feel about used car salesmen, nude women, spectacular car stunts, and the President of the United States.

Jack Warden was one of the great character actors of the past 80 years. R.I.P., Major Butcher and Luke Fuchs.

 

[Hondo]

Used Cars

This was a funny movie, he could almost do anything. Thanks also to MrBern for the paratrooper link, Jack Warden always had that look, feel as paratrooper. He and many othersd willbe greatly missed.