Wissenswertes

An in-depth article by Grange B. McKinney on actor J.B. Warner in "Classic Images" magazine points out that H.B. (Henry) was not the older brother of J.B., a handsome western film actor who died of tuberculosis at age 29. In fact, they were not related. J.B.'s real name was James B. Tobias and he adopted the surname of Warner after H.B's grandparents took him in and raised him.

His first wife, Mary Burton Cozzens of Ohio, was the widow of Chicagoans Samuel C. Cadow (d. 1903) and Fred R. Hamlin (d. 1904). She was the only fatality in a car accident near Seaford, Long Island, in which the car carrying her, her husband, and three other people was sideswiped.

Warner's director in Boulevard der Dämmerung (1950), Billy Wilder, worked on a script about him in the 1980s. This would have dealt with his leisure activities while playing Jesus in König der Könige (1927) and had the working title "The Foreskin Saga." Wilder was unable to find funding for it.

Was survived by a son and daughter by actress Rita Stanwood.

Appeared in nine Oscar Best Picture nominees: Spätausgabe (1931), Flucht aus Paris (1935), Mr. Deeds geht in die Stadt (1936), In den Fesseln von Shangri-La (1937), Lebenskünstler (1938), Mr. Smith geht nach Washington (1939), Ist das Leben nicht schön? (1946), Boulevard der Dämmerung (1950) and Die zehn Gebote (1956), and had his scenes deleted from another: Schrei der Gehetzten (1934). You Can't Take It with You is the only winner in the category. Five of these were directed by Frank Capra.

Father: Charles John Lickfold; Mother: Fanny Elizabeth Hards.

Grandfather of actor Ed Garner.