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, Le chanteur de jazz (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

Le Port de l'angoisse

7.8

Producer

1944

Le grand sommeil

7.9

Producer

1946

Arsenic et vieilles dentelles

7.9

Producer

1944

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Producer

1776
7.6
- producer
- 1972
Billy le cave
6.2
- 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
Patrouilleur 109
6.6
- produced under the personal supervision of
- 1963
About Time
7.8
TV Movie
- executive producer
- 1962
Le cri de la victoire
6.4
- producer (uncredited)
- 1955
Une étoile est née
7.5
- executive producer (uncredited)
- 1954
La garce
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
La mariée du dimanche
6.8
- executive producer (uncredited)
- 1948
La Rivière d'argent
6.5
- executive producer
- 1948

Production Manager

The John Glenn Story
6.4
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
La loi des tropiques
5.9
- executive in charge of production (uncredited)
- 1941
La Grande Évasion
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
La Piste de Santa Fé
6.2
- in charge of production
- 1940
South of Suez
6.4
- executive in charge of production
- 1940
La Lettre
7.5
- in charge of production
- 1940
Tête chaude
6.3
- in charge of production
- 1940
Une dépêche Reuter
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
Ville conquise
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
7.6
TV Movie
- produced under the personal supervision of
- 1958
La Rivière d'argent
6.5
- presenter
- 1948
La seconde Madame Carroll
6.8
- presenter
- 1947
Ne dites jamais adieu
6.7
- presenter
- 1946
Le masque de Dimitrios
7.2
- presenter
- 1944
Saboteur sans gloire
7.1
- presenter
- 1944
In Our Time
6.6
- presenter
- 1944
Du sang sur la neige
6.6
- presenter
- 1943
Remerciez votre bonne étoile
6.7
- presenter (uncredited)
- 1943
La Manière forte
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 Un Américain à 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.