Jack L. Warner
One of the original pantheon of moguls who shaped Hollywood into the global leader in filmed entertainment, Jack L. Warner was the co-founder of Warner Bros. Studios, and led the company over the course of a four-decade career that saw him earn a reputation as one of the industry's most successful - and despicable - figures. Warner entered the business with his brothers Harry, Sam and Albert, and collectively launched Warner Bros. in 1923. He quickly established himself as the dominant force among the family through a combination of shrewd negotiations and unbridled ruthlessness. Though he would oversee some of the most acclaimed films of the 20th century, including the first "talking picture," "The Jazz Singer" (1927), as well as "The Public Enemy" (1931), "The Maltese Falcon" (1941), "Casablanca" (1942) and "Giant" (1956), he dismissed anyone who displeased him, from top actors and screenwriters to his own brothers, whom he would ouster from their own company. When he was himself removed from Warner Bros. in 1969, Jack Warner was among the last of the great Hollywood movers and shakers, the men who helped to create the Hollywood dream, and who ruled it with an iron fist.
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Jack L. Warner
Filmography
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Dirty Little Billy | Producer | - | 1972 |
68% |
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1776 | Producer | - | 1972 |
41% |
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Camelot | Producer | - | 1967 |
94% |
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My Fair Lady | Producer | $447.6K | 1964 |
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Battle Cry | Producer | - | 1955 |
98% |
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A Star Is Born | Executive Producer | - | 1954 |
60% |
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Beyond the Forest | Executive Producer | - | 1949 |
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Night Unto Night | Executive Producer | - | 1949 |
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The Woman in White | Executive Producer | - | 1948 |
100% |
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | Executive Producer | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Friendship Train | Executive Producer | - | 1948 |
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Whiplash | Executive Producer | - | 1948 |
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The Unfaithful | Executive Producer | - | 1947 |
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Nora Prentiss | Executive Producer | - | 1947 |
90% |
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Dark Passage | Executive Producer | - | 1947 |
82% |
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Possessed | Executive Producer | - | 1947 |
92% |
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Life With Father | Executive Producer | - | 1947 |
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Escape Me Never | Executive Producer | - | 1947 |
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A Stolen Life | Executive Producer | - | 1946 |
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Nobody Lives Forever | Executive Producer | - | 1946 |
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Devotion | Executive Producer | - | 1946 |
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Never Say Goodbye | Executive Producer | - | 1946 |
96% |
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The Big Sleep | Executive Producer | - | 1946 |
94% |
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The Beast With Five Fingers | Executive Producer | - | 1946 |
60% |
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Night and Day | Executive Producer | - | 1946 |
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My Reputation | Executive Producer | - | 1946 |
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Of Human Bondage | Executive Producer | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shadow of a Woman | Executive Producer | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Janie Gets Married | Executive Producer | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One More Tomorrow | Executive Producer | - | 1946 |
83% |
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The Man I Love | Executive Producer | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pillow to Post | Executive Producer | - | 1945 |
64% |
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The Horn Blows at Midnight | Executive Producer | - | 1945 |
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Saratoga Trunk | Executive Producer | - | 1945 |
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Pride of the Marines | Executive Producer | - | 1945 |
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Roughly Speaking | Executive Producer | - | 1945 |
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San Antonio | Executive Producer | - | 1945 |
88% |
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Mildred Pierce | Executive Producer | - | 1945 |
86% |
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Objective, Burma! | Executive Producer | - | 1945 |
89% |
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Christmas in Connecticut | Executive Producer | - | 1945 |
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Danger Signal | Executive Producer | - | 1945 |
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Between Two Worlds | Executive Producer | - | 1944 |
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Uncertain Glory | Executive Producer | - | 1944 |
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Hollywood Canteen | Executive Producer | - | 1944 |
86% |
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Arsenic and Old Lace | Executive Producer | - | 1944 |
94% |
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To Have and Have Not | Executive Producer | - | 1944 |
57% |
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Mr. Skeffington | Executive Producer | - | 1944 |
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Shine On, Harvest Moon | Executive Producer | - | 1944 |
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Make Your Own Bed | Executive Producer | - | 1944 |
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The Constant Nymph | Executive Producer | - | 1943 |
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Northern Pursuit | Executive Producer | - | 1943 |
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Background to Danger | Executive Producer | - | 1943 |
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Action in the North Atlantic | Executive Producer | - | 1943 |
67% |
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Destination Tokyo | Executive Producer | - | 1943 |
82% |
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Air Force | Executive Producer | - | 1943 |
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Old Acquaintance | Executive Producer | - | 1943 |
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This Is the Army | Producer | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The United States Service Bands | Executive Producer | - | 1943 |
91% |
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Yankee Doodle Dandy | Executive Producer | - | 1942 |
99% |
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Casablanca | Executive Producer | - | 1942 |
100% |
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The Strawberry Blonde | Producer | - | 1941 |
86% |
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The Man Who Came to Dinner | Producer | - | 1941 |
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Underground | Producer | - | 1941 |
100% |
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One Foot in Heaven | Producer | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bad Men of Missouri | Executive Producer | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Flight From Destiny | Producer | - | 1941 |
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Flowing Gold | Producer | - | 1940 |
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No Time for Comedy | Producer | - | 1940 |
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It All Came True | Executive Producer | - | 1940 |
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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet | Producer | - | 1940 |
71% |
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The Fighting 69th | Producer | - | 1940 |
94% |
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The Sea Hawk | Executive in Charge of Production | - | 1940 |
88% |
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Knute Rockne, All American | Producer | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Granny Get Your Gun | Executive Producer | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gambling on the High Seas | Executive Producer | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | River's End | Executive Producer | - | 1940 |
100% |
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy | Executive Producer | - | 1939 |
100% |
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The Roaring Twenties | Executive Producer | - | 1939 |
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The Return of Doctor X | Executive Producer | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Indianapolis Speedway | Executive Producer | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Everybody's Hobby | Executive Producer | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Code of the Secret Service | Executive Producer | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sweepstakes Winner | Executive Producer | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kid Nightingale | Executive Producer | - | 1939 |
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Nancy Drew, Trouble Shooter | Executive Producer | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Torchy Plays With Dynamite | Executive Producer | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Blondes at Work | Executive Producer | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Men Are Such Fools | Executive Producer | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Penrod's Double Trouble | Executive Producer | - | 1938 |
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Crime School | Executive Producer | - | 1938 |
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Hard to Get | Executive Producer | - | 1938 |
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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse | Executive Producer | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Invisible Menace | Executive Producer | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Torchy Blane in Panama | Executive Producer | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Penrod and His Twin Brother | Executive Producer | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Girls on Probation | Executive Producer | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Broadway Musketeers | Executive Producer | - | 1938 |
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They Won't Forget | Executive Producer | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fly-Away Baby | Executive Producer | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wine, Women and Horses | Executive Producer | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Public Wedding | Executive Producer | - | 1937 |
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Another Dawn | Executive Producer | - | 1937 |
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Slim | Executive Producer | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Green Light | Executive Producer | - | 1937 |
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That Certain Woman | Executive Producer | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Go-Getter | Executive Producer | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Back in Circulation | Executive Producer | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | She Loved a Fireman | Executive Producer | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Once a Doctor | Executive Producer | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Snowed Under | Executive Producer | - | 1936 |
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China Clipper | Executive Producer | - | 1936 |
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Colleen | Executive Producer | - | 1936 |
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Cain and Mabel | Executive Producer | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | California Mail | Executive Producer | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bengal Tiger | Executive Producer | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jailbreak | Executive Producer | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Times Square Playboy | Executive Producer | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Two Against the World | Executive Producer | - | 1936 |
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Smart Blonde | Executive Producer | - | 1936 |
83% |
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Black Fury | Executive Producer | - | 1935 |
86% |
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Dangerous | Producer | - | 1935 |
92% |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream | Executive Producer | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Florentine Dagger | Executive Producer | - | 1935 |
100% |
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Ceiling Zero | Producer | - | 1935 |
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Housewife | Producer | - | 1934 |
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The Man With Two Faces | Executive Producer | - | 1934 |
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Dark Hazard | Executive Producer | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Merry Frinks | Executive Producer | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Very Honorable Guy | Executive Producer | - | 1934 |
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Doctor Monica | Executive Producer | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Sell Anything | Executive Producer | - | 1934 |
100% |
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Gold Diggers of 1933 | Producer | - | 1933 |
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Parachute Jumper | Producer | - | 1933 |
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Outward Bound | Producer | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Terror | Executive Producer | - | 1928 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | F.O.B. Africa | Director | - | 1922 |
95% | No Score Yet | My Four Years in Germany | Producer | - | 1918 |