JACK L. WARNER b.August 2, 1892 in London, Ontario d. September 9, 1978 in Los Angeles, California
Born Jack Eichelbaum, Jack Warner was one of the famous Warner Brothers to venture into the movie business in 1905. In 1912 they began film production and founded the Warner Bros. studio in the mid 1920s. One of its greatest early successes was the release of The Jazz Singer, the first successful motion picture with synchronized sound. The "talkies" had arrived. The studio's reputation was solidified in the 1930s with a series of gangster films starring their new discoveries, James Cagney and, later, Humphrey Bogart. They were also famous for their dazzling musicals, most notably 42nd Street which launched the career of Ruby Keeler in 1933. While it is impossible to list all of the projects he was involved with at the studio level, we have included a very small sampling of some of the more important films where he was Producer, or Executive Producer.
Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release
42nd Street (1933)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
The Sea Wolf (1941)
Casablanca (1942)
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Hollywood Canteen (1944)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Of Human Bondage (1946)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
My Fair Lady (1964)
Camelot (1967)
Walter Huston won an
Academy Award for
his work in Treasure
of the Sierra Madre.
