Jack Warden
Jack Warden was born John Warden as gingerbread maker ( born September 18, 1920 in Newark, New Jersey; † July 19, 2006 in New York City ) was an American film actor. He was known primarily as a performer of edgy, but nonetheless sympathetic characters.
Life
In his youth he moved to his grandparents in Louisville, Kentucky. There, he graduated from the Du Pont Manuel High School. In the following years he boxed as a welterweight under the name "Johnny Costello ," his mother's maiden name. He won 13 fights in and around Louisville.
Warden served from 1938 to 1941 in the United States Navy. Then he joined the Merchant Navy, where he worked as a machinist. He left the Merchant Navy in 1942 and joined the Army, where he was platoon sergeant and a paratrooper with the 101st Airborne Division. During a hospital stay due to a leg injury Warden read a piece by Clifford Odets and then decided to become an actor.
Warden also starred in Broadway theaters, he appeared in productions such as Golden Boy (1952 ) Lullaby (1954 ), A View from the Bridge (1955 ), A Very Special Baby ( 1956), The Body Beautiful ( 1958) and The Man in the Glass Booth ( 1968). From the mid- 1950s, he was first seen in many small movie roles. One of his most important film roles he played in 1957 as a disinterested " Juror No. 7" in Sidney Lumet's first feature film Twelve Angry Men. He became known to a wider audience through his television appearances, as, inter alia, the television series The Bad News Bears (1978) and The Falls of the Harry Fox ( 1984). His last film appearance was Warden in 2000 in the movie hero from the second row ( The Replacements ) with Keanu Reeves.
Warden was married to the French actress Vanda Dupre since 1958. From this marriage his son Christopher came out. In the early 1970s the couple separated without divorce. July 19, 2006 Warden died in a New York hospital from heart and kidney failure. He is survived by his life companion, Marucha Hinds, his son Christopher and two grandchildren.