8.1
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Casablanca
1943
Executive Producer
Jack L. Warner
Production
Born:August 2, 1892
Died:September 9, 1978(aged 86)
Birthplace:London, Ontario, Canada
N/A
CommunityBiography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jack Leonard "J. L." Warner (August 2, 1892 – September 9, 1978), born Jacob Warner in London, Ontario, was a Canadian-American film executive who was the president and driving force behind the Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California. Warner's career spanned some 45 years, its duration surpassing that of any other of the seminal Hollywood studio moguls. As co-head of production at Warner Bros. Studios, he worked with his brother, Sam Warner, to procure the technology for the film industry's first talking picture. After Sam's death, Jack clashed with his surviving older brothers, Harry and Albert Warner. He assumed exclusive control of the film production company in the 1950s, when he secretly purchased his brothers' shares in the business after convincing them to participate in a joint sale of stocks. Although Warner was feared by many of his employees and inspired ridicule with his uneven attempts at humor, he earned respect for his shrewd instincts and tough-mindedness. He recruited many of Warner Bros.' top stars and promoted the hard-edged social dramas for which the studio became known. Given to decisiveness, Warner once commented, "If I'm right fifty-one percent of the time, I'm ahead of the game." Throughout his career, he was viewed as a contradictory and enigmatic figure. Although he was a staunch Republican, Warner encouraged film projects that promoted the agenda of Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. He opposed European fascism and criticized Nazi Germany well before America's involvement in World War II. An opponent of Communism, after the war Warner appeared as a friendly witness before the House Un-American Activities Committee, voluntarily naming screenwriters who had been fired as suspected Communists or sympathizers. Despite his controversial public image, Warner remained a force in the motion picture industry until his retirement in the early 1970s.
Filmography (225 movies)
8.0
8.0
A Star Is Born World Premiere
1954
as Self
8.0
8.0
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948
Executive Producer
7.7
7.7
Housewife
1934
Producer
7.6
7.6
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
Producer
7.6
7.6
Mildred Pierce
1945
Executive Producer
7.6
7.6
The Big Sleep
1946
Executive Producer
7.5
7.5
Angels with Dirty Faces
1938
Executive Producer
7.5
7.5
My Fair Lady
1964
Producer
7.5
7.5
The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938
Producer
7.5
7.5
To Have and Have Not
1945
Executive Producer
7.3
7.3
Dark Passage
1947
Executive Producer
7.3
7.3
Hollywood Canteen
1944
Executive Producer
7.2
7.2
The Man Who Played God
1932
Executive Producer
7.2
7.2
June Bride
1948
Executive Producer
7.2
7.2
Captain Blood
1935
Executive Producer
7.2
7.2
The Corn Is Green
1945
Executive Producer
7.1
7.1
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938
Executive Producer
7.1
7.1
A Star Is Born
1954
Executive Producer
7.1
7.1
Action in the North Atlantic
1943
Executive Producer
7.1
7.1
My Reputation
1946
Executive Producer
7.0
7.0
Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942
Executive Producer
7.0
7.0
Humoresque
1947
Executive Producer
7.0
7.0
Between Two Worlds
1944
Executive Producer
7.0
7.0
Old Acquaintance
1943
Executive Producer
7.0
7.0
Kid Galahad
1937
Executive Producer
6.9
6.9
The Mask of Dimitrios
1944
Executive Producer
6.9
6.9
Christmas in Connecticut
1945
Executive Producer
6.9
6.9
Gold Is Where You Find It
1938
Executive Producer
6.9
6.9
Possessed
1947
Executive Producer
6.9
6.9
The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941
Producer
6.9
6.9
1776
1972
Producer
6.8
6.8
Objective, Burma!
1945
Executive Producer
6.8
6.8
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
1939
Executive Producer
6.8
6.8
Destination Tokyo
1943
Executive Producer
6.8
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Roughly Speaking
1945
Executive Producer
6.8
6.8
The Story of Louis Pasteur
1936
Executive Producer
6.8
6.8
The Dawn Patrol
1938
Executive Producer
6.8
6.8
Watch on the Rhine
1943
Executive Producer
6.7
6.7
Life with Father
1947
Executive Producer
6.7
6.7
Uncertain Glory
1944
Executive Producer
6.7
6.7
Beyond the Forest
1949
Executive Producer
6.7
6.7
Mr. Skeffington
1944
Executive Producer
6.6
6.6
Dangerous
1935
Executive Producer
6.6
6.6
Background to Danger
1943
Executive Producer
6.6
6.6
'G' Men
1935
Executive Producer
6.6
6.6
Conflict
1945
Executive Producer
6.6
6.6
The Man with Two Faces
1934
Executive Producer
6.6
6.6
Bullets or Ballots
1936
Executive Producer
6.6
6.6
The Adventures of Mark Twain
1944
Executive Producer
6.6
6.6
The Working Man
1933
Producer
6.6
6.6
The Case of the Black Cat
1936
Executive Producer
6.6
6.6
Passage to Marseille
1944
Executive Producer
6.6
6.6
Black Legion
1937
Executive Producer
6.5
6.5
Marked Woman
1937
Executive Producer
6.5
6.5
Deception
1946
Executive Producer
6.5
6.5
Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul
1993
as Self (archive footage)
6.5
6.5
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
2003
as Self (archive footage)
6.5
6.5
Draegerman Courage
1937
Executive Producer
6.5
6.5
On Dress Parade
1939
Executive Producer
6.5
6.5
Murder in the Big House
1942
Executive Producer
6.5
6.5
Hi, Nellie!
1934
Executive Producer
6.5
6.5
Winter Meeting
1948
Executive Producer
6.5
6.5
Air Force
1943
Executive Producer
6.5
6.5
Pride of the Marines
1945
Executive Producer
6.5
6.5
Boy Meets Girl
1938
Executive Producer
6.5
6.5
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1936
Executive Producer
6.5
6.5
The Two Mrs. Carrolls
1947
Executive Producer
6.5
6.5
The Verdict
1946
Executive Producer
6.4
6.4
Jailbreak
1936
Executive Producer
6.4
6.4
In Our Time
1944
Executive Producer
6.4
6.4
Three Strangers
1946
Executive Producer
6.4
6.4
Green Light
1937
Executive Producer
6.3
6.3
A Stolen Life
1946
Executive Producer
6.3
6.3
Waterfront
1939
Executive Producer
6.3
6.3
The Green Pastures
1936
Executive Producer
6.3
6.3
Slim
1937
Executive Producer
6.3
6.3
Black Fury
1935
Executive Producer
6.3
6.3
Once a Doctor
1937
Executive Producer
6.3
6.3
Jimmy the Gent
1934
Executive Producer
6.3
6.3
Crime School
1938
Executive Producer
6.3
6.3
Upperworld
1934
Executive Producer
6.3
6.3
The Hard Way
1943
Executive Producer
6.3
6.3
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1935
Executive Producer
6.3
6.3
A Slight Case of Murder
1938
Executive Producer
6.2
6.2
Tovarich
1937
Executive Producer
6.2
6.2
Nobody Lives Forever
1946
Executive Producer
6.2
6.2
Fools for Scandal
1938
Executive Producer
6.2
6.2
Fly Away Baby
1937
Executive Producer
6.2
6.2
Never Say Goodbye
1946
Executive Producer
6.2
6.2
Another Dawn
1937
Executive Producer
6.2
6.2
Camelot
1967
Producer
6.2
6.2
Edge of Darkness
1943
Executive Producer
6.1
6.1
The Constant Nymph
1943
Executive Producer
6.1
6.1
Blondes at Work
1938
Executive Producer
6.1
6.1
The Golden Arrow
1936
Executive Producer
6.1
6.1
Nora Prentiss
1947
Producer
6.1
6.1
Cain and Mabel
1936
Executive Producer
6.1
6.1
Confession
1937
Executive Producer
6.1
6.1
Underground
1941
Executive Producer
6.1
6.1
The Man I Love
1946
Executive Producer
6.0
6.0
River's End
1940
Executive Producer
6.0
6.0
Private Detective
1939
Executive Producer
6.0
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My Wild Irish Rose
1947
Executive Producer
6.0
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No Place to Go
1939
Executive Producer
6.0
6.0
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
Executive Producer
6.0
6.0
Of Human Bondage
1946
Executive Producer
6.0
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Torchy Blane in Chinatown
1939
Executive Producer
6.0
6.0
Nancy Drew... Reporter
1939
Executive Producer
6.0
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Accidents Will Happen
1938
Executive Producer
6.0
6.0
The Terror
1928
Executive Producer
6.0
6.0
Talent Scout
1937
Executive Producer
6.0
6.0
The Conspirators
1944
Executive Producer
6.0
6.0
Love Begins at Twenty
1936
Executive Producer
6.0
6.0
Fugitive in the Sky
1936
Executive Producer
6.0
6.0
Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
1939
Executive Producer
6.0
6.0
Janie Gets Married
1946
Executive Producer
6.0
6.0
Devotion
1946
Executive Producer
6.0
6.0
Shine on Harvest Moon
1944
Executive Producer
6.0
6.0
The Oklahoma Kid
1939
Executive Producer
6.0
6.0
The Cherokee Strip
1937
Executive Producer
6.0
6.0
Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter
1939
Executive Producer
6.0
6.0
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939
Executive Producer
5.9
5.9
The Return of Doctor X
1939
Executive Producer
5.9
5.9
Northern Pursuit
1943
Executive Producer
5.9
5.9
Silver River
1948
Executive Producer
5.9
5.9
Bordertown
1935
Executive Producer
5.9
5.9
Cry Wolf
1947
Executive Producer
5.9
5.9
Here Comes the Navy
1934
Executive Producer
5.9
5.9
Outward Bound
1930
Producer
5.9
5.9
Parachute Jumper
1933
Executive Producer
5.9
5.9
San Antonio
1945
Executive Producer
5.8
5.8
Hotel Berlin
1945
Executive Producer
5.8
5.8
The Unfaithful
1947
Executive Producer
5.8
5.8
The Sisters
1938
Executive Producer
5.8
5.8
Gold Diggers of 1937
1936
Executive Producer
5.8
5.8
Make Your Own Bed
1944
Executive Producer
5.8
5.8
It All Came True
1940
Executive Producer
5.8
5.8
Two Against the World
1936
Executive Producer
5.8
5.8
Danger Signal
1945
Executive Producer
5.8
5.8
The St. Louis Kid
1934
Executive Producer
5.8
5.8
Winning Your Wings
1942
Producer
5.8
5.8
The Go-Getter
1937
Executive Producer
5.7
5.7
Public Wedding
1937
Executive Producer
5.7
5.7
The Adventures of Jane Arden
1939
Executive Producer
5.7
5.7
Torchy Runs for Mayor
1939
Executive Producer
5.7
5.7
Santa Fe Trail
1940
Producer
5.7
5.7
The Horn Blows at Midnight
1945
Executive Producer
5.6
5.6
This Is the Army
1943
Producer
5.6
5.6
Deep Valley
1947
Executive Producer
5.6
5.6
China Clipper
1936
Executive Producer
5.6
5.6
Men Are Such Fools
1938
Executive Producer
5.6
5.6
Torchy Gets Her Man
1938
Executive Producer
5.6
5.6
You Can't Get Away with Murder
1939
Executive Producer
5.6
5.6
So Big!
1932
Producer
5.6
5.6
They Won't Forget
1937
Executive Producer
5.6
5.6
Battle Cry
1955
Producer
5.5
5.5
Missing Witnesses
1937
Executive Producer
5.5
5.5
Janie
1944
Executive Producer
5.5
5.5
Love and Learn
1947
Executive Producer
5.5
5.5
The Woman in White
1948
Executive Producer
5.4
5.4
Hollywood Hotel
1938
Executive Producer
5.4
5.4
Dark Hazard
1934
Executive Producer
5.4
5.4
West of Shanghai
1937
Executive Producer
5.4
5.4
That Certain Woman
1937
Executive Producer
5.3
5.3
The 42nd Street Special
1933
as Self (uncredited)
5.3
5.3
I Am an American
1944
Executive Producer
5.3
5.3
Back in Circulation
1937
Executive Producer
5.3
5.3
Torchy Blane in Panama
1938
Executive Producer
5.3
5.3
Colleen
1936
Executive Producer
5.3
5.3
Mission to Moscow
1943
Executive Producer
5.3
5.3
Give Me Your Heart
1936
Executive Producer
5.3
5.3
Pillow to Post
1945
Executive Producer
5.1
5.1
Night Unto Night
1949
Executive Producer
5.1
5.1
Ready, Willing and Able
1937
Executive Producer
5.0
5.0
Okay for Sound
1946
5.0
5.0
That Man's Here Again
1937
Executive Producer
5.0
5.0
No Time for Comedy
1940
Producer
5.0
5.0
Smashing the Money Ring
1939
Executive Producer
5.0
5.0
Love Is on the Air
1937
Executive Producer
5.0
5.0
Hearts Divided
1936
Executive Producer
5.0
5.0
Gambling on the High Seas
1940
Executive Producer
5.0
5.0
Indianapolis Speedway
1939
Executive Producer
5.0
5.0
Over the Wall
1938
Executive Producer
5.0
5.0
The Big Noise
1936
Executive Producer
5.0
5.0
The Adventurous Blonde
1937
Executive Producer
5.0
5.0
Stallion Road
1947
Executive Producer
4.9
4.9
Whiplash
1948
Executive Producer
4.8
4.8
Four's a Crowd
1938
Executive Producer
4.8
4.8
Tear Gas Squad
1940
Executive Producer
4.7
4.7
Breakdowns of 1938
1938
Executive Producer
4.7
4.7
Open Your Eyes
1919
as Soldier (uncredited)
4.6
4.6
Murder in the Air
1940
Executive Producer
4.5
4.5
Always a Bride
1940
Executive Producer
4.5
4.5
Dirty Little Billy
1972
Producer
4.4
4.4
Mystery House
1938
Executive Producer
4.4
4.4
California Mail
1936
Executive Producer
4.3
4.3
Escape Me Never
1947
Executive Producer
4.3
4.3
Shadow of a Woman
1946
Executive Producer
4.2
4.2
Bengal Tiger
1936
Executive Producer
4.0
4.0
Miss Pacific Fleet
1935
Executive Producer
4.0
4.0
The Shining Future
1944
Producer
3.9
3.9
Code of the Secret Service
1939
Executive Producer
3.7
3.7
Sweepstakes Winner
1939
Executive Producer
3.7
3.7
The Merry Frinks
1934
Executive Producer
3.5
3.5
A Fugitive from Justice
1940
Executive Producer
3.5
3.5
Broadway Musketeers
1938
Executive Producer
3.0
3.0
Murder by an Aristocrat
1936
Executive Producer
3.0
3.0
The Littlest Diplomat
1937
Producer
2.8
2.8
Cinderella Jones
1946
Executive Producer
2.0
2.0
The United States Service Bands
1943
Executive Producer
The Western: A Lost TV Special
1958
as Self
A Look at the World of 'Soylent Green'
1973
as Self (archive footage)
The Friendship Train
1948
Executive Producer
Trailin' West
1936
Executive Producer
The Gay Old Bird
1927
Producer
Melody for Two
1937
Executive Producer
Wolf's Clothing
1927
Producer
About Time
1962
Producer
Africa F.O.B.
1925
Director
Cleaned and Dry
1921
Director
Matinee Ladies
1927
Producer
Escape in the Desert
1945
Executive Producer
What Every Girl Should Know
1927
Producer
A Dangerous Adventure
1922
Director
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