FILM DIRECTOR

Jack L. Warner

1892 - 1978

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Jack Leonard Warner (born Jacob Warner; August 2, 1892 – September 9, 1978) was a Canadian-born American film executive, who was the president and driving force behind the Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jack L. Warner has received more than 2,408,128 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Jack L. Warner is the 317th most popular film director (down from 312th in 2019), the 95th most popular biography from Canada (down from 87th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Canadian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jack L. Warner ranks 317 out of 2,041. Before him are Eldar Ryazanov, Frank Borzage, Jiří Trnka, Robert Frank, Darren Aronofsky, and George Miller. After him are Adolph Zukor, Dušan Makavejev, Yuen Woo-ping, Marc Allégret, Francis Veber, and Anatole Litvak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Jack L. Warner ranks 85. Before him are Walther Nehring, Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Vita Sackville-West, J. B. S. Haldane, Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai, and Thomas Mitchell. After him are Stanisław Sosabowski, Arnold Hauser, Reinhold Niebuhr, Konstantin Paustovsky, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, and Alice Ball. Among people deceased in 1978, Jack L. Warner ranks 61. Before him are Pablo Dorado, Carlo Scarpa, Prince Nicholas of Romania, Fernando Peyroteo, Robert Shaw, and Hubert Humphrey. After him are Shozo Tsugitani, Arnold Hauser, Philibert Tsiranana, Herbert Kappler, Jean Améry, and Charles Eames.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Jack L. Warner ranks 95 out of 1,622. Before him are Simon Newcomb (1835), Robbie Robertson (1943), Michael Ironside (1950), Marie-Louise Meilleur (1880), Wayne Gretzky (1961), and Norman Bethune (1890). After him are Rudolph A. Marcus (1923), Norma Shearer (1902), Nathan Fillion (1971), Marc Ouellet (1944), Louis Slotin (1910), and Maurice Richard (1921).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Canada

Among film directors born in Canada, Jack L. Warner ranks 6. Before him are James Cameron (1954), David Cronenberg (1943), Norman Jewison (1926), Edward Dmytryk (1908), and Denis Villeneuve (1967). After him are Arthur Hiller (1923), Ted Kotcheff (1931), Denys Arcand (1941), Roger Spottiswoode (1945), Allan Dwan (1885), and Mark Robson (1913).

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Filmography

Casablanca
Director
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Jan 15o 19438.2 / 10
My Fair Lady
Director
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Oct 21o 19647.497 / 10
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Director
Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey.
Jan 15o 19488 / 10