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Jack Warden has 26 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1990s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including 12 Angry Men.
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Friday
1995
Comedy · Drama

Crazy in Alabama
1999
Comedy · Drama

Citizen Ruth
1996
Drama · Comedy

Riff-Raff
1991
Comedy · Drama

Slums of Beverly Hills
1998
Comedy · Drama

Captain Pantoja and the Special Services
1999
Comedy · Drama

In the Name of the Father
1993
Drama

This Boy's Life
1993
Drama

12 Angry Men
1957 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Prime Video · Included

While You Were Sleeping
1995 · Movie · Actor
Top 18%Disney+ · Included

The Great Muppet Caper
1981 · Movie · Actor
Top 25%Disney+ · Included

Mighty Aphrodite
1995 · Movie · Actor
Top 32%Prime Video · Included

...And Justice for All
1979 · Movie · Actor
Top 33%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Run Silent, Run Deep
1958 · Movie · Actor
Top 42%MGM+ · Included

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.
Dir. Sidney Lumet · With Martin Balsam, John Fiedler, Lee J. Cobb

A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
Dir. Hal Ashby · With Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas

During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.
Dir. Alan J. Pakula · With Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Warden

Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit by serving it to Galvin on a silver platter—all parties are willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, Galvin suddenly realizes that the case should actually go to court—to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients... and to restore his standing as a lawyer.
Dir. Sidney Lumet · With Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden

A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off railway tracks after he's mugged, but—while he's in a coma—his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancée, and she doesn't correct them. Things get more complicated when she falls for his brother, who's not quite sure that she's who she claims to be.
Dir. Jon Turteltaub · With Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher

In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.
Dir. Fred Zinnemann · With Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr

Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace is stolen. Kermit meets and falls in love with her secretary, Miss Piggy. The jewel thieves strike again, and this time frame Miss Piggy. It's up to Kermit and the rest of the Muppets to bring the real culprits to justice.
Dir. Jim Henson · With Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz

When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother in hopes that she will be brilliant too. But when he learns that Max's mother is Linda Ash, a kindhearted prostitute and porn star, Lenny is determined to reform her immoral lifestyle. A Greek chorus chimes in to relate the plot to Greek mythology in this quirky comedy.
Dir. Woody Allen · With Woody Allen, Mira Sorvino, Helena Bonham Carter

An ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal corruption is forced to defend a judge he despises in a rape trial under the threat of being disbarred.
Dir. Norman Jewison · With Al Pacino, Jack Warden, John Forsythe

Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently-murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant—the murderers—are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.
Dir. Buck Henry, Warren Beatty · With Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, James Mason

Billy used to be a great boxer, but he's settled into a hardscrabble life that revolves around drinking, training horses, and the one bright spot in his existence — his young son, T.J. Although Billy has had custody of T.J. since his wife, Annie, left the family years ago, her return prompts a new struggle for the former fighter. Determined to hold on to his son, Billy gets back into the ring to try and recapture his past success.
Dir. Franco Zeffirelli · With Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway, Rick Schroder

The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper another sub after a year of working a desk job. His singleminded determination for revenge against the destroyer that sunk his previous vessel puts his new crew in unneccessary danger.
Dir. Robert Wise · With Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden

When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Kurt Russell, Jack Warden, Gerrit Graham

Unemployed and recently dumped, Mitch and his buddy Sam start a revenge-for-hire business to raise the $50,000 that Sam's father needs to get a heart transplant.
Dir. Bob Saget · With Norm Macdonald, Artie Lange, Jack Warden

After her great aunt's death, a high-society woman arrives on a Hawaiian island in search of the heir - the father she has never met.
Dir. John Ford · With John Wayne, Elizabeth Allen, Lee Marvin
Ben Healy and his social climbing wife Flo adopt fun-loving seven year old Junior. But they soon discover he's a little monster as he turns a camping trip, a birthday party and even a baseball game into comic nightmares.
Dir. Dennis Dugan · With John Ritter, Jack Warden, Michael J. Oliver

On Election Day, 1968, irresponsible hairdresser and ladies' man George Roundy is too busy cutting hair and dealing with his girlfriends and mistress Felicia Karpf, whose husband Lester is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend Jackie.
Dir. Hal Ashby · With Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn

Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.
Dir. Gary Fleder · With Andy Garcia, Christopher Lloyd, William Forsythe

Jay Austin is now a civilian police detective. Colonel Caldwell was his commanding officer years before when he left the military police over a disagreement over the handling of a drunk driver. Now a series of murders that cross jurisdictions force them to work together again. That Austin is now dating Caldwell's daughter is not helping their relationship.
Dir. Peter Hyams · With Sean Connery, Mark Harmon, Meg Ryan
Junior and his father, Ben, move from Cold River to Mortville. Junior becomes threatened by Ben's desire to date again and find a new mother for Junior, and sabotages each of his dates.
Dir. Brian Levant · With John Ritter, Michael J. Oliver, Jack Warden
Before a criminal lawyer knows what has happened, she is forced to defend a wife killer she knows is guilty.
Dir. Sidney Lumet · With Rebecca De Mornay, Don Johnson, Stephen Lang
After a suicide attempt, Lane has moved into her country house to recuperate. Her best friend, Stephanie, has come to join her for the summer. Lane's mother, Diane, has recently arrived with her husband Lloyd, Lane's stepfather. Lane is close to two neighbors: Peter, and Howard. Howard is in love with Lane, Lane is in love with Peter, and Peter is in love with Stephanie.
Dir. Woody Allen · With Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Sam Waterston

In this strange western version of Moby Dick, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in a dream. Hickok moves through a variety of uniquely authentic western locations - dim, filthy, makeshift taverns; freezing, slaughterhouse-like frontier towns and beautifully desolate high country - before improbably teaming up with a young Crazy Horse to pursue the creature.
Dir. J. Lee Thompson · With Charles Bronson, Jack Warden, Will Sampson

After "The Poseidon Adventure", in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While the passengers are still on board waiting to be rescued, two rivaling salvage parties enter the ship on search for money, gold and a small amount of plutonium.
Dir. Irwin Allen · With Michael Caine, Sally Field, Telly Savalas
Leslie Zevo is a fun-loving inventor who must save his late father's toy factory from his evil uncle, Leland, a war-mongering general who rules the operation with an iron fist and builds weapons disguised as toys.
Dir. Barry Levinson · With Robin Williams, Michael Gambon, Joan Cusack
Jack Cooper could be a world-class baseball pitcher if he didn't keep buckling under the pressure. He tries to keep his spirits up after he's traded to a minor league team but loses all hope when he discovers that Ed, one of his teammates, is a chimp. Ed used to be the team mascot, but was promoted to third base when the owners realized he had a talent for baseball. As Jack struggles to get used to his new surroundings, Ed helps him regain his confidence on and off the field.
Dir. Bill Couturié · With Matt LeBlanc, Jayne Brook, Bill Cobbs
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