Jack L. Warner
male
Born on August 02, 1892 (132 years old)
Passed Away on September 09, 1978
From London, Ontario, Canada
Known for Production
Biography
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.
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Crew Credits
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- 1967
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Humoresque
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Executive Producer
1947
The Two Mrs. Carrolls
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Executive Producer
1947
Possessed
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Executive Producer
1947
Cry Wolf
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Executive Producer
1947
Deep Valley
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Executive Producer
1947
Love and Learn
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Executive Producer
1947
Escape Me Never
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Executive Producer
1947
Life with Father
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Executive Producer
1947
My Wild Irish Rose
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Executive Producer
1947
Nora Prentiss
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Producer
1947
Dark Passage
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Executive Producer
1947
Stallion Road
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Executive Producer
1947
The Unfaithful
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Executive Producer
1947
- 1946
The Big Sleep
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Executive Producer
1946
Deception
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Executive Producer
1946
Three Strangers
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Executive Producer
1946
The Verdict
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Executive Producer
1946
A Stolen Life
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Executive Producer
1946
Shadow of a Woman
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Executive Producer
1946
Never Say Goodbye
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Presenter
1946
Cinderella Jones
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Executive Producer
1946
Of Human Bondage
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Executive Producer
1946
Devotion
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Executive Producer
1946
My Reputation
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Executive Producer
1946
Janie Gets Married
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Executive Producer
1946
Never Say Goodbye
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Executive Producer
1946
Nobody Lives Forever
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Executive Producer
1946
The Man I Love
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Executive Producer
1946
- 1945
To Have and Have Not
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Executive Producer
1945
Conflict
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Executive Producer
1945
Danger Signal
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Executive Producer
1945
The Horn Blows at Midnight
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Executive Producer
1945
The Corn Is Green
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Executive Producer
1945
Mildred Pierce
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Executive Producer
1945
San Antonio
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Executive Producer
1945
Christmas in Connecticut
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Executive Producer
1945
Roughly Speaking
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Executive Producer
1945
Escape in the Desert
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Executive Producer
1945
Hotel Berlin
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Executive Producer
1945
Objective, Burma!
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Executive Producer
1945
Pillow to Post
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Executive Producer
1945
Pride of the Marines
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Executive Producer
1945
- 1944
Arsenic and Old Lace
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Producer
1944
The Conspirators
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Executive Producer
1944
The Mask of Dimitrios
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Executive Producer
1944
Mr. Skeffington
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Executive Producer
1944
Passage to Marseille
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Executive Producer
1944
The Adventures of Mark Twain
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Executive Producer
1944
Uncertain Glory
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Presenter
1944
The Shining Future
as
Producer
1944
Shine on Harvest Moon
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Executive Producer
1944
The Mask of Dimitrios
as
Presenter
1944
Between Two Worlds
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Executive Producer
1944
Hollywood Canteen
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Executive Producer
1944
Janie
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Executive Producer
1944
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I Am an American
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Executive Producer
1944
Uncertain Glory
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Executive Producer
1944
Make Your Own Bed
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Executive Producer
1944
In Our Time
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Executive Producer
1944
- 1943
Casablanca
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Executive Producer
1943
Northern Pursuit
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Presenter
1943
Destination Tokyo
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Executive Producer
1943
Action in the North Atlantic
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Executive Producer
1943
Background to Danger
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Executive Producer
1943
The Hard Way
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Executive Producer
1943
Air Force
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Executive Producer
1943
Old Acquaintance
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Executive Producer
1943
This Is the Army
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Producer
1943
The Constant Nymph
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Executive Producer
1943
Watch on the Rhine
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Executive Producer
1943
Thank Your Lucky Stars
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Executive Producer
1943
Northern Pursuit
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Executive Producer
1943
Edge of Darkness
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Executive Producer
1943
Mission to Moscow
as
Executive Producer
1943
The United States Service Bands
as
Executive Producer
1943
The Hard Way
as
Presenter
1943
- 1942
- 1941
- 1940
Santa Fe Trail
as
Producer
1940
The Letter
as
Executive In Charge Of Production
1940
It All Came True
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Executive Producer
1940
Virginia City
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Executive In Charge Of Production
1940
No Time for Comedy
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Producer
1940
City for Conquest
as
Production Manager
1940
Torrid Zone
as
Production Manager
1940
Murder in the Air
as
Executive Producer
1940
An Angel from Texas
as
Production Manager
1940
Tear Gas Squad
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Executive Producer
1940
Gambling on the High Seas
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Executive Producer
1940
Always a Bride
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Executive Producer
1940
A Fugitive from Justice
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Executive Producer
1940
Money and the Woman
as
Production Executive
1940
They Drive by Night
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Production Manager
1940
River's End
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Executive Producer
1940
The Fighting 69th
as
Production Manager
1940
Flowing Gold
as
Executive In Charge Of Production
1940
Castle on the Hudson
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Executive In Charge Of Production
1940
Knute Rockne All American
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Executive In Charge Of Production
1940
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The Return of Doctor X
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Executive Producer
1939
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
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Executive Producer
1939
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
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Executive In Charge Of Production
1939
No Place to Go
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Executive Producer
1939
Dark Victory
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Executive In Charge Of Production
1939
Espionage Agent
as
Executive In Charge Of Production
1939
They Made Me a Criminal
as
Production Manager
1939
Smashing the Money Ring
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Executive Producer
1939
Code of the Secret Service
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Executive Producer
1939
Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite
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Executive Producer
1939
Torchy Blane in Chinatown
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Executive Producer
1939
Torchy Runs for Mayor
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Executive Producer
1939
On Dress Parade
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Executive Producer
1939
The Oklahoma Kid
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Executive Producer
1939
Indianapolis Speedway
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Executive Producer
1939
Private Detective
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Executive Producer
1939
Sweepstakes Winner
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Executive Producer
1939
Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter
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Executive Producer
1939
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
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Executive Producer
1939
Nancy Drew... Reporter
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Executive Producer
1939
Waterfront
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Executive Producer
1939
The Adventures of Jane Arden
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Executive Producer
1939
Four Wives
as
Executive In Charge Of Production
1939
Daughters Courageous
as
Executive In Charge Of Production
1939
Juarez
as
Executive In Charge Of Production
1939
Invisible Stripes
as
Executive In Charge Of Production
1939
Each Dawn I Die
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Executive In Charge Of Production
1939
You Can't Get Away with Murder
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Executive Producer
1939
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
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Producer
1938
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
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Executive Producer
1938
The Sisters
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Executive Producer
1938
Men Are Such Fools
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Executive Producer
1938
Boy Meets Girl
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Executive Producer
1938
Hollywood Hotel
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Executive Producer
1938
Torchy Gets Her Man
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Executive Producer
1938
The Dawn Patrol
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Executive Producer
1938
Torchy Blane in Panama
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Executive Producer
1938
Four's a Crowd
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Executive Producer
1938
Accidents Will Happen
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Executive Producer
1938
Broadway Musketeers
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Executive Producer
1938
Mystery House
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Executive Producer
1938
Over the Wall
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Executive Producer
1938
Angels with Dirty Faces
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Executive Producer
1938
Crime School
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Executive Producer
1938
A Slight Case of Murder
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Executive Producer
1938
Gold Is Where You Find It
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Executive Producer
1938
Blondes at Work
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Executive Producer
1938
Breakdowns of 1938
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Executive Producer
1938
Fools for Scandal
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Executive Producer
1938
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Black Legion
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Executive Producer
1937
Kid Galahad
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Executive Producer
1937
Confession
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Executive Producer
1937
Back in Circulation
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Executive Producer
1937
Draegerman Courage
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Executive Producer
1937
They Won't Forget
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Executive Producer
1937
The Go-Getter
as
Executive Producer
1937
Tovarich
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Executive Producer
1937
Slim
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Executive Producer
1937
Once a Doctor
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Executive Producer
1937
Another Dawn
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Executive Producer
1937
That Certain Woman
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Executive Producer
1937
The Cherokee Strip
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Executive Producer
1937
West of Shanghai
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Executive Producer
1937
Public Wedding
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Executive Producer
1937
Melody for Two
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Executive Producer
1937
That Man's Here Again
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Executive Producer
1937
Talent Scout
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Executive Producer
1937
Fly Away Baby
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Executive Producer
1937
Love Is on the Air
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Executive Producer
1937
The Adventurous Blonde
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Executive Producer
1937
Missing Witnesses
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Executive Producer
1937
Green Light
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Executive Producer
1937
The Littlest Diplomat
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Producer
1937
Ready, Willing and Able
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Executive Producer
1937
Marked Woman
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Executive Producer
1937
Marked Woman
as
Executive In Charge Of Production
1937
- 1936
Bullets or Ballots
as
Executive Producer
1936
China Clipper
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Executive Producer
1936
The Story of Louis Pasteur
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Executive Producer
1936
Bengal Tiger
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Executive Producer
1936
Jailbreak
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Executive Producer
1936
The Golden Arrow
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Executive Producer
1936
The Green Pastures
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Executive Producer
1936
Trailin' West
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Executive Producer
1936
The Case of the Black Cat
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Executive Producer
1936
Fugitive in the Sky
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Executive Producer
1936
Cain and Mabel
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Executive Producer
1936
Gold Diggers of 1937
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Executive Producer
1936
Two Against the World
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Executive Producer
1936
California Mail
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Executive Producer
1936
Give Me Your Heart
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Executive Producer
1936
Love Begins at Twenty
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Executive Producer
1936
The Charge of the Light Brigade
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Executive Producer
1936
Murder by an Aristocrat
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Executive Producer
1936
Hearts Divided
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Executive Producer
1936
Colleen
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Executive Producer
1936
The Big Noise
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Executive Producer
1936
- 1935
- 1934
The St. Louis Kid
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Executive Producer
1934
Here Comes the Navy
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Executive Producer
1934
Housewife
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Producer
1934
The Man with Two Faces
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Executive Producer
1934
Hi, Nellie!
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Executive Producer
1934
Dark Hazard
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Executive Producer
1934
Jimmy the Gent
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Executive Producer
1934
The Merry Frinks
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Executive Producer
1934
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