Warden Family History & Genealogy

JACK WARDEN OBITUARY Jack Warden, an Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated actor who played gruff cops, coaches and soldiers in a career that spanned five decades, has died. He was 85. Warden, who lived in Manhattan, died Wednesday at a hospital in New York, Sidney Pazoff, his longtime business manager, said here Friday. ''Everything gave out. Old age,'' Pazoff said. ''He really had turned downhill in the past month; heart and then kidney and then all kinds of stuff.'' Warden was nominated twice for best supporting actor Oscars in two Warren Beatty movies. He was nominated for his role as a businessman in 1975's ''Shampoo'' and the good-hearted football trainer Max in 1978's ''Heaven Can Wait.'' He won a supporting actor Emmy Award for his role as Chicago Bears coach George Halas in the 1971 TV movie ''Brian's Song'' and was twice nominated in the 1980s for best leading actor in a comedy for his show ''Crazy Like a Fox.'' Warden, with his wild white hair, weathered face and gravelly voice, was in demand for character parts for decades. In real life, the former boxer, deckhand and paratrooper was anything but a tough guy. ''Very gentle. Very dapper,'' Pazoff said. ''Most of them (actors) are pretty true to the characters that they play. He was one who was not,'' Pazoff said. Warden was born John H. Lebzelter in 1920 in Newark, New Jersey. He was still in high school during the Depression when he tried his hand at professional boxing under his mother's maiden name of Costello. He had 13 welterweight bouts in the Louisville area before joining the Navy, where he was sent to China and patrolled the Yangtze River. He also had jobs as a nightclub bouncer, a lifeguard and a deck hand on an East River tugboat. In 1941, he joined the Merchant Marine. He served in the engine room as his ship made convoy runs to Europe. ''The constant bombings were nerve-racking below decks,'' he recalled for a 1976 studio biography. He quit in 1942 and enlisted in the Army. He was a paratrooper with the 101st Airborne Division but shortly before D-Day he broke his leg during a nighttime practice jump in Britain. ''They sent me back to the States,'' he recalled in a 1988 Associated Press interview. ''I was in a hospital for nearly a year.'' A fellow soldier who had been an actor gave him a play to read and he was hooked. He recovered enough to take part in the Battle of the Bulge and, after the war, went to New York to pursue an acting career. He attended acting classes and did Tennessee Williams plays in repertory companies and moved on to appear in live TV shows such as the famed ''Studio One.'' During the 1950s his career flourished. In addition to TV work, he appeared on Broadway in shows such as Clifford Odets' ''Golden Boy'' and Arthur Miller's ''A View From the Bridge.'' He had small roles in 1953's Oscar-winning ''From Here to Eternity'' and the submarine thriller ''Run Silent, Run Deep'' but his breakthrough role was as Juror No. 7, a salesman who wants a quick decision in a murder case, in 1957's ''Twelve Angry Men.'' Over the next decades he had a number of recurring or starring TV roles. He was a major in ''The Wackiest Ship in the Army''; the coach on ''Mr. Peepers''; a coach again on the small-screen version of ''The Bad News Bears,''; detectives in ''Asphalt Jungle,'' ''N.Y.P.D.'' and ''Jigsaw John''; and a private investigator in ''Crazy Like a Fox.'' His numerous big-screen roles included a news editor in 1976's ''All the President's Men,'' Paul Newman's law partner in 1982's ''The Verdict' and the president in the 1979 Peter Sellers movie ''Being There.'' His later roles were in Woody Allen's 1994 ''Bullets Over Broadway''; Beatty's 1998 political satire ''Bulworth'' and the 2000 football movie ''The Replacements.'' Pazoff said Warden is survived by his longtime girlfriend, Marucha Hinds; estranged wife, Vanda; a son, Christopher; and two grandchildren. At Warden's request, no funeral services were planned, Pazoff said.

Janet Helen (Cooper) Warden was born on April 5. Janet Warden was in a relationship with Thomas Milton Warden, and has children Thomas L. Warden, Jerry Lee Warden, and Kimberly Marcel Smith. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Janet Helen (Cooper).

Jim Roy Warden II was born on March 5, 1946 to Edna Maxine Rigby Culp, and is the father of Kristen S. Warden. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Jim Roy Warden II.

Nellie M Warden of Fulton, Callaway County, MO was born on July 3, 1919, and died at age 75 years old on December 22, 1994.

Pearl Warden of Pawnee, Pawnee County, Oklahoma was born on February 22, 1912, and died at age 75 years old in September 1987.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Nellie Warden.

Melody Y Warden was born on June 15, 1956, and died at age 48 years old on July 25, 2004. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Melody Y Warden.

Amanda (Vaughn) Warden was born circa November 7, 1980. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Amanda (Vaughn) Warden.

Thomas L Warden of Dallas County, TX was born circa 1958. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Thomas L. Warden.

Cherry D Warden was born on February 12, 1952, and died at age 55 years old on February 16, 2007. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Cherry D Warden.

Agnes Rosie (Lawrence) Warden of San Diego County, California United States was born on December 30, 1918 in OK. She was in a relationship with Gene Everette, and had children Wanda Christine Peterson, Nelda Remington, and Rosie Southerland. Agnes Warden died at age 61 years old on December 29, 1980 in Oceanside, CA.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Thomas Milton Warden.

Claude L Warden Iii of Lampasas County, TX was born circa 1978. Claude Warden was married to Ginger T. (Griffin) Rodriguez on August 17, 2000 in Lampasas County, TX and they separated on June 14, 2002. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Claude L. Warden Iii.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember John Stephen Warden.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Kristen S. Warden.

Dylan Warden was born in January 2006. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Dylan Warden.

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Lawrence Blake Warden was born on September 13, 1955, and died on September 29, 1955. Lawrence Warden was buried at Florence National Cemetery Section B Site 1810-K 803 East National Cemetery Road, in Florence, Sc. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Lawrence Blake Warden.

Reece Warden was born on November 28, 2013. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Reece Warden.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Sandra Warden.