Jack L. Warner(1892-1978)
- Producer
- Production Manager
- Additional Crew
With his brothers Harry M. Warner, Albert Warner, and Sam Warner, he founded Warner
Bros. Pictures Inc. in 1923. They released the first motion picture
with synchronized sound, The Jazz Singer (1927) with Al Jolson. In the 1930s they gave
employment to a parade of stars, including Bette Davis, Errol Flynn and
Paul Muni, as well as James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, and a man whose star would
eventually rise in the 1940s, Humphrey Bogart. Decades later, the firm's
successor, Warner Communications Inc., merged with Time Inc. to become
Time Warner Inc., the world's largest media and entertainment
company.