Emmy-winning actor Jack Warden dies

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, his longtime business manager said in Los Angeles yesterday.

Warden was nominated twice for Oscars as Best Supporting Actor in two Warren Beatty movies, 1975's "Shampoo" and 1978's "Heaven Can Wait."
He won an Emmy for Supporting Actor for his role as Chicago Bears coach George Halas in the 1971 made-for-TV movie "Brian's Song" and was twice nominated in the 1980s as Leading Actor in a Comedy for his show "Crazy like a Fox."

Warden, who was born John Lebzelter in New Jersey and began acting after serving in World War Two, had a breakthrough role in Twelve Angry Men in 1957.
His numerous big-screen credits included "All the President's Men," "The Verdict," "Being There," "Bulworth," "Mighty Aphrodite," "Bullets over Broadway," the "Problem Child" movies, "While You Were Sleeping" and "The Replacements."

Pazoff said the veteran character actor had retired several years ago and had been suffering from medical problems in recent years.