Jack Kruschen
- Birthday
- Mar 20, 1922
Bio: Husky, bushy-mustached, frequently unkempt Canadian actor Jack Kruschen appeared steadily on radio from 1938 onward. He began playing small film roles in 1949, often cast as minor villains and braying bullies. He became a cult favorite after playing one of the three earliest victims (the Hispanic one) of the Martian death ray in George Pal's War of the Worlds… More Bio: Husky, bushy-mustached, frequently unkempt Canadian actor Jack Kruschen appeared steadily on radio from 1938 onward. He began playing small film roles in 1949, often cast as minor villains and braying bullies. He became a cult favorite after playing one of the three earliest victims (the Hispanic one) of the Martian death ray in George Pal's War of the Worlds (1953). His larger film roles included MGM mogul Louis B. Mayer in the Carol Lynley version of Harlow (1965), and the remonstrative physician neighbor of Jack Lemmon in Billy Wilder's The Apartment (1960); the latter assignment copped a "Best Supporting Actor" Oscar nomination for Kruschen. A tireless TV performer, Kruschen has guested in a variety of roles on most of the top video offerings, and was a regular in the 1977 sitcom Busting Loose, playing the father of Adam Arkin. Relatively inactive after 1980, Jack Kruschen made a welcome return in PBS' 1993 adaptation of Arthur Miller's The American Clock. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Dark Mirror (1984)
- Smithson
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Money to Burn (1982)
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Under the Rainbow (1981)
- Louie
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1981)
- Judge Thatcher
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Jack Kruschen Videos
Mclintock
2 minutes 24 seconds
The Apartment
1 minutes 13 seconds
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
2 minutes 36 seconds
The Angry Red Planet
1 minutes 5 seconds
Freebie And The Bean
3 minutes 11 seconds
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