He received a BAFTA nomination for the former movie, and won an Emmy for his performance in Brian's Song (1971). Warden was born John H. Lebzelter in 1920 in Newark. View the profiles of professionals named "Christopher Warden" on LinkedIn. WebA Lancer out of sight. Chris Warden is an actor, known for Sunny Acres Farms (2012). Warden, who lived in Manhattan, died Wednesday, July 19, 2006, at a hospital in New York, Sidney Pazoff, his longtime business manager, said here Friday. He left the Merchant Marine in 1942, joined the US Army and became a platoon sergeant and parachute jump master in the 101st Airborne. Warden died on July 19, 2006 from renal failure in New York City, New York, aged 85. He spent almost eight months in the hospital recuperating, during which time he read a Clifford Odets play and decided to become an actor. Mr. Christopher Warden Profiles | Facebook Mr. With a bit of bluster, he captured a Broadway role in 1955 that became the springboard of his career. Although they separated in the 1970s, the couple never divorced. Within a few years, the couple had a son, Christopher, and had moved from Laurel Canyon to the Malibu Colony. Jack Warden, the gravel-voiced character actor and two-time Oscar nominee who appeared in nearly 100 feature films, has died. "U.S.S. Raised in Louisville, Kentucky, at the age of seventeen, young Jack Lebzelter was expelled from Louisville's DuPont Manual High School for repeatedly fighting. He served in China with the Yangtze River Patrol for the best part of his three-year hitch before joining the Merchant Marine in 1941. Jack Warden Lebzelter was born Sept. 18, 1920, to John Warden, an engineer and technician, and Laura Costello. Your Privacy Choices (Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads). In addition to television work, he appeared in Broadway plays including Golden Boy by Clifford Odets and A View From the Bridge by Arthur Miller. He thought Id made the president very human, Warden told The Times in 1980. At 17, the redhead from Newark, N.J., was a ranked professional middleweight boxer who billed himself as Johnny Costello -- the last name was his mothers -- and reportedly once fought on the same card at Madison Square Garden as another future actor, Charles Durning. She was born August 21, 1952, in Corning, New York, daughter of John Joyce Munson Shelley. During a practice jump while preparing for the Normandy invasion, his chute failed to fully open. (1967). He was the scruffy outlaw in The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973), the cab-driving father in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974), the hard-nosed city editor in All the Presidents Men (1976) and Paul Newmans friend and conscience in The Verdict (1982). For more than 50 years, Jack Warden was a staple in the cinema world.