Jack L. Warner
The Warner Bros. chief who sold the studio's 400 pre-1948 cartoons for $3,000 apiece.
Jack L. Warner (born Jacob Warner; August 2, 1892 – September 9, 1978) was a Canadian-born American film executive, the president and driving force behind Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California. His studio released the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons, but Warner showed little foresight in his treatment of its cartoon operation: characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig "were always stepchildren at Warner Bros.", and his biographer Bob Thomas wrote that he considered cartoons no more than an extraneous service for exhibitors who wanted a full program. At a rare 1953 meeting with the cartoon makers, he confessed that he did not "even know where the hell the cartoon studio is". Several years later he sold all of the 400 cartoons Warner Bros. made before 1948 for $3,000 apiece.
Quick Facts
- Birth name
- Jacob Warner
- Other names
- Jack Leonard Warner
- Born
- 2 August 1892
- Birthplace
- London, Ontario, Canada
- Died
- 9 September 1978
- Place of death
- Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Years active
- 1918–1973
- Political party
- Republican
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