LOS ANGELES – 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, Sidney Pazoff, his longtime business manager, said in Los Angeles Friday.
“Everything gave out. Old age,” Pazoff said. “He really had turned downhill in the past month; heart and then kidney and then all kinds of stuff.”
Warden was nominated twice for supporting-actor Oscars in two Warren Beatty movies. He was nominated for his role as a businessman in 1975’s “Shampoo” and the football trainer in 1978’s “Heaven Can Wait.”
He won a supporting actor Emmy 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, with his white hair, weathered face and gravelly voice, was in demand for character parts for decades.
In real life, the former boxer, deckhand and paratrooper was anything but a tough guy.
“Very gentle. Very dapper,” Pazoff said. “Most of them (actors) are pretty true to the characters that they play. He was one who was not.”
Mardian was convicted in Watergate probe
Robert Mardian, an attorney for President Nixon’s re-election committee whose conviction in the Watergate scandal was overturned, has died. He was 82.
Mardian died of complications from lung cancer Monday at his vacation home in Southern California, his son Robert said.
The attorney long denied helping conceal the Nixon administration’s involvement in the break-in and attempted bugging of the Democratic National Headquarters office at the Watergate complex.
Philadelphia man was cheesesteak pioneer
Harry Olivieri, who with his brother Pat was credited with inventing the Philly cheesesteak in 1933, had died. He was 90.
Despite a heart condition, Olivieri had showed up at Pat’s King of Steaks in Philadelphia almost every day until about three years ago. He died of heart failure Thursday at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center in Pomona, N.J., his daughter Maria said.
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