Jack Gilford

ACTOR, SOUNDTRACK, WRITER

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Jack Gilford was born in Brooklyn, New York, as Yankel Gellman. He began his career in the Amateur Nights of the 1930s moving on to nightclubs as an innovative comedian doing satire and pantomime. He was a regular at the Greenwich Village nightspot, Cafe Society and hosted shows featuring Zero Mostel, Billie Holiday and jazz greats like Hazel Scott. It is said that he invented the expression, "The butler did it!", as part of one of his movie satire routines. He also did a facial pantomime of "Pea Soup Coming to a Boil". During the 1950s, he was a victim of the The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) blacklisting which stalled his TV career until the early 1960s. But after that, he became a regular popular comic character actor on dozens of TV series and movies. He was most recognized for being the rubber-faced guy on the "Cracker Jacks" commercials for a dozen years, from 1960-1972.He was nominated for Tony awards on Broadway for best supporting actor in the musical, "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", and "Cabaret". The song "Meeskite" was written for him by John Kander & Fred Ebb.He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film, Save the Tiger (1973), starring opposite Jack Lemmon, who won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous

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Streaming Availability

Vudu has the most number of Jack Gilford’s flixes, followed by Amazon Video compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Jack Gilford on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1971 to 1985. See the full graphs of the number of Jack Gilford movies released per year from 1971 till 1985.

Top Genres

Jack Gilford works mostly in Comedy Genre followed by Drama Genre flixes. 44% of Jack Gilford movies are Comedy Genre movies. See Top Genres that Jack Gilford worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Jack Gilford has worked on is 6.6.

6.6 / 10

Jack Gilford's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

A disillusioned aging decent man and once proud WWII veteran is dealing with midlife crisis as well as a tough moral dilemma. If he wants his small near-bankrupt clothing company to survive, he has two days to let go of his shaken morals.

6.9/10100 min

Available in 7 platform(s).

Comedy,Mystery,Romance
They Might Be Giants (1971)

In a Manhattan psychiatric hospital a man, convinced he is Sherlock Holmes, is treated by a female doctor who happens to be named Watson.

6.8/1091 min

Available in 7 platform(s).

Comedy,Romance
Caveman (1981)

A caveman seeks revenge on a much larger competitor for the hand of a beautiful cavewoman.

5.8/1091 min

Available in 5 platform(s).