Jack Kruschen
Date of birth: 1922-03-20
Place of birth: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Jack Joseph Kruschen
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jacob Kruschen (March 20, 1922 – April 2, 2002) was a Jewish character actor who worked primarily in American film, television and radio. Kruschen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Dr. Dreyfuss in the 1960 comedy-drama The Apartment. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Kruschen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
The Apartment
1960-06-21
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to
Cry Terror!
1958-05-02
A mad bomber holds an innocent family hostage.
A Blueprint for Murder
1953-07-24
Whitney Cameron is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn, but also harb
The Angry Red Planet
1959-11-23
The first manned flight to Mars returns after having been out of communications since it had arrived
The Lemon Drop Kid
1951-04-02
When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
1953-04-06
Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars. Instead it goes to
Lover Come Back
1961-12-20
Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike e
Satan's Cheerleaders
1977-03-18
The janitor at a local high school is actually the scout for a coven of Satanists on the lookout for
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
1964-06-11
The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life—a flood. Sixteen years later she s
The Benny Goodman Story
1956-02-02
Young Benny Goodman is taught clarinet by a music professor. He is advised to play whichever kind of
McLintock!
1963-11-12
Ageing, wealthy, rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numer
The Night Holds Terror
1955-07-13
A group of escaped convicts holds a household prisoner as the police close in.
The Last Voyage
1960-02-19
The S. S. Claridon is scheduled for her five last voyages after thirty-eight years of service. After
Caprice
1967-04-18
Patricia Foster, an industrial designer, causes chaos when she sells a secret cosmetics formula to a
Julie
1956-10-17
A terrified stewardess is stalked by her psychotic estranged husband.
Under the Rainbow
1981-07-31
In World War II era Los Angeles, the manager of the Culver Hotel leaves his nephew in charge for a w
The Steel Jungle
1956-03-10
The tale of a young bookie, married to a beautiful woman who goes to jail, and becomes involved with
The Happening
1967-05-17
A group of young drifters kidnap wealthy businessman Roc Delmonico just for kicks. They keep him cap
Confidence Girl
1952-06-20
After successfully swindling thousands of dollars from hapless victims, conflicted con artist Mary (
Seven Ways from Sundown
1960-09-25
A Texas Ranger must capture an outlaw and take him-in, while tangling with savage Apaches and greedy
Legend of the Wild
1981-11-01
Patchwork movie edited from episodes from the TV series The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (1977).
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1981-07-09
The escapades of Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and the runaway slave, Jim, drifting down the Mississippi on
The Decks Ran Red
1958-10-10
A band of dishonest seamen plans a murderous mutiny aboard the S.S. Berwind.
Carolina Cannonball
1955-01-28
Judy and her grandpa run a trolley between a train depot and a ghost town in Nevada, near the Califo
Outside the Law
1956-06-01
A government agent's son wins respect and love when he challenges counterfeiters.
Alice in Wonderland
2010-02-23
This production was originally broadcast on radio back in the 1940s. It was put on DVD with new anim
Dial Red O
1955-03-13
The first of the five films where Bill Elliott played a detective lieutenant in the L.A Sheriff's de
Gambling House
1950-12-27
A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.
Fraulein
1958-06-08
A Nazi's fiancee helps an escaped U.S. soldier, then meets him in postwar Berlin.
Nick and Nora
1975-03-04
Retired detective Nick Charles and his wife set out to solve a murder mystery after a corpse wearing
Emergency!
1972-01-15
The pilot movie to the hit series about Los Angeles paramedics and their interaction with the fire d
Tropical Heat Wave
1952-10-01
Story of staid college professor gathering data for a thesis in criminal psychology who becomes the
The Log of the Black Pearl
1975-01-04
A young stockbroker, Christopher Sand, inherits an old ship named "Black Pearl" along with a medalli
The Whiz Kid and the Carnival Caper
1976-01-11
Daffy Fernald loses her brother's toy rocket when it flies into a storm drain. She knows Alvin will
The Bellboy
1960-07-20
Stanley is a bellboy at the Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach, where he performs his duties quietly
Reform School Girl
1957-08-01
A young man steals a car and ends up involved in a pedestrian fatality. The only witness is a girl h
The People Against O'Hara
1951-09-01
A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.
Dark Mirror
1984-03-05
After attorney Frank Girard is murdered, Detective Al Church suspects that Ms. Leigh Cullen is the p
Untamed Heiress
1954-03-31
Judy is the daughter of a famous opera singer who once bankrolled prospector Andrew "Cactus" Clayton
Freebie and the Bean
1974-12-25
Two San Francisco detectives want to bring down a local hijacking boss. But they'll have to get to h
Money to Burn
1983-01-01
A school counselor and two misfit students decide to plan a bank robbery.
Cape Fear
1962-04-12
Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 y
Hart to Hart: Home Is Where the Hart Is
1994-02-18
When a mentor and friend of Jennifer's dies, she and Jonathan return to the sleepy town where Jennif
It Should Happen to You
1954-01-15
Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a docum
No Way Out
1950-08-16
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the o
The Ladies Man
1961-06-21
After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a
Dear Brigitte
1965-01-08
Professor Leaf, an absent-minded poet with a prejudice against the sciences, is forced to face the f
The Time Machine
1978-11-05
A scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts
Money from Home
1953-12-31
Herman owes a lot of gambling debts. To pay them off, he promises the mob he'll fix a horse, so that
The Great Diamond Robbery
1954-01-29
Ambrose C. Park, left on a park bench as an infant with an impulsive need to find his parents, is an
Deadly Intentions
1985-05-19
Katherine married Dr. Charles Raynor. She later discovers that Raynor is a sadist who torments her p
Convicts 4
1962-09-15
After his death sentence is commuted to life in prison, John Resko is transferred from Sing-Sing to
Penny Ante: The Motion Picture
1990-08-24
An old man and a young man fight back after learning gumball machines are used to vend crack.
'Til There Was You
1997-05-30
Two strangers, whose paths are always crossing, finally meet when fate steps in. It took them twenty
Soldier of Fortune
1955-05-24
An American woman arrives in Hong Kong to unravel the mystery of her missing photographer husband. A
Guardian of the Wilderness
1976-12-07
In 1861, miner Galen Clark learns he has consumption and decides to travel west in his final months.
Follow That Dream
1962-04-11
When the Kwimper family car runs out of fuel on a new Florida highway and an officious state supervi
Badlands of Montana
1957-05-01
Wanting to follow in his late father's footsteps, eager reformer Steve Brewster runs for mayor of a
Istanbul Express
1969-03-07
An art dealer on a special mission is pulled into dangerous intrigue while railway detective Cheval
The November Plan
1977-01-01
A hard-nosed private detective investigates a suspected overthrow of the U.S. government. Loosely b
Harlow
1965-05-14
Loosely based biography of 1930s star Jean Harlow as she begins her climb to stardom. One of two "Ha
The American Clock
1993-01-02
Moe, Rose and Lee Baumler are members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed
Sunburn
1979-08-10
A model and a private eye help a New York insurance investigator on a deadly case in Acapulco.
Where the Boys Are
1960-12-28
Good girls Merritt, Melanie, Tuggle and Angie - all students at mid-western Penmore University - are
The Million Dollar Duck
1971-06-30
Professor Dooley takes home a duck from his research laboratory as a toy for his son, but soon finds
Women from Headquarters
1950-05-01
Joyce Harper is an ex-Army nurse who enters police work with the L.A. Police Department, when her fr
Where Danger Lives
1950-11-16
A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman and apparently becomes involved in the dea
The War of the Worlds
1953-08-13
The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they disco
Tennessee Champ
1954-03-03
A boxer desperate for money falls in with a shady promoter.
The Man Who Understood Women
1959-10-02
A film director turns his actress wife into a star, leading to marital problems.
Deadly Harvest
1972-09-26
An Iron Curtain defector who has been living for years as a California winegrower learns that Soviet
Red, Hot and Blue
1949-09-05
In her attempts to make a splash on Broadway, a lively would-be-actress lands herself in hot water w
The Incredible Rocky Mountain Race
1977-12-17
An old man observes a boy bullying his playmates and treats him to a morality lesson. The man tells
The Long, Long Trailer
1954-02-19
A newly wed couple, Tacy and Nicky, travel in a trailer for their honeymoon. The journey is a humoro
The Gazebo
1960-01-15
TV writer Elliott Nash buries a blackmailer under the new gazebo in his suburban backyard. But the n