The Bad News Bears aired from March 1979 to July 1980 on CBS.
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Here is Jack Warden's Obituary from the New York Times.
Jack Warden, 85, Actor Known for Tough-Guy Roles, Is Dead
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: July 22, 2006
Jack Warden, an Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated actor who played gruff cops, coaches and soldiers in a career that spanned five decades, died Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 85.
His death was announced Friday by Sidney Pazoff, his longtime business manager.
Mr. Warden was nominated twice for best-supporting-actor Oscars, each time for his work in a film starring Warren Beatty. He was nominated for his performance as Lester, a businessman, in the 1975 film “Shampoo,” and again as Max Corkle, the good-hearted football trainer in 1978’s “Heaven Can Wait.”
He won a supporting-actor Emmy for his role as George Halas, the Chicago Bears coach, in the 1971 television movie “Brian’s Song” and was twice nominated in the 1980’s for best leading actor in a comedy for his show “Crazy Like a Fox.”
Mr. Warden was born John H. Lebzelter in 1920 in Newark. He was still in high school during the Depression when he tried his hand at professional boxing under his mother’s maiden name, Costello.
He had 13 welterweight bouts in and around Louisville, Ky., before joining the Navy, where he was sent to China and patrolled the Yangtze River. In 1941, he joined the Merchant Marine. He served in the engine room as his ship made convoy runs to Europe.
He quit in 1942 and enlisted in the Army. He was a paratrooper with the 101st Airborne Division but shortly before D-Day he broke his leg during a nighttime practice jump in Britain.
“They sent me back to the States,” he recalled in a 1988 Associated Press interview.
During his convalescence, a fellow soldier who had been an actor gave him a play to read and Mr. Warden was hooked. He recovered enough to take part in the Battle of the Bulge then, after the war, went to New York to pursue an acting career.
He attended acting classes and appeared in Tennessee Williams plays in repertory companies, moving on to appear in live television shows like “Studio One.”
During the 1950’s his career flourished. 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.
His breakthrough film role was as Juror No. 7, a salesman who wants a quick decision in a murder case, in 1957’s “Twelve Angry Men,” directed by Sidney Lumet.
In the ensuing decades he had a number of recurring or starring television roles. He played a major in ”The Wackiest Ship in the Army”; a coach on “Mr. Peepers”; a coach again on the small-screen version of ”The Bad News Bears”; detectives in “The Asphalt Jungle,” “N.Y.P.D.” and “Jigsaw John”; and a private investigator in “Crazy Like a Fox.”
His numerous big-screen roles included Harry Rosenfeld, the metropolitan editor in “All the President’s Men” (1976); Mickey Morrissey, Paul Newman’s legal colleague in “The Verdict” (1982); and the president in the Peter Sellers movie “Being There” (1979).
Later roles included parts in Woody Allen’s “Bullets Over Broadway” (1994), Mr. Beatty’s political satire “Bulworth” (1998) and the football movie “The Replacements” (2000).
Mr. Pazoff said that Mr. Warden is survived by his longtime girlfriend, Marucha Hinds; his estranged wife, Vanda; a son, Christopher; and two grandchildren.
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