16 Facts About Jack Kruschen

Jacob "Jack" Kruschen was a Canadian character actor who worked primarily in American film, television and radio.

Jack Kruschen's acting in an operetta produced at Hollywood High School brought him to the attention of CBS.

Jack Kruschen began working at a radio station in Los Angeles when he was 16.

Jack Kruschen performed on Escape; Dragnet; Gunsmoke ; Full House; Crime Classics; Frontier Gentleman; Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar; Nightbeat and Suspense.

Jack Kruschen received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Dr Dreyfuss in Billy Wilder's The Apartment.

That same year, the ever-prolific Jack Kruschen appeared in the films The Bellboy, Studs Lonigan, Seven Ways from Sundown, Where the Boys Are, and The Last Voyage, as Chief Engineer Pringle.

Jack Kruschen appeared as Maurice Pulvermacher in the original 1962 Broadway production of I Can Get It for You Wholesale.

Jack Kruschen was performing on television as early as 1939, appearing in dramas on Don Lee's experimental television station in Los Angeles, where he was seen on some two hundred television sets with three-inch screens.

Jack Kruschen appeared in a color episode of Adventures of Superman.

Jack Kruschen had a recurring role across three seasons on Bonanza.

Jack Kruschen played Clyde Bailey in "The Retired Gun" and Sammy in "One Went to Denver".

In 1969, Jack Kruschen co-starred with Stefanie Powers in an unsold ABC sitcom pilot, Holly Golighty, adapted from Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's.

The husky, mustachioed Jack Kruschen seemed to specialize in playing benevolent ethnic paternal figures.

Jack Kruschen appeared on Columbo, Barney Miller, The Odd Couple, The Incredible Hulk, and, in later years, Murphy Brown and Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.

Jack Kruschen died on April 2,2002, in Chandler, Arizona, while vacationing.

Jack Kruschen had been in ill health for some time.