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Jack Wild

Jack Wild was still a teenager when he was nominated for an Academy Award for Oliver!, the 1968 film of the old Charles Dickens tale. Wild played the Artful Dodger, the puckish and top-hatted urchin…

Jack Ruby

Name at birth: Jacob RubensteinJack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of president John F. Kennedy, on November 24, 1963. Jack Ruby was born in Chicago, and served in the U.S…

Jack Paar

Jack Paar is best known for hosting the Tonight Show from 1957 to 1962. Paar gained a reputation as a thinking man's talk show host, and also for a certain emotional sensitivity: in one famous 1960…

Jack Abramoff

Lobbyist Jack Abramoff is the key figure in an American financial and political corruption scandal of the early 21st century. Though the charges against Abramoff were many and complicated, he was…

Jack LaLanne

Name at birth: Francois Henri LaLanneJack LaLanne hosted a nationally-syndicated TV exercise show from 1951 until 1985. The show made him a popular pioneer of vigor in the 1950s, preaching good…

Jack Klugman

Jack Klugman was a versatile character actor who appeared on Broadway and in television from the 1950s through the 1990s. He is best known for playing sportswriter Oscar Madison -- the slobby one --…

Jack Kevorkian

Jack Kevorkian was the former medical pathologist known for his high-profile antics in support of voluntary euthanasia. A 1952 graduate of the University of Michigan medical school, Jack Kevorkian…

Jack Kerouac

Name at birth: Jean Louis KerouacJack Kerouac studied briefly at Columbia University in New York (1940-41), where he met Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady and William S. Burroughs. Together they…

Jack Foley

Jack Foley is the bank-robbing hero of Elmore Leonard's novels Out of Sight (1996) and Road Dogs (2009). Foley is a career bank robber who claims to have robbed over 150 banks in his life, between…

Jack Frost

Director: Troy MillerWriters: Mark Johnson, Steve Bloom, Jonathan Roberts and Jeff CesarioWarner Bros.; PG; 100 minutesRelease:12/98Cast: Michael Keaton, Kelly Preston, Mark Addy, Joseph…