Thanks to Jack Webb, Sergeant Joe Friday is the most popular police character in television history. Webb began in film and appeared in Billy Wilder's 1950 classic, Sunset Boulevard, but it was Dragnet that brought him popular and critical acclaim. After Dragnet, Webb returned to feature films as a director and an actor, and for a time was head of Warner Television. He died in 1982.
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Jack Webb (1920–1982) was a popular American actor, television producer, director, and screenwriter. He started out in the entertainment industry in comedy but achieved his first success playing the title character in the radio show Pat Novak, for Hire.... SEE MORE