Jack Warden, an Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated actor who played gruff cops, coaches and soldiers in a career that spanned five decades, has died. He was 85.Warden, who lived in Manhattan, died Wednesday at a hospital in New York, Sidney Pazoff, his longtime business manager, said in Los Angeles Friday."Everything gave out. Old age," Pazoff said. "He really had turned downhill in the past month; heart and then kidney and then all kinds of stuff."Warden was nominated twice for supporting-actor Oscars — for the 1975 movie "Shampoo" and in 1978’s "Heaven Can Wait."He won a supporting actor Emmy for his role as a coach in the 1971 made-for-TV movie "Brian’s Song" and was twice nominated in the 1980s for leading actor in a comedy for his show "Crazy Like a Fox."
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