Jack Webb Biography John Randolph 'Jack' Webb, also known by the pen name John Randolph, was an American actor, television producer, director, and screenwriter, who is most famous for his role as ...

NUMBER OF FILMS DIRECTED: 5. NUMBER OF SERIES CREATED / PRODUCED: 14+. BIOGRAPHY: Jack Webb was one of the innovators in the field of television and film. The first producer to base a film on a ...

He also appeared in the 1954 big-screen version and worked for Webb in the 1955 feature Pete Kelly’s Blues, on NBC’s The D.A.’s Man and on Dragnet again when it was revived in the ’60s.

Webb is best known for the police series Dragnet, first a 1949 radio show, then two incarnations on TV, from 1957 to 1970, where he famously portrayed “just the facts” cop Joe Friday.

Herb Ellis, an actor and director known for helping Jack Webb create the iconic TV series Dragnet, died Dec. 26 in San Gabriel, Calif. He was 97. Born Herbert Siegel in Cleveland, Ohio on Jan. 7 ...