Jack Kosslyn
Actor · Died June 24, 2005, aged 84 · New London, Connecticut, USA
Jack Kosslyn was a drama coach in the Los Angeles area for over forty years and taught classes at his own studio in Hollywood. He also worked for Universal Studios and Warner Brothers, and coached performers including David Janssen, Mary Tyler Moore and John Travolta. He spent six years with Clint Eastwood's Malpaso Productions as a casting director, dialogue coach, and actor, appearing in small parts in several of Eastwood's films. In the 1980s, he helped form OPACT, the Organization of Professional Acting Coaches and Teachers.
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Biography from TMDB.
- December 28, 1920
- June 24, 2005 (aged 84)
- New London, Connecticut, USA
- Actor
- 18 on MovieCove · 20 credits in all
What are Jack Kosslyn's films like?
Across a limited sample of 3 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Survival and Bonds.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 1 · Earnest 2
Light 0 · Serious 3 · Dark 0
Grounded 0 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 1
Gentle 1 · Charged 2 · Intense 0
Steady 2 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 2 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 0
Slow burn 2 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 0
Casual 3 · Engaged 0 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 2 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 0
Resolved 3 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Jack Kosslyn's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 12 of their 18 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Jack Kosslyn's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
20 credits, 18 with a MovieCove page.
Cheers(1982)
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all shows
Empire of the Ants(1977)
Midcredits score: 6th percentile of all films
The Death of Richie(1977)
Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all films
The Outlaw Josey Wales(1976)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
The Eiger Sanction(1975)
Midcredits score: 54th percentile of all films
Magnum Force(1973)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
Breezy(1973)
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all films
High Plains Drifter(1973)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
Emergency!(1972)
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all shows
Play Misty for Me(1971)
Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films
Didn’t You Hear? (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1970)
Hawaii Five-O(1968)
Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all shows
The Magic Sword(1962)
Midcredits score: 12th percentile of all films
Bourbon Street Beat (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1959)
The Spider(1958)
Midcredits score: 9th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 4th percentile of all films
Thunder Road(1958)
Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 16th percentile of all films
The Amazing Colossal Man(1957)
Midcredits score: 10th percentile of all films
The Devil's Hairpin(1957)
Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Career shape
Star power in the 88th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 20 titles from 1957 to 1982; peak year 1972.
Film career
Peak 1972 · steadily prominent in film for years. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.
- 1957Screen debut· The Amazing Colossal Man
- 1973Career best· Magnum Force
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30; the columns are the share of top-billed roles in each era, 5-year spans from the year on the label, merged until each holds at least 5 roles.
How do Jack Kosslyn's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 54th percentile, the median of all 15; across a limited sample of 3 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 16th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up7
- 50th to 74th4
- Below 25th7
Shape of the crowd
8 of their 18 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved3
- Universally Panned2
- Crowd Pleaser8
- Mixed5
Reviewers score the acting 55/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles; fans 64, detractors 32. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Jack Kosslyn work with?
People who share at least 2 of Jack Kosslyn's MovieCove titles; Bert I. Gordon shares the most, 2.
- Bert I. GordonShared titles: The Magic Sword (1962), War of the Colossal Beast (1958)See all 2 shared titles with Bert I. Gordon
